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This is the creepiest-looking angel I’ve ever seen. In Paris, of course, where all the best and worst statues are found.

Fine day today. I spent the afternoon in a software project management class. It was taught by a woman who I’ve dealt with before, and she’s very knowledgeable and interesting. I actually got a few little things to think about!

Otherwise, nothing much to discuss. We’re trying to figure out why our electric bills have suddenly skyrocketed. Loyal Reader Number Four had the electrician who wired our house over today. He checked our usage and it appears that he thinks our meter is broken. Hopefully, that will turn out to be true. In any case, we’re being billed for far more electricity than we could possibly use in a month, so I feel pretty confident things will turn out right. I just hope we don’t have to resort to a lawyer to get the power company to straighten it out.

Happy Valentine’s Day Eve! See you tomorrow!

Here’s another one of those dopey “sculptures” from Monaco a few years back. One of my colleagues thought it would be appropriate to add the piece of paper you see there in his hand. The rest of us were pretty sure we were going to be arrested by the ever-vigilant Monaco Police Department. Luckily, we’re still at large.

I have five minutes to blog tonight. It’s already 9:30, Home Evening has just barely ended, and I need to get to bed. So this will be short.

We played Apples to Apples for Home Evening activity tonight. It’s a fun board game. Loyal Reader Number Four won, so she enjoyed it most of all. Reading the instructions, you wouldn’t think it would be any fun or even particularly challenging or interesting. I admit there’s not much challenge, but we’ve all enjoyed it every time we’ve played. Recommended.

It rained all day today in Sunnyvale. It was sunny here in Lardville most of the day, but the rain apparently followed me home. That’s okay – even though it’s been pretty wet here the last few days, old-timers are saying we’re way short of moisture. It’s supposed to rain all night here tonight, but then there are at least five days of mostly sunny, warm weather predicted. I can finally take the Miata out of the garage again!

And my five minutes are up. See you tomorrow.

Here’s one more car for my motorphile Loyal Readers – a Mini Moke. What a great car. I’ll have to be on the lookout for one of my own. This one’s in Cannes. Or at least it was a few years ago when I was there.

I actually stayed home today! Of course, I worked for three or four hours, but at least I was here. I worked in my jammies, just because I could. Afterwards, I got a very nice haircut, took a hot shower, finished reading one book and made some progress on another, and did some open-blog surgery. Lots of the older posts were still referencing picture files on the old Gardenville website and/or Flickr. Now they’re all on Morrowlife. I know it doesn’t sound very impressive, but it took hours. And now I’m totally Flickr-free. It was kind of a pain to post the pictures in two places every day anyway.

Didn’t work on the trailer today. Sadly, it rained all day. Didn’t work on the back yard either. Didn’t do much of anything inside the house either. Same reason. I realize that rain is a fairly poor reason for avoiding indoor work, but it’s the best reason I have, so I’m going with it.

Time for the weekend to start. Maybe I’ll get to one of the other websites this weekend. See you on Monday.

Here’s a picture of the other six-wheeled racer I saw at the museum in France (NOTE: Blogger isn’t working right tonight, as usual, so the picture will have to wait until tomorrow). I don’t remember much about it, but I do recall it being somewhat less successful than the Tyrrell from Tuesday.

No post yesterday. Because of a scouting court of honor (Loyal Readers Numbers One and Two earned more awards than anybody else, of course – possibly more than everybody else combined), I went to church directly from work. Went directly from the CoH to my Wednesday evening meeting, which ended later than usual at 10:00. Since I needed to be at work today and didn’t finish my meager dinner until probably about 10:30, there was no post.

Felt really sick yesterday afternoon – probably something I ate, as usual. By today at lunchtime, I was eating again, and I’m feeling mostly fine tonight.

No work tomorrow! It’s off Friday. Woo hoo! I have a few hours’ worth of stuff to do on my laptop (prepare for my 10:00 meeting and check in and promote a bunch of software, for starters), but I’ll at least be at home. The intention is to work on the trailer, weather permitting. I need to repair any damage done by this year’s colder-then-normal winter, fix all the little nagging things I haven’t been able to get to, and do some pretty massive cleaning. Plenty to do there. I could look at the Sable’s brakes again if the weather won’t cooperate with the trailer job. Then there’s always some straightening that needs to be done around the house, not to mention the two large piles of books just begging to be read. Plus I have numerous video podcasts in the viewing queue. Plus all of my websites. Plus I always have a need for Great Photographic Art. Plus, plus, plus.

In the meantime, there’s bed. See you tomorrow.

Here’s one of my favorite racing cars of all time – the Tyrrell six-wheeler. That must the be only six-wheeled car ever raced, no? No! In addition to the cars described in the link, I’ll try to remember to post a picture of another such car from the very same museum in the near future! Watch this space. This picture was taken in a little auto racing museum between Cannes and Nice, France. They had a lot of cool cars in a relatively small space. Taken with my first (lousy) digital camera, as is evident.

Long ride to work today. On the upside, I got to listen to a lot of podcasts. I’m still working on the BYU-TV podcasts of their Book of Mormon discussion series. The quality is a little inconsistent, but I’m still enjoying it and effectively getting a highly-condensed version of BYU’s BoM class. Not recommended in TV form (boring!); highly recommended in convenient podcast form.

Happily, the drive home was much quicker. Of course, I stayed at work until 6:00 to make that happen, but it was still nice to travel a good portion of the way at full speed.

Flickr told me today that I’ve reached the free upload limit and have to start paying them if I want to host more pictures. I’m dropping the Flickr feed. Sorry about that, Loyal Readers. While I’m at it, I’m also killing the book club and links sections. I don’t think they’ll be missed. My Loyal Readers have more important things to do.

Did anybody ever read one of the book club books?

It’s supposed to rain here every day for the next week. We need the moisture, but that won’t do the commute times any good. I should probably actually start getting up on time. Yuck.

See you tomorrow.