KattyWilly

Happy New Year

And speaking of busy schedules it is exam week for the girls.  The studying this past week has been going on at an outrageous pace.  So far it has paid off with an A on Chelsey’s Biology exam.  I think tomorrow is the last day of testing for the girls and I can finally start to relax and enjoy the holidays.

Studying Trees

It is the holiday season and that means a holiday skating show.  We didn’t skate in the show this year as the practice dates were too much for our already busy schedule.

Holiday Photos

At my new job I get to experience a couple of relaxing morning events.

A cuppa joe. They have a Starbucks single serve coffee machine in the lunchroom. It usually works and produces an acceptable (at least for me) cup of coffee. Some days the small coffee selection somehow spits out a medium amount of beverage and I get to spend some quality time cleaning up the mess. But for the most part it is a nice simple task to start out the day.

Sunrise. After the first cup is made I stroll over to my desk and take the first look to the east from the top floor window. So far most every morning I get in before the sun comes up. Except for the foggy days like Friday I get to see the sun slowly peek it’s head over the horizon and then seemingly leap up into the sky to start the day.

And then there are the trains. Downtown Clearwater has a train track that runs down the middle of East Ave. which is a half a block due east from my seat on the 12th floor. Just about every day a couple of locomotives makes the trip from somewhere south of here up to somewhere north of here and collects some freight cars. Freight cars that generally contain what looks like sand. So after making the first cup of coffee, and watching the sun rise I listen for the plaintive sounds of train horns.

From Sunrise

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Photos from yesterday’s event.

Next Big Thing 6

I survived!

12 hours of New Rock!

Wish me luck.  I’m off to 97x The Next Big Thing.

Google does recipes!  I was searching for a Broccoli recipe and found this new feature, at least to me, that allows selecting a cuisine and main ingredient.

As best I can tell you just need to include the word Recipe in the search.

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Google Recipies

Yesterday we took a little road trip to the University of Central Florida campus for a concert at the UCF Arena.  We wne tover to see Death Cab for Cutie.  It was a great show.  Click the image to see some photos,

Death Cab For Cutie

While we were there we took a quick little walking tour around the campus and visited the Student Union.  The place was pretty empty on a Sunday afternoon, but it was interesting to see how much the place is growing.  There was construction all over the place.