morrowlife

Here’s the Greenfield Village train coming ’round the bend. It was fun to watch it.

Long day at work today, but it went reasonably well. Tomorrow will be another long one, though, and probably the day after. Sigh.

On the positive side, I got home at 6:30 tonight and have enjoyed a nice evening at home with Loyal Reader Number Four. The boys are away at Battle Axe lessons. We had a nice dinner and have been watching Monk and The Closer on TV – recorded them the other night.

And I have to get up at 4:00 again tomorrow. See you then.

Here’s a scene leftover from summer, featuring Loyal Reader Number Twelve, as usual.

Extremely short shrift tonight. I didn’t get home for work until about 7:45, we still haven’t have home evening, and I have to get up tomorrow morning at 4:00 to make it to work in time for the day’s activities. I’m pretty busy right now.

So let’s recap the weekend. We started putting up decorations on Friday (haven’t quite finished yet, but the Loyal Readers are working on it during the day). Went to the temple Saturday morning with our friend Michael and his parents. He’s going on a mission to South Africa soon – very exciting.

After the temple, Loyal Reader Number Four and I went to Daly City, where we met Loyal Readers Numbers One, Five, and Twelve. Loyal Reader Number Six was at work. We hung around there for a little while, went to lunch, and went on to a church building in Palo Alto, where there was a really great creche exhibit. You don’t normally expect too much from such an event, but this was really high quality and surprisingly spiritual. Highly recommended, although it’s closing in two days. It’ll be back for a week next Christmas. Even though it’s a long drive from here, we might put it on the Christmas calendar every year.

Sunday was full of meetings, and then we watched the First Presidency Christmas Devotional, which was very nice (or so I hear, I couldn’t exactly stay awake for the whole thing, but it was a great nap too).

Haven’t heard how LRN6 is enjoying his job, nor how LRN12 is enjoying her daycare. Hopefully, both are enjoying it. Fortunately, LRN5 seems to be enjoying her new job. They certainly have a lot of changes going on right now.

Great news! The Morrowlife Financial Juggernaut has made its first ten cents! Nothing can stop me now. For details, see the Commerce section over there on the right.

Well, the Loyal Pet’s bath is over, so it’s time for FHE. See you tomorrow.

Here’s the latest in my famous old-fashioned tools series. This was taken in the blacksmith shop at Greenfield Village.

No post yesterday, but this time I have a good reason – our internet service was out. It didn’t come back up until sometime this morning when I unplugged the modem, iBoss, and router for five minutes or so. Sigh.

It was my off Friday today and I enjoyed it. Didn’t do much, though. I slept in a little and then worked from home most of the morning. In the afternoon, Loyal Readers Numbers One and Four and I went to Kohl’s to spend the gift certificates they gave us on Black Friday. They were going to expire tomorrow, so we needed to get it done. We also set up the Christmas tree and put on most of the ornaments. We’ll finish up decorating the house tomorrow. Tonight, Loyal Reader Number Four and I are going to our panel discussion on parenting. Wish us luck. Although it might be quite anticlimactic, since I don’t know if anyone is planning to be in the audience.

Let’s see, what else? LRN1 is going to Daly City tonight to babysit Loyal Reader Number Twelve tomorrow while her parents are both at work. That’s right, Loyal Reader Number Six is starting a new job! He has been enjoying staying home with the baby, but I guess it looked like a good gig, so he’s trying it out. I’m not sure what they’re going to do for babysitting. But that’s their problem, isn’t it?

Time to get ready to go. Have a great weekend, and I’ll see you on Monday.

Here’s Loyal Reader Number Twelve on her oddly-named little car, Wild Thing. It looks like a dune buggy. It’s nice to have wheels of your own, no?

No time to post, so it’s another extremely Short Shrift post. Also no post yesterday – we jacuzzified instead, which I’m sure all my Loyal Readers would agree was a much better use of my time.

However, the last couple of days have been productive. Several of my colleagues have been calling in sick, but I’m feeling fine so far. Must be that flu shot I got.

Loyal Reader Number One found the software development kit for Google’s mobile phone operating system. He’s gotten a “Hello World” application running. It looks like a cool OS and I’m confident there will be a huge number of cool applications for it by the time the first phone is available. That’s the biggest mistake Apple made with the iPhone – no third-party apps for the first six month plus. Could be the death knell for the platform, especially when Android hits the streets running. We’ll see. In the meantime, here’s yet another opportunity for Gardenville Software to get in on something on the ground floor. What do you think, Loyal Partners?

Nothing else to report. Enjoy the photo and I’ll see you tomorrow.

Here’s a peaceful river scene from our Clark’s Fork campout this summer. Now that we’re in the depths of winter (the Weather Channel actually reported light snow in Stockton this morning, but I don’t think anybody actually saw it), campouts are but a pleasant dream. Sigh.

No post on Friday – I was on vacation. But it was certainly a busy day! We went to a couple of stores on Black Friday. It was certainly an early morning, but it went just fine and we got a few really good deals. Would I go again? Maybe. If I wanted a big-ticket item, definitely. But maybe not again at 4:00 in the morning.

The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet. Loyal Reader Number One and I were really busy on Saturday (finally) installing the new radio in the Miata. We went to a local car stereo store and bought the only installation kit available for the Miata. It’s a pretty chintzy plastic universal kit, but it fit with a minimum of cutting, filing, and mucking about and it looks fine. The radio works well and sounds better than the factory relic it replaced. LRN1 pointed out that this is probably the most extensive auto modification I’ve ever performed. He has a point. Oh, and I really like the remote control, although I’m not sure I’ll ever use it. I certainly don’t need it. It’s not like it’s hard to reach the radio itself or anything.

One of the things I like most about it is that it has a jack on the faceplate where I can plug in my iPod. No more cassette or radio adapter! In fact, there’s no cassette player at all (of course). It has a nice CD player that can handle MP3 CDs and even displays the album title and song name. I need to burn a CD so I can check it out Real Soon Now.

During the installation, I pulled a muscle in my arm. Ouch. It was quite sore for about 24 hours and it still hurts a little, but it’s getting better quickly. Pity me, Loyal Readers.

Loyal Reader Number Five called this evening and told us her Thesis defense was tough but successful. She’s earned her Masters degree! Many congratulations, LRN5.

By the way, did I mention that LRN1 got his acceptance letter to BYU last week? Probably so. At any rate, congratulations again, LRN1.

Thanks again to Anonymous for his/her vigilance and to everybody else for their comments too.

See you tomorrow.