The Phoenix Palm Rises From Ashes
The Phoenix Palm Rises From Ashes, originally uploaded by JPhilipson. This is a beautiful photo. I just wanted to share this with everyone 
Making room for baby
Christine and I spent a good bit of Sunday night cleaning out junk from the office (old computer parts, papers, random crap!) in order to make room to convert the guest room (Tung’s room right now) into the nursery. We got rid of a whole lot of stuff. We were also trying to get everything out of christine’s desk and put it over to mine. Her computer died, so it really wasn’t being used.
It was a success though. Christine’s desk is ready to be moved, and the closet is all clean. We just need to move the guest bed to that room, and starting putting the baby stuff into the guest room.
It felt good though getting rid of old junk. I think the next thing we have to do is go through our clothes and make another trip out to Goodwill. I have a bin labeled “winter clothes” that I didn’t even open up this winter. That was a sign to me that I needed to gives some clothes away.
Oh what a beautiful valentine’s day
This Valentine’s day was pretty great. Christine made me this AWESOME book of our lives. She made it from www.shutterfly.com. I spent the last couple of weeks making our wedding video. It worked out alright, but Premiere was being funky on me and would’ve export correctly.
Anyway, we spent yesterday eating take out Applebee’s with my brother, and just hung out at the house watching our wedding video.
I hope you all had a good valentine’s, whether or not you spent it with a S.Other or just with friends.
So much rain
It was very wet today. It rained throughout the middle of the night all the way until morning. I hope everyone made it to school/work/wherever alright. I’m just glad that Millvale didn’t flood again. I guess the whole cleaning of the river really helped. :shrug:
Anyway, a couple of fun things came about today at work. Tim is finally given the chance to go ahead and make a windows-based help system that actually will make ROBOTC a hundred times better. Jesse, Ross, and I made a neat in-video quizzing system which will really help with students understanding the concepts. It’s pretty neat.. you guys can check it out at www.robotc.net/vex_full and click on the Sensors > Operator Assist > Video 1
I hope everyone is doing well. I’m just at home and relaxing. Have a good night everyone!
Super Bowl craziness
Oh man oh man oh man…. That was one crazy last quarter!! The whole time I wanted the Giants to win. The last 2 minutes I was screaming because of how well Eli was doing. And everyone has to agree that the game-making play was when Eli (..Little Eli…) broke away from probably 4 guys going at him, and threw a pass – which I have no idea how Tyree caught it – and Tyree magically caught the ball over his head without dropping it.
I have to say though… I felt REALLY bad for Belichick, Brady, and their team. The news guy kept asking the coach all of these questions, and obviously he, and their whole team, was devastated. He kept responding, “We are disappointed”.
Well, mark that up for one VERY good game. Good job Giants! Maybe next time Patriots.
Sunny, yet cold day
Today was actually really sunny. It was one of those winter days where if you looked out the window, you’d think that it was warm… but as soon as you stepped outside you’d scream at how freakin’ cold it was outside.
Work went well as normal. We are so close to getting the Teaching ROBOTC for VEX project done. This is the time when I just want it to finish, but I know that if we rush then some parts will just end up looking horrible… and we can’t have that! Seriously… we make the material look too good to sacrifice the end.
I had a great idea of bringing home our PC-BOT (by White Box Robotics). I figure I can see what people have done with those in the community. It seems like a lot of people have worked with it. It looks cool… so we might as well make it do something cool, right?
I hope you guys had a great day today even though it was cold.
