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After the boys went down for the night, I had a little free time and worked on these pictures. Some show the actual day of Claire's First Communion, others show our afternoon at a park in Amherst from the day TruGreen sprayed our lawn, there's a few obligatory pictures of Timothy and even a few pictures of Michelle.

We took the kids to the YMCA this morning while Michelle and I did a step class. As usual we stopped by Wendy's and Quikava on the way home. It was a partly sunny but warm day so we spent most of it outside. The girls saw me looking for rocks in the lawn and so they joined in the hunt. Ironically later when I started raking dead grass from a few of the bare spots, they joined in on that too! I guess I should enjoy that while it lasts. Soon they'll flee at the mention of yard work. In the late afternoon we took the whole family out for dinner to Milford's Besta One for pizza and sandwiches. These past several months it's been rare that we all eat out and I was impressed that the boys behaved so well.

I spent a little time working on a small script that computes how many days until upcoming birthdays. So far it says the following:

360 days until Abbys Birthday
137 days until Claires Birthday
265 days until Michaels Birthday
265 days until Daniels Birthday
276 days until Timothys Birthday
58 days until Scotts Birthday
112 days until Michelles Birthday

It still needs a few adjustments. I'm going to add family members from both sides. I'm going to add anniversaries. I need it to sort by days until the next major event and discard those beyond some threshold (like two months from now). Lastly I need it to be computed every morning and injected as formatted HTML into the home page's right sidebar. But overall I was happy with the progress considering I only spent about an hour on writing the program. It's little scripts like this that let me brush up on my perl programming skills.

Oh yeah, one last sad note. The Old Man of the Mountain profile fell last night:

The Old Man of the Mountain, a natural stone profile that symbolizes the state of New Hampshire, fell from the side of its mountain early Saturday. The profile appears on the New Hampshire quarter and on state road signs. It is one of the most photographed sites in the state.

More info is available here and here.