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Indians welcome! I don’t think I’d necessarily feel all that welcome if I were pulling into the Dock at the Rock. Even if I weren’t an Indian. Which I’m not. Mainly. Photo courtesy of Loyal Reader Number One.

Greetings from the train! It’s Fairly Empty Friday, and I’m enjoying the trip. No idea whether the freeways are good or bad, and I don’t care. I’m seriously thinking of talking to my boss and volunteering to permanently make the Monday and Tuesday evening charts for her on the train. I can post them to the server when I get home. I kind of doubt that she’ll be willing to let go, but I think she should.

Anyway. We have a bunch of people coming over this evening for a Small Group Dinner. Loyal Reader Number Four signed up to host if needed, and they finally called her on Wednesday evening with an assignment. Too late, but she got to work immediately and made the arrangements. Next time, we’ll just go to somebody else’s house.

We’re just passing a golf course, and I’m reminded that we still need to hold the First Annual Gardenville Software golf tournament. Need to get Loyal Reader Number Three out here for it. He’s watching plane fares and when something unbelievably cheap comes along, we’ll do it.

The weekend promises to be relatively busy. There’s a Sunday School lesson to prepare and present and … ummm … lots of other stuff. If nothing else comes along, I’m sure I can find some work to do on the Miata. And there are a lot of filthy cars. And I still haven’t put together Mousey the Junkbot (or is that Junkey the Mousebot?). And I absolutely need to get a version of WaterLogger working on the net, whether we can host it on the remote server or it has to be on Larry for now. And I need to make some progress on learning Ruby. And I have one and a half library books to read. And I need to buy another charger for the iPod that I can keep at work, since there’s just not enough battery life to watch TV shows on the train in both directions. And I need to clean up a mess or two on my side of the bed. And the pool needs to be checked and chlorinated. And swum in, for that matter.

Yeah, I guess I’ll be able to think of a few things to do.

See you on Monday.

Here’s some nature-based Great Art. Hopefully, I haven’t used this picture before.

Just call me New Haircut Boy! My hair had gotten so long it was starting to hurt, not to mention look less than optimal. Thank you, Loyal Reader Number Four! As soon as blogging operations are complete tonight, I’m off to the showers to remove the residuals before I hit the hay.

But first, a brief message from our sponsor – me.

Fine day at work today. I went to some meetings, scheduled other meetings, ate lunch, and talked to people. How much better does it get than that? Taking care of business, baby. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Bad ride home, but it was offset by the fact that we had sushi as an appetizer for dinner. So it all works out. Besides, the morning ride was fairly short, and the Law of Freeway Equalization states that the sum total of the round-trip commute hours on any given day is a constant. I have no idea how that works out, but it pretty much always does. Tomorrow is Train Day, so the LoFE doesn’t apply.

Well, the Creative Muse is done for the night and my neck itches, so it’s time to hit the showers. See you tomorrow.

Here’s some of Loyal Reader Number Two’s old artwork. Very cool, LRN2. Photo courtesy of Loyal Reader Number Four.

Pretty quick post tonight. I left work a few hours early just because my afternoon meeting was canceled and I wanted to go swimming. I came home and went swimming. Very nice. Otherwise, not much has happened. I have to leave for my Wednesday evening meeting in about half an hour, though, so the time is actually fairly short.

Loyal Reader Number Five did some more interviewing today. She generated some interest from an entomology museum or some such place. I don’t think she’s spoken with them yet, but I think she should watch Night At the Museum before she takes the job. Just a thought.

Loyal Readers Numbers One and Two went to an ice-blocking party tonight. I wonder whether anybody other than Californians ice-blocks. Somehow, I doubt it. For my Loyal Readers who aren’t familiar with the concept, you buy a block of ice at the grocery store, carry it to the top of a hill, sit on it, and ride it to the bottom. Also break your arms and legs some of the time. Sounds like fun, no?

LRN5 was looking over my shoulder and mentions that it’s not just a bug museum. It’s the California Academy of Science, and they do lots of things besides look at dead bugs. Dead animals, for instance. Watch the movie first, LRN5.

Better quit now. See you tomorrow.

Here’s Loyal Reader Number Twelve with her headband on. Those things look uncomfortable to me. But all the baby girls wear ’em and beauty knows no pain, I guess.

No post yesterday. I was going to use the Wonders of Blogger earlier today, but didn’t even get a chance to do that. Sigh.

So let’s recap. It was a good weekend, as weekends go, which is generally pretty well. I know I was busy the whole time but I don’t really remember what I did. Lots of playing with Loyal Reader Number Twelve, as I recall.

How long have I had amnesia? Even since I can remember!

The weekend moving trip to Big Bear was sort of a bust. They enjoyed being there but didn’t move anything. They did get to have a barbecue and visit with Loyal Readers Numbers Six (of course), Three, and Fifteen. We enjoyed keeping the baby. I wanted to use the pool but never got to do it. I wanted to use it last night and again tonight but never got in then either. Sigh. Thwarted plans all the time. I guess I need to make easier-to-achieve plans. But what could be easier to achieve than putting on a swimsuit and walking out into my own back yard?

Loyal Reader Number Five has been busily going out on job interviews. She has a few hot prospects but no solid offers yet. She did find a place to live, however. Here’s a picture. They get the keys tomorrow and move in I-don’t-know-when. It looks like it will be a nice little place. They even get a garage!

Let’s see, is there anything else? Somebody brought a great big bag of Boston Baked Beans candy to work on Monday. I had way too many of them. I love BBBs.

Umm . . . nothing else comes to mind right now, so I’ll go get ready for bed. See you tomorrow.

Here’s a roof at Alcatraz. Along with some birds. It’s a twofer – Great Art and Birds! I think we all agree it doesn’t get any better than that. Photo courtesy of Loyal Reader Number One.

I’m back on the train today, for the first time in almost a month. I like Fridays on the train – there are many fewer riders (apparently, lots of companies have off Fridays) and Friday afternoon traffic is generally unpleasant. I hope to quit driving on Fridays.

I’ve been enjoying Blackadder on the iPod. I’m currently watching Blackadder Goes Forth – the fourth and final season, set in World War I. I had never seen most of the shows from that year before. They’re great. Highly recommended. I borrowed the shows from Loyal Reader Number Five. She only had two of the four DVDs when she came to visit (seasons three and four, including Blackadder’s Christmas Carol, possibly my very favorite Christmas movie), and I’m hoping she’ll find the missing discs soon. And lend them to me.

Not much else to report today. I dragged out of bed very early, rode the train comfortably to work (got my unread email count down from about 150 to 85, which is good progress!), had a nice, brisk walk to the office, worked like a dog, hitched a ride over to the bus stop (I wanted to walk, but somebody offered, and I hated to turn him down), and went home. The rest of the evening ought to consist of dinner, Monk, Psych, and some game engine work.

Also need to repair Loyal Reader Number Two’s computer. It’s been overheating to the point of shutting down for quite a while now, and we haven’t been able to figure out why. I would have suspected the CPU fan, but it appears to be working just fine. Time to put on the detective hat and get it fixed.

I have to attend a work meeting or two Saturday morning – by phone, of course. Undesired but necessary. That will conflict with my tentative commitment to help work on my friend Lyle’s electricity, but he doesn’t know I was planning to come over yet, so I’ll just reschedule.

Loyal Readers Numbers One and Five went down to Big Bear for the weekend today. They’re going to help the Loyal Readers move out of their new house. They’ve decided to make a break from the Mountain, and Loyal Reader Number Six’s parents have kindly agreed to take over the house. They’re working on getting it rented out, though, so it needs to be empty pretty soon. We have Loyal Reader Number Twelve with us for the weekend. We hope she enjoys staying with Grandma and Grandpa. Not to mention Uncle LRN2 and Aunts Loyal Pets One and Two. Gulp.

Back to the videos. Have a great weekend.