Pics from the first photo safari

When I first brought the camera home we went crusing around the neighborhood getting a feel for it. This was back when the sun would shine even on a weekend. Ah, the good ol' days.


Sunil immediately took possession of my old camera. Unfortunately even though it always says it's charging it never gets a full charge. I'll have to buy him a new battery.

Fort Worth Zoo Pics

This was my favorite shot of the day. I love the lions and am thrilled that Dallas will soon host a whole pride.



This was Sheela's best lion shot.



The rest of these are all Sheela's pictures - at least I'm pretty sure. She rarely let me have my camera back.



I love the expression on this guy.


It was a pretty quiet day at the zoo with rain keeping the crowds down but the new "Museum of Living Art" was packed. This is essentially the reptile house and it is gorgeous.


The coyotes and the ocelots are neighbors in the Wilds of Texas. You can't tell by looking at Mr. Relaxed here but there is apparently some tension between the two groups. If either moved fast the others would startle and run, which would make the first one startle and run.

Landscaping in Lewisville

Sheela and Hunter came with me to check out the landscaping progress at our new building.



They are standing close to "my" window.



This is the formal entrance.



This is the training suite.



This let's you see how big it really is... 150K sqft.



The sign facing the road.



The visitor's parking by the front entrance.


This is the view from the street as you first turn in. My cubical space will be on the first floor at the edge of the picture on the left.

Yucca

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After the rain

Darn the rain

Sheela, Hunter and I are at the Fort Worth Zoo today in the rain. 
There really aren't many animals out but it is still beautiful. It 
could be worse; Sid and Sunil are camping and canoeing.

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New courthouse

First time Ive been here-it's pretty

Spring Photos are here

AME Reunion

It was a pretty good group that showed up to celebrate their memories of American Medical Electronics coming from as far away as Africa.  The founder of the company now runs a missionary school in Ghana.  That’s him in the center of the picture next to me.  I’d never met him before but he was quite charming.  We also toasted the memories of the friends we’ve lost through the years and there were more of those than I liked including my former boss, Dr. Nama Doddi.  We drank a little, talked a lot, ate some barbeque, went for a hayride and fed the animals: Long horns, goats and sheep.  A very nice time indeed.

Texas country

I'm off to Celina, TX to a reunion for the company that hired me when I first moved to TX 15 years ago.  I still think I work there but really they were purchased and bunch of folks have gone on.

iPhone count down

My iPhone is due to be delivered on Monday - I'm pretty excited.

Progress

It's not carpet but at least the warehouse racking is looking good.

FYI

We still don’t have carpet in the new building.

Lunch

This is my "typical" Texas lunch - half a pound of chopped BBQ beef on a loaded baked potato.  This could feed me for three meals easily.

Eye Exam

Sheela went in for an eye exam today.  It's time for some new lenses and new frames.  The prescription changed and the frames broke. 

Now it's personal

The rain is starting to threat my move schedule.  If the rain doesn't stop the slab won't dry.  If the slab doesn't dry the carpet won't adhere.  If the carpet won't adhere the installers won't install it.  If the carpet isn't installed the city won't award the certificate of occupancy.  Without a CO we can't move in.

The carpet is almost three weeks behind now.  I have a two week window left to get it in before we have to move our date.

Spring

The last day of Winter was a beautiful 75 degrees; the first day of Spring was a miserable 35 degrees capped off with about six inches of snow.  Our weather has been whacked all year.  This makes our fourth real snow of the year.  Sheela was supposed to work a double shift at the zoo today but when she called to say she’d be late because the roads were bad and they were switching to the train they told her to stay home.  None of the animals will be out, there will be no visitors and the full time staff can handle the chores.  So she has a bonus day.

38 Days

We have only 38 working days left until THE move.  I am no where near ready and I don’t believe anyone else is either.  I can’t get myself ready because I’m still focused on other projects that didn’t get accomplished on time.  I’m officially working nights and weekends now playing catch up.  I’ve actually never been happier.  We will get this done and it all will get done on time.

 

Plans

I planned to de-gunk Sheela's room but it was much too pretty today.  We planted flowers, trimmed hedges, adjusted the spa chemistry and igured that was good enough.

We could plan on de-gunking tomorrow but it is supposed to be even prettier.  We may go to the driving range or the park instead.  We may just kill a whole day at the zoo.

15 years

Next week marks my 15^th anniversary at work.  In honor of this celebration I’ve chosen a gift.  Sid lobbied hard for a Coleman “Roadtrip” grill, while both kids wanted either the Hatteras hammock or the Daiwa Fly Fishing Pack but I held tough and got to make my own choice.  I’ll be receiving a Fuji “Finepix” digital camera with 12 MP, 18X optical zoom, 3” LCD screen, face detection technology and image stabilization – not to mention a luggage tag engraved with my name.  It will be 2-4 weeks before it arrives and then another week or two for me to plan my own award lunch.  In the meantime Sunil has already taken possession of my other camera.

 

Live Strong

I’m messing around with a Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong.com website to track my daily food consumption, weight, mood and exercise.  It has a 45 day free trial and I’m on approximately day five.  I mostly checked it out to find out how many calories are really in the sandwiches that they bring in for lunch here 2-4 times each week.  The busier we get at work the more likely they are to bribe us with food to keep us close which is not unappreciated by any means but the same old thing over and over again gets old not to mention we all just keep getting fatter.  SO I find that my favorite of the lunch sandwiches (Panera’s Roast Beef with Asiago Cheese) runs 710 calories and is half enough food to fill me up – sometimes I eat two, sometimes I eat a cup of the Broccoli Cheese soup (230 calories) and sometimes I go straight to the dessert platter (too many fabulous options to choose just one). 

 

I am rapidly becoming addicted to the site.  So far I haven’t changed many of habits (except for that second sandwich thing) but I’m getting a feel for what I need to change and what my better options could be.  Today I started to play around with the exercise “loops”.  I put in the route Sheela and I take on our evening walks and it calculated the distance and the elevation changes (this is Texas – I didn’t know we had elevation changes).  It’s fun.