Happy Holidays

From the Baddley home in the heart of T-town, we want to wish everyone a very happy holiday season! It's been crazy for the past month, but we're still doing good. The Geek Rescue job has made two things quickly apparent: (1) I remember a lot more about DOS / Windows 9x computers than I thought I did. BUT (2) I don't know nearly as much about fixing computers in general as I thought I did. It's a lot different having to fix someone's list of problems in 1-1.5 hours with no internet access and no resources other than your memory and a backpack full of goodies. I certainly don't take google for granted when it comes to troubleshooting odd computer problems (newsgroups are such a great research tool). Every day, I'm assaulted by some new error I've never seen before. It's been fun, though, and it's really honed my skills. The hours are uneven, though and my staffing agency is still trying to find me something that's full-time with benefits. In the meantime, I'm still working for TCC as well, although not nearly as often as I should be, due to scheduling conflicts with Geeks. We're about to start a new round of classes. I'll be teaching a Home Networking class starting in February. It will focus on combination wired/wireless networks with cable/dsl/dial-up connections. I be teaching it over two 4 hour sessions on Saturdays. I'm hoping that the interest will be there for the classes to make (you have to have at least 6 people pre-enroll, or it gets cancelled).

Amy and Griffin are adjusting to spending long hours at home without me around. Griffin's saying mama a lot more than dada these days. He was 9 months old on Dec. 11th. He's 22lbs and almost 30" tall. A couple of weeks ago, he learned to crawl. He's has been terrorizing the house ever since. Lucky we only have a small apt., and can close most of the doors to limit his range of destruction. We've child-proofed all of the cabinets, plugs, etc. but he still finds things to get into that he shouldn't.

We have already had a wonderful time with my family this season. My entire family went out to a holiday performance of "Forever Plaid" at the Performing Arts Center. The musical talent and humor of this group was outstanding.