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Here’s LRN2 with his new new car.  Sadly, he decided to trade in his old new car for this one.  Still, I think he’ll be satisfied with this one.  Great Art taken at the Salt Lake auto show in January and part of my famous Machinery series.

No post yesterday. Our friend Art was over for the evening again – we sure enjoy hanging with him.  His wife Cathie is still out of town, and there’s no telling when she’ll get back.  So Art comes over basically every Monday evening.  Maybe we’ll have to invite them together when her long sojourn is finally over.

Now the big news.  Fluffy is gone.  That’s right, our Loyal Snake has been re-adopted.  She’s now the pet of a nice lady who works at the Serpentarium in Lodi.  So she knows her snakes.  And she fell in love with Fluffy.  So Fluffy is probably incredibly happy.  We’ll miss her – LRN2 won’t be too thrilled to know about her re-adoption – but we’ll all be fine.  Farewell, Loyal Snake!

Other news.  Hmm.  Nothing’s coming to me right now.

Oh, my new app is fully functional in what I’d characterize as an advanced alpha form.  All the functionality is there, there may be a slight bug or two in edge cases, and there is no icon or splash screen yet.  I still think I’m on track to get it released in another week or so.

The weekend will be a tough one for programming, though.  As possibly mentioned before, we’re going with some friends to Half Moon Bay on Friday and not coming home until Sunday.  LRN4 has requested that I refrain from programming during the vacation (gasp!), so I think I’ll leave my trusty laptop home.  I’ll take the iPad, though.  Of course.  Also my iPhone.  Of course.  So I’ll struggle through somehow.

And that’s about it.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: Mr. Whippy van hijacking!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN2 with his dream machine.  As seen at the recent Salt Lake Auto Show.  Which we attended recently.  In Salt Lake.  It’s some kind of Subaru, apparently.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam and part of my famous Machinery series.  Maybe somebody will write a book about the car like this one.  Or maybe even this one.

As usual, a few days have gone by since my last post.  Fortunately, not much has happened during that time.  Let’s see – can I think of anything?  Umm . . . nope.

Actually, there are a few things, now that I think about it a bit more.  For one thing, I’ve started working on my next iPhone program!  Not too far yet, but I have a rudimentary UI and have stolen a bit of code from Morse Coder, which I have to massage a bit.  In fact, I should be programming right now.  But I’m blogging instead.

Speaking of blogs, LRN4 and I have made a bunch of progress on hers.  The main page is looking really nice!  I did the CSS and she’s done the content and photography.  Still have a bunch of CSS to do for all the other pages, and she has a bit more photography and writing to do.  She’s just about ready to reveal it to the world.  After which I’ll publish a link.

And I think I’ll go back to programming.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: pickle assault!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a cool old VW camper, found at Henry Ford Museum (I refuse to call it “The Henry Ford.”  Way too pretentious).  I want one.  Great Art taken during the same Michigan trip documented on Monday and part of both my famous Machinery and Camping series.

Extreme short shrift.  I’ve been working on LDS Tools emails.  Sigh.

Also worked on getting the newly-arrived replacement towel rack into the downstairs bathroom before LRN4’s ladies’ dessert get-together tomorrow night.  Got it installed, but did some pretty bad damage to the wall on my first try, when I attempted to put it where the old one had pulled out of the wall.  Not a good idea – the wallboard there is just too chewed up.  Anchored it into a stud behind the wall, and now it’s not going anywhere.  LRN4 is fixing the holes I left in the chewed-up wall area – one of her handywoman specialties.

Two more days before my holiday vacation starts!  Also, two more days before LRN2 graduates from high school!  Yea for both!

And that’s about it.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: bean throwing!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s my new iPad during its first boot, as promised on Tuesday.  What a thing of beauty.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam and part of my famous Machinery series.

Happy Thanksgiving!  We had a nice day – just the three of us.  Dinner was great, dessert was great, breakfast was great, lunch was great, and it was great hanging around the house.  Pretty much a perfect day.

Spoke with my mom and brother Chris this evening.  Nice conversations.  Chris is in Michigan for the weekend.  They apparently had a nice Thanksgiving also, although there were a few more people there – 15, to be exact.

Nothing else to report today.  Oh, there’s bad news in the church iPhone app department.  The server we use is down yet again, probably for the entire holiday weekend.  It’s been mostly inoperable for over a week now.  Gives us a huge black eye, since users can’t tell the different between server problems and app problems.  Sigh.

No news from the App Store on my own app yet.  I’m excited for my app to actually become available.  Then I’ll need to promote it.  I have no idea how.  I do have a coworker who’s a Morse Code afficionado, though – maybe he’ll evangelize it a bit, assuming he likes it.  Anyway, I have the supporting website up (barely).  Check it out here: spinfo dot info.

We’ve been watching a terrible Christmas movie.  Can’t remember the name, but I certainly don’t recommend it.  If you see a Christmas movie and it’s horrible, that’s probably the one.  Oh, and it involves counterfeiters.  And unhappy kids who had to move away from their beloved home just before Christmas and who have to save the day all by themselves.  Totally unexpected.

Update: It was Christmas in Wonderland.  If you get a chance to miss it, take it.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking Thanksgiving-themed food violence news: turkey down the pants!  Disgusting detail: “… it went right back on the shelf.”  Ewww.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN2 with his very-shaky-looking-but-prize-winning-anyway water rocket, just before he launched it into fame at this year’s Science Olympiad.  In our extensive pre-contest testing, we determined that fins were unimportant, fancy looks were unimportant, and even a particularly straight nosecone was unimportant.  So we didn’t have any of those.  What was important was a reliable nosecone separation system and a working parachute deployment system.  And we had those in spades, since that’s where we spent our development time.  He was barely beaten by a team from a big high school, but his rocket worked great and was quite impressive in action.  Love those goggles, LRN2.  Part of my famous Machinery series.  And yes, I think a water rocket is definitely a machine.

Quick post tonight – I want to get back to work on the app.  No post yesterday.  Also very little app work.  I took the late train to work and consequently took the late train home.  Just ran out of time to do much of anything.

Anyway.  Happy Birthday to my mother!  I tried calling her this afternoon, but missed her.  Probably out partying.  Fortunately, LRN4 was able to talk with her and I hope to catch up with her on the weekend.  Many happy returns of the day anyway, Mom!

Not much else of consequence to tell.  We’re getting ready for the neighborhood barbecue on Saturday.  It’s supposed to be rainy and cool, but we can hope the rain holds off until after the burgers and steaks have been consumed.  If not, we’ll be moving into our garage, presumably.  Wish us fun, Loyal Readers!

And that’s about it for today.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: accidental quasi-food attack!

See you tomorrow.