First day back after a long hiatus

I received a couple of comments about my long hiatus from blogging.  When I complained about it to my kids, they gave me no sympathy and said get back to blogging.  And here I am.  The reality was that, after the kids started at college, I struggled trying to figure out what to write.  There was the added pressure of a new job and it was just more convenient not to think about it.  That is over now.  It is time to get back in the saddle.  Kelly and I are in on-going talks about what she needs to do, in addition to her school, to prepare for a career.  She has narrowed her goals down to something manageable enough that we have the beginnings of a plan–thank goodness it involves Betty Blonde.  I will save the whole plan for another day, but it has us excited.  It has also increased the length of our to-do lists.  As for Christian, we got him a new guitar (with mother-of-pearl in-lays–way cool!) that he plays whenever he can squeeze in a minute or two between studies.  We bought a BeagleBoard so we can build a vision system for a side project.  Christian will help me with some of the development on that.

I will try to spend the rest of the week on our scheduled revamp of Betty Blonde and a couple of projects.  Our original Betty Blonde rework plan did not work out so well, so we went back to the drawing board.  As for the projects, everyone has been so busy, we have not had much time to pursue and “fun” stuff, but we have decided we need to try to get back to that.