We’re headed up to Greer for the weekend, to stay in a cabin owned by the Bates family. If you don’t know, Greer is a tiny village in the White Mountains south east of Showlow.
Next week Devon is flying back to Southern California to interview with a Geophysics company. Sounds like it could be an interesting job for a year or so until he is ready to move on to Graduate School, though he plans to apply elsewhere also before making a decision. They sound very interested in him.
We just got back from California where Devon received his BS Degree in Physics from Harvey Mudd College.
In case you’re thinking, “Harvey Mudd College?”, it was rated by US News and World Report in their annual college rating issue as the number one undergraduate science and engineering college in the country.
Devon graduated with “High Distinction”, which is as high as they go.
He’s so glad to be out of the pressure cooker that he plans to take a year off before starting graduate school in Fall 2008. He’s looking for an internship in the mean time.
Congratulations Devon!
Apollo is now just 5 months old, and weighs just 50 pounds.
He goes through 20 pounds of dry and maybe 5 pounds of canned puppy food in about 2 weeks; nearly that much comes out the other end (Derek probably thinks it’s much more).
You are supposed to be able to start them pulling a sled or scooter when they reach 45 pounds, so I think it’s time he got to work. He gets bored pretty easily, which means digging or chewing or howling or whining. We try to take him to the dog park every couple of days, but I don’t think that’s often enough.
This picture doesn’t do him justice — he seems bigger than he looks here! The picture is also a little blurry — I’ll try to get a better one up.
There’s a new version of the Thunderbird email client available here; Version 2.0.0.0.
I’ve just installed it and can’t say how stable it is yet. There are a few new features. For example, you can tag messages with different categories (Important, Later, etc.), there are custom folder display options, saved searches, and viewed message history, along with improved security.
They aren’t making it an automatic upgrade for another week or two, maybe to get a better understanding of stability, but if you want to be an early adopter, now’s the time.
If you do download it, you will find that junk mail options are in different locations now and may have to be reset, though I think it retains your learned statistics. Look under Tools, Options, Privacy, Junk for some options, and Tools, Accounts, Junk for each account for other options.
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