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Lorena loves Hugo’s
Day 639 of 1000 Lorena and I went to Hugo’s in Prescott for lunch today. She had tacos de carne asada and I had tacos de pollo. It was absolutely excellent. I HIGHLY recommend Hugo’s if you are fan of … Continue reading
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Lorena comes home tomorrow
Day 637 of 1000 I go to the airport tomorrow a little after lunch to pick up Lorena. You have no idea what a good deal that is. The kids will stay in California for another week, so Lorena and … Continue reading
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Stanford and Google on Monday
Day 636 of 1000 Well, I thought I was going to have the chance to catch on my post series, it looks like it is not going to happen. I continue to keep the home fires burning while Kelly and … Continue reading
Lorena loves In-N-Out
Day 635 of 1000 Service that would make Chick-fil-A proud, really cool, retro uniforms, and great food is not enough to impress Lorena, but if they can provide chiles with the hamburgers, too, then Lorena is VERY impressed. Now Lorena … Continue reading
Jimbob, Megan, Sir, and the C-Melody Saxophone
Day 634 of 1000 My buddy Warren of the Truth has a chance blog and lived together for several years when he was in college and I was a recent college grad working for a robotics and machine vision company … Continue reading
A fine day for UCLA
Day 632 of 1000 A great time was had by all. Activities for the day included graduate school visits at UCLA, a walk down Rodeo Drive, and a Visit to the Beverly Hills Linual Institute. Tomorrow, they are headed to … Continue reading
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The California graduate school tour — Manhattan Beach, California and UCLA
It does not get much better than this. The 2013 California Graduate School TourTM has proceeded from San Diego to Manhattan Beach, California and Beverly Hills. Tomorrow Kelly has two interviews and Christian has one interview at UCLA. On Friday, … Continue reading
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Visiting Beverly Hills Lingual Institute and UCLA
Day 631 of 1000 Lorena and the kids are going to stay with a couple of cousins in the LA area over the next couple of days so they can visit and interview some professors about graduate school at UCLA. … Continue reading
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Kelly’s first graduate school interview
Day 630 of 1000 Yesterday, Kelly went to her first graduate school interview at SDSU. It went great. She talked to two professors, (one Math, one Statistics) and had a great time. The Statistics professor thought she would do great … Continue reading
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Working to a schedule
Day 629 of 1000 My boss and I spent Saturday and Sunday afternoons this past weekend working out a schedule for a critcial delivery for our company. It was quite a challenge that will require much effort–late evenings, some weekends, … Continue reading
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Working through the weekend
Day 628 of 1000 I worked yesterday and then came back in this afternoon, so my blog output has not been good. I still have hope to finish up some of my series of posts in the next week or … Continue reading
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Is it illegal to print guns?
Day 626 of 1000 My buddy Eric sent me a link to this article about how the State Department has shut down a website that distributes know-how and designs for printable gun. Is this a first amendment or a second … Continue reading
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Senioritis!
Day 625 of 1000 Today was the last day of finals for both Kelly (Intermediate Macroeconomics) and Christian (Java). They are now both officially on summer vacation and official Seniors in college! Congratulations to the both of them on a … Continue reading
Rules for a great career (even if it is accidental) Part 2 of 3 – Give stuff away
This is the second in a series of three posts about things that have helped me develop and sustain a career I love. The first post is about how to stay in close touch with people with whom you have … Continue reading
Kelly’s toughest statistics class – done
Day 624 of 1000 There are plenty of hard classes in Kelly’s Statistics program at NCSU, but everyone believes Mathematical Statistics II is probably the hardest. Kelly has been hammering away at this class since the beginning of the year … Continue reading
Raining and hailing hard in Prescott
Day 623 of 1000 The crazy weather continues.
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Writing plans for Prescott – Series on how we taught two languages and some series clean-up
Day 622 of 1000 I left the family at home yesterday to make my way to Phoenix last night. The drive up to Prescott up from Phoenix in the morning was absolutely fabulous as usual. It is no fun to … Continue reading
Another new education blog with a Korean-American twist
Our Happy Happas is a new blog that chronicles the thoughts of a highly educated stay at home mom and her highly educated husband about raising and educating their two little girls as the raise and educate their two little … Continue reading
Special meeting and Cinco de Mayo
Day 622 of 1000 We attend a special meeting of our church today where we will see a special friend of ours visiting from Texas who is here to help with the meeting. The family will drop me off at … Continue reading
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