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Here’s our stake president and his wife enjoying their front-row seats to the Polynesian dancing show at his fiftieth birthday party last Saturday.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam and taken in their lovely back yard.

Yet another night of extreme short shrift for the blog.  It was Massive Meeting Tuesday.  That’s the bad news.  The good news: it’s my birthday!  Had a nice day, although we didn’t exactly celebrate.  We’re doing that on Friday, which is my day off this week.  I’ve declared the celebration to go from 9:00 AM until 9:00 PM, after which I’ll be tired and will go to bed.

Anyway.  Thanks to my many Loyal Readers (and others) for their phone calls, text messages, and Facebook notes.  I feel loved.

LRN4 is working on coming up with a good campground for us during the July 4 week (we’ll actually go out on the 5th).  It’s not an easy task.  The attractive campgrounds are far, far away and have no hookups.  The ones with hookups that aren’t far, far away are wretched, from the sound of things.  She’ll probably come up with something good, though.  All I can say is it’s not easy here in California.  Which it ought to be, actually.  Bad gummint.

And I’ll leave you with this truly disgusting toilet news: toilet restaurants!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a couple of guys “taking care” of an old refrigerator, somewhere in Guatemala.  I like how they recycle there.  Part of my famous Guatemala series.

Extreme short shrift.  I waited too long.  Also, LRN5 and LRN12 were here (LRN5 was picking LRN12 up after her weekend visit).  Also we had a brief home evening.

Had a nice weekend.  I spoke at the scout campout on Friday evening and thoroughly enjoyed being in the woods and hanging out around a campfire.  Swam in the pool on Saturday.  It normally hasn’t been warm enough until later in the summer, but it was about 83 degrees and felt very comfortable on a hot, sunny day.  Went to my friend’s 50th birthday luau on Saturday evening – they even had hula dancers!  Very thorough.

Been having problems with the wifi on my little computer.  It’s just pathetically slow.  Nobody else in the house is having that problem, so I figured it must be my computer.  After a very quick internet search, I discovered this is a common problem with Ubuntu 10 (also 8 and 9, apparently).  It may help to turn of IPV6, so I tried that and it seemed to help.  Will do further testing as time is available.

And . . . that’s about it.  We heard from LRN1 today, as usual.  He’s doing well.  The above picture was one of his from this week.  More to come in that series (Guatemala, not refrigerator recycling, unfortunately).

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting foreign job opportunity: vacationing toad stomper.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN1 with a nice little family he’s been teaching.  Aren’t those kids cute?  Part of my famous Guatemala series.

Incredibly busy day.  I have several things at work that absolutely need to get done, but it seems like I spend all my time in meeting rooms.  The meetings are important too, of course, but I’ve got to find time for everything else.  I’m planning to go in to work way early tomorrow and try to clear the decks as much as possible.

Have to drive tomorrow anyway – I’m slated to speak at a little devotional out in the Santa Cruz mountains in the evening.  One of the wards is having their high adventure activity out there this week and they asked me to be a part of it.  I’m delighted to do it.  Need to remember to bring my map, my GPS, a jacket, and a flashlight.  I’m not planning to spend the night, so I can pack extremely light.  A quick check of the Weather Channel’s website says they’re expecting showers in the afternoon/evening out there, so I need to be prepared for that.

Anyway.  I need to get to bed, so I’ll make this extremely short shrift.  Expect no post tomorrow, for already-stated reasons.  I’ll probably be getting home very late.

LRN12 is coming for the weekend!  We’re looking forward to the time together.  Her mom is going down to San Diego, I believe.  Have fun, LRN5!

And I’ll leave you with this shocking food violence news: hamburger clown assassin!

See you on Monday.

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Here’s LRN1 with his new companion. Part of my famous Guatemala series.  I’m not taking enough pictures lately – I took my camera to Las Vegas and never got it out of its case, for example – but LRN1 is helping me out in the Great Art department.  Thanks, LRN1!

Extreme short shrift.  It’s already 9:30 and I need to get up by 5:00 again tomorrow morning.  Need some sleep.

So let’s see if anything happened today.  No, not so much.  I worked like a mule, only smellier.  More of the same tomorrow (work, not smell) (hopefully). I’m still working on next year’s proposal, and there’s still lots to be done there.  Also working on getting one guy a promotion, which is turning out to be quite difficult.  I remain hopeful on that one.  Also working on extending one other guy’s contract (he’s not an employee, obviously).  Also working on keeping everybody else happy.  That’s kind of like a juggling act these days.  Thank heaven for my totally reliable people – the ones who are just happy and contented.  We’re kind of like cows over there.  Only less smelly.

Anyway, it’s time to go.  Lots planned for the next couple of days.  I have a scouting meeting tomorrow night and then need to leave the office pretty early on Friday to speak at a scout high adventure campout way up in the mountains near the coast.  It’s being held at one of the Young Women camps – we went there for a YM/YW day-long activity last year, so I’m hoping to be able to find it this time.  And I’m hoping even more to be able to get home from it – my last trip home from there was pretty much the long way.  But the TomTom got us home!  Eventually!

And I’ll leave you with yet another wonderful Morrowlife employment opportunity: Druid accident preventer

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a blue house in Guatemala.  LRN1 sent us this picture (and a couple of others) to show us the effect of the volcano on his neighborhood.  It wasn’t too bad there, but I thought this qualified as Great Art.  It’s a blue house, after all.  Part of my famous Guatemala series.

No post yesterday.  It was a holiday.  Also, we were in Las Vegas and I was busy.

Spent most of the day fixing/installing/configuring my brother-in-law’s and sister-in-law’s electronics.  Got their DVD player situation fixed up and simplified – even made them work with just one remote!  That’s more than I’ve been able to accomplish here in Lardville.  Also get sister-in-law’s new color laser printer installed and working and got brother-in-law’s new computer installed and working, with his files transferred over to it, anti-virus installed, a tiny bit of crapware removed, printers installed, openoffice.org installed, and everything tested and guaranteed to work.  For at least until we left.  After that, he’s on his own.  Also helped their daughter (my lovely niece) decide on a new computer and get it ordered.  She got a MacBook Pro.  Spent a ton of money on it, but hopefully she’ll love it.  Otherwise, I suppose she’ll curse my name.  Either way, it’s a good computer.

Bought a new 100TB external drive for myself while we were out.  I have it reformatted as a Mac disk and installed on my beloved Mac Mini.  It’s been partitioned into two 500GB drives, one of which is my new Time Machine backup disk.  It’s busily copying 1,346,159 files right now.  Been cranking for a few hours and it’s about one third done.  Yikes.  That’s a lot of files.  I’m hoping to use the other partition to back up the loyal readers’ computers.  We’ll see if I can make it work with Time Machine on LRN4’s machine.  Time Machine only wants to work with storage directly attached to its computer or with Apple-branded network attached storage.  Time will tell whether I can find a workaround that lets LRN4’s machine think my locally-attached drive is the right kind.  In any case, I can share it on the network and let her copy files to it on a regular basis.

By the way, LRN1 reports that not only did he survive this week’s Guatemalan volcanic eruption and tropical storm, he wasn’t really seriously affected by either.  We’re delighted and grateful about that – have seen a few news reports and things were pretty bad in some locations.

Made the trip home from Vegas today, uneventfully.  It was a pleasant drive with good company.  It’s really nice to have the Loyal Readers back home again.  I’ll probably get a lot less Arduino work done, though.  Everything has its tradeoff, doesn’t it?

Anyway.  Time for bed – it’ll be a busy day tomorrow, what with catching up on everything.  No toilet or food violence news tonight – maybe tomorrow.

See you tomorrow.