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 March 05, 2003

Feels Like Monday

The last two days were holidays. It's raining outside. Started off as a windy storm, so we closed the hangar doors. We learned our lesson last Wednesday in the storm. I'm sitting here replacing the motherboard on the Makuma server. I have some old donated ones in a box in the attic, so I'm trying to use one of them. Right now I'm searching the web for a diagram of the board so I can get everything connected properly. I'm not feeling too well, and in fact, I stayed home this morning and slept. Have an upset stomach and what some people call Montezuma's Revenge. Despite eating a lot of different food here, this really has only happened to be a couple times in three years. Could be worse if I ate a hamburger at Jack In The Box!

The boys are at school, and the school has swimming class this afternoon down in Puyo. I'll bet they'll cancel because of the rain. Although you never can tell. It's raining here, but could be nice over at the pool, as it's about six miles away. That was what happened last Wednesday. We had a tree fall down, hangar doors fly open, skylight ripped off, and a half mile away--nothing.

We had a party for Taylor last night. It was a surprise party, two weeks before his birthday. He'll turn 8 on the 16th. We went up to Maria's and played some games and ate pinchos. A friend of Ellyn's made a Lego cake for him. The kids all had a good time, and Taylor was pleased at being surprised.

When we got home, our phone line was dead. I'm heading over to the attic of the Nate Saint house in a minute to work on it. I'm sure there is a wire there that is corroded and has broken off of the terminal block.

Posted by David at March 5, 2003 04:09 PM

 

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