Aunt Julia is here

We all love it when Aunt Julia comes.  I get kind of manic because she is my sister and we do not get to see her often enough.  She talked about the books, Outliers and Three Cups of Tea (she actually organized a talk that Greg Mortenson gave in Portland before his book was published), the value of life-long learning, the joy of statistics, cooking, Betty Blonde, her (very cool) job, and a ton of other stuff.  A classic, only Aunt Julia would do it, kind of thing that she did was let us know that the text in the Betty Blonde comic she receives in the mail every day is very hard to read.  That was great.  We did not know that.  So, after she showed it to us, we looked at the text on the Betty Blonde web site and that was hard to read, too.  So, Kelly is going to try to make the text bigger and more well formed.  We would not have known that unless Aunt Julia told us (or, DUH, we would have looked for ourselves).

Today, there are big plans.  Everyone is going to run down to the YMCA to work out.  There will have to be a cooking session.  Julia has been cooking since she was a Child, so it is absolutely necessary for Kelly and Christian to get in on some of that.  Christian is going to install some stuff on her computer for her so she can work on her website–she sells personalized crafty kinds of things, imagine that.  The only problem is that she will be gone tomorrow!