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I have always seen Star Wars opening day. Always. This year I was getting worried that I might not be able to see it opening day. The big theater in town listed as sold out of all the midnight showings a couple of weeks ago - about the same time I heard the tickets were on sale early. I think my wife works the evening of opening day, so I was looking at possibly standing in line for hours after she got home, and maybe not getting to see it. Then really good friends of ours called me up at work, to let me know that Pepsi had some sort of deal on the midnight showing of SW3. I said, 'Yes! Count me in!'. When I asked him about the tickets this past weekend, he informed me that the tickets weren't available until Monday, and this is when he would know for sure. Then he mentioned he was driving to get them. Up to Denver. It seems we will be seeing the movie up in Parker - Southern Denver suburbs. I wasn't expecting that. So instead of getting home by 3am, it will prob...

I noticed yesterday morning when I went out for the newspaper and fed the fish in the outdoor pond, that I only saw one of the fish. The smaller, more timid of the two Koi. The bigger, orange one was not around. I wasn't positive that the orange one wasn't just hiding. But it almost always came out faster than the white one. But I didn't see it. I only saw the white fish deeply hidden in the plant pots. I wondered if the fish had been taken by an animal and eaten. I had seen a cat prowling in our back yard just a day or two before. And it is possible for wilder animals to come through the area. That evening I went out to look again. I still didn't see any sign of the orange fish. And the white fish had it's head stuck in a pot. I looked around from all sides and still didn't see it. I decided it was time to backwash and fill the pond a bit. I use the hose to push back water through the pump, which always clears it a bunch. The water flows much better a...

Description - more pictures Saturday was the monthly robot meeting in Denver. Neat stuff going on! I, on the other hand, had nothing new to show :( I've got to find some time to do something before the next meeting to show!

My son's 12th birthday was a week ago. For his birthday, he wanted to do laser tag. So we signed him up for Sunday. This past Sunday. Oops - that is mother's day. Too late to change. It worked out okay - it meant that the laser tag place was a lot less crowded. It was fun! We had about 12 kids - with about 3 being non-tag-players. I played laser tag 3 times. The first 2 times I was to score for my team - and highest score for the game the second time. The last time I switched colors, but forgot which color I was at first, and cost my team some points. Even without my mistake at the begining, it was a much more lopsided score - we lost badly. I wonder if some of the guns are configured to score higher than others. I also took a turn at battle-tech - a mech game played with special networked PCs in pods. That was kind of neat too.

At work today, I dodged a bullet. Once that I didn't exactally see coming, but was prepared for anyhow. My boss stopped by my cube, and asked what I was doing. I was working on this project that keeping morphy and growing subtly. He seemed a tiny bit nervous. He asked me to walk with him. We talked about the project until we got down the hall. He then informed me that they were not renewing the contract of the other guy who I work with in support. He started about a week before I did. It seems he has about a month left on his contract. My boss said it was financial. They were cutting the budget. I knew they were considering not renewing the guy, but I didn't know they were playing budget games that hard. The budget came up in most meetings, with the old division boss and the new one. I knew they had budgeted for 3 people in our work - partly to cover the month overlap each year of having 4 people on support, and partly to cover when tough support issues fall onto the...

It had been foggy and cloudy a number of days throughout the weekend. My wife was driving the kids through town, and passed the power plant. Our youngest pipes up as says: "Look! A cloud factory!", watching the steam billowing up to join the clouds. Classic! :) Perfect imagery. ...Took me a bit of time, but I found a picture I took with the power plant spewing steam - in the distance - but it gives you an idea! "Cloud Factory"

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