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Here’s LRN4 during intermission at Friday night’s Shakespeare performance. We went to see if the line was short enough to buy a cup of hot chocolate. It wasn’t. That’s the stage in the background. Further description below. Great Art courtesy of the famous iPhone-cam, which doesn’t really do all that well at night in terms of actual photo quality. I just claim to be going for that soft-focus look and everybody’s happy.

Missed a couple of days again. Got busy.

Had a pleasant weekend. It was Mother’s Day, of course, and we had LRN5 and LRN12 over on Sunday. LRN12 stayed, because her other grandma came yesterday and is staying through Thursday. We’re having a nice time together, and LRN12 is delighted to have two grandmas to play with. And be spoiled by.

Our Guest Grandma took us out for dinner tonight. I had Massive Meeting Tuesday to go to, so we went to our current favorite hamburger joint – Athens Burger. I usually have the pastrami burger there, but I changed things up and went for the avocado burger. It was good, but I think I’ll switch back to my old favorite next time.

We enjoyed the Shakespeare performance on Friday, as mentioned above. It was A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as predicted last week. It was absolutely free, and worth at least every cent of that. We had a good time, the weather was nice if a bit brisk for outdoor theater, and the play was entertaining. We were glad we didn’t pay a whole lot of money, but we were well entertained. At half-time intermission, they got out a bunch of plastic buckets and begged for money. We gave them a few bucks, but we’re considering bringing our own bucket to next year’s performance – might be able to turn a handy profit on it, as long as people can’t distinguish our bucket from all the others. Of course, there’s the nagging little honesty issue to deal with.

I’ll end today with this exciting job opportunity for my Loyal Readers: car-slowing angel. Who says there’s no work out there?

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a miniature version of Mount Rushmore somewhere in GreatAmerica. Why? Heaven only knows. But it’s there. Part of my famous Statue series.

Another pretty day, although not quite as warm as yesterday, which wasn’t quite as warm as the day before. No problem, though. It was comfortable, and it’ll be plenty warm plenty soon, as LRN4 pointed out to me today.

Worked 10 hours again. Accomplished a little, but not enough. There’s always tomorrow!

Pretty much worked, ate, and commuted. So there’s nothing to talk about today, I suppose. Therefore, I’ll leave you with this heartwarming driving story: try, try again.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN1’s kitchen in his place in Guatemala. Looks a bit . . . rustic. Especially that propane tank. At least the dishes are clean – way to go, LRN1! Part of my famous Guatemala series.

Worked a bit a long day today, partially making up for staying home yesterday afternoon after picking LRN4 up at the airport. I don’t regret that at all, and it wasn’t bad staying an extra hour today. I think I’ll do it again tomorrow, in fact.

LRN4 heard today about a free performance of . . . umm . . . one of Shakespeare’s comedy’s. Maybe it’s As You Like It. Or maybe A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Yeah, I think that’s it. Maybe. In any case, it’s showing for free in Turlock the rest of this week. We think we’ll be going on Friday evening. I’m looking forward to it.

I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 as a virtual machine here on my beloved Mac Mini. It looks really nice and seems to work great. I’ve been thinking of installing it on one of my laptops, at least as a dual-boot option, so I can use it on the train for development. The train is getting to be a busy place for me, what with working for an hour every morning and doing 200 indexing names every afternoon. Plus, I really don’t want to have to carry three laptops with me every day. Really. But I want to start doing a bit of development, and Linux is probably a good option for some of the things I’m interested in doing – compilers and simulators and such things. Although Windows is also an option, sadly. Can’t do Mac or iPhone development because I don’t have a Mac laptop. Just as well, I suppose – I don’t want to have to carry four laptops every day either.

Anyway. It’s late and I need to hit the sheets. I’ll leave you with this shocking food violence news: mozzarella caprese threat!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s LRN1 in his first missionary apartment, standing directly outside the bathroom door. Notice the headroom under the door. He reports that he’s whacked his head on numerous doorways so far. Keep a weather eye out, LRN1! You may need your head someday. Part of my newly-famous Guatemala series, as was the previous post (without even knowing it!).

Incidentally, that toilet looks like it’s going to be about ready for its next cleaning in a week or two. It probably won’t get it, if I know anything about missionary pads.

LRN4’s home from Utah! She’s doing well and we were very glad to see her. Her flight arrived 20 minutes or so early, so it was lucky that I was already at the cell phone lot. I got there with about fifteen minutes to spare, got LRN4’s call, went and parked in the short-term lot, and got inside the building before the luggage started coming out, so it worked out perfectly. Welcome home, LRN4! We really missed you.

LRN4 is taking off again in a mere 18 days, and this time she’s taking LRN2 with her. What will I do? Probably a lot of relaxing, but that’s not the point. I’ll miss them. As mentioned before, I’ll be joining them for the last couple of days of the last leg of their San Diego – Mesa – Las Vegas trip and then enjoying the drive back home with them. Should be fun. I’ll just make the best of bachelorhood for the first ten days or so. Survival: Lardville. Maybe it’ll be a new television show. I don’t think I’d watch it, though.

Anyway. Busy and enjoyable weekend. It was warm and sunny – downright hot today, with highs in the mid-80’s. Got a little bit of useful stuff done and a lot of useless stuff. I’m still struggling to decide whether to try to finish the autonomous RC car or start work on a software-only project. Decisions, decisions. So many possibilities.

We’re expecting warm and sunny weather for the rest of the week, by the way. I wonder if the spring rains are over. The hills have already gone decidedly brown, so I guess they think it’s summer now. Assuming hills can think, that is.

Got the front brakes on the Honda replaced today. It turns out they still probably had about 40% of their life left (after five years!), but the rotors had warped, so it made sense to replace them anyway while they were taken apart and the rotors were turned. I tried to do the job myself the other day, but one of the bolts holding the driver’s side caliper on was in so tight I broke three sockets trying to loosen it. Decided to call in the professionals at that point.

The rotors on my pickup are also warped. I’m frustrated – I keep warping rotors! The guy at the shop says it’s being done by shops who don’t hand-tighten the wheels when they take them off and put them back on. I’ll need to be a bit more vigilant about that. I’m sick of wobbly brakes.

Heading down the Edwards on Wednesday evening for our Thursday meeting. I’m driving, as usual. It really doesn’t take any more time than flying, and I enjoy it more anyway. Looking forward to it.

And it’s time for bed. I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this heartwarming toilet news: toilet sweet home.

See you tomorrow.