Books, Cats and Computers

Our day started out with a trip to the vet for our cat Miss Haru. She's driving us all crazy because over the past two months she has developed a nasty little habit. We have tried everything recommended to us but nothing has relieved the problem. So today we took her into the vet to have some tests run. Miss Haru ended up staying for the day and Bug ended up with a nice weekly volunteer position at the office. We'll have our results tomorrow and hopefully it will not lead to treating my cat like a princess.

Next on our list was our weekly library visit. I think the library ladies see us coming and try to hide. We check out such a huge amount of stuff, all of which has to be checked out by the librarian, that I see them cringe a little. But today was special. For the first time Monkey checked out five books to read by himself. He's already read them all except one. This afternoon he started looking through our bookshelves for more books he could read. Finally all those dusty books are going to get their day in the sun again!

Frodo spent his day setting up a web server and playing around with Linux. He was in heaven. We also decided to enroll him in a programming class at the local community college in the fall. He has been able to master anything computer related we put in front of him pretty quickly. I found my self laughing inside when he found the programming errors in the Lego Mindstorms project book I got him a few months ago. Speaking of Lego, we decided to start a First Lego League team. He is giddy about it. Now I just have to do a few things to get it up and running. But it will be great!