The dog rescue lady brought over the pen today, and she will bring Sweet Pea over tomorrow as soon as she gets done at the vet's. This is just shots and a checkup; she'll go for spaying later (probably quite a bit later, since the vet does this at a discount and is really busy). We also have the doghouse coming tomorrow, and I am sure a whole bunch ( Read more... )

The Jr. FLL teams started practicing this week, which meant we had twelve robotics teams practicing today. Nine of them were there in the morning, and seven were there in the afternoon (this is because two of the teams, the high-schoolers and one of the FLL teams that is going to competition this coming Saturday, were there all day). And we had ( Read more... )

The place that offered and then de-offered HtB the job called back and offered him two different jobs, one a full time night shift and the other a two day a week day shift. He's just about decided to say yes to the two day a week day shift. He'd be working on my days off, but when I actually looked at it, I realized I would see him more that way ( Read more... )

My head hurts and it's that time of the month, but the Amazing Cutting-Out Machine arrived today and I am here as promised with a brief review. (I'll follow up later once we know more about it ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got home from work completely exhausted, and I couldn't figure out why, until I counted up and realized I had been working for 11 hour straight. OK, that'll do it ( Read more... )

So, the mostly-final report on the open house ( Read more... )

It went so well, y'all! We were hoping for 100 people and there were actually between 200 and 300. The kids had a great time, the community center looked awesome, we did not run out of food too quickly, the mayor seemed happy, lots of people took the tour of our computer classroom and saw everything we can teach up there, some people checked out ( Read more... )

Christmas cards halfway done ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you're digesting a fantastic dinner and doing your favorite relaxing activities, whatever those are. I'm very very thankful to have all of you in my life, right there on the other end of the Internet ( Read more... )

HtB got the Postcard of Disappointment from the job he applied for. We were both really hoping for this one. I know there's a great job out there for him somewhere, but it's not fun to have to wait for it ( Read more... )