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Here’s a much-younger Loyal Reader Number One simulating a robot. He’s the one on the left there. Picture taken in Virginia, I believe, based on the background.

Short Shrift tonight. I got home from work at 8:00, had a quick bite of dinner, and went to my Tuesday night meeting.

One exciting thing is that I got my fully-licensed copy of iWork in the mail today. I had been using the trial version for the last little while, so it’s not exactly something new, but I’m still pleased.

I’m still waiting for those Miata speakers to come.

Wanted to drive the Suburban to work to celebrate Earth Day, but I didn’t want to pay thirty bucks for the gas. I had the truck in spirit, though. Earth First! We’ll mine the other planets later.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the Loyal Pet apparently doing a little fishing. She didn’t catch anything. Didn’t even see anything. Photo taken at Big Sur.

Speaking of camping, we’re heading back into the wilds this weekend. Loyal Readers Numbers One and Two are coming to work with me on Thursday for Take Your Kids to Work Day, or Young Minds at Work, as we call it for some reason, possibly involving the fact that it’s too hard to figure out who is whose kid these days so they’ve given up trying.

Anyway, we’re planning to finish up a little early that day. After we get home, we’re heading out to Caswell State Park, which is less than half an hour from our house. We’ll be coming home on Saturday. We’ve never been to the park, but Loyal Reader Number Four wants to go check it out, since she’ll be taking her Girl’s Camp group there a month or so later. So we get to go this weekend.

No post Friday. We went to the Boy Scout spaghetti dinner and I never got to it afterwards.

Not that I didn’t have plenty of opportunity – it was my off Friday and I was actually home! And I only worked about two hours! How unusual!

So what did I do on Friday (and Saturday (and Sunday))? Well, let’s see. Loyal Readers Numbers Five, Six, and Twelve came over and spent the day Friday. They even stayed the night and went home on Saturday morning. We were glad to see them, and were pleasantly surprised to see LRN6, as we thought he had some work to get done at home. It was a nice visit.

I bought and installed a new coolant overflow tank on the Sable. The coolant level sensor had failed, and it’s a permanently installed part of the tank, so I did what I had to do. Both Loyal Reader Number Four and I are quite relieved to have that little job done – the light and bell had gotten to be quite an annoyance.

LRN6 and I also tried to replace the headrest speakers on the Miata (finally!). Sadly, the very nice – and very nicely priced – speakers we bought really didn’t fit and I wasn’t willing to make the modifications needed to make them fit. So I returned them and ordered some properly sized new ones online. I hope they arrive sometime this week. And maybe I’ll get them installed Saturday afternoon after the camping trip!

Let’s see, what else? Oh, LRN4 and I went to Costco and bought a new palm tree. This one is roughly eight feet tall and is now safely planted behind the pool. I believe that’s exactly what that spot needed. We also worked on the drip system for the garden in the back yard.

Oh, and we bought and I installed a new ceiling fan for the family room.

So it was a fairly busy weekend. Sunday was the usual – more meetings than would be consistent with a truly restful day, but not bad.

Oh, and I called Loyal Reader Number Twenty Three yesterday – it was his birthday. Happy birthday, LRN23!

And that brings us up to date. Time for Home Evening. See you tomorrow.

Here’s the company store. I finally found that place where I owe my soul. The prices don’t look that high. Picture taken at Great America.

I’m back! Welcome home to me. The Loyal Family seemed mildly pleased (link warning: cute Lego-themed film with sound and a horrifying ending) to see me, and I’m certainly glad to be home from the short little jaunt down south.

Spoke with my younger sister on the way home. They’re doing fine. She had a birthday the other day and this was my first chance to talk with her since then. We’re going to visit them in a month or so and trying to figure out all the details. I still need to rent a car, for example. Details – they’re killing me.

Well, it’s late already, so this will turn out to be yet another Short Shrift day. See you tomorrow.

Here’s the lovely view outside my hotel room window. Picture taken about five minutes ago.

Greetings from Lancaster! I made the trip in good time and am comfortably ensconced in my hotel room. See the link – there’s even complimentary on-site parking! This isn’t one of those cheapo hotels with off-site parking and shuttle buses running back and forth every thirty minutes. No siree.

The hotel opened in January and feels new and nice. There’s even an HDTV in my room. Four hundred channels and nothing’s on. But in high-def!

Tonight’s sushi dinner was pretty good. It’s not the best sushi place there is, but it’s pretty good.

Off to the Air Force base tomorrow morning. They’ve closed some of the more interesting places on the base, so I guess I’ll have to concentrate on my meeting. No horseback riding for me.

I’m going straight home from the meeting tomorrow night, so I’m likely to be pretty tired when I get home. Probably of bloggage is rated “dubious.”

Gotta read my book and get to bed. See you tomorrow. Or maybe Friday.

Here’s a nice distant shot of the Pacific Ocean at – you guessed it – Big Sur. Taken from the hiking path going towards – you guessed it – the ocean.

Extremely Short Shrift tonight. I just got home from my Tuesday evening meeting, chatted with Loyal Reader Number One for a few minutes, and played with my VMWare installations of Ubuntu Linux and Solaris Unix. Now I have to get to bed. Need to get up at about 5:00 to pack my bags for tomorrow’s trip to Edwards. As (probably) mentioned previously, I’ll be back late Thursday night so I don’t miss a single minute of my Off Friday.

I’m kind of looking forward to the trip and kind of not. I like Edwards and these meetings have been instructive and useful. I also enjoy a road trip from time to time. On the downside, I have plenty to do at work and not enough time to do it, and it doesn’t help to be gone for a couple of days. But I’m going anyway.

Tomorrow night’s dinner: sushi.

Blogging will continue from the remote location. See you tomorrow.