I wish there had been a picture

As I am in town this week, I made dinner for K and C tonight. I took some boneless/skinless chicken breasts, poured a little olive oil over them, sprinkled them with some of the bread dipping spices that we got from Sautter's in Sylvania last summer and baked the chicken until done. Also made onion soup potatoes (Lipton's onion soup sprinkled over potatoes per the recipe on the box), green beans and crescent rolls. It was really tasty and there is enough for leftovers tomorrow.

K and C were out Prom dress shopping, so I was home alone all afternoon until about 7PM when they came home, dinner was served. C is home from school for the end of the term.

A and C

When we got together yesterday to give A the papers that were needed for formal entry into Pharmacy School, I took this picture of A and C as we were coming out of Mimi's Cafe in Burlington, NC. We had a great time at dinner and A could not stop beaming. Just a day or two before, A was trying to let herself down easy as she had not yet heard if she was accepted to Pharmacy School and was thinking the worst. Thanks goes to those that prayed for A, now the hard part, living up to the goal.

Got news today

about A and Pharmacy School. Long and the short of it, shezin. The letter came to the house addressed in a normal envelope. As A was at school at a B-Ball game and the envelope did not look like anything out of the ordinary, so K opened it and promptly gasped like the letter had a snake in it.

C and I came running and K had each of us read the letter to make sure what she saw. We did not want a "just kidding" kind of moment. When it was confirmed, we called A, but she could not hear us because of the game. So we did the teenager thing and text messaged her. We got a call back in about 30 seconds, then 22,0000 people at the Dean Dome knew A had been accepted to Pharmacy School as she squealed with delight while her head hit the rafters.

We are proud of her and she is very excited. It has made the work she put in this far worth it. Now to finish out the semester.

Keep smiling sweetie!

Happy Valentine's Day

For you, Sweetie!

Missed it again

A couple of weeks ago, I made some comments about a winter storm that wasn't. How the weather folks thought that there would be much snow, freezing rain and ice, but it never happened. Well yesterday, the weather folks called for rain with an occasional snow flake or two about sundown. Well, last night there was a freak winter storm in our area of 2 - 3 inches of snow, but the temperatures fell so fast the initial precipitation turned to ice then was covered by the snow. Here are some pictures from out backyard.





I had gone to Raleigh on business, meeting with one of my peers from my company and our local agent to do some training and sales forecasting. It was raining intermittently all afternoon, some rain desperately needed. After the work was done, we went to dinner at a restaurant in Raleigh.

I left at about 9PM, with neither A nor C able to come out an play.

When I got to Burlington, NC about 20 miles from home, it was wild. Snowflakes about the size of quarters were falling at a fast and furious pace. I watched as a Honda CRV passed me (I was doing about 30MPH on the Interstate), then do a 540 in front of me then shoot into the ditch. A mile or two further and I watched a dualie pick-up truck pulling one of those car trailers go sideways in the highway in front of me bumping the concrete median barrier, a car plow into the driver's side rear of the same truck, a Suburban hit the trailer and end up off the highway on the right. I was far enough back to avoid the traffic behind me diving for cover and the traffic in front of me by going slow enough to avoid the debris.

There were many other cars and pick-up trucks in the ditches and median along the road. I was fortunate that I stayed far enough from the traffic in front of me and ahead of the traffic behind me that I was in no immediate danger. The drive that should have been about 25 minutes (from Burlington to my house took about an hour and a quarter). Front wheel drive helped greatly as most of the vehicles that had problems were either rear wheel drive or 4 wheel drive where the driver had too much confidence in the vehicle. You can go but you cannot stop.

I am glad this does not occur that often. When I got home, twas mentally exhausted. At this point, there is sympathy for my sister and her commutes through stuff like this in Indiana more often than me.

The snow will be gone this afternoon as the high is to be around 48. I already hear the melt running from the roof.

C came home

this weekend because she needed to study in a quiet place for finals. So she is sequestered in her room, books and papers all over the place, studying AP Chemistry. It is way quieter here than at school.

Final Computer Update

It did end up being a memory module that was bad. Because of that, the computer was upgraded to 1GB memory as I bought a couple of the from eBay for $31 total including shipping. No more BSOD and the anti virus program can run without crashing the computer.

I knew you were just waiting.

My posts

have been somewhat nerdy, so says a S-I-L, posting about obscure subjects like Blue Screen of Death messages. I don't know. It kind of fits me, at least I think.

Anyway, K has completely stripped the cedar chest that we got from JO and we are now waiting slightly warmer weather to put the finish on. We will post pictures after this is done.

Update on the computer

The computer had been running without issue for 6days, which means that the one memory module was bad. Now the real challenge: Do I change the computer for a new one or just buy a couple of new memory modules?

Decisions.