Yesterday Clark and I drove some Boy Scouts to a small university in Rolla where they would be taking merit badge classes. Clark was invited to stay and play with the Skinner's but he decided he wanted to hang out with me instead.
The boys I was driving were taking the same merit badge so we just hung out down the hall from their classroom where we had found a TV. Clark watched TV and I talked to Ruth on the phone.
At the end of the day as we were walking down the hall to go outside I passed a big lever surrounded by a stainless steel panel on the wall. At first I thought "Wow, that is a serious lever. Is it for a power shut-off or something?" But as I got closer I saw that it said something to the effect of "Emergency Rinse and Eye Wash Station".
I walked about 10 more steps and turned around to see if Clark was following me. Just as I turned around I saw his hand pulling the lever! There wasn't enough time for me to do anything except watch him get drenched with a cascade of "chemical-burn-saving" water from the wall and ceiling! Luckily, Clark likes to wear his coat with the hood on if we're going outside so he didn't really even get wet.
The whole thing combined with the shock on his face was just too much. I tried to look serious, but the huge smile on my face was a result of my best efforts to keep from laughing out loud.
Anyway, you probably had to be there; it was pretty funny. We went to the bathroom and grabbed about 100 paper towels and cleaned up the bulk of it. He was very apologetic, but luckily he wasn't too sad he had gotten wet.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 07, 2009
From 6 to 2
As many of you know, Ruth is in the Columbia Regional Hospital on bed rest until the baby is born (11-13 weeks from now).
Cal is with Darrell in OK. Clark really missed him when he realized Cal was gone. Clark and the girls and I went to the park and then we came home and ate dinner.
Before all the craziness broke out, Ruth and I were going to go on a date Thursday night and a family in our ward was going to watch the kids. They have a son Clark's age named Christopher and last week Clark asked what day he was going to Christopher's. When I picked him up from School on Thursday he said, "Hey, I get to go to Christopher's tonight!" Well, we had obviously canceled with them but hadn't sent Clark the memo (I honestly didn't think he'd remember). Clark was pretty sad already with Cal and Mom being gone so I called them up and asked if we could still come over and just let the kids play for a little while. So, we did that.
Last night after work Clark, Shanna, Haley and I drove up to Columbia to see Ruth while Mike was on his way up here with Jon to pick up the girls.
The girls were happy to see Ruth and even sat on the bed with her this time. Last time I think the whole hospital thing was a little weird for them and they didn't really want anything to do with that crazy hospital bed.
Mike got here about the same time we did. We basically just went to bed. The kids slept well and ate breakfast really well too. I got the girls' things together and they were on the road by 10:45 or so.
I vacuumed out the van, we went to the library, Clark played outside with his friend up the street (Bella), we ate lunch, and went to a park with the VanFosson's (Kelly and Chris) and Claudia and one of her kids. Kelly took Clark to the park while I went grocery shopping and then I met up with them when I was done. We probably stayed a the park for like 2 hours! Clark had a good time.
Here's a few pictures for you're viewing pleasure:
The Park on Thursday:
A little something I checked out from the library:
The park today:
Notice my lens? It even happens to eye doctors.
The girls saying good-bye this morning: (I used the cell phone to take the pics, so they're not the greatest)
Cal is with Darrell in OK. Clark really missed him when he realized Cal was gone. Clark and the girls and I went to the park and then we came home and ate dinner.
Before all the craziness broke out, Ruth and I were going to go on a date Thursday night and a family in our ward was going to watch the kids. They have a son Clark's age named Christopher and last week Clark asked what day he was going to Christopher's. When I picked him up from School on Thursday he said, "Hey, I get to go to Christopher's tonight!" Well, we had obviously canceled with them but hadn't sent Clark the memo (I honestly didn't think he'd remember). Clark was pretty sad already with Cal and Mom being gone so I called them up and asked if we could still come over and just let the kids play for a little while. So, we did that.
Last night after work Clark, Shanna, Haley and I drove up to Columbia to see Ruth while Mike was on his way up here with Jon to pick up the girls.
The girls were happy to see Ruth and even sat on the bed with her this time. Last time I think the whole hospital thing was a little weird for them and they didn't really want anything to do with that crazy hospital bed.
Mike got here about the same time we did. We basically just went to bed. The kids slept well and ate breakfast really well too. I got the girls' things together and they were on the road by 10:45 or so.
I vacuumed out the van, we went to the library, Clark played outside with his friend up the street (Bella), we ate lunch, and went to a park with the VanFosson's (Kelly and Chris) and Claudia and one of her kids. Kelly took Clark to the park while I went grocery shopping and then I met up with them when I was done. We probably stayed a the park for like 2 hours! Clark had a good time.
Here's a few pictures for you're viewing pleasure:
The Park on Thursday:
A little something I checked out from the library:
The park today:
Notice my lens? It even happens to eye doctors.
The girls saying good-bye this morning: (I used the cell phone to take the pics, so they're not the greatest)
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
A little on..."The Poverty Line"
So I was listening to the radio today and they said that 1 in 6 children live below the poverty line. I was curious what the "poverty line" was exactly for our family of 6. Turns out it is $28,400! I'm proud to announce that for the first time in our married life our children are finally above the poverty line and all their pain and suffering can end.
In the public announcement on the radio it said that "this means children going without food, clothing, and medicine".
In many cases, children don't need to go without...it's the parents that need to go without (cable, high-speed internet, nice clothes, cars, eating out, etc...)
Our children rarely ate all the food we offered them, always had more than enough clothes (although Ruth may not agree with me on that one), and had heath care at all times ranging from $200-725 a month depending on the provider and year.
One thing I'd like to say is that income level is probably only a small indicator of "poverty" in the United States. We had a small income in school, but we also had a great network of support: supportive and financially stable family, helpful friends, and uplifting companions and acquaintances from church.
Another important thing we had was education. Now I'm not talking about our bachelor degrees, but a basic understanding of financial management, that is: spend less than you make.
All these things were so helpful we were able to live a comfortable and satisfied lifestyle on ~$23,000 a year without help of government programs like Medicaid and food-stamps. We did agree to accept a large tax credit each year, although it never was enough to put us above the "poverty line".
Unfortunately we have decided to help those who are below the "poverty line" by defining poverty as a lack of money and thus "fixing" the problem by given them money. I regret that for now I'll have to be one of those annoying people that points out a problem with out providing the solution. We have picked the easy fix which doesn't always work too well. The proper fix is much more complicated. It involves people helping people because they care, not government taxing people above the "poverty line" and "helping" those below it in a systematic, impersonal way.
Blah, blah, blah...now I'm rambling
Here's the link. Is your "poor" family below the poverty line like we were?
http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_1327.html
In the public announcement on the radio it said that "this means children going without food, clothing, and medicine".
In many cases, children don't need to go without...it's the parents that need to go without (cable, high-speed internet, nice clothes, cars, eating out, etc...)
Our children rarely ate all the food we offered them, always had more than enough clothes (although Ruth may not agree with me on that one), and had heath care at all times ranging from $200-725 a month depending on the provider and year.
One thing I'd like to say is that income level is probably only a small indicator of "poverty" in the United States. We had a small income in school, but we also had a great network of support: supportive and financially stable family, helpful friends, and uplifting companions and acquaintances from church.
Another important thing we had was education. Now I'm not talking about our bachelor degrees, but a basic understanding of financial management, that is: spend less than you make.
All these things were so helpful we were able to live a comfortable and satisfied lifestyle on ~$23,000 a year without help of government programs like Medicaid and food-stamps. We did agree to accept a large tax credit each year, although it never was enough to put us above the "poverty line".
Unfortunately we have decided to help those who are below the "poverty line" by defining poverty as a lack of money and thus "fixing" the problem by given them money. I regret that for now I'll have to be one of those annoying people that points out a problem with out providing the solution. We have picked the easy fix which doesn't always work too well. The proper fix is much more complicated. It involves people helping people because they care, not government taxing people above the "poverty line" and "helping" those below it in a systematic, impersonal way.
Blah, blah, blah...now I'm rambling
Here's the link. Is your "poor" family below the poverty line like we were?
http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_1327.html
Sunday, January 18, 2009
"Copy and Paste" of today's journal entry:
Yesterday I took Clark to my Grant Hall office to check his eyes for school. They had sent a form home to take to your eye doctor and have filled out. Anyway, it was fun to put my name as the parent and the doctor. He had fun doing all the different tests and looking at all my different instruments. He said, "Wow Dad! Your work is awesome!!!" I was very glad that he felt that way.
Last night Ruth and I watched "Shadow of the Thin Man". It was pretty good. We watched "The Thin Man" about a month or so ago. I guess there's a whole bunch of them. We'll have to watch the rest of them. I think the library has at least 4.
Church went pretty well today. Shanna was a handful during Sacrament meeting, but I think the boys are doing better. I suppose there's always room for improvement in regards to reverence.
Ruth made potato soup and French bread for us tonight. She made double and took some over to a family whose mom just had surgery.
Still no van. It's been in the shop twice as long as expected. Hopefully it doesn't cost twice as much. The family we've been borrowing a minivan from will be returning home from out of town tomorrow night and will obviously need it back. Hopefully we don't have to go too long without one.
Last night Ruth and I watched "Shadow of the Thin Man". It was pretty good. We watched "The Thin Man" about a month or so ago. I guess there's a whole bunch of them. We'll have to watch the rest of them. I think the library has at least 4.
Church went pretty well today. Shanna was a handful during Sacrament meeting, but I think the boys are doing better. I suppose there's always room for improvement in regards to reverence.
Ruth made potato soup and French bread for us tonight. She made double and took some over to a family whose mom just had surgery.
Still no van. It's been in the shop twice as long as expected. Hopefully it doesn't cost twice as much. The family we've been borrowing a minivan from will be returning home from out of town tomorrow night and will obviously need it back. Hopefully we don't have to go too long without one.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Sunday, January 04, 2009
For all you Mothers!
Clark was watching a movie and in this particular movie there were some "bad guys" that happened to be women.
Clark asked, "Are those the good guys?" "No" I replied, "they're the bad guys." "No" contended Clark, "girls are good, they can't be bad guys!"
Clark asked, "Are those the good guys?" "No" I replied, "they're the bad guys." "No" contended Clark, "girls are good, they can't be bad guys!"
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Diesel Electric Locomotives
Ok, so the other day I learned that modern diesel locomotives do not use their massive 16 cylinder engines to directly move the wheels. The diesel engine generates electricity which is then supplied to several big electric motors by every wheel (axle really).
Nathan, I apologize for my ignorance as I'm sure you new this all by the age of five.
Anyway, I thought that was really interesting. One of those trains can carry 1 ton of freight ~250 miles on 1 gallon of gas. A big semitruck can only carry the same ton of freight ~50 miles. Don't worry Nathan, that is not something I just learned.
Nathan, I apologize for my ignorance as I'm sure you new this all by the age of five.
Anyway, I thought that was really interesting. One of those trains can carry 1 ton of freight ~250 miles on 1 gallon of gas. A big semitruck can only carry the same ton of freight ~50 miles. Don't worry Nathan, that is not something I just learned.
Friday, December 05, 2008
"Eldest"
As many of you know, Eldest is the second book by Christopher Paolini, the first being Eragon. As I was reading it today I came across quite the "quotable quote":
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
I obvioulsy liked it since I wrote it down and have now posted it on my blog. I thought that was bold to say that the future "doesn't exist and never shall" but as I thought about it I realized that in a certain light, it's true. The only thing that is real and that we have power to manipulate and control is NOW. Our future does exist, it is made up of all our "now's" one minute, hour, and day at a time. Just as the sculptor sees in his mind the end product, it is not created all at once, but one careful blow of the hammer to the chisel after another. So, by focusing on our "now's" and making the best of them, we ultimately create and even control this "non-existent future" to which Paolini's character refers.
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
I obvioulsy liked it since I wrote it down and have now posted it on my blog. I thought that was bold to say that the future "doesn't exist and never shall" but as I thought about it I realized that in a certain light, it's true. The only thing that is real and that we have power to manipulate and control is NOW. Our future does exist, it is made up of all our "now's" one minute, hour, and day at a time. Just as the sculptor sees in his mind the end product, it is not created all at once, but one careful blow of the hammer to the chisel after another. So, by focusing on our "now's" and making the best of them, we ultimately create and even control this "non-existent future" to which Paolini's character refers.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Sara's Long Lost Twin
First of all, don't worry Hanna, you're not lost. Today I speak of Sara's twin BROTHER!!
(Please forgive me if I'm the 5000th person to bring this up but I can't ignore the evidence).
Sara and Shawn Cassidy, Separated at birth (and about 30 years)...
(Please forgive me if I'm the 5000th person to bring this up but I can't ignore the evidence).
Sara and Shawn Cassidy, Separated at birth (and about 30 years)...
Monday, December 01, 2008
Spanish #1
De hoy en adelante voy a intentar escribir unas cúantas palabras en español para mi propia practica. ¿Por qué en tu Blog? se preguntarán. Bueno, para todos que sepan el español, me gustarÃa que leyeran y corrigieran cualquier error que haya cometido.
Hoy fue mi primer dÃa de trabajar en la clÃnica del hospital. Me dieron un paciente cada hora. Esto me salió bien porque aún estoy tratando de acostumbrarme a la systema de computadora. Por cada paciente tengo que grabar todo de la visita en un papel primero y luego en un programa que se llama AHLTA. Es menos eficaz estar grabando la información en dos lugares, pero asà lo tendremos que hacer por ahora.
Por lo general, me gusta trabajar en el hospital, pero entre tu y yo, me gusta mas trabajar en el Grant Hall donde trabajaba todo el mes pasado. Alla me gusta la gente y, mas que todo, el horario porque puedo pasar mas tiempo con mi familia.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
An Innocent Wisecrack
While listening to some Christmas music in the van yesterday Clark asks, "What's this song about?"
"It's a Christmas song" I reply.
In the most innocent way he asks "What's this Christmas song about?"
"It's a Christmas song" I reply.
In the most innocent way he asks "What's this Christmas song about?"
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Clark joins the BSA
Yesterday Clark went with me to a Boy Scout service project. We all went to a sister's house in the ward that needed help with her yard. There were a lot of leaves, sticks, and garbage in the yard. All the young men got to work and did a good job without ever being told what to do or to stay busy. I was very impressed!
I was equally impressed with how much Clark helped out. He worked for almost 2 hours strait before taking a break! He carried sticks and wood to the pile we had going and he ran and fetched things when people needed them.
After we finished we all went to Pizza Hut for lunch. It was really yummy!
Church went well today. The kids were really pretty good during sacrament meeting - except for Shanna's coat issue. It was a little cold out this morning so Ruth put the girls new coats on. The girls (as is to be expected) are quite excited about any new clothing--especially Shanna. Shanna was so excited about her coat that she didn't want to take it off in the meeting. So of course when we tried to she flipped out.
Ruth taught her first Gospel Principles class today. She said it went well. I already knew it would.
Here is a picture that has nothing to do with anything in this post:
I was equally impressed with how much Clark helped out. He worked for almost 2 hours strait before taking a break! He carried sticks and wood to the pile we had going and he ran and fetched things when people needed them.
After we finished we all went to Pizza Hut for lunch. It was really yummy!
Church went well today. The kids were really pretty good during sacrament meeting - except for Shanna's coat issue. It was a little cold out this morning so Ruth put the girls new coats on. The girls (as is to be expected) are quite excited about any new clothing--especially Shanna. Shanna was so excited about her coat that she didn't want to take it off in the meeting. So of course when we tried to she flipped out.
Ruth taught her first Gospel Principles class today. She said it went well. I already knew it would.
Here is a picture that has nothing to do with anything in this post:
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
A day with the Privates
For the first several weeks here I'll be working at the "reception center". It's a big building that all the brand knew recuites go through. They arrive in their PT clothes (classic gray army shirt and black shorts). They're given a number and they start the whole "welcome to boot camp" proceedure. Most of them flew in the night before and have not slept, nor will sleep until the following night.
As they work their way through the recption center they get lots of briefings, shots, hair cuts, dental exams, eye exams, and of course they get their uniforms - after which they get their picture taken. There's probably even more that goes on that I'm not aware of. Oh, and of course they do get yelled at - a lot.
They all seem very scared of their drill sargeants. Their drill sargeants seem scared of the officers (although they aren't sacred of offiers, it just looks that way becuase they respect us). So...when the young Privates see their drill sargeants stand up a little straigher when I walk by, multiply that by 10 and that's how the Privates react.
Anyway, enough about that. It is fun though being the one nice person they get to talk to. I can tell they really appricieat it.
So, for all those eye doctors that may read this (and their actually may be 2 or 3) I'll describe a little bit of what we do in the recpetion center.
From 6:00-8:00am we have sick call. Anybody that is already in training here or even permenently stationed here can come in without an appointment and have us look at them. Most of them just need glasses for whatever reason. We do get a few red eyes (usually contact lens related, which they're not allowed to wear during training), and your usual randome crazy stuff, but like I said, mostly they just need glasses.
From 8:00-11:30 we see the new recruits. They are bought in in groups of 15 or so and a group history is done. Something like, "Does anybody here have a history of eye surgery or eye injury?" etc... All of them are screened by one of our techs. If they can see 20/20 with each unaided, they're done. If they can't, or already know they need/use glasses (or contacts) they move on to see either myself or the other eye doctor. They are only there for a refraction. We use one of those automated phoroptors and as long as they don't have any complaints (which they never do) they spend about 1-2 mintues with us. If they've been wearing contacts we'll take a look at them with the slit lamp as many of them will have some pretty serious CL related corneal issues. And of course we'll take a more indepth look if we can't get them to 20/20 and there's no indication of refractive or strabismic amplyopia.
Lunch is from 11:30 to 12:30. I ride my bike home and eat there.
From 12:30 to 2:00 we have another walk-in clinic time. Most of these patients need to be "updated in Medpros". That just means they've been told that it's been a year since their last eye exam and so they need to stop by and see us. Most of these patients are not dilated unless they have a compaint or condition that warents it. Like the morning patients, most are just refractions.
From 2:00 to 3:00 there are no more patiens. This time is used to go through and electronically sign all the records that the techs put into the computer for the day. It's nice because for each paitent I hardly have to record anything. The biggest thing I would have to record is the glasses prescription and the automated phoroptor I use just prints it out for me. So all I have to right down (on the average patient) is their vision through the manifest, their refractive state, and if I want them to wear them full time or not.
It would be really monotonous over time but for now I really enjoy it. After Thanksgiving I'll be over at the clinic in the hospital. The patients (and eye exams) there are more like your classic full eye exam. At the hospital the hours are 7:30-4:30 with patients scheduled every 40 mintues for full exams and 20 minutes for short exams. At the recpetion center we see between 60 and 400 patients a day.
Here is a picture of an automated phorotpor like the one we use:
As they work their way through the recption center they get lots of briefings, shots, hair cuts, dental exams, eye exams, and of course they get their uniforms - after which they get their picture taken. There's probably even more that goes on that I'm not aware of. Oh, and of course they do get yelled at - a lot.
They all seem very scared of their drill sargeants. Their drill sargeants seem scared of the officers (although they aren't sacred of offiers, it just looks that way becuase they respect us). So...when the young Privates see their drill sargeants stand up a little straigher when I walk by, multiply that by 10 and that's how the Privates react.
Anyway, enough about that. It is fun though being the one nice person they get to talk to. I can tell they really appricieat it.
So, for all those eye doctors that may read this (and their actually may be 2 or 3) I'll describe a little bit of what we do in the recpetion center.
From 6:00-8:00am we have sick call. Anybody that is already in training here or even permenently stationed here can come in without an appointment and have us look at them. Most of them just need glasses for whatever reason. We do get a few red eyes (usually contact lens related, which they're not allowed to wear during training), and your usual randome crazy stuff, but like I said, mostly they just need glasses.
From 8:00-11:30 we see the new recruits. They are bought in in groups of 15 or so and a group history is done. Something like, "Does anybody here have a history of eye surgery or eye injury?" etc... All of them are screened by one of our techs. If they can see 20/20 with each unaided, they're done. If they can't, or already know they need/use glasses (or contacts) they move on to see either myself or the other eye doctor. They are only there for a refraction. We use one of those automated phoroptors and as long as they don't have any complaints (which they never do) they spend about 1-2 mintues with us. If they've been wearing contacts we'll take a look at them with the slit lamp as many of them will have some pretty serious CL related corneal issues. And of course we'll take a more indepth look if we can't get them to 20/20 and there's no indication of refractive or strabismic amplyopia.
Lunch is from 11:30 to 12:30. I ride my bike home and eat there.
From 12:30 to 2:00 we have another walk-in clinic time. Most of these patients need to be "updated in Medpros". That just means they've been told that it's been a year since their last eye exam and so they need to stop by and see us. Most of these patients are not dilated unless they have a compaint or condition that warents it. Like the morning patients, most are just refractions.
From 2:00 to 3:00 there are no more patiens. This time is used to go through and electronically sign all the records that the techs put into the computer for the day. It's nice because for each paitent I hardly have to record anything. The biggest thing I would have to record is the glasses prescription and the automated phoroptor I use just prints it out for me. So all I have to right down (on the average patient) is their vision through the manifest, their refractive state, and if I want them to wear them full time or not.
It would be really monotonous over time but for now I really enjoy it. After Thanksgiving I'll be over at the clinic in the hospital. The patients (and eye exams) there are more like your classic full eye exam. At the hospital the hours are 7:30-4:30 with patients scheduled every 40 mintues for full exams and 20 minutes for short exams. At the recpetion center we see between 60 and 400 patients a day.
Here is a picture of an automated phorotpor like the one we use:
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Lego's!!
Last week my Mom sent me all my Lego's. I was really excited to get them. I spent several hours on Columbus Day trying to put together some of the sets. I'm glad we saved all the instructions. It takes a long time to build them because I want to use only the exact piece the instructions ask for. Several times I was sure that I'd never find a particular piece only to find it later while looking for another.
I'm going to give one of them to Clark for Christmas. Probably the space ship.
I have a white passenger plane I wanted to make but I can't find the wings. They're pretty big so I'm sure I haven't just overlooked them. Oh well. I guess I'll just make a white passenger missile instead.
Here's the three sets I've made so far:
I'm going to give one of them to Clark for Christmas. Probably the space ship.
I have a white passenger plane I wanted to make but I can't find the wings. They're pretty big so I'm sure I haven't just overlooked them. Oh well. I guess I'll just make a white passenger missile instead.
Here's the three sets I've made so far:
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
A day with Clark
Today I went with Clark's class on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. I saw patients from 6:00am-8:00am and Ginger (the other doctor) was nice enough to cover for me so that I could go.
A bunch of other parents and I all followed the kids' bus. It was about 40 minutes away. When we got there I was given 3 other kids to watch besides Clark. They were all really good kids and were easy to watch.
Fist we went through a corn maze:
Then we played while we waited for the next tractor to take us all to the actual pumpkin patch:
The kids loved jumping off this bail of hay!
Can you guess what Clark said after he got a good whiff of the pigs?
While we waited we took a few pictures.
Here is Clark and his class:
Contrary to what Clark's face is telling you, he did have a really good time!
Then the tractor came:
I didn't actually get any pictures of the pumpkin patch itself, but I promise we really did go there.
Here is a picture of Clark and his good friend from down the street with their pumpkins:
More play time:
Lunch time...
...and more play time:
Clark had a good time and I'm glad that he's making some good friends and enjoying school more and more.
Tonight after dinner, Clark, Cal, and I went to the free movie theater here on post. We saw Wall-e. It was pretty good. Clark really liked it (plus one of his friends from school sat next to him) but I think it was too long for Cal.
A bunch of other parents and I all followed the kids' bus. It was about 40 minutes away. When we got there I was given 3 other kids to watch besides Clark. They were all really good kids and were easy to watch.
Fist we went through a corn maze:
Then we played while we waited for the next tractor to take us all to the actual pumpkin patch:
The kids loved jumping off this bail of hay!
Can you guess what Clark said after he got a good whiff of the pigs?
While we waited we took a few pictures.
Here is Clark and his class:
Contrary to what Clark's face is telling you, he did have a really good time!
Then the tractor came:
I didn't actually get any pictures of the pumpkin patch itself, but I promise we really did go there.
Here is a picture of Clark and his good friend from down the street with their pumpkins:
More play time:
Lunch time...
...and more play time:
Clark had a good time and I'm glad that he's making some good friends and enjoying school more and more.
Tonight after dinner, Clark, Cal, and I went to the free movie theater here on post. We saw Wall-e. It was pretty good. Clark really liked it (plus one of his friends from school sat next to him) but I think it was too long for Cal.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
The Processor Poll Plumate
First of all, thanks for voting!
Second, thanks for nothing! I was hoping to get some good information from my last poll: Which processor is better, AMD, or Intel?
Almost everybody voted: "I don't know" except for two: one said "AMD" and the other "Intel".
It would have been much nicer if a bunch of people had voted "it doesn't matter" or in favor of one of the processors. So, I'm going to assume that it probably doesn't matter for the computer tasks I need.
Maybe I can come up with a more helpful poll for all of us....
Second, thanks for nothing! I was hoping to get some good information from my last poll: Which processor is better, AMD, or Intel?
Almost everybody voted: "I don't know" except for two: one said "AMD" and the other "Intel".
It would have been much nicer if a bunch of people had voted "it doesn't matter" or in favor of one of the processors. So, I'm going to assume that it probably doesn't matter for the computer tasks I need.
Maybe I can come up with a more helpful poll for all of us....
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
A visit to the dentist...or was it?
So this morning I had to go the dentist. That's right had to go. I don't mind poking and prodding eyes, but I'm no fan of tooth torture.
My last visit to the dentist...which was 5 years ago...was not very pleasant; however, I didn't have any cavities. So, today I expected the worst.
In the Army (or at least at this clinic) they just do x-rays and have the dentist look at you and do any work that needs done. Actually having your teeth cleaned is a different appointment. So, after my x-rays were done (and an hour wait) they sat me in a room to wait for the doctor. You would agree why I was momentarily confused when a member of our Memphis Stake presidency came and sat next to me.
Umm...am I being called to the Elder's quorum presidency again??
Nope, Presi...I mean, Doctor Shirley was my dentist today and we had a good visit. Well, as much as a visit as possible when one is looking in your mouth.
It's funny because I didn't even know he was a dentist or that he'd moved, so it was weird to see him. Anyway, the best news of all...I have "beautiful teeth" albeit they're not that strait and "no cavities"!!!! That's strait from the doctor's mouth.
Thanks Mom for all those fluoride chewable vitamins when I was little!
My last visit to the dentist...which was 5 years ago...was not very pleasant; however, I didn't have any cavities. So, today I expected the worst.
In the Army (or at least at this clinic) they just do x-rays and have the dentist look at you and do any work that needs done. Actually having your teeth cleaned is a different appointment. So, after my x-rays were done (and an hour wait) they sat me in a room to wait for the doctor. You would agree why I was momentarily confused when a member of our Memphis Stake presidency came and sat next to me.
Umm...am I being called to the Elder's quorum presidency again??
Nope, Presi...I mean, Doctor Shirley was my dentist today and we had a good visit. Well, as much as a visit as possible when one is looking in your mouth.
It's funny because I didn't even know he was a dentist or that he'd moved, so it was weird to see him. Anyway, the best news of all...I have "beautiful teeth" albeit they're not that strait and "no cavities"!!!! That's strait from the doctor's mouth.
Thanks Mom for all those fluoride chewable vitamins when I was little!
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