morrowlife

Here’s the first daylight picture taken by my new iPhone. Featuring LRN1 in a pensive mood. Pretty decent detail for a phone camera, no?

Another weekend has come and gone. And a nice one it was. LRN5 came over on Saturday, followed by LRN6 and LRN12, neither of whom we had seen for several weeks. They also brought Rob, LRN6’s friend who’s in town to help the Loyal Readers move. Sigh.

Anyway, it was a pleasant weekend. There were Father’s Day presents and nice meals and general relaxation on Sunday, after I finished giving my two talks in two different Sacrament meetings.

Which went fairly well, I think. By coincidence, LRN1 and LRN2 played an organ and piano duet in the second meeting. They did an outstanding job, of course.

Saturday morning was spent helping a ward member move and the afternoon was spent doing . . . umm . . . I don’t precisely remember what at this exact moment. I do remember gong to the 12/13-year-old dance instruction in the late afternoon and working on my talk quite a bit. Otherwise, it’s pretty much a blur.

Decent day at work. Stayed busy. Got a couple of things done. I’ll be late to work tomorrow – my new crown will be ready. Bling, here I come.

LRN1 had a great breakthrough on the MARV today – the accelerometer is working! He installed the new 3.3-volt Arduino and tried it without luck. He finally took a closer look at the software and discovered an output pin setting that needed to be changed. He did that and it started working. Hooray! It’s always the easy thing, isn’t it?

Now we can move forward again. I need to get working on the navigation software again. Congrats, LRN1!

Let’s end with today’s food violence news, of which we never seem to run out: They’re dying to get back in.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s yet another picture of LRN2’s Eagle project. This guy is using the power hedge trimmer (gotta get me one of those) to trim the edges of the trail. Love them chaps.

Once again, the weekend’s here. Lots to do. The Loyal Readers and I are helping some people from the ward move tomorrow morning. Then I need to work on my Sunday talk, which I’m giving in two wards. Then I might have to go to a youth dance in the evening. Sunday is Father’s Day! The second happiest day of the year! I’ll spend until about 2:00 in church, followed by nonstop Father’s Day stuff. You know – gift giving, delicious food making, flattering, inviting to relax, that kind of thing.

The latest round of new parts for the MARV arrived today. We need to try to find time to get the accelerometer working again. Maybe sometime during the day tomorrow.

I’m still enjoying figuring out how to work the iPhone. I keep finding out about new and cool features. The battery won’t last through a day of mucking about with it, so I need to get a charger for work, just like with the Treo. I was checking on Amazon for something inexpensive yet good when I remembered that one of my co-workers had had his iPhone stolen. I sent him a note offering to buy his old charger if he still had it. He wrote back, offering to give me all his accessories on Monday. Woo hoo! I’m set up.

Situation otherwise normal. Several of the Young Women are here for the evening to continue working on preparations for camp. They’ve been painting, hot gluing, recording music (accompanied very ably by LRN2), and generally putting decorations together. Seem to be having a nice time.

I appreciate the opinions of a few Loyal Readers on what kind of cereal they would punch someone in the mouth for. It’s that kind of hard-hitting journalism that really sets the Morrowlife blog apart. Keep it up, Loyal Readers.

Speaking of Loyal Readers, LRN3 received a free 1977 MG Midget today. Apparently, it had been in somebody’s garage as a restoration project for quite some time. LRN3 said some admiring words, and suddenly it was his. He needs to put a few things (radiator hoses, seats, bumpers) back on and make sure everything is functional, but between him and LRN6, I think they can get it done. Send us a picture, LRN3! I’m looking forward to getting a ride.

And finally, we have a strange combination of food violence and toilet news: Why?

See you Monday.

Here’s a group of happy peppy Eagle project workers, featuring LRN1 in the background. Don’t they all look excited to be there?

Extreme Short Shrift. It’s late – I had a bunch of Young Women Camp work to do. Making good progress, though.

There was an important unacknowledged Morrowlife milestone yesterday. It was the 750th post. Incredible. More than three and a half years of marginal content. Wow. I just finished a bowl of raspberry sherbet to celebrate. True wretched excess, that.

The first day with the iPhone was great. I really like it. Got a couple of nice scripture applications and an excellent book reader. It’s all good.

Otherwise stayed busy and happy. And worked moderately hard. And had moderate success.

LRN5 pointed out that LRN4 didn’t need to suffer from mosquito bites quite as much as she did at the Eagle project, since she received a lovely personal mosquito net headcover for her birthday. I suspect she’s saving it for a special occasion.

I’ll leave you with some important food violence news: A 76 cent punch in the mouth. Not worth it, if you ask me. Maybe for a bowl of Cocoa Krispies, but never for a bologna sandwich.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the new iPhone, being powered up for the first time. It was a special moment.

Lots of news today. Two things came: my brother-in-law Ken (I guess he’s technically not a thing) and my shiny new iPhone. Ken’s visit was very pleasant – we’ll be going to visit them in about a week, so there will be a repeat.

The iPhone is a thing of beauty, as clearly demonstrated above. I’m busily figuring out how to use it, which is taking a little time. I got a nice leather case for it – no clips this time. It’s staying in my pocket.

Tried to ride the train today. Got to the station, punched my ticket, waited on the platform. After a minute or two, the loudspeaker reported that the train had hit a car and they didn’t know how long it would be delayed. People, including me, started heading for their cars mere seconds later. I found out later than the train eventually arrived 89 minutes late. Good decision to drive. A quick web search discloses that it was exactly a year ago today that another ACE train hit somebody who wandered onto the tracks. Dangerous things, trains. You would think people would see and hear them well enough to avoid being hit by them.

Having the Miata at work allowed me to leave a little earlier than I might otherwise have done. That was important, since you have to call the AT&T people when your new phone arrives to get them to activate it for you, and then you have to connect it to your iTunes computer to complete activation. The only way for me to do both of those things was to come home early. Which I did.

Let’s see, is there any other news today? Umm . . . no. Nothing. So let’s check today’s Toilet News: Maybe they flush a little too well. Note to self: find another way to wash your dog. And don’t even think about LPN2. Snakes and toilets are too well-documented of a problem.

Anyway. Time to plan with the iPhone some more. See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN2’s Eagle handmade project sign, complete with the detail shown yesterday. Great Art, LRN2!

It’s finally starting to warm up a bit here in Lardville. We’ve been having an unnaturally cool summer, and even had a bit of rain on Friday night/Saturday morning, which is absolutely unheard of around here. I’ve started wondering whether Al Gore has moved to town. I hope not – we need all the global warming we can get.

Otherwise normal day. I got some important things done at work and didn’t get others done – typical day, in other words. Got a very nice compliment on behalf of the group from the tip-top program manager today, which was nice. Passed it on to the group. Then I got a personal compliment from a guy who recently left the program and was back to pick something up. Called me an “inspiration” and said his carpool mate, who works for me, tells him constantly what a great boss I am. Very gratifying, if just a bit irrational.

Anyway. LRN1’s telephone surgery took place today. The patient didn’t survive the treatment. Not overly surprising, since the patient was dead before the procedure commenced. Still, there was little to nothing at stake. I received word this morning that the iPhone was shipped from Texas last night and is expected to arrive sometime tomorrow. Woo hoo! After which time, of course, LRN1 will have a Treo again.

This is kind of an end of an era, however. It’ll be the first time I’ve been without a Palm PDA since I bought my first one in Denver, which was about 1997 or so. That first one didn’t last long – a few hours, in fact. I bought it at the Franklin Covey store during lunch, played with it all afternoon at work, took it home, and went to show it to LRN4. it snagged on my pocket and I dropped it on the hardwood floor and the screen shattered. Sigh. I took it back to the FC people and told them my sad story. They took it back and gave me a new one on the spot. Wow, what great service. Their kindness has led to great loyalty and resulted in numerous additional purchases.

Anyway. I’ll be Palmless after tomorrow. Hopefully, the iPhone will be good enough to make me forget my troubles. I’m hoping there’s a great free text file reader for my e-books. I’m pretty sure I’ll find something good in that department.

We have some important food crime news: It doesn’t get any lower than this.

See you tomorrow.