Ellis Giles

The PreK picnic was today with Alden.  We had a great time!  The field was too wet to fly kites, but they had a backup plan for activities in the gym.
We ate lunch first.  I brought green beans and chicken nuggets.  Alden sat very patiently with me and ate on a picnic table cloth on [...]

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After finishing cleaning the garage, I got ready to go to grandma’s house.  Alden and Meredith were getting ready with mommy, and she had fixed things for them to eat.  MH had been making cakes for Evan and Allison all day - Evan a key-lime pie and Allison a cheesecake.  MH, Alden, and Meredith had [...]

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We had a nice weekend in Bluebonnet Hills.  It rained quite a bit, which we still need!
It was very relaxing.  I drove in from Houston after work, and made it before the kids went to sleep.  MH had taken the kids to my Mom’s house so MH could work and my mom watch the kids. [...]

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My mom had surgery on Monday and we went up to visit on Saturday since she missed her Friday.  Grand D. was very nice in watching Alden and Meredith an extra day!
We only stopped by the Brenham place to check on things, grab the rockets, etc.  The kids were taking a nap, so it gave [...]

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Alden and I went to see the Harlem Globetrotters and had a great time. We watched the entire game. Alden loved the game and was so happy that “we won!”
He rode on my shoulders when we were looking for our row and loved walking around like that.  When he saw the inside of [...]

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Alden was doing magic this morning and would take a letter and hide it under his kitchen stool. It was time to get dressed. I had a good idea for him as a magician to transform from PJs to being dressed. He was to take brown blanket, say the magic words, disappear [...]

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I told you to tell ‘em that you was in a sanitarium, not vote for Rick Santorum

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I’m going to create a small application to help track a balloon launch and subsequently predict the landing point shortly after burst.
Links to rocket equations:
http://my.execpc.com/~culp/rockets/rckt_eqn.html
Density of Air Calculations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_of_air
Terminal Velocity and Drag:
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/termvr.html
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/flteqs.html

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I had a cloud computing event during the day and headed to Star Pizza with a coworker afterwards and ate too much.  I visited some colleagues from my last job, their business is really taking off.
I got home early.  Grand D. said that Alden had decided to write and then wrote the word ‘Boo’ all [...]

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Alden and Meredith had been to Sunday school and brunch that morning.  Santa Claus was at brunch and they got to have fun and make crafts.  When they got home, I made them brunch and they ate a ton of scrambled eggs and bacon.  Then it was Meredith’s nap time.
Late Sunday afternoon, after Meredith woke [...]

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