Everything is fine. Busy but fine. It seems like every night has some activity or obligation that has to be take care of. Ben has scouts every Tuesday. Gabe has scouts every-other-Wednesday. There have been candy-related obligations and cookie-related obligations. Tonight I have a scout committee meeting to go to. Last night I got a chance to install a new video card in my computer, which I finally got our of storage.

We’re going to fix up the basement sometime soon and I’ll have to get a new desk for that room, but I didn’t want to give up my computer for that whole time so I got a KVM switch from Microcenter in Cambridge. Its a gizmo that allows me to share the keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) of one of the kids’ computers. So I last night I spent the evening installing operating system updates, virus scan updates and World of Warcraft updates. I also had a chance to run some demonstrations of the new board’s abilities and I’m really excited about it.

Its an excellent board. its a geForce 7800GS OC - My old computer was getting a little long in the tooth to run the games I wanted to play so I was faced with either upgrading the computer or putting a hotshit video card in. I wasn’t prepared to pay all the money that would be necessary to get the computer I want so I went with the new card instead. I have to try downloading some demos of the newest and most exciting games and see how they do.

I don’t think we have anything going on Friday, but on Saturday Grace is having a birthday party at an indoor playground and is having a bunch of guests. Friends of ours from Maine are coming down and local friends are coming too. it should be a lot of fun.

Ben won’t be there because he has a five mile hike followed by a camping trip. They’ll be hiking from a local church parking lot to a boyscout camp that’s about five miles from here. The weather forecast is calling for a high of about 50 and low’s around 38. That should be fine for him. He’s camped in colder conditions.

After the party I will swing by and make sure his tent is set up and drop off his camping gear. I remember doing some of the same things when I was his age and its a great time to be a scout. It was very exciting going off and doing these things without your parents.

So, there’s lots of things going on - its busy but we’re getting things done.

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