It has been weeks since my last post. It isn't that I haven't been thinking about different issues (though I've sometimes tried not to think about them). It isn't that there aren't important and dangerous things happening which need thinking about (Dubya and Co. certainly manage to find lots of ways to challenge freedom and world peace). It isn't even that I've been too busy (unless playing Civ II counts as busy). I guess I've just been feeling down.
My son is in his first community theater production. He is one of the princes (I guess he's really three different princes) who dance with "The Dancing Princesses." This has meant a lot of coordination as the theater (Kudzu Playhouse in Roswell) is a solid half hour from home in light traffic. The play opened this weekend to sellout crowds and will run for another four weekends. It is nice not to have weekday rehearsals now that the play is in production, but there are performances on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Beyond that, he plans to audition for the next children's production at Kudzu, "The Secret Garden," which could mean both rehearsals for one play and performances of the other play for a few weeks.
My daughter was home from college during Christmas which was very nice. She is now back up in Ohio and we are working on packing up a few things which were more than she could carry on the plane so that they can be shipped to her. She is making plans to spend her junior year studying in Washington D.C. and Berlin along with some side trips. She has become quite the world traveller, and could wind up travelling even more as she pursues a career using the degree in International Relations which she is working towards.
I am still working at Syntellect, but that could change at any time due to the new ownership structure under Enghouse. There is a planned company-wide meeting tomorrow. I should know more after that.
I started taking a Spanish class which is being offered at church. With the increasing number of Hispanic residents in Atlanta and elsewhere around the country I thought it would be useful to be able to say more than simply "Si."
I hope to update this more frequently in days to come. We'll see how well that hope is realized.