Man, what a deluge we've had lately! I can't even remember when it started, although I know that I had been planning on mowing the lawn last Friday, and I couldn't because of rain ( Read more... )

Last fall, some time after Thanksgiving, Gail told me about a boy she met at the high school. He had a lot going for him, but the one he didn't have was a family. He had a rough life, and she was concerned that he'd fall in with the wrong bunch of kids. All he needed was a decent break. And a family ( Read more... )

I haven't blogged much during the past few months, either in this blog or my technical blog. But it's not from lack of things happening in my life. On the contrary; so much has been happening ( Read more... )

The nice thing about your family is that they know you. I haven't talked to my sister Sue lately, but I got a package in the mail for my birthday - chocolate covered graham crackers ! We used to love eating them when we were little. Of course, my mom would limit how many we can have at once. Sue remembers the limit as two; I think it was three. At ( Read more... )

Gail and I recently went on a 3-day bike trip, a fundraiser for the American Lung Association . The total trip was 160 miles on Cape Cod, though we ended up doing about 117 miles (we didn't do the whole route on Saturday ( Read more... )

I'm fortunate to have a few days off; I don't have to go back to work until Thursday. Here's what I've been doing so far:

Friday we had friends over for dinner. Good food and conversation with Cindy, Linda, & Fran. Cindy got a call from Dave, who is in Minnesota now as he journeys across the country on his bike. His daughter Sarah recently flew ( Read more... )

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. I had planned on going to the airport to get Becky, who's coming home from Argentina (yay!). But then she wrote and said that Pete could pick her up, so if I wanted to go up to hear Sarah in Maine, I could. So I get to see both daughters tomorrow, and that makes me very happy.

Sarah's a senior (soon to be ( Read more... )

I'm really glad that I'm dancing again on a regular basis. Gail & I try to go to the English Country Dance at the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church in Cambridge whenever we can. They usually have the dance every 2nd and 4th Fridays. Beginners are welcome, and it tends to be inter-generational. It's a nice, friendly crowd. So I'm glad we're slowly ( Read more... )

Sometimes I just instinctively avoid things that will get me into trouble. I don't verbalize it, even to myself, but somehow, deep down inside, I just have a feeling something will go wrong ( Read more... )

I haven't written in here for awhile. It's certainly not for lack of stuff to write about. Indeed, there's plenty. I guess I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed (Why can't I ever just feel pleasantly whelmed?).

There's stuff going on with the whole family. Chris just got a job at Stainless Steel Studios in Cambridge as a multi-player game tester. ( Read more... )