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Date Posted: 13:49:16 03/05/03 Wed
Guys,
Here's what's going on in my life these days.
Tahoe was great. The family does it every year, but the last time I went with them was like 5 or 7 years ago! I usually stay home and work on projects while the house is empty and quiet, but this year I said the heck with it. I really needed it. I just read and watched some videos that I brought. I just vegged out. I never seem to do that when I'm not on vacation. I played in the snow with the girls, too. I'll post some picts when a get a moment.
I've been so busy it's not funny. The wild part is that I'm not really busy with any personal projects. That is a first for me as I've had a major project going on since for the last 10 or 12 years. After I stopped doing research for the Okudas last April (they have stopped doing the books for a while at least) and after the Animated STAR TREK cards thing this past Winter (I heard today they are due out on March 26th), I've been just doing the 9-5 job, the administrivia of life and doing stuff with the kids. This latter task is becoming all consuming.
The kids are doing great. Chelsea aged 12 is doing fine in school except for Math. She can do it, but she isn't serious about studying - yet. I, myself, didn't start hitting the books until Sophomore year in High School. Recall I got C's and D's in my Freshman year and then the next year started getting straight A's. I'm not going to tell her that, though!
Phoebe is ten and she's getting all A's and B's, and Math is one of her best subjects. She's really funny and crazy like me. The two of us are sympatico and I can see that we will likely be best friends for a while, like me and my Mom.
Chloe is three years old and is incredible. She talks back to us and is a control freak in training. At dinner she'll tell us where to sit and where to put our cups, etc. It's a riot. She's also super cute and she seems to have a knack for music. Unlike the other kids, Chloe sings all of the time and on occasion makes up songs.
The relationship between Teresa and I is going fine. We need to find time alone more, but neither of us are unhappy about it. We will likely take a vacation around our anniversary (this year'll be our 14th) by spending a weekend at a fancy hotel in san Diego.
On three or four nights a week, Teresa works at 6:45 PM til about 8:00 AM, so I get the kids ready and take them to school at 7:20 and then go to work myself. I sometimes have to pick them up at 2PM because Teresa is sleeping after coming home from work. At night after she leaves, I often need to help them both study for tests the next day while fending of the wild and playful Chloe. Then when they all go to sleep - around 10 or 11 PM - that's when I have some quiet time. I usually get to bed around 1 AM. This repeats the next day. On weekends, if Teresa works, I have to watch all three kids and keep them relatively quiet lest they awaken Teresa who sleeps in the next room. Also, Chelsea and Phoebe have gymnastics three times a week and dance and they both entered the science fair last month requiring help putting their displays together, etc.
I'm not complaining. I love it all. It's just that months of this type of routine fly by and I haven't made a dent in any of my projects such as the paperwork to start selling our house and buying a new one.
Work has become drudgery since all of the interesting problems have been solved and what's left is boring testing and shaking the last few code bugs out of the system. Yawwwn!
I'm hoping to move to a new project. The AH-1 SuperCobra is gearing up to recode their avionics software suite based on an all-new Object-Oriented Design. I'm crossing my fingers and should know within the next few months.
One last thing. My oldest girls are really into American Girl dolls. They are a really cool collection of period-specific 18" dolls from different eras. They have all sorts of cool accoutrements and have professionally written books that tell of their adventures and daily life. Anyways, I made a small site that
allows visitors to explore the product line, and lists the items that have been discontinued. A beta version
of the site is online (http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~curtdan/AG_Collecting/AG.cgi?FILE=Enter), and it is
pretty much done with the exception of the paragraphs of text on the several pages. I have place-filling copy in there right now. Also the doll image on the right of the Entrance page needs to be retouched and resized. (The Entrance page doll picture is changed every day by a cgi script.) Check it out if you'd like. It took me a couple weeks of late nights to put it together.
Well that's the lowdown.
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