We just finished a great dinner with friend Elizabeth and her kids Burke and Izzy.. It was fun having them over….

As you probably know, I’ve been working on a paper about getting kids more interested in engineering and science.  It’s a topic that’s near and dear to me..so I enjoy the material..  but a paper is a paper and I just hate writing..  we’ll.. it’s not that I hate it so much.. it’s that it’s difficult for me. As you may have noticed.. spelling and grammar are not my strengths. Anyway,  I finished the first draft about a month ago.. now the final draft is due Friday. I’ve gotten feedback from about 10 folks . I stayed up most of Monday night worked all  those comments back in.. It’s fun but hard to try and make sense of people’s comments.  

Yesterday I gave the ‘finished’ copy to good friend Kathy who works as a professional proof reader and editor.  TonightI went up to Kathy’s and she walked me through all the punctuation and wording bugs that were left.. and there were a TON of them..My 19 pages now all look like this

And this ….

And this ….

It’s abotu 11 PM now.. and I’m just sitting down to work in all those corrections.. It’s goign to be a long and boring night.. I’d best get to it..

Lou and Kathy have a picture of the bicentenial photo the town took at the round church.. I always stare at it as I go in their house… 1994.. wow…

And here we are.. Diane with Sam and me with Gabe… frozen in that moment.. surrounded by freinds..
It makes me happy to see…

Remember that, Sam ? Nite
-me