I woke up feeling pretty sick this morning… bad sore throat and chills.. so I decided to lay low.. I think the only time I left the house was to take Gabe to school and pick him up. I spent most of the day working in the lab on some xmas presents.. but didn’t get very far.. I’m facing some pretty thorny tehnical challenges.. and not making much progress. I feel like an idiot.. but… at least it’s fun to putter in the lab. Theres nothing like stairing at an osciliscope all day to cheer you up

Gabe’s off for the rest of this week and next.. and in honor of that, he has his buddies over for the night. the 4 muskateers we call them.. Gabe, Jack, Austin and Will. It’s wonderful having Max hoem now too.. Diane made a great meal…
And we lit the candles for the third night of hanukah.
GHabe took some time oout of playign to work with Diane on a home made presant project
then the guys went out and finsihed their awesome igloo sno fort.. There’s room for 5 in there !



It’ sonly 10:30 and I’m beat.. Max’s dog Reptar just jumped in bed beside us.. We’ve got three dogs in here.. must make it a three dog night !
OK.. gotta sleep. Homepfully I’ll shake this bug by tomorrow.. Night folks ! Nite Sam
-me