First things first, Anne Update 17 is now available in her Bio section. It is a long update too (I can tell, I edit the format of the message by hand 🙂 She has changed her regular email address so check on the update to find out how you can get a hold of her now. Not much longer and our Flemish updates will be coming to an end and Anne will be writing to us from the far off exotic land of Wisconsin.
May 27, 2002
Happy Memorial Day. No school today. I marched with Kelley’s Heroes this morning in my first parade of the season. Josh made it out as well. Dominica made it out to watch us and is being coaxed into playing some woodwind instrument with us in the near future.
After the parade, Dominica and I headed out to my parents’ for a Memorial Day Bar-B-Q. That would mean Boca burgers for us, but on the grill they are very good. It has been a while since I have had real grilled food of any kind.
Speaking of food, Dominica has been on a real cooking kick this week and has been cooking for almost everyone in the house. She is baking right now, in fact.
Bob, Nate and I are going to head on over to the neighbor’s in just a short while to see if it is going to be at all possible to move that piano ourselves. If we are lucky, we will be able to just carry it, but that doesn’t seem too likely. I am burning a copy of SuSE Linux 8.0 Pro for the neighbors as well. So I am finishing that up before we head on over.
It has been a pretty hot day (though not as hot as yesterday when the weather channel announced Ithaca as having a temperature of 149!) but still hot. We still have the windows open but I am dying. I did get sunburnt today, though, and that is making it a lot worse. It is rough being bald – Nate can attest to that:) Domincia has been pointing out, recently, just how bald and grey I am going.
I got the chance to play with my dad’s new tractor today. He got it for Christmas. I took it out and mowed a little of the pasture to try it out. It has been a while since I was on a tractor.
[Editors Note from 2007: In 2007 dad converted his video of today’s parade into Xvid for me and I posted it onto OurMedia so that it can be enjoyed by everyone. You can download it via the SGL page for the 2002 Caledonia Memorial Day Parade.]
May 26, 2002
We have a new Borders in Ithaca and we are all very excited, I think that just about everyone has made it out to see it by now. Nate is the only one that I am not sure about but he doesn’t read as much as the rest of us do anyway. Loopy and I are near hysterical being able to actually shop for new books right here where we live. In fact, this is the nearest that we have ever lived to a major book store. And with the amount that we shop for computer books, it really makes life a lot easier having one just around the corner. Plus, there is a new Barnes and Nobles due in soon as well.
Our next door neighbor stopped by today and offered me his piano. That was something that I wasn’t expecting. I would like to have a piano though, especially now that I am going to be building a new house, it would be really nice to have a piano. It is an upright, honky tonk deal, but it sounds good so I look forward to having it around. We will see how we will get it over here, though. Pianos aren’t the easiest things in the world to move.
May 25, 2002
Not much to say about today. Nate is in Perry so Bob, Loopy, Dominica and I went down to Binghamton to see Episode II again. That is about all that we did today. Not too exciting overall.
May 24, 2002
Ten days without an update! Sorry gang, it has just been a long week. I was in DC last week and I made it home on Friday. I have been so exhausted since I was working through the night every night while I was in DC that I can’t even remember what has happened all this week. Monday was my first day of classes for the summer session and I just started taking care of course work today.
Technology Update: Mozilla 1.0 RC3 is out for anyone who needs to stay abreast of the most recent changes. Opera has gone to 6.2 for Windows as well.