Candles in the Wind

First day back to school and to work for lots of folks. Made it through the holidays.

Rose got a guitar yesterday, she and her friend sing together and she's wanted to learn how to play, her friend plays and now she can learn too. Nice sounding acoustic guitar. I'm glad we could get one for her.

Work starts with a whoosh, we start a meeting at 8 am that runs a good portion of the day, an important kind of meeting reviewing the previous year.

Spending time studying statistics, getting familiar with 'R' (a programming language useful for statistics - 'open source' so it's a free download - but a serious programming language). Natalie starts her January class today, I want to be up to speed and maybe help out during this intensive course she's taking, and it's good motivation to learn something that will probably be helpful.

Cara and I had some huge burritos from Chipotle yesterday. I think you can easily go all day on one of those. Cynthia and Cara spent some of the weekend planning for fixing up her room. Two project managers in action. It's fun to see their excitement.

Peter has had a good time with his dancing robot and sledding on his stomach like a penguin.

Picked up some office supplies including a fancy labeler. Scaled back on the desk plans, using a 2' x 4' folding table that we already have, and shopping for file cabinet. Major accomplishment was getting the basement room rearranged to free up some space.

Lots of tender hearts moving through the wind today.