Friday: Gingerbread houses

Well, I got the program I mentioned up and running yesterday. I then went and talked to everyone to make sure they started using it, as some people seemed...reluctant. It's pretty easy to use though, so several people were pleasantly surprised.

In the evening we made gingerbread houses. It was a lot of fun. All the pictures can be seen here.

Ben even made a Flurry for the window:

Thursday Thursday

Good evening!

Today I almost finished part 1a of program two. This part is really important because the old file they were using to log the data got corrupted or something, and so there's been no way to track where the tools are which ends up wasting a ton of time. I have a few minor changes that need to be made, but it's been tested and is pretty much ready to be released.

I'm sad that I'm not posting more pictures. But I'm in a raid, so here is what I see when I'm doing that...

Tuesday: Car blessings

A blessing in disguise: only having one car when it snowed a lot out. It means you only have to shovel half the driveway before work.

It was supposed to snow 1"-3" last night, and it was up to 3" by about 10pm....we estimated 6"-8" last night and we are getting some great snow piles at the end of the driveway. We also noticed that there was a largish animal around our house today due to the tracks. I wanted to put up a picture of our snow, but it is too dark to take a pic.

The program I've been writing was released today. So far only minor bugs that I've already been able to deal with.

There was cake at work today. It was really good, so I had two pieces.

I hate how when you work outside you get cold but then once you come inside you get really hot

Monday: Work

Well, I have a slightly sore back now too. But it is my upper back, so not too bad.

I was going to start training people on how to use the program I keep talking about today. Of course, this computer decided to do something weird so I had to cancel.Every other computer seems to be ok, but the one I was using was a butt. Luckily, Ben saved me today (belated thanks to Dusty for saving me earlier). I rescheduled the meeting and we'll see how it goes tomorrow...

Sunday: Snow

We woke up to a lot of snow. And since we're not sure it's going to melt, we had to shovel it. Well, we only shoveled half the driveway because we don't really use the other half. But then Ben slipped and hurt his back stabilizing himself. :( So we didn't go to church. But even though I know we need to find a church family the whole search has been a little disheartening and I wasn't really all that sad.

But I did make chex mix (thanks to Liz and Nathan for prompting me to do so). We also watched "blood diamond" which was good but really sad. I can't imagine going into villages and killing everyone. It just blows my mind.

Amtrak

Sigh. I was hoping that Amtrak might be a feasible option to go home sometimes. However, it takes over 24 hours to get to Holland because of a huge (12 hour) layover in Chicago. :(

Saturday: clean garage

Today we relaxed a lot and cleaned the garage. There were a few boxes that still need to be dealt with and a lot of stuff that needed to be moved to the basement. (We won't talk about how neat or not neat the basement is right now.) Two of the boxes with misc. stuff got moved to the living room so they wouldn't be forgotten about. One has been emptied onto the kitchen counter, which means we only have one more box to deal with. We don't have all the boxes empty yet, but that is due to a lack of furniture right now.

In other news, Flurry finished her Thanksgiving leftovers today. She was kind of sad.