Cayse is doing well. She’s been getting massage therapy to help with scar tissue in her neck but otherwise is healthy. Her job is going well and she is enjoying her new position.
Andrew is also doing well. He has started trying to go to the gym so people aren’t so confused why Cayse is with him, which is causing him much soreness. He’s been learning to work with the mainframe systems at WSU which is teaching him to appreciate modern programming languages and methods.
Spot managed to lose his electric fence collar and is now staying out late chasing wild animals and retrieving nasty things that Andrew regularly has to take away and throw in the trash. He is becoming a little too much of a farm dog.
Jorgia has grown up to be a beautiful girl and follows Spot around watching him do stupid things, occasionally joining in. She recently came home with porcupine quills all over her body (her thick fur protected her and we were able to remove them without any trouble). She is a spaz in the snow and enjoys rolling around in it while spot is standing nearby shivering.
The house is coming around nicely. The seller’s agreed to our repair/modification requests and have hired contractors to do the work. We are confident that once the minor issues are fixed we shouldn’t have any trouble getting financing. In case anybody is interested here is a link to the floor plan we drew up for it. It’s probably not exact on sizing but it isn’t too far off and the layout is correct.
Just came across that and thought I’d post it up before I forget. The house is still carrying on. So far we haven’t really had any big surprises so hopefully it’ll stay that way.
Cayse and I have been keeping our eye on the real estate market in Pullman for a while now. Our rental situation is pretty good so we have been resisting jumping in for anything less than exactly what we are looking for. Recently a house came on the market that we decided to look into and the more we looked, the more we liked it. We ended up putting an offer on it on Friday and are waiting to hear back. The owners are in Ireland (kind of a long story) so we are hoping to hear back today or tomorrow. It does need some TLC but it has a good amount of space and is in a good neighborhood. We aren’t afraid of putting in some sweat equity, provided the price reflects it. Anyhow, Cayse took a ton of pictures which are now up on the gallery.
This was on SNL back in October. Cayse just came across a clip of it on the Internet so I thought I’d share. Sorry for the lack of activity. Winter has been interesting to say the least and we’ve been really busy. I’ll try to get an update out sometime soon.
Edit: We found some more clips of Oscar Rogers.
This one is from this last weekend 2/14/2009 (Valentine’s Day).
Well we’ve certainly caught up with the snow. Cayse got the Jeep stuck on the way to work. She got it unstuck just about the time I got to her with the Bronco. We decided to leave the Jeep at the house and just carpool since the Bronco has more clearance. We had a bit of an adventure getting in to work and when we got to the highway we snapped this picture (click the image to see it full size). We called in to our respective jobs and turned around to come home. We are glad we did too cause it would have been interesting to try to come home after it snowed all day considering it was bad enough this morning.
Anyhow, we are fine and keeping warm. Aside from absurdly deep snow both the Jeep and the Bronco are working great. I’m very thankful that both are in good working order. We took advantage of the day to take care of some chores, finish getting presents ready for the mail, and I wired up a ghetto headlight warning buzzer for the Bronco since I can’t find a stock unit. Hopefully we’ll get to mail the gifts tomorrow so they at least have a chance of making it for Christmas.
Cayse and I spent Halloween at home carving pumpkins. We both decided we like carving small pumpkins a lot more than large ones. She did a cat and 2 silly faces. One she cut completely in half to laid on it side to make the stem a neck (or a goatee if you ask me). I did a “See no, Hear no, Speak no evil” theme. You can click the pictures to see the full image or click here to see more pictures from Halloween. By the way, Cayse made a vampire costume inspired by Underworld.
Give me a leader with: the confidence to say what they know is right even if it is unpopular; the self-awareness to know and address their own strengths, weaknesses and bias; the logic to know where their responsibility begins and ends; and the reflection to learn from their mistakes.
Not that the previous comment is solely about the current presedential election but I believe it holds true there too. That’s why I was very happy to catch an inteview on The Daily Show where John Stewart and Peggy Noonan had what I saw as an intelligent and candid discussion of the shortcomings of this election, committed by both parties. I’ve since started reading more of Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal articles and have been happily surprised to finally find somebody who maintains a level of professional journalism and objectivity.
In the interview (left), her final comment after asked whether things were going to get better was:
“It has got to. I’m hoping this economic thing is going to break this thing out of the stupid, small, narrow rut that it is in. And maybe that each of these men, who are good men, will come forward and be their best selves and make this campaign serious. And remind us who we are as a nation, a very great people. In a fix at the moment, but never bet against us.
Her articles are available on WSJ.com if you are interested. Shortly after this interview she published an article called “Playing Frisbee on a Precipice” which is much in line with the conversation from this interview and has an amusing nod to one of John Stewart’s comments with the “playing frisbee” part of the title.
Surprised how much I'm enjoying watching Downton Abbey. Feels like I'm watching a good novel. First season is on Netflix.January 21, 2012from TweetDeck
