I had a great Fathers Day today. Dawn and the girls let me sleep in and then made me a great full breakfast, the kind that easily makes you forget about lunch hours later.

After just relaxing around the house most of the day we headed down to Merced to take Dad and Missy to dinner.


We went to Big Bubba’s Bad BBQ for dinner. Well, we thought we were just going to eat dinner. Dad and Missy told us that they had a mechanical bull there but we thought it was just for show. Well, Makenzy and I each ponied up the $4 for a chance to ride the bull.

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Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads out there!

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I felt like a kid waiting for Christmas morning to roll around. I couldn’t wait to get home today to update my iPhone to the new 3.0 OS.

I was really looking forward to text forwarding, typing in landscape mode and of course, finally being able to cut, copy and paste, although I must admit, I almost never use cut - I’m more of a copy-paste kind of guy. I was also looking forward to Spotlight. Not being able to search through e-mail has always been a problem for me. More important than searching through e-mail, though, not being able to search the Note field in contacts has always been an issue.

I keep a lot of information in that field and rely on the search feature in Address Book on Mac OS X a lot. Recently, I came across a cool article about twins. I know a few other twins and parents of twins and wanted to forward it. From my iMac, I opened up Address Book and searched for ‘twin’. Since I noted ‘twin’ in the note field for people that are, or have, twins I was able to quickly identify those I wanted to send the link to. Searching for Contacts on the iPhone, however, does not work this way.

I was really hoping that Spotlight on the new 3.0 software would correct this flaw (since Spotlight on my desktop searches that field just fine) but sadly, it did not.

Then I remembered a booth I visited the last time I was at Macworld. Polar Bear Farms was showing off an application for iPhones that had been jailbroken called Search. The write up in iTunes mentioned that it searched the Note field so I spent the $4.99 and got it. Of course, it worked like a champ.

So, kudos to the team over at Polar Bear Farms for filling a void that Apple left with Spotlight on iPhone OS 3.0. They have some other really cool looking apps as well, check them out.

Hopefully, this weekend I’ll be able to pick up a 3G S!

Today, Mike, Manuel, Shawn and I played in the 2nd Annual Stockton Stingrays Golf Tournament, benefiting our local Beep Baseball team. Since it was a scramble tournament, I was feeling pretty good, knowing that my teammates would help carry me. I had a few good shots but the rest of the team shot pretty well.

How’d we finish? Well, if there was a trophy given for the most honest score, we would’ve certainly won it. We can in dead last with 65. It was a great day of golf helping a great group of athletes. Can’t wait ‘til next year.

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I’m really starting to think I’m getting old. I’m not feeling old. It’s just that all these kids around me keep getting older. Today we drove down to Modesto to Beverly’s graduation party. I have known Bev since she was a lil’ tike and can’t believe she’s now 18.



Becky & Tom threw an awesome party. It was wonderful seeing them and their family again. It was also great seeing Tina, Ken and (most of) their kids again. I couldn’t help but comment all night on how much all of these kids had grown.

Congratulations Beverly on graduating from high school... we love you and are proud of you. See you all again real soon!

I only took 185 pictures, mostly because I had a lot of willing subjects. I have pared them down to 82 of my favorites... check out the pics here.