My sister finally had her baby Monday night -- Natalie Michelle Canup-Mihran, 7lb 2 oz and I forgot the length. Full head of hair. I'll post a picture soon. She went into the hospital Saturday morning to be induced and after several rounds of prostaglandon and pitosin, finally delivered Monday 11:30 PM or so. THe mother was in much better shape ( Read more... )

Wait, that didn't sound quite right. Oh will, you know what I mean.

Please give four AA alkali dry batteries of another sales (recommendation) to me in the business minds.

One might hope that in a town of 1000 people and a street 3 blocks long with only 6 active addresses that the USPS could deliver mail sent to the old number after the street was renumbered, but you would be wrong.  Returned NSN -- no such number.  104 --> 281 now.

So much for a timely condolence card.  Sigh.

Our well traveled luggage arrived back here on Thursday -- intact ( Read more... )

Currenly in Agra, India. Visited the Taj Mahal this morning, but the pictures weren't great --too much smog ( Read more... )

I added thumbnails and shrank the images so they should load much faster. Try Irkutsk & Lake Baikal and Moscow


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Well here are the first pictures from the trip even before we get home... Needless to say, they have only preliminary culling, no re-touching, etc. The pictures are large, check the size and your speed before downloading.

Irkutsk & Lake Baikal

We survived -- well much more than survive the Trans Siberian Railway. Met a very nice couple from France last night, with whom we had dinnr. They wre on their way back from her parents home in Tomsk, Siberia to Normandy,France. We shard a very nice "picnic" dinner on the train ( Read more... )

Well we arrived safely yesterday after un-eventful flights ( Read more... )