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Well, I haven't posted in a week. It's been a busy week. Here are some updates from that last week.

• Picture-A-Day has been discontinued. It's been difficult to find things worth taking a picture of day to day. My daily commute doesn't really provide many opportunities for interesting pictures or provide much of a chance to take these pictures. Also, I've had trouble getting them posted in a timely manner. So, it's done.
• We are looking at refinancing our house. We can roll our ARM mortgage and home equity loan into a new fixed-rate mortgage before our rates can go up again. We will probably even be able to lower our payment.
• This week the P route started and well, people still aren't happy. They don't appear to be getting their fancy over-the-road-coach style bus, just a regular bus. Also, the earliest route has been dropped leaving some without a bus. As for me, my bus has been moved up two minutes in the morning. This makes it easier to catch the E train and make my connections.
• Bonnie is doing well on her classes. She hasn't gotten less than an A on any assignment yet. She is getting pretty good at the Adobe and Macromedia applications she is learning. We went and ordered the full version of the Adobe Web Bundle with most of the applications she's using. She also ordered Lightwave so she can learn to do some 3D work later in the semester.
  
• Victor continues to do well in school. He had a field trip to the Symphony on Tuesday. He enjoyed the music.

That's it for now.

Ok, I know I am off to a slow start. It's the 12th and I haven't posted one picture yet. So here are the first 12.

January 1, 2007 - The Christmas tree is all packed up and all the ornaments, lights and decorations are in their boxes. We have a lot of Christmas decorations.

January 2, 2007 - Going back to work I try to start the day off right with Cheereos for breakfast and a ham sandwich with peppermint stick for lunch.
 

January 3, 2007 -  This is our pathetic cat Skittles begging for attention at the bottom of the stairs. I think he thinks he's a dog.

January 4, 2007 - The Christmas Blizzard snow has melted enough to reveal the B-B-Q. I was able to dig my way out to it and cook some brats later.

January 5, 2007 - We started tearing out the carpet downstairs in the family room. The concrete floor is pretty hard.

January 6, 2007 - This is the living room with no carpet. Bare plywood isn't much of a flooring.

January 7, 2007 - Here's my family at my Birthday dinner at mom and dads. Clockwise from the left we have Joel, Terri, Sarah, Nicholas, PaPa, Bonnie and Grandma.

January 8, 2007 - This is the "After" picture of the family room with our wonderful new berber carpet. It really looks great and it's so comfy on the feet. Bonnie couldn't be happier with the new carpet.

January 9, 2007 - This was my bus stop Tuesday morning. The edge of the glacier there is ABOVE the middle step on the bus that picks me up. I actually have to jump down to the bus from the nearly three foot high crusty snow on the roadside.

January 10, 2007 - The Home Depot, my favorite store after MicroCenter. I had to stop by after work for some caulking and ice melt. I got two 20lb bags of mag-chloride to help reduce the icepack in front of our driveway.

January 11, 2007 - Thursday night before I went to bed the outside temperature was about 15 degrees. We might get that warm again in a few days.

January 12, 2007 - This was a very welcome site as I got off the Light Rail at the Lincoln Station, my 410 bus waiting for me. This meant my time spent out in the cold was limited to the walk from train to bus. I checked the temperature when I got home and it was dead on 0.

Bonnie and I spent about an hour and a half digging out the driveway and getting the car back in the garage.

The first photo is where the car was, the second is where it is now. Yeah!!!!

It only took the two of us, two snow shovels, a trenching shovel and a 2'x3' sheet of plywood. The big problem was getting the driver's side wheel back up on the curb. But, now that we are in, it's good.

Not that this means I have ANY chance of getting out anytime soon. Nope, I still have 2 to 3 feet of snow between the driveway and 18 inch ruts on the road. I really don't see myself getting out until tomorrow.

Of course, while we were doing this Victor was doing what 10-year-olds do in this situation. He was sledding in the deep snow in the front yard and having a great time. He really does love playing in the snow. He doesn't even know he is cold. When he takes his shoes and gloves off you see his socks are soaked and both his hands and feet are pink from the cold. Kids.....