Kindergarten to college

Lourdes was reading to me this evening and I told her she was a great reader. I said "Lourdes, I think you're ready for first grade."

She kind of laughed and said "No, I'm ready for college!"

I think she will be.

Mario woes

So you know we've been playing New Super Mario Brothers on our Wii since Christmas. Lourdes' interest in playing has waned significantly and I'm not really sure why. Teddy on the other hand demands to play when Raquel and I play. I wouldn't mind letting him play except he's not even two and doesn't really know how to play yet. Oh sure he knows that you have to press buttons and shake the Wii-mote and he knows there's bubbles but he's not got mad skillz or good insight into the game or even good strategies. I wouldn't mind if he just arbitrarily moved around, jumped and bubbled but I do mind when he presses the pause button or the menu button. It just kind of throws off my game.

I guess if he keeps playing, we'll be one heck of a playing duo by the time he's three.

I CAN make cables...

At work I have to make LAN patch cables occasionally. We've got a CAT6 easy crimp tool that is pretty slick but I've been having bad luck making cables. My cables were consistently failing my simple testing device. I was getting only a few cables to work. I was very frustrated. Then I discovered that my tester was actually failing. Every cable I made today passed with a new tester!

It's been nice knowing you Greg!

I was going to post about the Rivermen losing their home game today. Or maybe that I really enjoyed the episode of Life that I watched on Discovery in HD. So a quick check of friends blogs revealed that Greg is a deadman. I don't know how much time he has left but I hope someone keeps me posted!

Short post

We had an enjoyable evening with some paraguayan friends. We ate lasagna, drank wine, and laughed. What more do you need?

I'm beat! Part 2

The "fitness" trail at work reopened today. It was closed due to concerns about a washed out area. To celebrate the reopening, I went running on it. Well maybe not running, but at least jogging. This was the second time in as many days that I've been jogging and it beat me yesterday. I thought that if I took it easy I could manage the entire trail. I gave it a good try but it wasn't meant to be. At one point I was "jogging" up a steep hill. I swear that I could have walked three times faster that I was jogging. So then I continued by alternating running and walking. Hopefully the weather will be nice again next week and I can make some progress.

I'm beat!

I went jogging today. I haven't been jogging in a long, long time. It didn't go too well. I'm so tired right now, I just want to go to bed.