Update

Despite Thursday being the first day of spring, Boston hasn't seen much spring yet, although today was actually sorta warm and sunny. This week brought many interesting times. 

1) This was the first break that K-State had during which I was employed. No spring break for me--really a bummer. 

2) Violet surprised me by showing up here in Boston Wednesday. Some people get engaged in cemeteries, others get surprised in parking garages. P.S. No, I'm not engaged.

3) Following the theft of my laptop, I tried a Sony Vaio with Vista. Didn't go so well. Now I have a Macbook. It's going much better, thanks.

4) I realized a day after Violet arrived that we are going to be seeing each other two weekends in a row with my visit to KS this coming week. That just doesn't make for good planning, but so what, I'll take it. I'm looking forward to seeing my family anyway.

5) K-State in the NCAA tournament. That was pretty exciting. The win was nice, too.

6) Had the privilege of going to a regional high school all-star basketball game last night. It was a very entertaining evening. There were a number of D-1 recruits/commitments there and a lot of very athletic guys.

Well, take care folks. Looking forward to seeing those of you I don't see as much these days this coming weekend.

Eh, I didn't need it anyway...

Well, today was an interesting day. I went into work today knowing that I had finished all of my work yesterday, thus hoping for an email from my traveling boss giving me more. Needless to say, that didn't happen. So, I spent another day at work browsing the Internet. But boy, the fun had just started!

I came home before any of the Wrights and found the front door a bit hard to open. No biggy. Walked into my room and noticed my laptop was gone. Biggy. My hope was that this was a prank or that the Wrights needed it for some reason today and had failed to contact me. Well, it wasn't a prank, and the Wrights hadn't needed it. It was needed apparently by the somebody that had decided to break in and steal it along with its bag, a set of headphones and some checks. To our knowledge, nothing else was taken. The Arlington policeman told me when he came that this was a crime that had been happening quite frequently over the last month and that the thieves were smart (wore gloves, no traces, etc.). I was really hoping they would have left a note saying something like, "We took your laptop, sucker!" so I could at least stare at it and possibly frame it someday. Unfortunately, there was nothing left except a pit in my stomach.

Being taken like this is a pretty weird feeling.

I suppose I could update you on basketball! We beat the Cambridge School of Weston by four Wednesday night, moving ourselves into the semifinals. That round took us to Connecticut where we played Darrow, a team from upstate New York that is barely within the NEPSAC boundaries. We didn't play a great game and one thing leading to another, lost, thus ending our season. It was certainly a good run but I don't think that I ever could have imagined this team finishing 11-14 -- sorta disappointing.

Another video

The last few posts haven't been "real" content, but I have found these videos interesting. This one shows us how kids can pick up on whatever they're exposed to, whether it be Curious George or Star Wars...