PING

Just a quick note to let readers know that we are all healthy and fine. Just busy.

Bought a new car yesterday, had a good chunk of the yard ripped up for "landscaping", Sammy had another internal infection around his ear and we spent 3 days at Children's Hospital (he is finishing a 21 day oral antibiotic course), Henry had his 3rd birthday, Ellie's birthday, Joni's birthday, Stephen's birthday, Nicole's birthday, Jake's birthday, 2 out of 6 people are leaving from my dept at work (3 birthdays too), Henry is signed up to start pre-school in the Fall and summer school next month (I took him to the orientation day this week).

Been enjoying the return of warm weather to New England as much as possible. Been geocaching at least once a week. Took a map and compass course at REI a couple weeks ago and have become quite proficient at orienteering and working with topographic maps.

A lot of the old photos on the blog will be missing for a while. I hosted most of them on the Town's website and we rolled out a new site last week. I'll get around to it.

Look for the May photos soon on Flickr including Henry's birthday photos and Sam's hospital stay.

BTW, "PING" is a computer network protocol that is used to identify the presence or absence of a computer on a network. You PING it and it will respond if the computer is live. Computer geek trivia often has the question "What does PING stand for?" The answer: Packet INternet Groper.

PING - I'm still alive.