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Here’s Loyal Reader Number Twelve taking a short flight. Excellent piloting skills.

Extreme short shrift. Massive Meeting Tuesday. I expected to have five or ten minutes to do this, but got a couple of girls camp phone calls and here I am with about two minutes to go.

Normal day. Got up (a little late), drove to work, worked, drove home, grabbed a bite, talked on the phone, blogged, and now I’m off to meetings.

I’ll leave you with this: if your dog can’t take care of things, sometimes you just have to do them yourself.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s Loyal Reader Number Twelve coming down the slide. Not my best picture, maybe, but I think it’s a good likeness.

Another sunny day, temperature about 60. Sunshine predicted the rest of the week, with highs up to about 70 by Friday. The drought people must be positively giddy. As our current Masters in Government say, never let a good crisis go to waste.

Pretty good weekend, although Saturday was packed, as predicted. I had two ten-minute visits home from 6:45 AM until about 10:45 PM. All the activities were pretty good, though. Loyal Reader Number Two had been worried about being competitive in the Science Olympiad, but he did extremely well. Took second in bridge breaking and third in water rocket flying. Congrats, LRN2!

I played hooky from the branch so I could make a bunch more phone calls for girls camp callings. Got almost everything done. The only real worry item left is our head cook. I haven’t been able to make phone contact with the spouse in that case, despite numerous tries. Apparently, he has a difficult work schedule. So do I, so it’s tough. We’ll get it done, though.

Nothing otherwise new. In today’s toilet news, we have an interesting new restaurant. I think I’ll skip it. Thanks to Loyal Reader Number Twenty Six for recommending the place.

Plus, they’re on the attack! Be careful out there. Or in there, I guess.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s Loyal Reader Number Twelve getting ready to come down the slide. She has to do a few pull-ups first.

Great day at home. First the good news: against all odds, the Miata passed its biennial smog inspection! Not bad for a car with more than 170,000 miles on it. I’ll probably get another 170k out of it before it’s done. What a great little car.

The other good news is that Loyal Reader Number Two and I got a working water rocket design done. That’s a good thing, since his competition with it is tomorrow. Our design is pretty cool looking (we could do lots more in terms of workmanship, but it works great) and it didn’t break its test egg! We’re still experiencing premature deployment of the parachute, but it’s going to have to be good enough as it is. We made two rockets, which LRN2 named Buddy and Skippy. Contest results reported on Monday. Don’t get your hopes up, though. We’ve never been to one of these, so we don’t know how well we have to do. It’ll be fun just to be there.

Got a couple other things done too, but not much. Attended my two work telecons in the morning, transferred a lot of files to Larry (still doing it, in fact – there are tens of gigabytes of shows to move), a did a bunch of reading and relaxing. Didn’t get any cars washed, didn’t get the cable cut off, didn’t order any TV or Ooma parts, didn’t make any Girls Camp callings. Maybe there will be time for some of that tomorrow.

But precious little. Busy Saturday schedule previously reported. I expect to hold to it.

There’s some big toilet news today: They’re not all that comfortable from the other side. My recommendation: check for your keys one more time before you do anything drastic.

In other toilet news, I’ve found a home improvement project we ought to consider: the golden toilet.

Have a great weekend. See you Monday.

Here’s Loyal Reader Number Twelve running for the slide. Taken at the park on a sunny day in January.

Another busy work week grinds to a halt. Got a few things done. Didn’t get a few other things done. Pretty average. I enjoyed it.

Lots to get accomplished this weekend. I have a couple of work telecons to attend on Friday. Need to wash the Miata, Honda, and Suburban. I also need to wash the Ranger pretty badly, but I don’t plan to drive all the way out there to do it. Maybe I can find some time to get it done professionally sometime soon.

Anyway. I also have plenty of electronic-type projects to work on. Need to come up with a short-term solution for Loyal Reader Number Four’s computer networking problem – it turns out the Ooma Hub doesn’t pass its source IP address space through to devices attached to it. It does network address translation instead. This allows attached devices to get to the internet but not see the local network, causing printing and file sharing problems. The short-term solution will probably be to move the Ooma up to the loft and plug it into the router up there. That will leave nothing plugged into it, thus solving my NAT problem.

For the long term, I need to make the make-or-buy decision on the network splitter and get the parts. Also probably need to bite the bullet and buy a bigger switch for the closet. But not right now.

Then there’s the television situation. I absolutely must get a remote control for Larry so I can declare him Fully Operational, at which point I think we can turn off the cable. Or maybe we should just turn it off now. Just get it over with.

Then I can start buying the additional TVs and various needed computer upgrades. I suspect I might be more motivated to get the computers done and TVs bought if the cable’s turned off. Plus we want to stop spending the outrageous monthly cable fees.

Other things needing doing: adding free web-based content to Larry (I found several excellent HD podcasts, which I’ve downloaded and need to move), cleaning up a few things around the house, and relaxing. Lots of relaxing.

Saturday will be pretty busy. I have to give a quick five-minute talk at the Branch’s Elders Quorum breakfast. Then I’m off to join Loyal Reader Number Two at the Science Olympiad for most of the day. Then there’s a Stake YM/YW activity in the evening. That’ll pretty much do it for the day.

Oh, and there’s a home teaching visit to make on Friday afternoon. Plus numerous Girls Camp callings to issue. Plus all the normal Sunday meetings.

Whew. Looks like I’ll need to take my relaxation (link warning: new-agey video with sound) wherever I can find it.

Anyway. Let’s see what going on in the Toilet News world: The quality is going way down.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the place where I bought my Kazakh camel whip, if memory serves. That’s a cluster of them there hanging in the middle. I possibly also bought my green Kazakh robe there. That’s my former colleague James in purchasing mode.

Yet another pleasant sunny/cloudy, warmish day. More blossoms on trees, now including many of the orchards here in Lardville.

Read this interesting article today. The California drought question is a very relevant one around here right now. The news morons here in the Valley are touting the need to impose extreme rationing measures this summer. And the reservoirs are at 97% of average. Based on that, I suspect Our Masters in Government are among the few remaining people who still believe the Old Media. Sigh.

Anyway. Loyal Reader Number Four and I need to make our excursion selections for the Alaska cruise. We still haven’t had the chance to even look at the choices on the website other than a few minutes one Sunday evening. And I just don’t know when I’ll find the time. Fortunately, LRN4 has offered to make the choices on my behalf. I’m inclined to take her up on that. She usually has a better idea of what I like than I do myself.

Had a long text message conversation with Loyal Reader Number One this afternoon. He has a great super-secret iPhone/iPod/Mac project just getting off the ground. He’s doing it for a coding contest, and I think it has an excellent chance of becoming a pretty popular app. Good luck, LRN1! And be sure to support your aged parents when you strike it rich.

Situation otherwise pretty much average. Let’s see if there’s any toilet news this afternoon, shall we? Straight from Dave’s blog – it’s cold out there.

How about some controversy too? Is this thing crazy, nutty, or merely loony? I report, you decide.

See you tomorrow.