The latest. Again?

Maybe I should just say that every new post made here to the blog is the latest. I mean that's the point, right?

So what's going on in our world? The weather has been fickle. We had a foot of snow a week ago, had a couple of days in the 60s which melted the snow within a couple of days, and now it's 17 degrees with wind chills hitting right at 2 F. No wonder we all seem to be fighting a cold most of the time.

I made a stop in the hobby shop a couple of weeks ago, looking for something to help Sam with a school project. She was drooling over an F-22 model airplane kit, something I didn't want to start her out with. She found a Corsair on the discount rack, and Jason picked up an F-16 kit as well. I told them I'd buy supplies, kits were up to them. I think I came out behind on that deal. Anyway, Sam has made some decent progress on hers, and is picking things up pretty well. Jason's progress is slower, but he's been a little more pinned down with homework and his is in 1/48 scale compared to her 1/72 scale so he has more detail to deal with. Their individual personalities are coming out in this work though, and it's interesting to watch. I'm trying to be as "hands-off" as possible while still helping, and I have something on the way for me to work on which will help in that regard.

Jason's science project made it to the science fair, and he earned a "B" on it. I think it's a fair grade. In other news, we discovered that he was the only one from his school that auditioned for the Virginia Honors Choir to be selected. That makes the accomplishment just a little sweeter, although he'd like to see more from his school there. Districts got canceled due to the snow, which didn't start falling with any authority until after the concert would have been over with. Then again, they canceled school last Monday for no apparent reason. It's gotten a little ridiculous with snow and school closings around here. Anyway, Jason is also applying to the IT program at Battlefield High School. I hope he's selected, I think he's shine a little more than he has in his current program.

Sam is really starting to dislike her Sax. I think she plays well, but she's finding it hard to get the practice time in and she's getting tired of lugging it around. Of course she has a science project coming up soon so we have to get to work on that. We've got her idea (more later) and the experiment itself shouldn't be too time consuming. She's digging the model building stuff and dumper $35 of her allowance savings into an F-22 kit.

Both kids are going on a ski trip next weekend with the church youth group. Jason's going snow-boarding, Sam is opting for tubing, which is cheaper. We told them we'd pay half, whatever they chose, and that they had to pay the other half, giving up half their allowance until it was paid. Sam's trip is considerably cheaper. They've been good with youth group, they had a Super bowl party and seem to be enjoying the activities. They've also been good with their volunteer work at SMH (see previous entry from Nov. 20) and have been helping a lady a couple of doors down with walking her dog. The dog walk thing has been mostly Jason's doing, and she's really appreciated it.

Terri continues to work long hours. We work with it, but it makes it hard to get anything else in during the week. This past week she's been working hard making blocks for MCC, looking forward to a "sew-in" that went off today. I believe they finished 5 quilts and got over 200 blocks signed. We've got a work related banquet this upcoming Friday, and she wants to have some blocks to sign there, meaning it's going to be a long week cause the 50+ she had this morning all got signed!

I had a couple of rough days, found a script on 3 out of 4 of my web sites that was designed to cause users to be vulnerable to the recent Windows WMF vulnerability. It's been fun trying to get my web host to understand that they have a problem on their server machines rather than just trying to just fix my problem. I'm working on a couple of patterns to go with my upcoming article, which is supposed to be released in late June. Then there's the whole model thing. I stayed out of it for a long, long time, but it's coming back and rekindling my interest in military aircraft. This could be a bad thing, but I'll keep it a hobby. It's the one hobby I think I've had that I never tried to make money doing.

More later!