February 8th

Good Morning!

So, last week I turned 41. I expected it to be one of those "nothing" birthdays, since (a) 41 is hardly an interesting benchmark, and (b) the kids have really captured the spotlight around here, as it should be. But Elise had other plans, and set things in motion so that I could have a pretty wonderful birthday, and really, birth-week.

In the past few months since the México trip, I've been doing a few things around here. First, is that I recorded and produced my first full-length record album, Shabbat Rocks -- a Jewish kids' record. It's selling well, has almost paid for itself. Second, I've been teaching myself to code on Android phones (that's Google's phone system.) That one's a lot of fun, but hampered somewhat since I don't have an Android device. Third, I've been building some embedded devices, putting an Arduino microcontroller to work controlling some sophisticated lights. And I've still been doing a little paying work here and there for the Mansell Group, who bought the old Accucast business from PGS.

And spending a lot of time with the kids as they grow up. Meredith is almost at a crawl -- she rolls over and over to cover the distance. Fisher isn't going to crawl before he walks, probably. When he's on his belly, the only trick he knows is to roll over to his back.