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Here’s LRN4 making a phone call.  I suspect she’s just about to transform into a superhero as well.  Or is that a superheroine?  I don’t care, as long as it includes a really cool costume.

Well.  Another week, another lack of posts.  I’m just busy.  Plus, there’s nothing much interesting to report.  Kind of pathetic, that – busy, busy, busy and boring, boring, boring.  But I’m having a great time.

I discovered today that my iPhone app now has 412 downloads!  And my second-biggest market (after the USA) is still Korea.  Why?  I guess they’re Morse code crazy over there.  Anyway, I’m delighted to have so many downloads.  Still need to get to work on the follow-up app.  Haven’t even started it yet.

Also need to work on LRN4’s website.  There’s a ton to do there.  She’s making good progress on making her photography beautiful.  I have high hopes for the site.  But I really need to do my part to make it beautiful too.

LRN5 and LRN12 were here on Saturday for a birthday party.  Happy birthday, LRN5!  It was the first time we’d seen LRN12 since mid-December.  We had missed her!  She just keeps getting cuter and more fun.

LRN2’s doing well in school, although he strangely doesn’t seem to feel like he’s doing all that great.  All I can say is the results are speaking for themselves.  He’s doing great.  And he’s doing really well at learning to take complete care of himself.

LRN1’s also doing very well.  We got a very nice letter from him this week.  He’s working hard and seems happy.  Lots of success too.

We had our friend Art over for dinner last night.  His wife, our friend Cathie, is out of town and he deserved a decent meal.  He brought over a bunch of maps of our area, including some really good information in Yosemite.  We live about two hours away from there, and we’ve only gone once since we moved to Lardville.  Need to correct that situation.  Art pointed out a whole bunch of interesting things to see.  Need to spend a few of my off Fridays doing a bit of exploring.

And that’s about it for tonight.  I want to go to bed.  So I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife employment agency opportunity: fugitive monkey!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN12 on her birthday.  Well, actually I think it may have been close to her birthday.  What difference does it make?  She got her presents and cake.  What a cutie.

Quick post tonight.  I missed a whole week there while LRN4 and I were out of town and there’s lots to talk about, but its already getting a bit late and I still have lots to accomplish tonight.

Let’s talk about that first, shall we?  Need to assemble LRN4’s new office chair.  She got it at Costco today, using our annual Executive membership rebate coupon.  Cool!

I also need to start disassembling the footstool that goes with my new thinking sofa.  We got it (for free) from a friend.  It’s a bit (well, a lot, actually) stained, so LRN4 has decided to recover it.  I need to take the lid off of the footstool, which has a pretty large amount of storage inside it.  Then she can get to work.

We also need to coordinate our calendars.  And that’s about it tonight.

Had a great week last week.  We went to Salt Lake City for my iPhone development training class, which I greatly enjoyed.  I think it was quite useful, although it would have been even more useful if I had zero experience.  It was definitely at the 101 level.  I was one of the least experienced iPhone programmers there, and at least the first half of the week was too simple for me.  But it was still worth going to.  A whole week of Appley goodness.

One of the other really good things about it was getting to know the church’s iPhone programming team, who I’ve been working with for these last several months.  Nice people, all of them.  And quite talented.  Plus fun to be around.  I like them all.

Another of the volunteers in the class was a guy I knew way back when we lived in San Diego.  He’s still there and it turns out that he’s one of the major volunteers – very experienced and talented.  It was great getting back in touch.

We took LRN2 out to dinner a couple of times, and also took him to the Salt Lake Auto Show on Friday night, which was fun.  He’s doing great – better than he thinks, I suspect. He’s meeting people, working hard, and having a nice time at school.  We really miss him.

Also enjoyed staying with the in-laws again, of course.  They’re really hospitable people and lots of fun to be with.

Time for other things.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this encouraging food anti-violence news: seeing meat!  Note that this is totally different from seeing people as meat.

See you tomorrow.

Here are LRN2 and LRN4 looking through telescopes at the Lawrence Science Center on Christmas Eve.  It was a pretty day and the view was nice – San Francisco Bay and environs.  The Science Center was okay – really meant for little children, but there was enough interesting stuff to keep us entertained for a couple of hours.  We enjoyed a great fish taco lunch at Rubio’s afterward.  Great Christmas Eve activity.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam.  Special cameo appearance by LRN5 there in the background.

Not much posting the last while.  We’ve been busy.  Had a nice Christmas as well as a nice Christmas holiday.  One more day at home, after which we leave to take LRN2 to college, after which we come back, after which I go back to work.  Sigh on just about all counts.  Other than the trip to visit LRN4’s family, short though it will be.

I finally received my iPad case on Christmas.  Love it!  It makes the iPad a lot easier to carry around.  Also got some nice clothes and a few other nice things.  Very good Christmas.

We’ve had a few things to repair this last week or so.  My cable modem was slowly dying, which explains the extremely frequent dropouts in our internet service.  Also the extremely slow service.  So I ordered a new, much better one.  It took about half an hour to get the Comcast people to recognize it, but I got it successfully installed.  Now our service is extremely reliable and really fast.  At least comparatively fast, anyway.  I’m happy with it.

The washing machine has crapped out as well.  Fortunately, LRN4 found a YouTube video with a guy showing how to fix the exact same problem we have.  We’ve ordered a four-dollar part, which is on its way.  It’s a really easy installation (knocking heavily on wood here) that should only take a few minutes.  I already partially disassembled and cleaned it and verified we do have the problem we think we have.

I also got the rebuild kit installed on the kitchen faucet, with LRN2’s help.  It took maybe half an hour, the parts were free (lifetime warranty), and the instructions were quite clear.  Easy fix.  We didn’t even have to remove the faucet or get under the sink for anything other than shutting the water off.  Cool.

Let’s see, what else?  We undecorated the house today.  Unusually, we hadn’t even gotten sick of the Christmas decorations yet, but we’re glad to have it done anyway.  Only took a little while and it’s good to have the place back to normal.  I suppose.

Time for dessert.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking, umm, smurf violence news: rasta-bashing Glaswegian smurf!

See you tomorrow.

Here are my quarters during one of my trips to Baikonur.  I get this picture out every once in a while to remind me of one of the many reasons why I’m glad I don’t go there anymore.

No posts for quite a while. I keep getting busy. And/or lazy. Whatever.

Lots of stuff going on. The vacation is going great. Lots going on. LRN4 and I spent several hours working on her website last night. Stayed up way late.

We all went to the movies on Tuesday. It was scheduled for Monday, but we decided to go out to dinner in honor of LRN2’s graduation. Good meal. And a nice evening. The movie was great – we saw Megamind. Very cute. And highly recommended.

Let’s see, what else has been going on around here? Umm . . . we’re having the annual family film festival right now. Junior Miss is on right now. What a great movie. I’m kind of hoping we have an intermission afterwards for lunch. I have a stack of about ten movies for after that. We’ll see what we get to.

Other things. Hmm. Oh yeah, LRN5 and LRN12 have moved! They’re now in a much bigger and better place. We’re supposed to go over there sometime on Christmas Eve to drop off some furniture and have a look at the place. Then LRN5 is going to the museum with us. LRN12 is unavailable for the museum trip because she’s with her dad for several days. They went to Disneyland sometime in the last few days, I understand.

I can’t remember which museum we’re going to right now. Just a sec, I’ll ask LRN4.

I’m back. It’s the Lawrence Hall of Science. Supposed to be interesting and good fun. I’ll let you know.

And then it’s Christmas. Oh, joy! Maybe we’ll play a manly game or two of charades.

Lots more planned after Christmas too. Fun, fun, fun.  Plus shooting.

Time for more movies.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: muffin assault!

See you tomorrow.

Here are LRN4 and LRN12 helping the high school madrigal group at this past weekend’s Christmas creche festival in Modesto.  LRN12 was ringing some jingle bells.  Fuzzy low-light Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam.  We’re going to the Palo Alto Christmas creche festival on Wednesday.  That one is consistently spectacular.

Extreme Short Shrift.  It’s way late already and I need to go to bed.

We tried to print the Christmas card envelopes this evening.  Got it all set up, only to discover that the envelopes were too thick to go through the printer.  Either LRN4 will buy some labels tomorrow or she’ll end up addressing all of them by hand.  Yuck.  On the positive side, we did manage to print the Christmas brunch invitations and their accompanying envelopes, which were not very thick at all.

My iPhone app has 198 downloads so far!  Sales (for free) are going along swimmingly.  Just think of it – if I had decided to charge a million dollars for the app, I’d have 198 million dollars now.  What was I thinking?

Okay weekend – didn’t do much, but LRN5 and LRN12 were here for part of it, and LRN2’s last organ concert of the year was on Friday.  It went well.  It also rained all weekend, so LRN2 should be positively ecstatic by now.

Time to go.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting food violence-for-a-good-cause news: crime-fighting squash!

See you tomorrow.