- Cool GDB STL macros (via @gharker): http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/src/dbinit_stl_views-1.03.txt #
- Glad to have the girls back. Now to prep for UBC! #
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March 31, 2010
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Flight
Travel days are always long. That’s a given. Heidi and Keegan accompanied us to the airport. Dane County airport is small and cozy.
The girls had a blast running up and down the ramp before the flight. They even recruited other kids. Luckily, the airport wasn’t busy so they didn’t bother anyone.
My biggest worry was the girls would get Keegan’s germs. Both were tired off the plane at O’Hare. I bypassed Chili’s Too after our mediocre lunch experience. I went to Wolfgang Puck, a restaurant not designed for kids, but designed for good food. Both kids started complaining about stomach aches. I imagines vomit all over this fancy airport restaurant with adults sipping wine and sampling salmon. Laura was just hungry and I think Sara wanted the attention. It all turned good. They had awesome fries and the best cheese pizza. It was expensive, but worthwhile. Sara liked the lack of tomato sauce on the pizza.
We found an empty area of carpet next to our gate and the kids played like gangbusters while I relaxed.
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March 30, 2010
Wayne’s twitter updates for 2010-03-30
- the free @digg app's here for iphone! they're giving out a custom colorware ipad everyday for 2 weeks to celebrate! http://bit.ly/diggapp #
- Had fun shooting cheap mirror balls and Nuke'ing out HRD latlong maps of Pixar's Seattle office with charvery today. #
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Wonder
The last day. Kailey and Davy had a list. We didn’t do any if the things on it. It was a still a day filled with God’s wonder.
It started with Keegan throwing up (not a wonderous event) and Heidi being up half the night. I canceled my date with Dixie. A reunion delayed.
The girls continued to work their way through Zoboomafoos.
A walk with a red wagon and a cat tail that turned the whole apparatus into a horse drawn carriage.
Wind whipping our hair.
Fresh popcorn.
Sunset walk with me and Heidi without kids.
Playing ticket to ride.
Fresh, squeaky Wisconsin cheese curds.
Davy reading his favorite children’s books to the girls before bed.
Singing duet praise songs with Davy to serenade Kendra to sleep.
A lovely nap of all the kids in the house to let tired Heidi sleep.
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March 29, 2010
Wayne’s twitter updates for 2010-03-29
- The free @digg app is here for iPhone! They're giving out 1 custom iPad everyday for 2 weeks to celebrate! http://bit.ly/diggapp #
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Leia language
“What does that meow mean?”
“Space” (ie the cat Leia wants space) replies Laura.
“So what does her hiss mean?”
“Space” according to Laura.
So it’s day 3 and Leia, the cat, still hisses. But that does not diminish her popularity. On our do nothing day, the house was more relaxed as half the house went to school and work. Keegan had playmates more focused in him. Leia continues to be popular. Laura now claims to speaks cat after a few lessons from Keegan. They all made Leia a cat house with a feather at the entrance.
I gave the girls an overdue bath.
A trip to a grocery store became an exercise in acquiring dinosaurs. Laura has an orange dinosaur named Lily.
I shot some baskets with Kendra.
We ate at Culvers. The kids hugged the Culvers’ mascot Scoopie. I sampled high School musical after the kids went to bed just to see what all the fuss is about. Not bad.
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March 28, 2010
Wayne’s twitter updates for 2010-03-28
- The free @digg app is here for iPhone! To celebrate they're giving out 1 custom iPad everyday for 2 weeks! http://bit.ly/diggapp #
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Farm
We had to get to church and I made us late. Laura decided she needed to draw. She did not want to put on her shoes.
Black Hawk is a mega. It’s also a buffet. You can pick your worship style, get live performers, and a pastor on video screen. The sermon was the reenactment of the sedder supper (with Jesus’ personal touches). Sara was enchanted with her devotional eggs that we have to do this week.
Lunch was Unos pizza for ol times sake. Kids wriggly.
The Farm. 88 acres. One cat. Many, many vegetables. Gayle and Roger are living the country life. They have their dream house, almost totally run by solar power. They run a CSA. Gayle can walk to Land’s End to work. For fun, they haul gallons of maple sap for days at a time to make maple syrup.
The kids were fascinated with birds woodpecker, bluebirds, cardinals, golden finches. Tractor rides took the first hour. We went for a walk thru the woods. We saw the new outhouse or camping.
Dinner was homemade bread with wildberry jam from their property.
Drive home was punctuated with some quiet conversation with Heidi and a lively sunset.
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March 27, 2010
Wayne’s twitter updates for 2010-03-27
- the free @digg app is here for iphone! to celebrate they're giving out 1 custom colorware ipad each day for 2 weeks! http://bit.ly/diggapp #
- A full 750ml of Maudite and a marathon session of "Borderlands". Can't think of a better way to celebrate bachelorhood tonight. #
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Sleep
Sleep is amazingly restorative. A day of stressful travel erased. A new home and family seems like your home and family.
The kids got to explore a house full of new toys. They bonded with the K’s. Sara declared Kailey her best friend and proceeded to forget her name several times throughout the day.
I got hissed at by the resident cat Leia for occupying the chair she bird watches from. The kids don’t try to pet her, but she responds well to string. They’ve had a blast playing with the fishing pole like cat toy where they stand 2 feet away.
We all loaded up after lunch and headed to campus. It has changed, but not too much. The most dramatic news is that Liz Waters, the virgin vault, is now coed. The biochem building is completely gutted. Construction continues to reign. There was no advertised Sunday of the Month at Babcock hall. It was Spring break so campus was deserted and parking spots were easy.
Between a pregnant woman, Dave’s torn mcl on crutches, my recent arthritic flare, and slow kid legs, we did not venture far from the car.
We did get to walk lakeside and the kids had a blast playing with ice at the boat dock. Sara got to see the lake partially frozen.
Dinner was a compromise between competing interests. Spaghetti with meat sauce. The orders: no sauce, no noodles, no anything, noodles only, etc. 5 kids and 4 adults are a challenge to feed.
Luckily ice cream at Babcock is still a hit and kids are still kids.
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