The "Western Drift" as of 11/28/2010 -- fairly impressive for this early in the season
… as in the drift on the west side of our driveway. They reach a point where they sort of take on a life of their own and we start referring to them by name. We finished shoveling this morning just in time for it to start snowing again.
Another first for Li: her first snow-day for school… they called last night to let us know they were cancelling pre-school for today based on the weather. She’s going to crushed… and she didn’t sleep well last night. I think she sensed the pending disturbance in The Force: the anguish of a thousand (OK, eight, actually) pre-schoolers finding out they don’t get to go to their Thanksgiving Feast.
I had a bit of a surprise this week at work when I found out that some of the stuff I work on was featured on the INL’s external Web site: it’s currently a featured article on a project I’ve been involved in for better than 10 years which is in and of itself kind of an oddity from the standpoint of project lifespan. (If it has been pushed off by more important or more current stuff, it is still available here.)
Deb pointed out that I’m only the second member of our family to make the INL’s external Web site this year — Ian made it earlier for his involvement with the cybersecurity program there — and his article at least had a picture of him with someone important.
I’m just hoping this isn’t my 15 minutes of fame… I’m hoping for something more.
It’s been a long time since I’ve written much here, but I felt like this was worth writing about. For day-to-day stuff, I’ve found it simpler — despite all of Facebook’s shortcomings and things I dislike about it — to put stuff there…
Li and sleep: no longer mutually exclusive
Li has definitely turned a corner with respect to sleep: she’s coming closer to sleeping through the night on a regular basis and she’s spending the whole night in her own room. For most of the past year or so, she’s started the night in her room in her bed but has come in and slept on the floor in our room next to our bed at some point during the middle of the night. Prior to that, it was likely to be some combination of time in her bed, time on our floor, and time in our bed. Starting a couple weeks ago, she just started spending the night in her room — sort of all of a sudden — as in the whole night. Two weeks in, and it is rare that she wakes up and fusses.
She’s sleeping; we’re sleeping. It feels odd. It feels great. It is two and a half years of prayers answered all of a sudden…
Life has been pretty hectic of late… in no particular order…