Freezing/super bowl/home

Everything is cool lately, with the exception being J. has scarlet fever. WE went to a neighbor's house for the Super Bowl, and had a good time and lots of bowls of chili. The temps out here are awful, it has been about -25 with wind chill the last few days. My car has been having trouble starting. Home is good, A. and I have been watching tons of Desperate Housewives season two, so far so good. I re-read about all of my Raymond Carver stories as a reward for all the reading for school, and wow so many of them are such downers, I bet Carver was not much fun at parties, he has a very bleak outlook on life and relationships.

Last week I finally grasped lots of the basics for the programming language so feel more confident in it. It is a challenging though very interesting class. Lots of projects and tons of reading, but enjoyable. In addition to programming,many of the students are into online gaming, world of witchcraft, etc. I have not played any of these games so usually am pretty quiet during breaks and the hour in the lab, just focussing on writing the programs and trying to improve. 3 of the 15 classes are done, it is neat how fast a 3 hour lecture can go when the professor is on a roll, which was the case last Friday.

N. was unbelievably attnetive to J. this weekend, bringing her cold ice water, extra blankets, and even magic markers and paper to draw. Very thoughtful. J. was quite weak Saturday, seemed somewhat better Sunday and today went to the Doctor and got medicine/antibiotics for the scarlet fever, ten days worth of doses.

hmmmm what else? Not much really, things are good at home, we just all are hoping the weather warms up, supposedly it will be 10 degress tomorrow with possibility of snow, so we will see.