Month: March 2013

Day 558 of 1000

There is a lot I like about Steven Crowder.  Both the content and the style of his commentaries are just right.  He wrote an article that captures my sentiments about my wife. Fellow Oregon expatriate Smitty over at the Other McCain blog pointed out Crowder’s Fox News article and made some worth comments about it himself.  I highly recommend that men and boys read and abide by what is written in these articles.  I hit the lottery when I married Lorena and I want everyone to know that I appreciate her.  A lot.  It would never be a good thing to in any way diminish the profound improvements in my life that are solely due to her moderating influence and encouragement.  Every married guy in America should embrace this message for their own sake if not for that of their wife.

Day 557 of 1000

This is day 11 of not driving the new car.

Kelly and I went to lunch at Subway today. We talked to the owner of the Subway shop, a very interesting Persian guy that was a Mechanical Engineer who owned a fairly big, high-tech computer networking company that went under during the dot-com bubble. He started over with some Subway shops and it sounds as it is going great. He talked about his kids and how hard he and his wife work to give them a great education.  Both of them were at least a couple of years ahead in school.

Yesterday, we had some other of our friends from Oregon contact us about what to do to preserve your kid’s chances for a scholarship even though they would earn an Associate Degree from the community college.  They have done an excellent job getting their kids ready for college.  It is so encouraging to see people making these kinds of efforts and it is very fun to be their fan-boy!

The picture is of Kelly talking to a couple of people at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory about a summer statistics internship.  It sounds like a great job, but it is very competitive.  She could directly put the stuff she is learining right now to work in the real world.  They have a small statistical team that helps the engineers with experimental design, regression analysis, the use of SAS,and all things statistical.  There would even be opportunity to go on to do a (paid for) Masters degree or PhD.  We are keeping our fingers crossed.