As for the kids they are all doing well, the biggest thing going for them is we have Birthday’s coming up for Andy and Dirk.  I’m try to decide now what we will be doing for them, not real sure yet though.  If anyone has idea throw it out there for me.  I’ll consider it.

Lastly, I had a follow up yesterday with the Doctor after my surgery.  Everything is looking good and I have been given the all clear to lift weights again.  I’ll be starting back on that at the YMCA this evening.   Haven’t been allowed to do that for two weeks now.   Well I will end this here.  I’ll try to get Dirk to post something, if I ever see him again. 

Dj started school on Monday, so far things are going well for him there too.  He was out today at Hampton Roads Executive Airport, they where letting the class taxi airplanes around the strip there.  I am pretty sure Dj is gonna come home asking can he have an airplane now.  I haven’t had a chance to talk to him yet, but from his posts on Facebook I would say he probably enjoyed himself.

The kids are doing well also.  It’s hard to believe that we are half way through the 3rd nine weeks already.  Addy and Andy both have some work to do on their grades.  Everyone has been keeping real busy though, the girls have been going to Enrichment Club every Thursday at the YMCA.  They get to swim, learn about healthy eating, climb the rock wall and other fun activities.  We are dropping them off on Saturday for Parents Night out as well.  The sad part is since I have to work tomorrow overnight and Dj probably needs to study, we will spend out parents night out with me sleeping and Dj buried in a book somewhere.  Oh well, gonna get off of here for now.  I need a pain killer and some sleep!  I’ll keep everyone posted on Dj’s schooling.

Well technically, today was not her birthday. It was on Feb 3, but since all of us are so busy during the week we decided to celebrate today. Dj the kids and I took mom out to her favorite restaurant, Cracker Barrel. She was fine with the meal until the part where the waitress came out and sang “Happy Birthday” to her with a hot fudge sundae. I thought for a moment there from the look I got that she was gonna beat my tail right there in the restaurant. All around it was not too bad. Leave her a message to say Happy B-Day!

Also, I had a Dr. appointment the other day. I found out that I have a tumor that they are going to have to remove.  So far they are not too worried about it being cancerous but we will have to wait and see.  They won’t be sure till they can get in there and take a look at it.  I will be having surgery on Feb 25 to get the tumor removed.  I’m really nervous but hoping everything goes ok.  I’ll keep everyone posted when it happens.

We have also manged to make it past another milestone, every year around this time something happens that I dread worse than anything else in the world.  The kids have science fair projects that are due!  This might not seem so bad to some people but I personally hate the science fair and wish it would die.  The only thing I can really see that they are trying to accomplish with these projects is to see how many forests one school can kill by using up a ton of paper.  Both Andrew and Ashley turned in the projects on Friday so I am officially done with science fair for this year.  Andrew decided to build a Mousetrap Powered Car this year and focus his project on Energy.  Ashley decided to go a little more simple this year and do her project on different materials and how they conduct heat.  But I am sure no matter how awesome the project we come up with, as in years past, the kids with the project about the moldy bread will win first prize.  Moldy bread is not first place material people, moldy bread is just gross!  Anyhow, as the moment that’s all we got going on around here.  I’ll be sure to post an update later in the month about the school situation and the Dr. appointment when we get more news on both!

Geocaches are hidden containers that are listed online by nothing more than the latitude and longitude of the cache. Think of it as a global-scale game of hide-n-seek. Most caches are just a waterproof container with a log book inside, but others have stickers and stuff. We only found one of the two geocaches we looked for, but it was still fun. I left my name in the log, and left a pen behind since there wasn’t one in there. The title of this geocache was “ChiaCache Lives!” I’d log onto geocaching.com and log my find, but they seem to have some issues with account creation at the moment.

I think the full version of the geocaching.com app may end up being the first paid app on my iPhone!

You should really look into this newfangled concept known as “strain releif” for the cables in your future products. It’s an idea where you put graduated thicknesses of material around a cable at the point where it enters a device or plug. It reduces the strain on the outer jacket and the conductors inside so that they don’t break and create problems, such as open circuits and short circuits. Go take a look at the cord on a vaccuum cleaner or something for inspiration. For an example of how this is not done right, LOOK AT ANY APPLE PRODUCT EVER MADE.

Seriously though, the cable with my iPhone should have lasted longer than a month before the cable started fraying. Strain releif on cables may not be pretty, but neither are broken, frayed, non-working or melted cables. Go google “apple MagSafe short strain releif” if you don’t know what I’m talking about.