Early Saturday

Seth and I have been up since 6:30. He was ready for breakfast.

We had a good time trick-or-treating last evening. He just decided to count how many candies he got. I think he did pretty well.

Paid Off a Car Today

I got notice today from the bank that we have paid off the Red Car. A lot of things have changed since 2004.

Here's a link to my original post about the car.
http://rmreinsel.blogspot.com/2004/10/2004-honda.html

UBUNTU

I have gotten my PC back up and running with UBUNTU and I am really liking it so far.

Mobile blog

Mobile blog

Getting Settled In

I am getting settled in to the new job. So far it has been a good challenge and is interesting. Not only that, I really like having free coffee!

Commuting on metro is easy. It's nice not to have to deal with rush hour very much.

Home With the Kids

Debbie went out for the evening with her friend Mary, so tonight I am home with the kids. They are both in bed now. They were really good. Sara was pretty tired so she fell asleep as soon as I put her in bed and Seth had his normal bedtime routine. All nice and easy.

Now I am playing with my Linux computer. Let's see if I can learn something.

Back in the Blogosphere

Well, after a long absence I am back in the blogosphere. I've just completed setting up Ubuntu (Linux) on my laptop and so-far so good. One more step to a Windows free world.

The new job is coming along fine. I am busy, but good busy.

It seems like I just have random thoughts this evening.

Working Outside on the Screened Porch

I am sitting on the screened porch this working on the continuing job search. I have a couple of good warm prospects, but I am still looking just in case those don't pan out. I have not really wanted to write about my little break much because there really hasn't been much to write about.

It turns out that not working for a month has been really good for Debbie and the kids. I am getting to spend a lot of time with them. I think Seth is really enjoying it. I think it will be hard for him when I go back to work. Maybe not, though. He is incredibly resilient.

We have had a couple of beautiful fall days. I hope they hang on for a while. That is one of the nice things about this area, we generally get a long autumn.

A visit to Glen Echo

Glen Echo September 1 2007

Cutting Shrubbery (again)

This afternoon I cut an arbor vitae tree next to my garage. It was infested with bag worms, which were interesting, but deadly. They ate almost half of the bush. I wasn't too worried about cutting this plant because it really was not in a very good place to begin with.

Dad came over to lend me his mattock, which is better than mine, for digging out the stump and to give moral support.

We actually have beautiful weather today. It is sunny and 85 degrees with low humidity. Kind of a perfect day.