Tonight I had to do a talk for RCIA. It was a brief overview of salvation history and a little more focus on the first three chapters of Genesis: creation, Adam and Eve, etc. Over the next several weeks others will go over other major Old Testament figures: Abraham, Moses, David, etc. As is common the time allotted felt insufficient for due diligence of the topic.
Claire got her report card today. She seems to be doing well. The things that "need improvement" are things we've been working on with her. It's mostly behavioral things that seem to come from the homeschool to Infant Jesus adjustment; one on one versus classroom environment.
My boss' boss is in town this week (from England). Last night a bunch of us (my boss, his boss, my boss' peers and I) went out for dinner at Villa Banca. While the dinner was nice, perhaps I should have used last night to prep for the RCIA class so that I wouldn't be cramming today before the meeting. I meet with my boss' boss tomorrow, one on one, for about an hour to discuss futures, concerns, plans, etc.
Geek talk follows: I'm currently searching for some way to automate the resolution changing on the Mac for when it's time to play one of the kids games which require obnoxious old low resolution, low color modes, typically 640x480x256 color. It's funny to have a machine capable of so much more and to throttle it back to yesterday's technology. The resolution is so old the quick changer built into the OS doesn't allow you to go there. You have to go into the Displays configurator, uncheck the 'Show Recommended' button, and then you can select 640x480. And then the desktop looks awful because it is so used to having a lot of available colors.
One of the things it takes some getting used to is how quiet the iMac is. As I write this it is not making one sound (other than key clicks). Occasionally you hear the hard drive spin, but that's it! No whir of processor or power supply cooling fans. The top of the system is warm, but no worse than your average monitor.