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Here’s Loyal Reader Number Four and a really big tree. Taken at our last campout, of course.

No post yesterday. The Morrowlife blog was off the air! It turns out that the modem quit (for the second time in about a week!) and when Loyal Reader Number One reset it, it changed IP addresses on us. I had to get into my DNS service and reset it. Which reminded me I need to get the automatic DDNS service working again. Sigh.

By the way, I missed the no-post post from Anonymous. Where are you, Anon?

The work week from heck is winding down, and tomorrow should be an easy one. Let’s see, I had an all-day gummint audit on Tuesday (went fine, as far as I know), an all-day technical coaching seminar on Wednesday (went longer than scheduled, but was useful), and spent all the live-long day giving people their performance appraisals today. I have one more to do tomorrow morning and I’ll be done! I also got some monetary awards for people into the computer this afternoon, which I hope to hand out tomorrow. Busy, busy, busy.

Speaking of monetary awards, I got two today! One from each of my bosses. I’m not exactly sure they knew about each other’s award, but I’m okay with that. One of them gave me the money for getting some good things done this year, and the other one gave me the money basically for putting up with the first one all year. I won’t say which was which.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to putting the money to good use. Don’t know how yet. Maybe I’ll buy a new car.

Speaking of which, I need to buy a new car next summer, but for the first time in my life, I can’t think of a single one I want. Nothing being made by anybody interests me in the slightest. And that’s a scary feeling. Any thoughts from my Loyal Readers on a new car I might like better than the ones I already have?

Or maybe I’ll buy a new computer. A Mac Pro might be nice, or maybe a MacBook or MacBook Pro. Or maybe not.

Or maybe I should spend it on gum and candy instead.

Anyway. Time for sour cream chocolate chip pie. See you tomorrow.

UPDATE: Happy birthday, Loyal Reader Number Nine!

Here’s the Greenfield Village train coming ’round the bend. It was fun to watch it.

Long day at work today, but it went reasonably well. Tomorrow will be another long one, though, and probably the day after. Sigh.

On the positive side, I got home at 6:30 tonight and have enjoyed a nice evening at home with Loyal Reader Number Four. The boys are away at Battle Axe lessons. We had a nice dinner and have been watching Monk and The Closer on TV – recorded them the other night.

And I have to get up at 4:00 again tomorrow. See you then.

Here’s a scene leftover from summer, featuring Loyal Reader Number Twelve, as usual.

Extremely short shrift tonight. I didn’t get home for work until about 7:45, we still haven’t have home evening, and I have to get up tomorrow morning at 4:00 to make it to work in time for the day’s activities. I’m pretty busy right now.

So let’s recap the weekend. We started putting up decorations on Friday (haven’t quite finished yet, but the Loyal Readers are working on it during the day). Went to the temple Saturday morning with our friend Michael and his parents. He’s going on a mission to South Africa soon – very exciting.

After the temple, Loyal Reader Number Four and I went to Daly City, where we met Loyal Readers Numbers One, Five, and Twelve. Loyal Reader Number Six was at work. We hung around there for a little while, went to lunch, and went on to a church building in Palo Alto, where there was a really great creche exhibit. You don’t normally expect too much from such an event, but this was really high quality and surprisingly spiritual. Highly recommended, although it’s closing in two days. It’ll be back for a week next Christmas. Even though it’s a long drive from here, we might put it on the Christmas calendar every year.

Sunday was full of meetings, and then we watched the First Presidency Christmas Devotional, which was very nice (or so I hear, I couldn’t exactly stay awake for the whole thing, but it was a great nap too).

Haven’t heard how LRN6 is enjoying his job, nor how LRN12 is enjoying her daycare. Hopefully, both are enjoying it. Fortunately, LRN5 seems to be enjoying her new job. They certainly have a lot of changes going on right now.

Great news! The Morrowlife Financial Juggernaut has made its first ten cents! Nothing can stop me now. For details, see the Commerce section over there on the right.

Well, the Loyal Pet’s bath is over, so it’s time for FHE. See you tomorrow.