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Here’s LRN4 enjoying her morning cup of hot chocolate in the cruise ship’s main dining room. Note the things on the ceiling that look like fried eggs. Also all the golden balls. Amazing design.

Here’s LRN12 recovering from her injuries. Look at that cast. And the band-aid. Very sad. Fortunately, they’re fake – from her beloved doctor bag. Great Art courtesy of LRN4.

Greetings from the train! I’m in the wifi car today, so I can get something written and sent before we get to Lardville. Hopefully.

We heard from LRN1 today! Three times! He’s doing fine and enjoying the MTC, although it appears that he won’t be heading to the Guatemala City MTC after three weeks after all. I guess we’ll have to see, as he says they’ve been a bit vague about it. I don’t think it really makes a huge difference – he’ll be in Guatemala soon enough. He’s seen several people he knows, including his cousin and a good friend from Virginia, which is pretty cool. He sent three emails because the computers there are on an automatic timer that just shuts down after 30 minutes, deleting whatever they were working on. So he sent a very quick one telling us he was alive, another longer one giving us some details, and one more finishing up. He apparently didn’t get shut down.

Nothing much else new. We’re leaving for Mexico in just three days! It’s time for LRN4 and me to start thinking about what we’re going to bring, etc. We haven’t even really thought about it yet. On the other hand, I’m getting more and more excited about leaving. LRN2’s been feeling pretty sick yesterday and today, but LRN4 is sure he’ll be well enough in time for our departure. She thinks he’s just as excited to have us leave as we are to go. Hmm…

I have to go to a scouting meeting tonight, I think. I have an email in to my expert-scouter colleague in the Young Men presidency for confirmation. Hope to hear from him soon.

Update – He just emailed. I don’t have to go. It’s been a light week for after-work meetings.

The weather has turned cooler and cloudy again. I think we’re going to have more rain soon. The last couple of days were warm and sunny, which was a nice break. We really need all the moisture we can get, though, so I’m still not complaining. Maybe when the house starts floating away, but not now.

That’s it for now. I leave you with this shocking food violence news: gingerbread vandals!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN2 having a look at the Yosemite valley. Great art courtesy of LRN4 and taken during our Yosemite-based family reunion.

Short shrift yet again – it’s late already. No post yesterday – it got late then too, especially after I got back from the gym. Didn’t go to the gym today, but I did spend about 45 minutes of my lunch hour on a nice vigorous walk. I’m feeling better and even maybe looking a bit better since I started exercising fairly seriously. Or at least fairly regularly.

Anyway. Not much new to report. LRN4 has been an upholstering machine for the last couple of weeks, as she’s recovering our good old blue sectional sofa. Making excellent progress on the first one – she’s nearly done with it. She’s working on it right now, in fact.

I’m getting more excited about next week’s cruise. I guess this would be a good time to mention that there won’t be any updates to the blog next week. I don’t expect to have internet access on the ship. I do expect to take a bunch of pictures, which I will convert to Great Art here on the blog. So there’s something for my Loyal Readers to look forward to.

Still no word from LRN1. We expected to receive some kind of letter before now, so we’re mildly concerned. Not worried, but mildly concerned. Hope to hear something Real Soon Now. We miss him.

I’ll leave you with this shocking food violence news: burning pie attack! I can think of a better use for a nice, fresh pecan pie.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN1 on his last evening at home. He was just set apart as a full-time missionary a couple of hours ago. In p-day clothes for his final pre-departure haircut. He’s ready and rarin’ to go. We’re confident in him. Had a beautiful setting apart blessing too.

Extreme short shrift. I hope things will be back to normal by Wednesday. Massive Meeting Tuesday tomorrow. No post last Friday – it was my off day and I never seemed to get around to it. Thanks for noticing, Anon. Really.

Pleasant weekend. Went to a ward dinner, attended a bunch of meetings, did a tiny bit of work around the house, fixed Moe’s hard disk problem and swapped one of his disks into a new machine we’ve named Harpo (we’re finally out of stooges) and installed the latest Ubuntu server on both machines. Also ate and slept.

Time for bed. LRN1’s off to the airport tomorrow and then into the MTC on Wednesday morning. Did I mention we’re all excited?

I’ll leave you with this shocking food violence news (this time the food itself perpetrated the violence!): chili-choking trucker.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the Angel Moroni statue on the Sacramento temple. Great Art courtesy of LRN1 and my classic Olympus OM-1 film camera. Old school. Rock on.

I don’t use that camera anymore, though. I have a nice shiny new Olympus digital camera. You can take this old school thing too far.

Fine day. Nothing to report. Woke up, commuted, worked, commuted, ate, and blogged. I’m planning to head for the gym in a few minutes.

And I had better get going. LRN4 has a church meeting and either I need to watch LRN12 or get to the gym. I’ll leave you with this shocking combined toilet and food violence news: meat urination. Disgusting. Not recommended.

See you tomorrow.