Day: January 23, 2009

Lyle is the first to put up the our special link on his blog.  You can see it here. You too can post a link to Betty Blonde on your blog or web page that looks like this:

All you have to do is copy the following html snippet and add it to your sidebar or wherever else you want it on your web page:

<a href=”http://www.bettyblonde.net”><img src=”http://www.chapmankids.net/BettyBlonde/bettyblonde.gif” border=”0″ alt=”Link to Betty Blonde comic strip” /></a>

THANKS, Lyle!

Kelly had such a good time staying up half the night talking with her new friends in Tennessee, she decided she wanted some more.  Wednesday, on the way to meeting, she called her friend, Casey, our old next door neighbor from Apex.  She will come over right after her tennis lesson.  Jenna, our new, homeschooled next door neighbor her in Raleigh, will come over, too.  Three fourteen year old girls and Lorena.  That means, Christian and I will need to make ourselves scarce.  I think we will probably work on the ham radio in the bonus room, get Christian’s computer set up with KDevelop to do C++ programming, go buy a volt/ohm/amp meter at Walmart, and anything else we can think of to protect ourselves from squealing girls.

As often as we get the chance, we go to McDonalds and then on to the Holly Springs Public library where they let us drink coffee in the stacks while the kids look for books.  We plan to do that tomorrow as part of returning Casey to Apex, but this is going to a mostly programming weekend for me.  Along with the KDevelop stuff I am doing with Christian, I need to work on a programming project I am doing with a friend at the United States Geological Survey in Oregon.  He is the guy for whom we are making the Mount St. Helens volcano camera computer.  I am writing a bunch of code for a science project about which I will talk in much more depth later.  In the meantime, we continue work on the volcano camera.  It is slow, but we are getting it closer and closer to completion all the time.

We are just two weeks away from the ACT.  I will check today on when Christian will take his first CLEP test (Freshman Composition).