Rough week

I lost two friends and colleagues this week. Bettye lost her fight
with cancer after a long and difficult time. Her memorial service was
yesterday. Her husband, and her children spoke about her life
beautifully. She was survived by six of her siblings, three kids, and
a dozen grandkids.

Jennifer was only 40 and believed to be healthy. She died very
suddenly while helping her husband get the kids ready for school on
Friday. We've only worked together for a year but she was my partner
in the training that we've been doing. She'd become a close friend and
a source of support for me.

Right now I'm taking the boys trick or treating but I keep thinking
about her kids. Then I start crying again. Luckily the boys are too
focused on the guy with the King sized Snickers bars to notice.

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Sunil as King Midas, Rhett as a Ninja

A throw back to last year's halloween costume

Collectively we were the Fruit of the Loom guys.  I’m the lesser known grape bunch with leaves on my head.

 

Sunil - Fall 2010

We didn’t fill out an order form for Sunil’s pictures so all I have to work with is his ID card photo.  It’s pretty grainy but the kid is still cute.

Sheela - Fall 2010

 

Sunil with his power scooter

It's a Quigley's Clayhouse day

View from Angelina's patio

It's just a casual lunch spot but the weather is perfect today.

Sunil in the shark tunnel

Wonderful day

Jazmine, Farhana, Sheela, Sunil and Sid

Three-toed Sloth

Halloween Ready already

Open House

We had 800 friends and family come tour the new facility this morning.
It was very low key: self-guided tours, some PR videos, a few surgical
trays out to let the kids and adults see the tools and lunch by The
Hamburger Man. Perfect.

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Bio-skills Lab Open House

Cozy Thai's Chicken Satay

One of my favorite lunches near the new office.

1st day of 4th grade

Sheela making meat muffins

That's right folks meatloaf gone wild.

Shrimp boil Saturday

Sid, Mike and Sunil are boiling up shrimp, corn and potatos with Cajun
spices. Yummy!

The Massive Clean Up Begins

Sid has finally reached the “living in squalor” breaking point.  Every room in our home has become a holding area for crap with no purpose.  To save his sanity we allowed him to brow beat us in to de-cluttering a few rooms at a time.  This weekend we started with the dining room and the living room.  These are the first two rooms you see when entering the house from the front.  We spent approximately half an hour pulling everything that didn’t belong in either of these rooms in to a pile in the foyer and then spent another hour and a half either finding it a home or throwing it away.  Those rooms feel so much better it is actually motivating me to tackle the next room or two.

 

At the same time we are doing this we have two dishwashers sitting out in the middle of the kitchen floor.  The old one has been recalled by Maytag as a potential fire hazard and the second is it’s replacement.  We had so much going on this weekend we only got them halfway switched out Friday night and they both sat there until Sunday night.  The new one has been installed and the old one removed to the computer room to await the service repairman to replace the defective components so that we can resell it.  It’ll take them two weeks to come out from the time we first were notified that there was an issue.