Loren, my old college roommate

As I mentioned yesterday, I have a TON of side programming work to do over the next little while.  So, when I got home from work yesterday, after reading aloud to the kids, I got right to work.  I had been at it for about an hour, the doorbell rang.  Kelly answered the door and then hollered that there was someone here to see me.  I could not believe.  My old roommate from my freshman year in college was standing at the door.  He looked great and it was great to see him.  He was here to discuss some work he was doing with a professor in the EE department at NCSU.  He is the roommate with whom I spent an afternoon jumping out of the third story of the building where we lived onto a pile of matresses.  Loren missed and ended up in the hospital, but I have to admit it was fun while it lasted.  Loren has worked as an engineer with the Bonneville Power Administration since he got out of college and has quite an interesting position there now that takes him to many parts of the U.S. and even the world.  It was great to get a chance to get caught up with him for awhile.  If he does not plan to bring his wife and stay with us next time he comes, I think I will probably just shoot him!

On another note, Christian has set up the camera we bought for our research project to transmit images from our house to the server he has installed in the  NCSU Ag Engineering lab.  We are going to have to do some work on image quality, but we are now ready to install the camera in the lab.  Here is one of images: