The last round of mid-terms are under way at Wake Tech. It looks like there will only be a small respite between when the mid-terms and finals. Add the speeches required for Public Speaking classes and the kids have quite a load this semester. Nevertheless, we have talked a lot about where we want to put our efforts in the next few years while the kids are in college. We know now there will be a very finite amount of time available for extra-curricular activities. We also know that we are not very satisfied with how we currently use the little available time. We have to decide what we really want to do and let the rest fall by the wayside. GaugeCam will end by July 1 because Troy will move on full time to work on his PhD. Christian has won a full time (paid) summer engineering internship, so the burden will be on Kelly and Troy to finish the research required to produce a paper. When that is finished, our Saturdays at the NCSU BAE department and the work associated with that will be freed up.
The kids have better defined what they want to do. They have a very busy summer schedule. Christian plans to swim on the YMCA swimteam and work on his NerdHow website when he is not working. Kelly will continue to work with me on the reintroduction of Betty Blonde. She will also babysit and work with Troy on the GaugeCam research. We will go to Oregon for three weeks this summer, too, so it will probably go by pretty fast. Then, in the fall, Kelly plans to blog a lot more on her new blog KellyJeanChapman.com and start back in on her French. Lorena wants to take a couple of classes this fall with the kids. As for me, I am going to finish BleAx, work on my BeagleBoard project, help Kelly and Christian get their websites going and think about what I am going to do with this blog. I want to keep blogging, but I am pretty on happy with the content of late. I know I need a major rework of the whole thing. Maybe I should start to learn DruPal like Christian.
Troy
Thanks for the update – we’ve been missing your regular posts. I think June should be fun for Kelly. Thanks so much for your participation so far! And congrats to Christian for landing the internship.
Ditto what Troy said! Been enjoying your return to blogging.
Thanks Troy and Cat. I will try to keep it going a little bit until I can get Betty going. Then I am going to try to find some new themes to get myself inspired. I wish I was a little smarter and more creative about these kinds of things. My kids have hammered me pretty hard on spending so much effort on bragging about them. They say it is OK for grandparents but not for parents. We are going to miss you and Kendell, Cat, and with Troy’s new big opportunity, I am not going to get as much Troy time either!