A Grand Canyon Sunrise

December 7th, 2010: For the past ten days, Felicia and I have been hosting a pair of her friends from Singapore, Samantha and Bernadette.  As part of such an arrangement, they get to use my living room floor for sleeping and I get an excuse to take in some local sights.   Last week we [...]

Santa Crawling V4.0

Intoxicated Claus: Whats better than merely celebrating Christmas? Celebrating Christmas dressed as Santa Claus! Whats better than merely celebrating Christmas dressed as Santa Claus? Celebrating Christmas dressed as Santa Claus whilst drinking too much! …and that’s what we did! For the 4th year in a row we gathered a dozen Santas (and one Frosty!) and [...]

Staycating

Early December: My amazing wife went and did something amazing. While I guess I shouldn’t find that all too surprising in itself, this time she went above and beyond and got us a deluxe ocean view room at the Shangri-la Santa Monica for $6. Some internet reverse auction or something.  But we decided to take [...]

When September Comes

Early September: Been a mellow week or so, spent a few days in my Dad’s truck running boxes from Grandpa’s house in Orange County to Moms house in Riverside, we are quickly filling her garage.  The multiple 60-mile roundtrips had a soothing momentum to them, just blasting the music and letting my face get pummeled [...]

Trisha and Phil

Another Saturday Night: It was a beautiful Southern California August night, and Trisha and Phil got married. They let me take part in this special day and document it as it happened.  Everything went beautifully, and I just want to congratulate them again on there special day. I think being married myself is opening my [...]

Back Home

Over the Jet Lag: So I am back in the land of wonderful sun, dry weather, cheese, and beautiful blue skies. Home sweet home in California. Also after a meager 3 days I managed to conquer my jet lag, hang out with some friends and get all my plans sorted out for the wedding I [...]

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64E

Waiting: Sitting in Singapore’s Changi airport reading a love letter from my wife, who I probably won’t get to see for 3 more months. Waiting for my dreaded 17 hour flight, where I get to sit bitch (the middle) in seat 64E for the entire way. Even in the midst of all this I still [...]

New Website!

YAAY ME! I got an all new website up and running, be sure to head over to www.RobertPaetz.com to check it out! (Oh and if you have any business for me, be sure to let me know!)

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MARRIED!!

The Day: VERY Busy week, but I am now a officially married man.   My wonderful wife and I had a spectacular 4th of July.  Far more details and pictures will be coming after I get back from Thailand in 4 days, but right now I must get packed for my flight at 6am tomorrow [...]

Felicia’s Other Grandma

10 Years: Felicia’s mother was heading out to see her mothers ashes today in a temple across town and invited Felicia, Arthur and I to come along, today was the 10 year anniversary of her death.   Just like we head out to peoples graves on special days and lay flowers on their headstones, the Buddhists [...]