I like quiet weeks and this has certainly been one of them. Last Saturday I drove down to the Salt Lake Airport and picked Nina up. We stopped for lunch in Pleasant View on the way back to Pocatello. That area has changed — so much so that the small town feeling has about disappeared. Our house there has become quite dilapidated. I’m hoping we would have taken better care of the house and the yard. The day was bright and sunny with about a fifteen degree temperature differential between Salt Lake City and Pocatello. Nina had a great visit with Jaelene, Scott, and family but it is always good to be back home.

In an earlier post I wrote that Jaelene and Scott “seemed” to be getting along OK. Scott has (rightfully) taken exception to the word “seemed”. I’ve edited the post and fixed the wording, Scott! You and Jaelene are doing very well.

I got an e-mail from another fellow who works at the same company where I work and who is in Oudenaarde, Belgium for a period of time. He’s Japanese and wanted to know where the Chinese Restaurant was that I wrote about in one of my posts. He was doing a search on the internet about restaurants in Oudenaarde and found my web log in the search. I wrote him back with the name and address of the restaurant. Hopefully he had no ill effects! I haven’t been that sick in many years.

In yesterday’s e-mail I received a couple of comments on blog posts I made when Nina and I were in Chandler, Arizona over New Years 2003-2004. Her name was Nina, her husband had worked in the Pocatello area, and they also are interested in the Hanger Cafe at the Chandler Airport. Interesting coincidences. The Google search robots land on my blog a couple of times each week, so just about everything I’ve written in this weblog is searchable on Google. Several other robots stop by on a regular basis, but Google indexes the website more often than anyone else.

The twins are hanging in there! They also now have names: Casey and Devlin. Mo and Pete have put up a Yahoo Groups website with information about the boys and some mind-boggling pictures. Here’s some excerpts from Mo:

Devlin and Casey were born at Yale New Haven Hospital on 23 Feb. at 1:04 and 1:05 AM. Casey beat his brother into this world by 1 minute…. Casey was 1 lb. 5.5 oz. 12 1/4 in. Devlin was 1 lb. 7.5 oz. 12 1/4 in. We FINALLY settled on their names a day or so after they were born. Both of their names are Celtic in origin and both mean brave and fearless. We felt that the symbolism of these choices were important.

They’ve made it for eight days in this world and that means their chances of survival are pretty dang good. This is great stuff. Hang in there, guys! If anyone wants to know the website address for the updates on these two guys, send me a note and I’ll pass it along in a private e-mail.