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Here’s an even bigger tree than the one I showed a few weeks ago.  Great Art taken at Calaveras Big Trees State Park and part of my famous Camping and Vacation series.

No post yesterday.  Got busy working on my app.  Again.  Sorry about that, Loyal Readers.

But the app is coming along nicely.  I didn’t get much work done on it today.  Spent too much time frittering.  But it was for a reason – I’m not quite sure how to move forward on the last major part of the app.  But I plan to get it done this weekend.  Really.  By Sunday night, the app will be fully functional.  I hereby commit.

Anyway.  I did get a few things done on the app today, including stomping out a major bug and starting to pretty up the “About” screen.  So there’s that.

LRN2 is out at a scout overnighter.  He was asked to help, so he agreed to go.  LRN4 and I were planning on being home alone tonight and most of tomorrow, but LRN5 and LRN12 are on their way over for the weekend.  I’m looking forward to having them here.  LRN5 needs to get some studying done.

The big news of the week – yesterday was LRN1’s twentieth birthday!  Happy birthday, LRN1!  Of course, he won’t be reading this post for another 16 months.  If ever.  But it’s the thought that counts.

Hit golf balls at the driving range again this morning.  Out of about 110 balls, I think I hit about 30 of them well.  Which is a huge improvement, sadly enough.  I’m almost ready to hit the links again.  Might ask my friend Doug to invite me sometime when he needs a partner.

Time for other things.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife employment opportunity: professional sleeper!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a big pile of rocks.  In a river.  In Calaveras Big Trees State Park.  Part of both my famous Camping and Vacation series.

Another beautiful day here in Lardville.  It rained yesterday – lots of thunder and lightning too, which is a bit unusual for this area.  It was also quite foggy in the morning.  No complaints, though – it felt a bit like a preview of winter.  Just the right way to get autumn started.

And it was sunny and pleasant today.  Of course.

Spent a few minutes today working on my new iPhone app idea.  I’m keeping quiet about it just yet.  I’m not counting on it being really popular, of course, but I’m hoping to get it to work and maybe get a few downloads.  It’ll be unique, I think.  I really need help with beautiful design, though.  Really.

Anyway.  I got the first cut at the UI working.  At least there are buttons and text fields and a tab bar and such.  nothing does anything yet, but that will come.  It’s not really that hard, especially if you have a book that tells you how to do it, like I do.  I have to figure out how to make the app make sounds, though, which I haven’t learned yet.  Must be later in the book.  I’ll figure it out.

Fine day at work.  For the second day in a row, I was extremely busy – seemed like I was either in a meeting, getting ready for a meeting, or going to a meeting all day.  Busy is good.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking fast-food violence news: Wendy’s scooter chase!

See you tomorrow.

Here are LRN2 and LRN4 warming up.  At the warming hut, of course.  Ignore that “Closed” sign.  They look open to me.  Great Art taken at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, of course.  Part of my famous Camping and Vacation series.

Greetings from the train!  I’m on the early train today – spent an extra hour at work last night, so I’m home early today – and enjoying having the work week done.

Lots of plans for tomorrow.  I finally hope to hit a bucket of balls, I need to check LRN1’s Gmail account and write him my weekly letter, and I want to do some programming work.  Plus, I should probably clean the filters.  Also whatever LRN4 has planned for me.

General conference is this weekend, so we’ll see at least a couple of sessions.  Probably won’t have time for all ten hours, but we’ll get caught back up later, I expect.

My computer’s backup continues.  After two nights of work, It’s still not even ten percent complete, but it’s doing its best.  I hope to plug it in for a while during the weekend and maybe it’ll go a bit faster.

The hot days continue, although it’s finally cooling off a bit.  I think it was supposed to only be in the mid-nineties today.  Definitely Indian Summer.  Whatever that really is.

The train’s getting ready to pull into the station.  See you shortly.

I’m back.  Had a nice dinner and I’m sitting in my comfy chair.  Thanks for asking.

The Time Machine backup has started again.  It’s down to 199 GB left to copy.  Any minute now.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: exploding chicken lawsuit!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN2 in a river again.  This time, he’s standing.  Great Art once again taken at Calaveras Big Trees State Park and part of my famous Camping and Vacation series.

Another day.  Got a few things done at work, but mostly went to meetings.  Tuesdays are like that.  So I guess that’s the same thing as working, no?

I received my new SATA drive enclosure from Amazon today.  Got the old Terabyte drive from Old Larry installed in it in just a few minutes and got it formatted and set up on my new router in short order.  Now I’m trying to get Time Machine to talk to it so I don’t have to plug the machine into my 500GB external drive up in the office to make it back up.  Success so far is limited, but I still expect to prevail.  We’ll see.

Update a few minutes later – I’m trying for the third time, and I think this one is going to work.  Had to create a sparse bundle with a certain name and then copy it over to the server.  So far, it’s gotten much farther than before.  Keep your fingers crossed, Loyal Readers!

Anyway.  It’s been another quiet evening.  LRN4 is on the phone getting help with one of our friends who is in the hospital and not doing well.  LRN2 is at Young Men.  And I’m fiddling around with computers, as usual.

Update a few more minutes later – It’s working!  I’m not sure my sparse bundle correctly limits the amount of space it will take up, but we’ll see.  I’m cautiously optimistic.  Sure is going slowly, though.  Which is to be expected, since I’m doing it wirelessly.  Only have to copy 260 GB of data, which corresponds to 1.3 million files.  What do I have in all those files?  I’ll let it run all night, and if it doesn’t finish, I’ll interrupt it and let it finish tomorrow night.  What could possibly go wrong?

Anyway.  Time for dessert.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking Muppet violence news: Elmo attack!  Key information – Elmo won.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN4 sitting on a rock in a river.  Hence the title, “Rock sitter.”  Seemed appropriate to me.  Great Art taken at Calaveras Big Trees State Park and part of both my Camping and Vacation series.

Well, another weekend has come and gone.  Not much to show for it, other than a concrete post holding a fence post into the ground.  But that’s enough.  Also went for ice cream with LRN4.  Also rested.  So it was a big success.

And things are normal around the office.  Got lots done there today.  I had several annual performance appraisal tasks that were due on Friday, so I did them all today.  Also arranged for some money for my subcontractor.  Unfortunately, didn’t arrange for any money for myself.  Maybe tomorrow.

LRN1’s letter sounded really good this week.  He appears to be really enjoying office work, much to his surprise, and he’s gotten the routine a little bit better under control, so he’s happy.  Good on ‘im.

It’s time for home evening (activity: jacuzzification, plus swimming in 78 degree water for any hardy souls who care to try it), so I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: biscuit harassment!

See you tomorrow.