This is an exiciting week for the sladdens… Today Mandy has officially become a Googler and later this week Mark will officially become an HP’er. In May I joined Jotspot along with many of my X-mercury coworkers – in the 6 months I was there we accomplished a lot with 2 major releases (yes, at [...]
Yes, after a mere 28 years in this country and 19 years with a green card, I finally made it legal and became a citizen. Some of you may know that I’ve been going through this process for a couple of years now: I applied shortly after we moved to Colorado and passed my tests [...]
The weather man says rain, I say snow… Big flakes are falling, but not sticking to the ground. Our Ski resorts are also open (not much base yet). Its just freezing so not too cold… yet!
We have been busy doing some home improvement over the last couple of weekends, one project was to install a counter top in the laundry room. Before we had our Washer, Dryer and Lola’s crate side by side – it was a perfect (snug) fit. When we installed the counter top we had to put [...]
Today is the cricket’s (a.k.a. “boots”) day and she is getting ready to party tonight. Coming from the south, she’s a connoisseur of rye whiskey… something she enjoys on occasion with our mighty man cat Crenshaw.
So I finally got my oath ceremony rescheduled after a 7 month delay… they really operate on long time frames over there at the INS/TSA/DHS. The whole process of becoming a citizen (from being a permanent resident, which takes a good 3+ years) has been over a year, and that’s after I had already been [...]
Well its only been a few days since we have started Lola’s new training regime and I thought it was time for an update. There are two main things we are working on Learn to Earn and Tether Training. Learn to Earn forces Lola to earn her meals. Instead of just feeding her twice a [...]
Pammy played the accordian in highschool! While preparing for the estate sale we found many accordians and Pammy gave us quick show. Enjoy this quick video I snapped!
Last week we had two new additions to our extended families… On Tuesday, September 26th Nicholas Scott was born at 11:37 pm. Scott and Julie were in San Diego for the birth. We have waited for Nicholas for so long (he was due on the 15th) and when he arrived he was more perfect that [...]