Monthly Archives: May 2008

Rumor has it that two of our good friends in Oregon are getting married. A friend dropped a note revealing as much, but I got mugged by my WHOLE family because the facts in the email were quite spare. They are beating … Continue reading →

I usually get up at 5:30 AM to go into work. That is mostly because I want to beat the traffic in the morning and I want to get home early so I can work on homeschool with the kids. Last night, … Continue reading →

We have been our new house now for five months. It works well for us. We love to sit on the screen porch and look at the trees in the woods behind the house. We love the big open kitchen with the fireplace … Continue reading →

Kelly and Christian had their first swim team practice last night where the actually got into the water. They said it was just perfect. They got a really good workout, but it was not so onerous that they could not handle it. It … Continue reading →

This will be a short post, but I should be back in the saddle with something better tomorrow. I worked over the three day weekend. We did go to a great potluck on Monday, but but that does not really make up … Continue reading →

…this is just a picture of the progress Bryan has made on his diet! That is FIVE, count’em, FIVE notches already cut from his belt. We are all sitting on the edge of our chair to find out whether he meets his … Continue reading →

We have slowly been converting from a Microsoft Windows family to a Linux family. If it were just me, we would have switched a long time ago, but there are a few remaining programs we use for homeschool that were written … Continue reading →

Our little family goes to a bible study every Wednesday evening at someone from our church’s home. We sit around in the living room, sing hymns, pray, and study a chapter or two in the bible. Normally there is someone there who … Continue reading →

I have been working out during my lunch hour on an elliptical machine faithfully for almost four months now. There is a television right in front of all the workout machines. After about I week, I found that even the History and … Continue reading →

I have downloaded C# to our main Linux box and plan to start using it my stock analysis program. It involves downloading data from the internet, performance of calculations, generation of graphics and HTML to display them, uploading of result files … Continue reading →

It was nice to have Lorena’s family here from Milwaukee, Wisconsin over the weekend. They left Sunday afternoon after meeting for Greensboro where Tio Rigo and Tia Helen dropped their son, Jonathan off for the start of his internship at UNC … Continue reading →

We have visitors this weekend. Tio Rigoberto and Tia helen from Milwaukee, Wisconsin brought their son jonathan down to do an internship at UNC Greensboro. They are leaving tomorrow.

Last night, Lorena and Kelly went to one of those parties in our old neighborhood in Apex where women get together to sell useless foo-foo stuff to each other. I hate those things. And for more than just the reason that the … Continue reading →

I have been trying to put together a good homeschool personal finance program to help Kelly and Christian get ready for “real” life. We just finished reading Dave Ramsey’s book on Financial Peace. We have pretty much been doing the things he … Continue reading →

Work continues on the volcano computer project. Our USGS contact told us that we need to add GPS precision timing capability to the device so we can track the time each image is taken to within 100 microseconds or so. We thought … Continue reading →

We have just about finished identifying our summer projects. It is really pretty hard to figure out what to do because we like to do some fairly ambitious things, but we do not like to overload ourselves so much that we … Continue reading →

Saturday was a wonderful day. One of the first people we met when we got to North Carolina is a very nice fellow named Troy. He got married about a month ago to a young doctor named Youngin. They are the couple who … Continue reading →

I have been thinking about Mother’s Day lately. Whenever I think of Mother’s Day, I think of a time when I was in college. There was only one year when my mother could not make it to Oregon State’s annual Moms Weekend. B.B. … Continue reading →

We are all quite happy! Kelly is even more beautiful than before (if that were even possible) and I only have a couple more payments! It is like I got a raise!!! AND I am now down over twenty pounds on the weight … Continue reading →

The doctors told Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah it is very rare when two people in the same family have macular degeneration, but that is exactly what happened. Grandma Sarah went through surgery to repair her problem several years back. Grandpa Milo … Continue reading →