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Happy 27th Birthday to Josh!

Today my parents came down to Ithaca so that dad could work with Loopy and I on a new project that we are working on to track fire extinguishers for hospitals. We all went out to lunch at the Greek House in Collegetown for lunch.

The Surfing IT Wizard was supposed to be stopping by today so that we could work on Gordon whom he bought from us but he wasn’t able to make it today so he is planning on coming next Monday.

I have found that shopping on eBay for movies can be fun so I searched around today and I managed to find Hayley Mills in Disney’s The Moon-Spinners that I have wanted for a really long time. So I won that auction today.

Min made me watch Mulan. I haven’t seen it since it first released in 1998. I saw it at the Silver Lake Drive In. It was better than what I remembered.

Today is my day to relax. I started the day early getting stuff ready for John Hopkins University Hospital which was touring our facility in Washington this afternoon.

Min had to work really late at work tonight so I went in and spent some time with her there. We didn’t get back until about 8:30.

This morning I managed to order Saludos Amigos from eBay so Loopy, Min and I went to the mall for lunch and I got Mulan at FYE. Now I own the entire collection. All 41 of the 41 available movies. The complete Disney Full Length Animated Feature collection. Whoo-hoo.

Well, the excitement of the morning came to an abrupt end… I got an email from Acendex in Cleveland. They have decided to withdraw the offer that they had made to me. So I am no longer going to be working in Cleveland. Needless to say, that is rather depressing. But, life goes on. It isn’t that big of a deal. I am not going to be driving to DC now until maybe next week because I was only going down now because of the rush. At least I have a little bit of time to relax now.

Min and I started watching a couple of movies but with the news, we cut it short. She is still not feeling well from the sulfites she encountered yesterday so she went to bed very early and Loopy and I watched Disney’s Robin Hood. Loopy has never seen Robin Hood before. I haven’t seen it in forever. After Robin Hood, we watched some of Father Ted Series II because Loopy still hasn’t seen all of it yet. We stayed up really late watching movies.

Today is an exciting day. Min and I met Josh, Joanna, Phil and Kate out at Dr. Frank’s Vinifera out on the west side of Keuka Lake and went on an eight winery tour that was a special Murder Mystery event where you go to different wineries and collect clues to solve the mystery. We didn’t make it to the last winery but we actually managed to solve it a few wineries early. The prize was a 5% discount on Keuka Lake Wine Trail wines during this summer. So, it was a lot of fun and we managed to save some money if we buy some wine this summer too. It was a good time. After going to all the wineries, we ended up in Penn Yan and had a really slow dinner at Sarassins. But it was good.

Min got a pretty bad headache from all of the wine so she went to bed really early. Loop and I stayed up and watched The New Guy which is a really silly movie but enjoyable. It was cute. Loopy went to bed after watching that but I stayed up and watch K-19 The Widowmaker. That was a really excellent war movie. I really like both Harrison Ford and Liam Nieson. It was quite a riveting movie and it is a historical subject that I know little to nothing about. So it was very interesting.

On the way home from the wine tour, Min and I stopped at the new Super Walmart in Watkins Glen and did a little shopping. I picked up two new DVDs. I got Lilo and Stitch and Casualties of War. Only two of the Disney collection left to go.

Min and I had a very busy day today. After staying up late last night watching movies (Min actually stayed up later than I did for once.) we got up early (sort of) and drove up to Syracuse to meet Amanda and Laura for lunch. Laura went to college with Min and Amanda but has since moved to San Diego so Min hasn’t seen her in years. We sat at Denny’s for about four hours. After lunch, Min and I drove out’ to Frankfort to do some dog sitting. We didn’t end up getting out there until about 5:00pm. We didn’t expect Min’s parents to get home until at least 10:00 or maybe not until the morning. But they ended up getting in at 6:00pm so we didn’t really need to watch the dog. But it was nice to get to see Dexter anyway. He was excited to see us. After her parents got home, we watched Frequency which was really an excellent movie. I was really surprised by how good it was. We also watched some of The Man with Two Brains – but that wasn’t very good. We hit the road to head back to Ithaca around 11pm – I was pretty tired so Min drove us home.