Yearly Archives: 2012

Day 274 of 1000 Lorena and are never too excited for the kids to be away, but we are looking forward to a week alone while the kids head to California.  They think it is a vacation for them, but … Continue reading →

Day 271 of 1000 This is a first.  Lorena, Kelly, and Christian are doing last minute shopping for the kids trip to California.  The GaugeCam team is mostly out of town.  That leaves me on my own, so I decided … Continue reading →

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Thanks Troy, Youngin, and Lucia!  It is a great thing that red is a thinning color!

Day 257 of 1000 Cinco de Mayo de 2012–A stellar day!

Day 256 of 1000 Today is Kelly’s last day of homeschool and community college.  I dropped her off for her last final in Geology at the Wake Technical Community College Main Campus.  Her formal graduation from both will occur tomorrow.  … Continue reading →

Day 250 of 1000 Wow.  We are one fourth of the way through our one thousand day push.  We are all the way up to finals week in the kids last semester of community college.  It seems pretty amazing.  I … Continue reading →

Day 248 of 1000 I talked to my friend and ex-business partner Ron Voorhees on the phone last night.  He is doing great.  Too great.  We always have lots of things to talk about–business, politics, sports, religion, and, best of … Continue reading →

Day 244 of 1000 Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah called tonight to tell us they are coming for Kelly’s graduation.  Kelly will be graduating from both Wake Technical Comminity College with an Associate of Science college transfer degree and from … Continue reading →

Day 243 of 1000 We went out and bought a grill today at Lowe’s. It is a nice one. We are getting ready for Kelly’s graduation party. Christian has promised to become the grill master, but I do not know … Continue reading →

Day 237 of 1000 Christian and I went to our church meeting together without Lorena and Kelly (they have a bug of some kind).  Among other things, we talked about why strict materialism is not true.  One manifestation of that … Continue reading →

Day 233 of 1000 Kelly told me about a website called fivethirtyeight.com a long time ago.  It came to my attention a couple days ago.  It is written by a statistics guy who used to be into baseball statistics, but … Continue reading →

Day 232 of 1000 The day I returned from Vancouver, Kelly received a letter from NCSU telling us that she had won a scholarship.  The same day, we turned down a very big scholarship for both Christian and Kelly from … Continue reading →

Day 229 of 1000 Every year for the past eight years, I have had something I needed to do to finish up the homeschool year.  This will be my last year for that.  We will formally graduate Kelly from High … Continue reading →

Day 225 of 1000 I got the right answer to an easy question for the win!  Woo-hoo!

Day 224 of 1000 Vancouver seems to have a lot in common with Portland.  What with the rainy weather, the goofy, lightly attended, student tuition protest for which the government was willing to shut down the streets, the moral ambiguity … Continue reading →

The protest movement in Vancouver is just as pathetic as the Occupy Raleigh protest in North Carolina–at least today it was.  The above is an image of 75 or so students protesting tuition increases and chanting Education is a right! … Continue reading →

Day 223 of 1000 It is very interesting to be in Vancouver again after a couple of visits here over twenty years ago.  First, it is a very, very beautiful city. Second, it is rainier and cooler (temperature-wise) city than … Continue reading →