December, as usual, is turning into a busy time. Since last posting I have had an all-day pediatrics class, complete with a video on "high tech kids" documenting three toddlers and the various high-tech health gadgets installed at their home. These children are most accurately described as cyborgs; many depend on technology for breathing, eating, and sometime even simple movement. With all the high tech gizmos these children can live at home, with their parents and other siblings.
Also had dinner at our place with friends Nick and Melody. Nick is a co-worker of Rick's, and also plays an online shooting game with Rick. For the first-person-shooter they use microphones to communicate with each other , and also to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are super-nerds. Both men left their microphones and software on for a week without playing. During this week Nick's girlfriend was convinced that their neighbors had adopted a new, very noisy dog. The dog kept barking beyond the wall where their computer desk was located. But low and behold, their neighbors had not gotten a pet, Nick and Melody were forced to listen to our dog, barking loud and long over our microphone. Those of you who have met Osa will know that it is a miracle that Nick and Melody still want to be our friends...hmm, they might have just come over to eat dinner and watch the Oklahoma/Mizou game on our HDtv...
Rick's mum is also in town, last night we attended the Colonial Williamsburg Grand Illumination event that kicks-off the CW holiday festivities. The Grand Illumination is an enormous fireworks display done in three locations around the park: the Governor's Palace, the Magazine, and the Capitol Building. The fireworks were awesome. Better even than Avon, CO, which was my previous winner of best fireworks display.
Work is also ramping-up like crazy, and all I want to do is sleep til noon.
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