Colleen & Mark Taber

Christopher made his debut performance today with the Carmel High School marching band in the city’s Fourth of July parade. The weather was hot and humid, but the band sounded really good. And Christopher said marching in the parade wasn’t as bad as he thought it’d be. They apparently do a good job of [...]

Last Friday Melinda marched for the last time with the Cathedral High School "Pride of the Irish" marching band. Cathedral closes down every St. Patrick’s Day so everyone can participate in the festivities — and the band is always in the parade downtown.
This year the Cathedral band even lead the parade, so I videoed [...]

Last Saturday we went downtown for the 500 Parade. We squatted in some unoccupied front-row seats and managed to watch the whole parade without being asked to move.
Overall, it was a good parade, with — as usual — all the drivers in the race, a few B- or C-grade TV celebrities, a [...]

I recently got my Mac PowerBook back after an extended stay in the repair shop, and to celebrate I made a short (5 min, 7 sec) iMovie slideshow of some photos from our trip to southern California over Christmas vacation.
Here’s a relatively high-quality streaming version of the movie in Flash 8 [...]

This year’s dad-and-the-kids concert was Green Day on September 12 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The concert was really fun, but the audience was also quite interesting to me — a more diverse a group, with a lot of kids with dads or moms, than any other rock concert I’ve been to recently.
When they [...]

After meeting Colleen’s family in Frankenmuth, we headed out east towards Canada, for a family trip to Stratford, Ontario.
While in Stratford we communed with the swans along the river, took a tour backstage at the Stratford Festival Theater, paddled kayaks and canoes on the Avon, saw a wonderful production [...]

Shortly after we got back from Wisconsin, Melinda, Christopher and Mark went to a previously scheduled, previously ticket-bought concert at “Verizon Wireless Music Center” — Indianapolis’ outdoor music venue. Here we are just before we left the house (while…