Yesterday, we had lunch with Troy, Youngin, Troy’s dad, mom, sister, and brother-in-law after meeting. The food and conversation were great, but two things kind of went south on me. First, Lorena saw the leather recliner Youngin bought for their living room and now she wants one. I can see that topic subtly making its way into conversations until I weaken and buy her one, too. It is VERY hard to keep us with the Gilmores. Second, I found out that I have an indicator of high cholesterol, so Lorena is me stuffing me with oatmeal, olive oil, and omega-3 fatty acids. The three O’s. While I like all that stuff, it is a hard thing to know you are cut off from biscuits and gravy, possibly forever.
While we were there, we made plans for Christian to go to NCSU today with Troy. That is actually, very exciting. They plan to install the Linux computer Christian put together to act as a server to receive the water level images for our research project at the Ag Engineering department. We hope they can finish that today so Christian and I can start sending images to it later this week. The plan is for Christian to set up the system so we can access images and run programs on the computer from anywhere we can get an internet connection. I am writing a program to analyze the images. I hope to have something complete to do that by mid-August. I am writing it on my Windows computer, but was very happy to hear Troy still has Ubuntu Linux running on his laptop, so I will plan to convert the image analysis program to run on Linux, too. I hope Troy will put up some images on his water blog as soon as some are available.
This weekend, Kelly completed a fabulous new amigurumi dragon and a cool new bulletin board with push pins that would make Martha Stewart proud. She also completely reorganized her room. We marvelled at her good energy and motivation. I hope she will put a picture of the amigurumi dragon up here and expain it all to us.