I don't really celebrate Chinese New Year, but so many people do, it just seems right to wish everyone a happy one. I also wish you a conventional new year, and when the various Indian New Years roll around, why not have a happy one of those too? In general, I hope you're happy and it lasts a year.
Now that the polar vertices have gone back to Santa Claus where they belong, we’re trying to get back to normal where we can go outside for more than a minute without the inside of our noses freezing.
A few years ago, we had a leak in the space above our garage where the bathroom is – the person who updated our shower forgot to put everything back together correctly. We had another leak a few weeks ago. This time it was the toilet leaking. It happened right after the first big freeze, and I was worried it was a burst pipe, but it wasn’t. I need to fix the drywall, but for now the insulation-stuffed-into-a-hole-in-the-ceiling-held-in-place-by-a-piece-of-wood approach is sufficient.
M got his braces off right about the time we were wrapping up our payments to the orthodontist. An amazing coincidence.
In the picture above, you can see M without his braces. I spent a few minutes trying to convince him to pose like the monkey in the picture behind him (he didn’t know the picture was there) but knows me too well, and wouldn’t do it. I finally showed him the picture, and he felt very smug that he hadn’t fallen for my ruse.
K has been selected as one of the ten Mathcounts contestants from his school, and is the only 6th-grader. The competition is in February and he gets to skip a day of school to go. Good luck, K!
K and his friends are playing football in the front yard during one of the cold weather waves. He’s the one dressed like Peyton Manning.
Several of us at the company are teaching a Python programming class to 7-9th grade offspring of our co-workers. Our first class was earlier this week, and it went really well, with 12 students in attendance. There are six more classes to go. I taught the first class, and there will be three other instructors over the course of the class. We’re hoping this whole “computer programming” thing will catch on with the younger crowd.
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