To do this weekened:

• Pay bills
• Clean up nursery
• Mount box for outlet in nursery
  
• Mow lawn

It's not much, but we have things going on both Saturday and Sunday that will limit my free time.

We now have a new floor in the bathroom, and it looks great! Thank you, Dad, for the hard work to make it happen. 

Also, I have a new ring-tone.  I ripped the drum-line sequence from Veggie-Tales: Gideon- Tuba Warrior.

Finally, I have a new (used) video card coming.  ATi Radeon HD 2650 Pro 512MB, with a big heat-sink instead of a fan, so it should run very quiet.  One day when it's no longer sufficient for gaming this will make a great card for a Home Theater PC.

Here are a couple pictures I took with my phone this week:

I had to zoom in close to get a good shot for the first one, so it's not very big:

Melody's Dress Rehearsal

Since starting at SVA they added a Programming Manager.  Essentially, they added a layer of management and my boss is now my boss's boss.  This is actually a good thing, as my original boss was overworked, and wasn't able to manage us properly.  On the one hand it was nice because we had a relatively open schedule, but on the other hand the programming environment was suffering.  Things like our clout with the IT department and the state of our workstations weren't they would be with a more focused manager, so in spite of the extra layer I really think we're better off now. 

I bring this up because over the weekend my original boss' wife had a baby girl.  Also, another member of the system's team is due any time in the next couple of weeks.  So with both of them gone for a little and the team playing short-handed it could be a fun few weeks.

It's normally my job to put Alice to bed, and we have a pretty good routine set up.  Alice gets in bed and I read her a poem from "A Light in the Attic", then sing "Jesus Loves Me" and "Night Night, Alice."  Finally, I sing "God is Listening" before saying a good night prayer.  It's almost always the same prayer, though I will occasionally add something.

Last night after finishing "God is Listening" I paused for a moment to take a breath, and Alice took over.  She's said the prayer with me on occasion, but this time she went solo.  Not only that, but she didn't stick to the script: she was actually praying.  She took nearly a full minute, and was talking in her pseudo-gibberish that's hard to make out.  I caught snippets of "thank you for" and other references to things that she did that day.  She was talking to God, and that's as good a prayer and as a father can hope for.