Bright and early Friday morning, Nina’s kid sister Pam headed back east after about a ten day visit here in Colorado Springs. A great time was had by all! Nina and Pam were literally on the go every day she was here. I think Pam’s three favorite places would have been Pikes Peak, Victor, and the Garden of the Gods. The best day probably was her first Thursday here which we spent at the Denver Temple. They did the temple work for their mother and some other family members and were sealed to their parents that afternoon. We did indeed have a great day at the temple, which was perhaps the busiest day of the year so far. However, the Highlands Ranch Stake took over the top spot a week later!

Pam’s visit was a lot of fun. It’s often surprising to me how much they sound alike. They are indeed sisters in every sense of the word. So now it’s put life back into normal gear and get back into everyday activities for Nina. For the most part I just went about my normal business while Pam was here.

I’ve also been working on pictures. In a previous incarnation of my website I had several sets of pictures posted. I’ve been working through some of these and getting them loaded into this website’s photo section. I’ve added a series of pictures taken at a mini-family-reunion in Yellowstone Park, a few pictures when Nina visited Trevor and Kendra in Washington, and a series from our New Year’s trip to the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo several years ago. I’m now working through a large number of pictures from Bangkok, Thailand, and will post that whole set of pictures as well. Although most folks aren’t interested in these pictures, I certainly am and this provides me with a good way of cataloging the pictures of most interest to me. I think I’ll move over exclusively to slides since all I really do with the pictures I take is to scan some of the more interesting ones and put them on the computer. Slides are cheaper than film and actually take better pictures. Ive been scanning a whole bunch of slides and putting them into the Ancient History category and am quite pleased with how well recent slides scan and can be manipulated. I’m using Adobe PhotoShop Elements to work with these pictures and I’m quite impressed with the capability of this program. It can make a bad picture presentable and can make a good picture impressive. Just being able to fix perspective so that buildings line up properly is a big capability.

I’m headed for California tomorrow for the penultimate trip for this year. I’ll go once more in December to wrap things up for the year. I’ll only be there through Thursday this week as I need to be back in the office on Friday for our quarterly Corporate Finance Officer’s briefing as well as to get my annual (dreaded) flu shot. This will be a pretty busy week, but perhaps I’ll have time to put up another post or so. I read a statistic somewhere that suggests most web sites are never updated after being setup and most weblogs fizzle out after the first month or so. We’ve survived longer than that, so I’m pleased.