Monthly Archives: April 2008

We have now finished reading Dave Ramsey’s book, Financial Peace Revisited as a family. We enjoyed it very much and have started gathering information and filling out the forms at the back of the book to help us make a … Continue reading →

Last night I went out to the sit in the screen porch while I corrected math for the kids. It was wonderful. It was a little cool, but I like it that way. Every thing smelled fresh from the recent … Continue reading →

Kelly went to a piano seminar on Saturday put on by a guy named Jim Brickman. There were a hundred or so people there. He picked three people out of the crowd to play something for him. Kelly was in … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a nice day. Several nice things happened. First, I got my pickup back last night. It looks great. Life is a lot easier now that both Lorena and I can get around. If gas did not cost $3.50 … Continue reading →

We are having some firefights at work right now as we are coming up to another big laboratory trial of the product we are developing with one of our biggest customers. The system is not performing as it should so … Continue reading →

I am writing this blog post using a software tool called ScribeFire 2.0. ScribeFire is an “add-on” to the Firefox web browser. I maintain two blogs–this one and the one other over at the KamVu website. The ScribeFire editor allows … Continue reading →

I have been working on the volcano computer in the little time I have available with my in-laws in town from Mexico. I might have mentioned that I got PuppyLinux up and running on the thing. It works great, but … Continue reading →

Bryan was right. I feel off the diet wagon big-time when Grandpa Lauro and Grandma Conchita got here, but it was worth it. It is so good to have them here. Conchita and Lorena have been huddled together solving the … Continue reading →

She thought I should laugh at this, but I thought it was quite lucid primer on a very important subject.

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Two of the standing jokes in the Chapman household have to do with one time when we were driving somewhere and Christian saw a drive-through restaurant on the side of the road named Fast Eddie’s Burgers. He asked me, “What … Continue reading →

Kelly and I had an enlightening discussion last night about vocation. I have encouraged the kids to get a degree in something at which they can make a living. When I think of degrees that allow one to make a … Continue reading →

Last night, Christian and I were able to get Puppy Linux up and going on the little embedded computer we are trying to get ready to go into the the volcano. The version we ran was a special build of … Continue reading →

Last night, I spent quite a bit of the evening playing with the new little Norhtec computer that arrived on Monday from Thailand. I made a good number of false starts, but by the end of the evening, I was … Continue reading →

After a bad day couple of days at the end of last week–wrecking the pickup, puncturing the tire in the riding mower, and then providing my children with a monumentally bad example of how to act when such annoyances occur–some … Continue reading →

The kids had to do standardized testing this weekend so the kids spent a bunch of time doing what they do during the week–schoolwork. I was somewhat of a bear this weekend, too–probably self pity after the wreck. We did … Continue reading →

Some of you might know that I have been working on some machine vision stuff for a man who is a Volcanologist at the United States Geological Survey. He has a need to monitor Mount St. Helens with cameras to … Continue reading →

On the way to work this morning, I got into a wreck. As always, those kinds of things are very frustrating. When I got into work after the accident, I sat down at my computer to read my bible and, … Continue reading →

I am going to keep on trying to lose, but am I worrying too much about this? Check out this article. The line that was most interesting is the following: But isn’t overweight, as defined by doctors, dangerous to health? … Continue reading →

I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I just wish it would have come back when we had a push mower. I just hope the “fun” lasts through at least one summer.