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Here’s a follow-up to last Monday’s picture of LRN2 at the (simulated) wheel. The real thing. Part of my famous Machinery series.

No posts since last Monday – busy week most nights and I just didn’t get to it. Fortunately, no word from Anon. Maybe that’s actually unfortunate, huh? Where are you, Anon? You never call, you never write. I miss you!

Anyway. We finally had a truly rainy day today. It’s been cold, gray, and drizzly for days now, and we’ve been observing that if we had to have lousy weather, we might as well get some substantial rain. Well, we got it today. And it looks like we’ll be getting it for the next week or so. So much the better. Long as it don’t flood. And it probably won’t.

Lots going on church-wise. I’ll talk more about it when there’s time, but it’s looking to get very busy.

Speaking of busy, LRN4 and I have decided to take a cruise to Mexico in February, once again with our friends the Smiths. We’re hoping for much warmer weather than we had in Alaska, although it’s doubtful we’ll get much better scenery. Still, the Mexican Riviera (if there is such a thing) ought to be beautiful in its own right. We’ll be out the last week of February.

I’ll end with tonight’s food-related tragedy – a collapsing floor. Maybe that’s more irony than tragedy.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN2 dreaming of speed. Picture taken on Christmas Eve in the Sacramento Automotive Museum and part of my famous Machinery series (sort of). Yes, I know it’s not a real car. But it looks like a car (sort of). Besides, there is a real car in the background. So it counts (sort of).

Blogging has been sporadic lately. I’ve been going through a very difficult spell for the last while and haven’t been up to the task. I apologize to all my deprived Loyal Readers.

Tough weekend, sprinkled with high points. We had stake conference and it was quite enjoyable – more so than I really expected, I think. I don’t remember getting much else done, other than exercising and attending a few work meetings on Friday, exercising and attending conference sessions on Saturday, and attending conference and a Young Women camp meeting on Sunday. There must have been other things, but it was so long ago.

And there’s really not anything more today, except for today’s shocking food violence news: McNugget attack! There have to be better things to go to jail over. There just have to.

Hopefully, things are stabilizing for me and blogging will become much more regular. See you tomorrow.

Here’s a nice old Dodge truck I noticed in Moke Hill. Looks restorable to me. At least that badge is in pretty good shape. The rest has admittedly sort of blended in with the landscape. Part of my famous Machinery series and courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam.

No posts yesterday or Monday. It’s been pretty stressful for me lately and I haven’t been making time to keep up with normal things. I’m hoping things are getting back to normal. Pretty much.

Got to the gym yesterday. Tomorrow is the next planned date, so my muscles are recovering today. I could barely lift my arms when I got home last night, but I’m pleased to report that I’m not feeling sore today at all. Must not have tried hard enough. It sure felt like I was, though.

My new bluetooth headset was finally shipped yesterday. I expect it to arrive sometime tomorrow. It’s about time – I ordered it on December 22. I am thoroughly disgusted with AT&T over how they’ve handled that order. Worse than pathetic. Kind of takes all the fun out of getting the new gadget. Mostly.

Got four hours of sleep last night. Fortunately, I was able to nap on the train for half an hour or so on the way there and 45 minutes or so on the way home. Still, I’m a bit sleepy. Need to get to bed earlier tonight.

So this will have to be short. In fact, let’s end here with today’s food violence news: hamburger rage. Shocking.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s my beloved iPhone booting up for the very first time. Last June. Did I mention I really like my iPhone? I know you’re supposed to charge it up before you turn it on for the first time, but I really couldn’t wait. Charged it right after this, though – there wasn’t enough juice to get it initialized yet. Part of my famous Machinery series. Rare cameo appearance of the Loyal Blogger. Well, my hand, anyway.

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! I’ve taken a few days off, as Anon noticed yesterday. Thanks, Anon!

Anyway. The holiday has been great. I’ve gotten a lot of things done, have exercised every day possible, and have gotten lots of rest and relaxation. I can’t exactly say I’m ready to get back to work on Monday, but that’ll come. Probably. Maybe. Possibly. We’ll see.

Anyway. We got our Christmas decorations taken down today and the house looks totally normal again, which is nice. We didn’t get the decorations up extremely early this year, so we hadn’t gotten sick of them, but it’s still nice to get things squared away.

Had a nice Christmas. LRN4 forgot all about a couple of the presents I had bought myself over the last couple of months, and so did I until about the 27th. Suddenly, I realized I never received either my Space pen or my Spanish Bible, so LRN4 gave them to me a little late. We still think we might have some additional Christmas presents on the way. LRN4’s sister accidentally bought gifts for the wrong family this year, and I thought she said they were sending something to us a little late. Nothing has come, though, so maybe they thought better of it. I can’t imagine anything we need anyway.

One very thoughtful thing LRN4 did for me for Christmas was to get the broken boot snap on the Miata fixed. I was delighted to hear about it! Sadly, it doesn’t seem to work exactly right, so she’ll have to take it back to get it fixed right, but I’m delighted just the same. How thoughtful!

I also received an automotive diagnostic scanner for Christmas. I bought it myself, so I was sure I would like it. I do. All of the cars are running just fine now, but LRN1 and I went out and tested it on the Sable and the Honda, and it’s pretty cool. You can get real-time data, including engine parameters and speed, coolant temperature, and about 96 other things, a few of which I actually know what they are. I can hardly wait for the Suburban to break again! But don’t be in too much of a hurry, Suburban…

LRN5 and LRN12 were here today, and LRN24 dropped by for a little while too. It was nice having everybody over.

LRN1, LRN2, and I are going on our annual Christmas Holiday Shooting Adventure early tomorrow morning, possibly preempting exercising. Although we could always go exercise a little later. The weather should be a little chilly – in the mid-40’s. Ought to be just perfect for a little bit of plunking with the .22.

I ordered and received a new battery for the little laptop LRN1 gave me. As my Loyal Readers will recall, one of his student associates decided it was no longer working, so he gave it to LRN1. He’s leaving on his mission soon, so he gave it to me. It’s actually not a bad machine, and appears to work great with the new battery. It has a 1.5 GHz processor, 802.11G Wifi, 512 MB of memory, and a 40 GB hard drive. Not thoroughly modern specs, but plenty powerful to run Windows XP, and on par with modern netbooks. Which is how I’m using it, so that’s perfect. It’s small and light too, just like a netbook. I love it. Thanks, LRN1!

We’ve been working on the recurring networking problem here at the Secret Undisclosed Location. It appears to me to be a bad Ethernet socket in the loft. I’m planning to buy a new one tomorrow and replace it. It’s been pretty aggravating for a while, with the internet connection at my desk going in and out, particularly as people sit on the couch. Which is directly in front of the socket. So it wiggles it a little when you sit down or move around. Which often kills the internet connection. Which is aggravating. So LRN1 and I are fixing it tomorrow.

Time for bed. More next week. See you Monday.