Archive for October, 2006

Aquisitions in the air…

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

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 [...]

America’s 300 millionth citizen

Monday, October 30th, 2006

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 [...]

Hello Winter!

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

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!

Handy Work

Monday, October 16th, 2006

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 [...]

Black cat day

Friday, October 13th, 2006

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.

Immigration Laws

Monday, October 9th, 2006

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 [...]

Lola Update

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

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 [...]

Something you didn’t know…

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

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!

Babies!

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

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 [...]

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