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Today was a busy day.

After church, we had my parents and my cousin (Shannon Crowley) over for dinner (about 5pm). It's been a while since we have had Mom and Dad over. Things have been crazy the last week weeks. It was nice to have them come out and visit with them.

After dinner, Sydney raced Grandpa Berger in putting puzzles together. She is a whiz with puzzles and took us all. She was able to beat Grandpa putting puzzles together.

After puzzles, we sat around and played Pass the Pigs. Ryan loves to play this game (and it's fun to watch him, roll the pigs).I had a Priesthood Preview at Church from 7pm till about 7:45pm that I had to run off to, so I left them playing Pass the Pigs.

Everyone was still there when I got back. We visited a little bit, until they had to go.

Roundtable

Tonight was the first time I had attended Rountable in Spanish Fork. Roundtable is a once a month meeting for all Scout leaders to attend to get ideas and training for Scouting.

Since I'm now over the Teachers quorum (Varsity age boys)(I thought I'd better know what I'm doing.

They taught us an easy indoor game that can be played.

1. Use any straight line on the floor.
2. Divide into 2 teams
3. Without crossing the line, attempt to pull each other across the line to the other side.

There were about 30 or so grown men (ages 25-50) playing and it was amazing how fast everyone was having fun and getting into it. Easy to do and very fun.

Back swimming

Last week I was sick all week, so I stopped swimming. I started swimming again today. It was wierd to not swim last week.

As usual, I swam 1 mile (1600 meters). My time today was 29:45. I had to really push my last 2 laps to make it under 30 minutes.

I also started walking on the treadmill at our house. I walked for 5k while watching Lost. Other than having to turn the TV up really loud, it was quite enjoyable to watch TV and exercise at the same time.

Grandma Bowers and Deni

We've been blessed to have Deni's grandma, Clovis Bowers, here for the past few days. I figured I would get a picture with Deni and Grandma Bowers.

Upside down puzzles

I brought Sydney home from church today as she has a runny nose. Her favorite past-time is putting puzzles together. She is very speedy putting puzzles together.

Putting puzzles together with the pictures up (as all normal people do) is getting boring for her. Within the last month or so, she has started flipping the puzzles over and putting them together without any pictures (Shown below)



Sydney finding the right pieces


As you can see (partially) in this picture she did all 12 puzzles this way today.


This was taken today, as well. She looked really cute (minus the marker on her face.)

Released from the Young Men's

Today I was released as the secretary from the Young Men's Presidency at church. I was then immediately put back in the Young Men's presidency as the 1st Counselor. I'm now over the Teachers Quorum (14-16 yr olds). There are only 4 boys in this group, however it's a good group and I'm glad to be working with them.

I'll get to know the Varsity Program (Boy Scouts), which is what the 14-16 yr olds do in the church for weeknight (Wed) activities.

Take 2, Take 3, Take 4

Today I stayed at home and watched the kids while Deni and Grandma Bowers went to a family baptism. Of course, I got called from work and had to juggle kids and getting the customer back up and working. (The customer was large national hardware store and their website was down.)

While I was watching the kids, Ryan did something to Sydney and they both came running to "tell on" each other. The funny thing was I asked Sydney to tell her side of the story. Then I asked her to tell it again, and again and again. Each time her story got shorter and a whole louder. It was funny. Then I had Ryan tell his side, then had Sydney tell hers and then Ryan, etc. The stories change a few times and by the end of it, both kids were laughing and had forgotten that they were coming to tell on each other.

My book arrived: "Adrift: 76 days at Sea"

Got my book from my "1 click Amazon purchase." See Beware: 1-Click buy on Amazon.com on Oct 27, 2006.

So far it looks like a really good book.

Work: Microsoft backs Novell's Linux platform

Never thought I would see this happen in my lifetime, however Microsoft announced that they back Novell's Linux platform.

Novell's stock jumped 20% today on this news. Good for me.

From Businessweek:

NOV. 2 8:32 P.M. ET Microsoft Corp. has embraced Novell Inc.'s open-source software platform, forming a technological truce between two longtime antagonists who want to make it easier for the still-dominant Windows operating system and the increasingly popular Linux system to work together.

Can you hear me know....

I was driving home tonight and Deni and I were discussing what was for dinner. She asked me to make a decision and I pretended that the cell phone was cutting out and that she would need to make the decision. I said a few time, "What, you are cutting out, can you stay that again." Repeating this a few times. I was just teasing her and I thought she could tell, however she was down in the basement, where cell coverage is sometimes spotty and she walked all the way upstairs to see if she could get better coverage.

Teasing or not, she made the decision. ha.