August 09, 2011

22 Years

Posted by Scott at 11:59 PM

Good morning! Today is the 22nd anniversary for me and Michelle. Where did the time go? Soon I'll be married over half of my life. 6:46am

Hmmm. Do want! I should install one of these in the kitchen to facilitate charging the cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, etc. 6:47am

Smooth trip into Boxborough this morning. I saw a lot of bicyclists on the commute today. I don't blame them. It was party sunny, dry, and in the low 70's this morning. A perfect morning to put some miles on a bike. I offered up a set of Sorrowful Mysteries for the first part of the commute. Then I caught up with my parents as they were stopped on their way back to Michigan. Lastly I listened to a bit of Ubik. 9:02am

Yes, today marks 22 years of marriage for me and Michelle. And no, we're not going some place fancy tonight. Instead she'll go out to dinner with a friend who had a breast cancer recurrence diagnosis the same week Michelle did. Then the two of them will head over to the local monthly cancer support group meeting. Maybe we'll go out for our foo-foo dinner tomorrow or Thursday night instead. I pretty sure that she needs this more tonight. 9:13am

In other news Michelle is out teaching her 20/20/20 class at Golds. Michael is of course at school. Abby is going with her friend to the New Hampshire coast for a beach day and a sleepover. Judging by today's weather so far, I'm a bit jealous. Instead my day will be spent typing and staring at backlit LCD displays. 9:23am

According to Emacs on Sept 21st this year, I'll have been married exactly half of my life. 8077 out of 16154 days alive. Thank you Emacs calendar-mode. #nerdycalculations 9:45am

Lessons we're learning from around the world: Give a man a fish, and he'll riot for free fish. 10:43am

I think I see a stock market trend: Obama gets laryngitis - buy. When he can speak - SELL! Correlation or causality? 10:56am

According to Amazon the two hard drives that will become "Time Machines" for the iMacs were delivered today. Also delivered, a USB classic style game controller for Timothy to use with his laptop. I had to give him some consolation when we had to remove the emulators from the Wii Homebrew. And of course there's also Nintendo's Virtual Console. $11 to help scratch his tinkering itch, not a bad tradeoff. 2:04pm

Testing Twitter's new photo sharing abilities to see how they work. Nothing to see 'cept a young at heart wife & mother (related link) 5:12pm

Sounds like Michelle had a nice afternoon taking the boys to the pool. Abby's still at the coast and Claire is getting trained at Subway. Time to pack up for the day and head north. 5:31pm

Dear London, Thanks for showing us that gun bans prevent violent crime. Sincerely, Scott [researching NH's generous concealed carry laws..] 5:40pm

Left work a bit later than I'd like. Took a break from the audio book and listened to This Week in Tech #313 instead. It was only when I'd left that I remembered Michelle wouldn't be home and Claire would be holding down the fort until I got home. 'Twas cloudy when I left the office, but drizzly as I crossed into NH. 7:00pm

When I got home an excited Timothy was waiting for me to open the Amazon box that arrived today. I was impressed that they did a decent job packing all three items into one box without a lot of wasted space. We didn't have a lot of luck with the USB classic controller yet, but we did setup the two iMacs with spare hard drives to do continuous incremental backups via Time Machine. They'll be crunching on their initial backup work for the next hour or so... 8:19pm

Claire said she had a good first day at Subway. She worked half a day and got some decent hands on experience for all of the things she's been studying online these past few days. All Subway employees go through a pretty long online training course on various aspects of working there. 8:25pm

Got the boys tucked in bed with their prayers. Michelle should be home soon. 8:45pm

Looking over a retirement account statement. About 10 years ago I bought 840 shares of ARM, most of it at $2/share. It's the only stock I've purchased directly that wasn't part of some employee stock plan. Now it's around $28-29/share. While I regret not buying more, these are the kind of regrets I like. It helps balance out the losses I've seen in our 401(k) this past month. Can't win 'em all... 8:59pm

Geeky discussion but pure, pure evil: C No Evil. 9:19pm

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