Hellos,<\/p>\n
Our 2 feet of snow got warm enough to be snowmanable, so I snowmaned a
few weekends ago, cause Nick told me to. I created what I believe is
the tallest-one-man-without-a-ladder-snowman ever created. It would
have been the tallest-one-man-one-woman-snowman ever created, but Helen
had to work that day. It is not as tall as the one Nick, Zack, and I
created 10 years ago. That one captured that was a
one-man-with-2-boys-snowman record. This one lasted about 20 seconds
before it tipped over. But I got a photo at about second 18! 1st
photo is just before I set the head upright, which was a trick since the
head is 8+ feet up, and I am not even a 6 footer. 2nd photo is just
before he crashed. Surprisingly, the head remained intact, with the
caret and 2 fresh farm egg eyes unbroken, so I rebuilt him, a bit
shorter and more stable, in the 3rd photo. The baby deck snowman in the
4th photo was happy to have a friend, although they have both moved on
by now (65 degrees today).<\/p>\n
Work is picking up, after a bit of a break end of last year. A number
of interesting chips, but stuff I can not talk about for a few years.
Here is one that we did last year that I CAN talk about:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/dev-news\/article.php\/3667476<\/p>\n
It is the worlds biggest chip of its kind (ASIC). Raytheon designed it,
and our group implemented it.<\/p>\n
Zach is keeping busy as usual. He comes home every day with pretty
brown hands like those in photo 5. I counted 9 cars, 1\/2 of which were
broken, in our garage\/drive\/street the other day. Zach has come to the
realization that he can not fix everyone’s car problems, so has learned
now to say no. This is a hard thing for him to say, but it is harder to
fix a billion broken cars.<\/p>\n
His back is giving him problems, so he has started seeing a
chiropractor, with some improvement. That is a local doctor we found in
the house, helping out in photo 5. She will claim she is of no use on
backs, but Zach’s back did feel a bit better the next day.<\/p>\n
Our local doctor also gave Jessy a tour of her work last weekend (next 2
photos), as Jessy was interested in potentially working as a EEG tech.
In that 2nd photo, she is demonstrating how to jam a EMG needle
into a leg. Zach is about to run for the elevator. He hates needles.<\/p>\n
The next photo shows Toozie, Helen’s 9 year old border collie, sporting
one of my old muscle shirts. Not because he has muscles or a beer belly
to show of, but because Helen was feeling mischievous when we were doing
laundry. If Toozie did drink beer, he would probably have a beer belly,
as he does not get enough exercise. We are not sure yet what sort of
apartment we can get near downtown Syracuse that would tolerate a dog.
If anyone in the listening audience would consider a job dog sitting a
well behaved dog for a year or 2 whilst we figure out Syracuse, we would
love to hear from you. If you had a back yard full of cell phones,
Toosie would be in heaven (he likes phones).<\/p>\n
Zachs friend Derek turned 21 yesterday. That is a pile of friends
getting into a limo to take him out on the town last night. They had a
good time, except they forgot Derek at a bar. He found a cab, and all
are un-hung-over by this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Mystery photo is from St Thomas. Yes, it is a creature, but what kind
of creature?<\/p>\n
Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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