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Thespian Watching

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Yesterday afternoon we drove down to North Salt Lake to spend the evening and overnight with Heather and her family. The occasion was that grandson Michael Brown was performing in three one-act plays at the Jr. High School. That was plenty of reason to leave Pocatello and warm up by ten degrees in the Salt Lake Valley. As an added bonus, Heather planned to open up their pool and have a pool party for Danielle’s soccer team late Saturday morning.

The drive down was completely uneventful (as it should be) and perhaps the Utah drivers have realized the cost of gasoline (currently about $3.70 a gallon in this area) and many have slowed down. That would be good as sometimes the traffic is way to hectic for people like us who drive in southeastern Idaho where a five cars on the freeway constitutes a traffic jam.

Michael was in all three plays produced on Friday evening. I’ve put one picture up from each of the three plays. He is a budding thespian, I think. He did a great job of projecting his lines and speaking not quite so fast. The middle play, “Great Ceasar!”, was the best of the three plays, although all three were just right for Jr. High School aged students. They seem to have a good drama teacher who also helps them to have fun doing the plays.

Heather’s household is busy! It almost makes me out of breath how much is going on around this house. I’m sure our house was just as busy when we had all the kids at home with kids in high school, middle school, and elementary school, but memories are somewhat vague (probably due to age-related leaking gray matter). This morning Ty is out cleaning the pool with the help of Michael and Danielle. Stephanie was called into work, Chris must still be sound asleep, and Heather left about 6 this morning to to go a State track meet in Provo to support a young man who doesn’t have a lot of family support.

Later this morning we’ll drive back to Pocatello and get ready to go the Idaho Falls Temple. We’ll attend a Chapel meeting at 5:15 and then do an endowment session at 6 p.m. It’s been a fun visit at Heather’s and a nice prelude to a busy weekend. I’ve got a Priesthood Meeting at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning, followed by Branch Conference in Arbon (about 45 miles south of Pocatello) at 10. This is a fun Branch Conference as they always have a Branch potluck dinner after the meetings … and we eat really well.

Princesses and Snow

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DanielleGranddaughter Danielle sings in the International Children’s Choir and had a concert tonight. She gave me a quick pose after her mom finished fixing up her costume. She’s definitely Princess Picture Perfect!

I’m finishing up a couple of days in Utah. I took Chris with me to the OpenSocial Hackathon last night sponsored by Bungee Labs with great participation by Google. We enjoyed learning a bit more about the process for developing applications using Google’s OpenSocial specification. Orkut wasn’t working and my MySpace developer account hadn’t been approved yet (the approval came in today), so we did a lot of watching and not much hacking. The food was good, the event was fun, and we got back home about 11:30 p.m.

This morning I was planning to be in Provo for the monthly CTO Breakfast. But, my alarm clock didn’t work correctly (possible operator malfunction, though) and I woke up a half-hour later than I had planned. I hustled through the shower, dressed, and went outside to find that there was a couple of inches of snow on the ground and the snow was coming down rather furiously. In spite of that, I arrived only a half-hour late for the gathering in Provo. That was another very interesting and invigorating meeting with some really fun folks. Tonight I’m taking Chris with me to the monthly Geek / Blogger dinner at the Taj restaurant in Salt Lake City. After that fun event, I’ll drop him off back at home and then drive north to Pocatello. I’ll actually sleep in my own bed tonight. That should be a fun experience! (Isn’t there a Beach Boys song about ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’?) The visit here in Utah has been a lot of fun. Heather has really gone out of her way to make things comfortable, including a generous dish of Easter Chocolate in the bedroom, all of which will be gone by the time I leave tonight!