morrowlife

Here’s the lagoon at the famous Coco Palms Resort on Kauai.  The hotel was partially destroyed back in 1992 in a hurricane, but we were able to tour around it just a bit.  Wish I’d been there when the hotel was still in business.  It looks like it was quite a cool place.  Elvis thought so too.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-4s-cam and part of my famous Vacation series.

Long, long, long time, no write.  Life’s been good anyway.

Lots to talk about.  Three days after my last post, my program was ended by our government customer.  Very sad.  My people are all looking around for their next assignments, and I certainly hope they all find something.  Working hard to make it happen.  I believe I have my next thing lined up – just have to wait for it to all fall into place.  More information on that as it unfolds.

Less than three months before LRN1 comes home!  I can’t believe it.  The time has gone so quickly.  I’m really looking forward to having him home.  And I believe he’ll be with us for about two months before he heads back to school.  Should be a good time for him to decompress.

LRN4 is sick.  She’s had pretty serious cold symptoms for a few days now.  Can’t sleep well, but needs to sleep.  She has my pity.

Time for bed.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife Employment Agency job opportunity: highly-skilled hobo!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s Waikiki beach, on a beautiful mid-October afternoon not too long before sunset.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-4S-cam (I think) and part of my famous Vacation series.

Time for another post.  I’d hate to miss a whole month.

But nothing has really happened lately.  So let’s see . . . Oh, yeah.  We had twenty people over for Home Evening last night.  LRN4 wanted to start up an “empty nester/singles/young marrieds/anybody else without kids at home” group.  So she did.  Last night was our first meeting.  I had a nice time, and it seemed that everybody else did too.  So there’s that.  We’ll meet again in December.

And . . . umm . . . I’m about done.  Lots of stress at work as we determine our future.  Or rather, have our future determined for us.  My people are nervous, and I don’t really blame them.  This next little while will be interesting.  For me, I don’t really care what happens.  As my Loyal Readers know, I’m dying to retire and take up iOS programming full-time, so it would be great to get myself into a position where I could do that.  Also, I like having money, so it would be great to keep working where I am for the next several years.  So either way our program goes, it’ll be great for me.

Anyway.  Time for bed.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife Employment Agency job opportunity:  spitting and urinating chimps.  I have a feeling we’ll be getting several applications.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s Gilligan’s lagoon.  At least it was for the show’s pilot.  Also the opening sequence of every show.  After that, they were in Hollywood.  What a beautiful place this was, though.  Part of my famous Vacation series.

Welcome back to us!  Hawaii was great.  The ship was great.  Being together was great.  It was all great.

Well, almost all of it was great.  I got sick one night.  Really sick.  Didn’t tell the ship’s doctor, of course.  I’d still be locked in my cabin.  So I just got sick and stayed quiet about it.  But not anymore!

Anyway.  We truly had a great vacation and it’s (mostly) nice to be home.  Everything was fine here and everyone appears to have been fine too.

Broke the spring on the garage door tonight, though.  LRN4 will get it fixed tomorrow, hopefully.  In the meantime, the Taurus is trapped in the garage.  Luckily, it broke when LRN4 was closing it after pulling her car out.  My beloved pickup is behind the other door, so we have two cars we can use until the door is fixed.

Otherwise, situation normal.  I report a lot more on the Hawaii situation as time goes by.  Gotta milk this thing a little.

And it’s late, so I’ll quit.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife employment agency job opportunity: terrorist beaver.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the famous Detroit Zoo bear fountain.  Great Art taken this summer at the Detroit Zoo and part of my famous Statue and Vacation series.

Extreme short shrift.  As usual.  It’s already just about 10:00 and tomorrow is a work Friday (boo!). (I mean yea!)

Stayed home from work today.  Wasn’t feeling well.  For the last day and a half, our water purifier at work has been on the fritz, so I’ve been drinking tap water.  I’ve always firmly believed in the complete safety of tap water – heck, it’s tested and bottled water isn’t.  So it has a much better chance of being completely safe to drink, right?

Well, maybe that is right.  Maybe something else did it.  All I know is that I drank work tap water for a day and a half and I got REAL sick for a day and a half.  By mid-morning today I was feeling pretty much fine.  So I’m off work’s tap water from now on.  Just in case.

Worked anyway – just at home.  I probably got more done in less time than usual, but let’s not jump to conclusions.

I also got some LDS Tools work done.  Also read part of my book, watched a couple episodes of Mythbusters, a couple of Futurama, and one of Dilbert.  Good old Netflix streaming.  I’m not happy about their outrageous price increase and I’m definitely worried about their recent inability to negotiate contracts with content providers (and don’t even get me started about the Hollywood Luddites who can’t figure out that their environment has changed), but I’m not cutting off my nose to spite my face.  I’m keeping both streaming and my one-disk-at-a-time service.  Always willing to have another look at it, though.  I just wish Amazon on-demand streaming worked on my new Apple TV.  Maybe it will, eventually.  Since I became a Prime customer, it’s free!  Well, at least it’s paid-for, anyway.

Happy birthday to LRN16!  Had a nice long talk with her today.  She’s doing well!

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife Employment Agency job opportunity: runaway elephant!

See you tomorrow.

Here are the famous Detroit Zoo spitting frogs.  Great Art taken this summer at the (duh) Detroit Zoo and part of my famous Statue and Vacation series.

Extreme short shrift.  It’s already after 9:30 and I need to get to sleep.  I get into my office and start watching Jay Leno’s Garage videos.  Boy do I like seeing those beautiful old cars, and actually seeing them being used is even better.  Highly recommended.  But be prepared to waste a bit of time.

Need to get ready for a power outage tomorrow.  We were recently notified by our lovely power company that the power will be out for a few to several hours tomorrow while they’re working on the local transmission lines.  That’ll be a bit inconvenient.  I’m shutting down computers tonight and otherwise pretty much dealing with resetting clocks and turning things back on tomorrow.  Shouldn’t be too bad.  Just need to remind LRN4 to get her car out of the garage before it goes dark.

Got our confirmation on the October cruise.  I have our passport and credit card data entered into the Princess website.  Nothing can stop us now.  We’re (well, at least I am) really looking forward to it.

I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: milk-stealing cow!  And it happened in one of our former hometowns!

See you tomorrow.