Tuesday, December 16, 2008

It's winter time!


Well, my favorite time of year has arrived, Winter time! Though it is not officially winter yet, it sure feels like it has arrived here in Amador County!!! The lows are down into the 20's at night here and we have gotten a good amount of snow for the 2300 foot level!

We are starting into the holiday season. With Thanksgiving a memory, we are now into the Christmas party time of the year. The Volcano Christmas part was held on the 6th of December and Katie is getting to attend her first 'Company' Christmas party this next weekend on the 20th. Carol and Katie went and had lunch yesterday on Katies day off. It sounds like Katie and Russ have done a great job of getting their new place set up. As is the case with any new home, the visitors are coming with great frequency. Last weekend, it was some of Russ's friends and his mom that came to visit. Katies dad is going for a visit this weekend. I'm hoping, Carol and I will get a chance to visit them and take them out to dinner soon.

Roxy amazingly enough is still with us. Though she was diagnosed back in the summer with an in-operable tumor at the base of her stomach, she is still going strong. She has her good days and her bad, but at this point she still instigates play and seems to be having a decent quality of life.

We finally have an implementation date on the Telesphere 6.0 software. This date was mandated by a combination of the Volcano Strategic Planning Committee as well as by the fact that Telesphere wants to start billing us for supporting my testing of their software. I know in my gut that the software is not fully tested and there are some parts of the software that are not in working order, but I'm not the one calling the shots on this project, so I just have to hope for the best. Wish me luck!

Happy Camping! - Eric-

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