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Sunday, February 29, 2004

Thomas's Birthday

Stardate 57022.9 (02-29-2004)

Thomas's birthday went well. He slept in a little, probably because he had a busy night before. It was snowing hard Saturday, so we skipped out on basketball since everyone got up late.  He was happy with the presents (Aragorn, Legolas, & Gimli action figures in a set; a phase pistol, a Spiderman car, and a Jumping Monkey game).















He was telling a few people he was getting a gameboy, but that didn't happen. We went outside later to clean the driveway and play in the snow. It was a wet snow, perfect for making snowmen.

Rachel finished the Three Investigators and the Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot book. I think she liked it. She is still talking about it. She had to get a biography out of the school library and read it, so she choose Susan B. Anthony.

Lent is here. Rachel and Patrick are giving up sweets and TV, April is giving up soda, and I am giving up coffee. I was drinking way to much. Not much different, but I miss the warm cup in the mornings. The last few days I have been freezing at work. Not sure if they turned down the thermostat, or if I am just sick. Probably both.

I did manage to recreate the navigation padd to the ship's web site, and add a crew lounge. At the SOM Friday the suggestion went around to call it two forward instead, but I still like crew lounge. As yet, no one has done much with it, but I hope that will change. The staff mailing list seems to be up and running now.

Last week I helped to set up 30 new computers at the lab. They still need to get all the software for the kids on. They are much better machines than what I have at home. 2.5 GHz, 512 Meg RAM, really nice. A guy at work showed some of the others how to get both the monitor and the LCD screen on the Thinkpad T30s to function as a single screen. I still have a T23, and it won't work. The rumor going around now is that the new VP wants 50 hours or more a week from everyone. This has my carpool buddy nervous. We put in about 35 hours because of my wife's work schedule. I just can't see the point in doing 50 each and every week. Sometimes it's necessary, but not all the time.

The guy who does a lot of the work there asked me if I knew of anyone that would want a position. I sent a email around to a few people, and Mike Gibby went up to interview. They were impressed with his technical knowledge, but unfortunately they are looking more for a sales person, so he won't get the job.

Still lots of stuff to do. The new camera is full of pictures, so I need to get going on new scrapbooks.

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Saturday, February 28, 2004

Playing in the snow

We got a lot of snow and the snowplow dumped in a heap next to the driveway.


Patrick building a snowman.



Leo loved it.









St Joesph Mardi Gras

The kids had a Mardi Gras celebration at school where they made floats. Rachel went with the New Orleans theme:



The other floats were pretty creative.














And then they did a parade. No beads were thrown.













Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Tubing

We went to Park City to do tubing in the snow with Susan.








 

Then snowmobiling






By the end of the day the kids were worn out.