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I got more sleep on the BiPap the lasst 2 nights. How do you ask? I was just about to tell you...

On Saturday night I switched the nasal pillow from the small size to the medium size. This seemed to help some. (I don't know if it just lets mor air in or is more comfortable, but I'm not asking, either. Saturday night I used thee machine for about 5 hours.

On Sunday, I decided that the mustache was causing problems and shaved it off. Sunday night I was able to use the machine for the whole night, and last night was the same.

Tara seems pretty happy overall that the mustache is gone. I guess I am too, if it helps me to sleep better. I actually don't feel tired today.

Road Trip(s) 2006

Jonathan called me a little bit ago. Turns out he is moving to South Dakota in July. We'll have to get over to Omaha one more time before he goes. In the Spring, Nebraska gets tons and tons of migrating birds. The girls really liked seeing that last time, even if it took us 3 hours to figure out what those things in the sky were.

I was thinking a couple of days ago that maybe we (our family) could do a number of small road trips this next year. We picked up a "Blue Goose Passport" book in Florida. It lists all the National Wildlife refuges. All the Visitors centers have unique stamps, and they stamp your book when you visit. They are all over, and we could get quite a few stamps with little road trips.

Anyway, Jonathan and I talked about setting a place and date for us all to get together. Russ, Rob, Scott, what do you think? We have to plan around school. (Except I do have some travel voucher money I have to use this year, but it would be just me and maybe one of the girls...) We would prefer to drive somewhere, so if the place is NYC, we need to plan now.

What do you think? I think we should go somewhere where there's something to do. (At least so the wives and kids don't get bored...) Do we also talk about just the 5 of us getting together somewhere? (Or the 10 of us, and we leave all kids at home. Harder maybe for Scott and Monika.)

Anyway, if someone has strong feelings about it, speak up. We should definitely start planning something now.

Just to get an idea out there, what about one of the SeaWorlds? Our girls love that place, we could definitely sit and talk, etc. Or if we're cheap, what about Russ's place? Do you have enough room for everyone Russ? Are there good hotels near you?

Comments?

Merry Christmas to all!

Well, I think it's finally here, for better or for worse. We have a lot of things for the girls to open. I hope they don't get too crazy. I wanted to get them some comic books, but it looks liek they are remodeling the comic book store.

Kate: Justice League Unlimited
Mary: Scooby Doo Adventures
Emma: Donald Duck

Any way, they will have to settle for what they have, it should keep them busy. Santa is bringing them the Narnia audiobooks on CD, and some Little Caesar's gift certificates. Hopefully they enjoy those.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with Monday. There is no work, I took yesterday off, and I am getting a little bored. Maybe something will come up tomorrow.

Anyway, if there are any of you out there reading this, Merry Christmas to you.

Sleep, more sleep

I put 5.5 hours on the machine last night, I thought that was pretty good. I fell asleep at my desk yesterday afternoon, and got sent home. (at 4, I was back in at 9...) So I slept in this morning.

I meant to send out more Christmas cards than I have already, but I got side tracked a couple of times. I

m not sure if it's happening at this point. We only sent out 20 this year.

Need to generate some interest in this blog

So I need to start some interest in the blog. Maybe it would help if I would update it more often. Maybe it would help if I actually posted something interesting.

We rented 'Revenge of the Sith' tonight. It was by far the best of the '1st 3'. (It probibly still doesn't touch "Empire Strikes back"). I know probibly is spelled probably, but it bugs enough people that I keep doing it. It's like when I go to Buger King, and order the Whopper and tell them to hold the mustard. I know there is no mustard on the Whopper, but it's fun to see their (over)reaction when I do it.

Anyhow, we started using one of those $1 for 1 night rental units. (Not RedBox, no need to get McDonalds excited...) Overall, we think it's a great deal.

New Range!

Went and picked up the new oven this afternoon. Got an assist from Drew. The girls had biscuits for dinner. Many more foods to be cooked. If anyone's in the market for a range where you can only use 3 elements, and the oven does not regulate it's temperature, let me know.

On the way to the store, we stopped at Tom's to see what was happening. I did the old "Knock on the door as I turn the knob to open it" thing. They seemed to be pretty much just watching the movie....

Rob roller bladed to work during the NYC transit strike. Wouldn't you think that's a bloggin moment?

Bi-Pap machine

I have used the bi-pap machine for 15 days now, and have only logged 50 hours on it. Nearly every night, I wake up at some point, and take the mask off and turn the machine off. Some nights I it doesn't even register. I find out about it in the morning.

I'm giving it 2 more weeks, if I am still not using it all night, I plan to go back to the doctor to talk about it. (I wonder if it's not set high enough and I'm still waking up at night.)

My current theory is that I still have apnea events, and the machine tries to compinsate, which ticks me off and I take it off. It's just an idea...

Was everyone Christmas shopping?

I went to Home Depot and Lowe's today. It took like 3 times as long because of all the traffic on the road. Both malls had full parking lots. I didn't even find the thing I was looking for. I think all of Utah county was out shopping today.

Anyway, I thought I was done Christmas shopping until Amy called and reminded me that Darren wanted me to get Tommy's Christmas present for him. (I'd say what he's getting, but there's an outside chance he could read this...)

Blistex

Chapped lips? Try Blistex Lip Medex. It's great for when you wake up early on Saturday morning, rush out of the house to work, and when you get there, your lips are bleeding from being cracked and windwhipped.

End of blatent advertisement.

"I'm blogging this"

My wife is currently making fun of me. She doesn't like the title of this blog. For some reason, she doesn't think the first thing people see should be something that makes me look abrasive. (Let them get to know me a little first.)

Tough words from someone who is trying to share my ice cream sundae...

I have to get back to work.

So this off-campus housing thing hass been on, then off, then on , then off, and now on again. Hopefully they actually made a decision now...

"Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script"

A few of the on-call engineers tend to call me a lot. It might be that they just are the unlucky ones to be oncall when the problems occur. Anyway, last Saturday, I got called, then called again for something else. That something else was a fairly large failure on the On-Campus housing app.

We have been working all week since to build a new solution for this Saturday, when they open the app up again. I think we have it ready now, but we are having a hard time convincing the on-campus housing people. Oh well, I guess we need to have users around...

It's cold here. I'd say very cold, but it's not very cold, single digits at night, not above freezing...