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As promised yesterday, here’s a picture of reader number three on his wedding day a little more than a year ago. Delightful, no?

They went home this morning. We got a call a little bit ago to tell us they arrived safely. I’m still sad to have them gone. I’m also so sleepy I can hardly keep my eyes open. Spent the whole day that way. I’m going to bed in a few minutes, that’s for sure.

I took a little time this evening to try to organize my scouting stuff – I’ve been feeling like it’s spread pretty much all over the house and I can’t ever find anything when I need it. Hopefully, that will improve with tonight’s little bit of organization.

I’ve been studying C++ and generally enjoying the textbook, but I don’t think I have any applications inside me waiting to come out right now. I’m also looking into how to create Dashboard widgets now. Maybe a brilliant idea along that line will come to me.

I listened to a podcast today about a service called Pandora. It’s a website that creates a streaming “radio station” based on your preferences. You enter an artist or a song you like, and it picks others it thinks you will like too. It’s based on a quite advanced algorithm that takes into account about 400 variables for each song. I played with it a little bit after I got home from work tonight and must say it pretty much works as advertised. The user interface is slick too. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Tomorrow’s picture: Aunt Sandy and the sea lion. See you then.

Here’s a group of people watching a guy giving a presentation on racing pigeons in a Pennsylvania State Park campground. It was actually an interesting presentation, and both the people and the pigeons were fascinating.

Paul and Melissa are going home tomorrow morning. Boo hoo! I’m really going to miss them. Come back soon, Number Three and spouse!!

I’m too sad to write any more tonight. Besides, it’s just after 11:30 PM at this point, and I have to get up at 5:00 tomorrow morning. Off to bed.

Here’s reader number one beside an uprooted tree from a camping trip this summer. The tree had grown on top of the large rock Number One is standing on and when the flood came and the winds blew it fell down. Or something like that. The root ball looks pretty cool on its side.

Took the family to the Mercer Museum again tonight – it’s the third or fourth time I’ve been there. It was free Tuesday, so it didn’t even cost us anything. Of course, now that I’m a museum member there, it’s always free for me for a year. We stepped inside the Spruance Library inside the museum, and it’s pretty cool. They’ve got a lot of really old Bucks County history. I’m planning to find some time to go research what was on our property before it was a house. I know there was a sheep farm immediately beforehand, but I wonder what came before that.

Reader number three and Melissa are leaving in just two days. Their visit has been much too short!

Here’s another in my famous Window series. This one isn’t quite as dramatic as the workshop picture so well known to my readers, but I think it gives a nice effect. Let me know your humble opinion.

Had a nice Christmas holiday. So much so, in fact, that I’m dreading going back to work tomorrow. Oh well, at least my next holiday is coming right up at the end of May. Sigh.