Laura says I haven’t been posting any “personal” stuff lately, and from looking through the posts over the last month or so I can see she’s right, so here’s what’s going on in the Hand Family.

The short story: Life is good. Rhianna’s been having a blast at daycare. She’s made friends with a girl named “Jordan”, and the first thing she does every morning when I drop her off is run over to her where they hug and then run off to play. Laura’s been doing great at her new job, and has made herself invaluable. There was a major screwup at the clinic involving a rather sizable chunk of change, and when they found out that Laura can read charts (She is an AHIMA accredited Health Information tech afterall), she got first dibs. Long story short, she’s become quite famous amongst the people who sign the paychecks. As for me, I’m doing great at ERDC. I’ve made some major breakthroughs with VTK and Paraview, and have even started contributing back. Plus this is an acquisition year for us, so I’m sure I’ll have some fun new Hardware articles in a few months.

On the home front, things are also going well. The house has proven to be an excellent investment. I’m starting to become quite the Mr. Fix-it around here, fixing doors that won’t close and unclogging toilets. There hasn’t (thank goodness) been any drama like the flood in the front yard again, but there’s an interesting aside to that. During that torrential downpour, our neighbor’s house flooded. Like on the inside, wet carpet & damaged floor. He moved in only shortly before us, but in the last 6 months or so his house flooded 5 times he said. He asked around and everyone gave him the same response: “You mean you didn’t know? It floods every rain, yea”. With a little research he found out that the previous owners had a disclosure statement indicating that it flooded regularly, but for some reason it was never shown to him to sign. So he got a lawyer & took it to court, and it was very quickly settled out of the court. The result: The original tenants bought the house back, and bought him a new house. Needless to say, Laura & I quickly checked our papers, but no such luck. We like the place anyway, so we’re happy.

Jeremy stopped by over the Christmas holidays and stayed for a few hours, visiting with Rhianna for a bit. I don’t think she remembered him, but she sure did enjoy the company nonetheless. Word around the office is that I’ll be heading up to Starkville for a meeting at the ERC early March, so maybe I can get me some original Little Dooey’s and visit with some of the old gang. As for Patrick, Rob, & Kris, haven’t heard much of them as of late. So come on guys, post away, 2 of you have blogs so update em already!

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