by Ted
I took the dogs over to Jeb’s yesterday. I had recently come across a picture of Katie with Kelly and Claire when I had first gotten her. The picture was taken on Easter in 2000. It’s a pretty cute picture:
So, since everyone was around, Fiona took a picture of the same cast of characters 12 years later:
Thanks to my nice nieces for indulging me!
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Dad called me last night to present our bill for the group vacation. He explained a very complex formula he used in a spreadsheet to figure out that we owed $655.99. I tried to take notes. There was a per head charge of $135.20 adjusted by some factor that could be minus $40 up to plus $50. It had to do with who got what room and how many people were in the room as to what factor got applied. The factors ranged from 3 to 10.
“I wish I could just e-mail this to you,” Dad said, “but I don’t know how to send attachments.” I told him sending attachments was pretty easy. Just look for an “Enclose” button and pick the file you want to attach. He called me early this morning to find out if I had received the attachment, and he was surprised I was still in bed. I explained I had been up to 2 moving Wart downtown.
Dad has as much appreciation for a Mac OS X server as I have for accounting.
The interesting thing was that the Yahoo e-mail I received presented the table all lined up neatly in the e-mail instead of as an attachment, so I’m not sure how Dad sent the table. I don’t recall getting anything like this. See this posting on Tucker.
P.S.
Like any good accountant, I accused Dad of hiding the truth with his complex formulas. Dad is really a compassionate conservative socialist at heart, and is drawing from disposable income accordingly.
The dogs enjoyed another Bullfrog Catch (#3) a few weeks back. Today they got to help out with a Water Snake catch. Approaching the pond, I saw a snake slide into the water from a bush that hangs over the edge. I tried catching him with a net, but he was able to slide into the muck I stirred up. About an hour later, the snake was back out and up in the bush. This time I was careful not to stir up the bottom, and I caught him. The dogs were delighted. The smelly secretion a water snake uses for defense was so fun for Stout, he rubbed in it. (Yuck!)
He had a thick buldge a little over half way down. Some kind of dinner. None of the colorful fish were missing, but it is hard to count the fish we have from the lake because they blend in. Hope it wasn’t a baby bird.
Claire and I dropped the snake into the storm drain and watched him slither down the pipe towards the creek where he may hook up with the Bullfrog. (Kathy does not allow me to kill the Bullfrogs.)
This is what you see when you turn on Danny’s new cell phone. It cost me 25 cents to have him e-mail it to me. A worthwhile grin.
