Thursday, November 11, 2010

2010 October: Bates

Happy October... in November.

Well, we had a great Halloween. Fintan was a Pumpkin long enough to take a picture, and Orianna was a fairy princess. Tamara's costume & mine were carefully picked to not offend anyone & avoid all faux-paux. I was the naughty Monk with a kiss on my cheek & she was a bar-wench with red lipstick.

We went to a few Halloween parties, but some relatives were nice enough to take video, so I will be lazy and link to their videos.

Orianna dancing to Thriller

Me failing a donut eating contest (something you never thought you'd hear)

& Tamara fairing no better than I did


Other big news includes starting yet another side-business (I know... I start lots of stuff and never finish), but it came as an accident. We decided to quit FashionGenome, but the 3 of us techies enjoyed working together so much that we couldn't help start something else. So we are going to try our hand at making iPhone/iPad apps.
I also am converting my garage into an office/workroom. I made this photobooth for things we need (pardon the audio, my thumb was on the mic).
I have sheet-rocked 1 room, and need to paint it, but it is pretty much done. We also are making a seamless wall in a corner of the garage for a photo-studio (rather than a small objects booth). I figure it's 900 square feet that I have wasted for 3 years, so it will be nice to put it to good use.

We wish everyone the best.
-The Bates Family

2 comments:

Stewart and Becky said...

Rob, I like how after you eat the donut you walk off the screen. I can't tell if your face is saying: Oh Yeah, I dominated! or O, I think I'm going to throw up.

Good luck on the new project. What kind of aps are you thinking of making? In a few months I'm going to get an iTouch. There are a lot of great aps for doctors to help with prescriptions and diagnoses and things.

I'm because I'm so late in commenting, have a great Christmas over there.

Rob said...

Apps of any/all kinds (I'm too ADD to specialize)

To start though we are just gonna try and crank out some easy ones and see how much viability the app store has.