oH, iH,
Greets from Z and B for the Eastern Winter clan. Nick would say hi also,
but he and Laurie are on a college scouting adventure this weekend. They
left Friday after school and staid in Madison Wisconsin last night. After
wondering the campus this morning, they were off to University of Illinois
in Chicago.
Nick has very little opinion yet on where he will want to go or what to
study. He found out last week he is a National Merit Semi-Finalist. About
16k students across the country get named (10 in Nick's class of 350).
About 90% of the Semifinalist get to be Finalist (probably throw out the
murders and virus hackers), and about 1/2 of those actually get money,
depending on other stuff including like other activities, what school they
choose, and who their parents work for. IBM does not sponsor these
scholarships (they have their own Watson Scholarships), so likely Nick will
just get the fame, not the fortune.
Zack is busy working on some more car audio installs this weekend. They
guys at the local pawn shop have discovered his talents, so they have
started re-directing people who buy car audio stuff form them over to Zack
to install. So we are meeting all kinds of colorful characters in our
garage.
Speaking of garage, we installed garage and driveway net cams. You view
them from the 'Security Cameras' button here:
http://misterhouse.net:8080
Currently the username and password are both aaaa .
Zack got these a pair of keyed hood pins free from a buddy and wanted in the
worst way to install them in the white car.
Z: With hood pins you can open the hood from outside the car!
Dad: Seems inconvenient.
Z: They have a key, so no one can steal your Engine!
Dad: Seems silly.
Z: They would look cool!
Dad: Seems dorky.
And on it goes for several days. Then I propose a compromise where we take
off the massive banner on the front window, so we can once again see stop
lights, then he can put the pins in. The banner was off in a second, and
the pins were in several hours later. Unfortunately Zack now also thinks
the pins are inconvenient, silly, and dorky, but at least we can see out our
windshield ;)
Love Bruce
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