Obummer (D-IL) is cheered by supporters after he won the Dimocrat Iowa caucuses in Des Moines, IA, January 3rd, 2008. Obama’s wife Michelle (R) and daughters Malia (L) and Sasha are seen with him.
Tracey left for work about 15 minutes ago. She has to go in for a couple hours to help get a patient hooked up to dialysis.
He has some clotting in his access port and the new nurse has never had to deal with that before so Tracey is going to show her how. She should be home by noon as that is about what a “couple hours” usually turns out to be.
I have to make sure I get Ben out of bed at 6:00 this morning so he can go to school. He will be taking a bus to the Cat plant in Mossville. I’m not sure if it is the engine plant or the technical center.
They will be going to Milwaukee for the next robotics competition and this portion is sponsored by Cat. Ben isn’t sure but he thinks this one will be about using a robot to move water.
He really likes this robot stuff and I’m sure there could be a good career in building and / or programming them. We shall see how it goes.
Aaron used his Christmas money to order a video camera last evening. It is a small camera that will produce video files suitable for computer use such as YouTube (which I think is behind this!)
I know he really enjoys editing and splicing together clips to make movies and I don’t mind a bit that he won’t be using our camera ——
I continue to stumble into problems with my conversion of this Blog to a php database system. I will continue to work on it a little at time and, as always, thank you for showing me my mistakes and being patient with the problems.
MjL 05 Jan 2008, 5:00 a.m.
What a bummer...Sat. and up at 6 a.m.! Did your boys go back to school already?
Me and the kids are on our last 2 days! Bummer!
We were in your neck of the woods yesterday -- all afternoon. We shopped Walmart, ate lunch, used my gift card in Starbucks, shopped in Menards and then stopped at the Morton Walmart. It was fun. (I’m weird...I like to hang out with my kids!)
Ashley is looking for H.S. Musical Singing game thing for PS 2. She has xmas Walmart gift cards. I guess she has to have a microphone too, but they are all out of the game/microphone combos. Off to pay bills...YUCK!
Tammy 05 Jan 2008, 7:13 a.m.
Ordinarily Ben would agree —— but he has really been looking forward to getting started on this next robotics competition. He even went to bed early without any argument!
School doesn’t start for them until Monday either —— just this one robot meeting for Ben was early.
MjL 05 Jan 2008, 7:32 a.m.
I keep returning to the picture of that thermometer in the Northern Lights photos! Thirty-Seven Degrees BELOW ZERO!? Oh but I forgot —— they have TEEPEES to warm up in? I’m thinking there is something crazier than lights in the sky going on up there!
MjL 05 Jan 2008, 9:00 a.m.
Well Michael, you should have noticed that that is -37 Degrees Celsius, using my handy converter program on my palm I find that it is only -34.6 Degrees Fahrenheit. :-O
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