Happy Ears

After 7 months of pain I finally gave up on my cute tragus piercings and my ears are so happy. They are healing very quickly and I don't have to worry about getting them caught on my helmet, or smashed when I roll over, or ripped out when I change clothes, or...you get the picture.

John has turned the "study" into his workshop and has produced his first useful part on the milling machine - it's a base for a robot part. That machine is REALLY cool, but very complicated. We now have to get rid of stuff that was in the study. It's mostly books, shelves, an office chair, etc.. too nice to toss, yet too lazy to take pictures and post on-line for sale=messy house. Darwin loves the new arrangement because he has a tall tower of plastic crates in the living room to play "King of the World" on. He lays there and looks over his vast domain like Mufasa in The Lion King.

My dad (Texas - not Kansas) had surgery last week on his eye and is not supposed to bend over or lift things, or cough, or...anything that might disturb the eye at all. Mom says he is doing well, but I bet he is going stir crazy right now. It wasn't so much the surgery that worried me as the recovery time.

Work is going well - I am felling a little better about things, not quite as frustrated over the lack of what I need to do my job because I know the problem is on it's way to being solved. My company has grown fast and still doesn't really have communication and knowledge-transfer processes in place so it's hard to know where to go to get anything done. It's getting MUCH better though.