Saturday was the Goldman’s annual “Patriotic Party”<\/a>, which is placed somewhere in the 2nd half of June between Memorial Day and Independence Day. This is our 3rd year taking part, and as usual, it was a blast!<\/p>\n (Enjoy this precious picture I caught with Maryann’s camera of the boys sharing a Sit ‘n Spin…for once they weren’t fighting!)<\/p>\n And the following weekend will be our last Durham Bulls<\/a> game (sniff sniff!). We’ll join the Warlicks for that too.<\/p>\n Dave’s dissertation work is in the final stages; after the Air Force gives its public release blessing, he gets to release it to the graduate school for official publication. That will probably happen next week.<\/p>\n He was excited to receive an e-mail today from the editor of the Monthly Weather Review<\/a><\/em>, one of our field’s premier peer-reviewed journals (think New England Journal of Medicine<\/a><\/em> for meteorologists!) asking to review an article related to weather phenomena in Korea. Wow! Dave, reviewing MWR articles!<\/p>\n I couldn’t be more proud!<\/p>\n So on tomorrow’s docket: Hi friends! Okay, okay, I’m sure you’re growing sick of my super-brief postings about the nitnoid things that I’m doing to prepare the house for the move. Not interesting! Unfortunately, there isn’t too much interesting stuff going on during the week. This week, Jake is in an ice skating camp. 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This weekend, we’re joining the Warlicks<\/a> on an overnight trip to the mountains and Charlotte. We’re planning a visit to the Linville Falls<\/a>, then on to Charlotte where we’re planning a tour of Lowe’s Motor Speedway<\/a> and then spending the afternoon at the Discovery Place<\/a> museum.<\/p>\n
1.) Buy some bright-colored sticky Post-It Notes to start marking the “Do Not Pack” items.
2.) Schedule canceling utilities in NC
3.) Schedule turning on utilities in NE
4.) Keep Timmy happy. We might take a trip to the pool, maybe I can do the cancellations\/turning ons from the pool deck? What a life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"