May 21st, 2006 - Yesterday was Sara's birthday. Sara had to work at Kohls so we will postpone the celabration to another day. I spent the day yesterday and today at the Children's Museum in the morning and the afternoons working in the yard. Today I attended a small lecture by Dr Bob Bakker on the newly discovered dinosaur (Dracorex hogwartsia). Ive attached pictures of Dr. Bob doing his lecture and holding the skull of hogwartsia and of Dr. Bob and myself with hogwartsia behind us.

And now here is the pictures showing the current progress of the backyard. I finished up the patio that will be in front of my workshop, got Sara's Wiskey Pump running (less the electric that dad will help me with), made great movement on the garden, and have all the conduit in the ground for the electric.

May 15, 2006 - I am on my third week of Tuesday Meetings in Rockford. I am hoping that this will be the last one for a while - maybe I will be able to convince the CM's up here that I can do these meetings on the phone.

That's about all thats going on right now, alone in a hotel room watching TV. So I'm going to go to bed now. Night.

May 13, 2006 - I spent most of my day today working at cleaning out my apartment. Sara and I also hung a clock and a picture in her kitchen. I really think that added to the look of her kitchen alot. We re-did her kitchen about a year ago but there is still decoration that needs to be done, now we are adding my table to her kitchen wich should add alot more to it.

I also consolidated my pictures and adjusted some of our home network, so I have pictures to post on here today. I decided to start with Elsa, my pup. Here she is not too long after I first got her, so this is about 4 years old. My friend Tim took this picture.

May12, 2006 - So today a friend quit work today at integrator. The job there has had some rough spots resently. The basic engineer is stressed to the maximum, overworked with no end in sight. My friend is just the most resent casualty to this stress. I am hoping that I will be able to surpass this and the stress will soon get better. I find myself very sad with this situation, I enjoy what I do and the people I work with - I just hope that I can hang on long enough to see the better side of this journey.

On the homefront Sara and I are slowly consolidating our stuff to fit into her house. This weekend we will be doing alot of inside work because its raining. I am excited to get outside and work, the patio in front of my tool shed is about 2/3rds done, we just need to move the sand from my truck and then finish placing the blocks. I had planned that this weekend we would do the trenching for the power to the shed and to Sara's fountains. Not happening this weekend again because of the rain.

May 7, 2006 - This is my first post. I hope to keep this blog up to date and use it to let everyone know where I'm at and the progress of life in the Piller world.