Knobs, Macs, Heath, and Arlo

I'm hanging out with the baby at the moment. He was getting bored with helping me install door knobs and playing with a screwdriver, so I gave him the rest of his bottle. He's lying down watching Baby Galileo as I type this.

We bought new door knobs for the house last week, that is, we bought knobs for the second floor plus replacements for all the cabinets. We mainly did this because we think shiny brass is cheapo looking. I also have a mild addiction to brushed metal, so we got satin nickel schlage ones. Our old door knobs are the same style but bright brass. I've done all but two up here, so we'll have to go shopping again soon for the downstairs. I'll have to get all new external locks to match, which means they'll have to be keyed and such. If you have a copy of the current key to my house and have been planning on robbing me, you'd better do it before it's too late.

Caleb helped me put up the knobs in his room last night after Noah and Dawson went to bed. He was big help for a two-year-old. I gave him a screwdriver of his own, and he tried to turn a few screws with it, but he wasn't very successful. He mainly helped by handing me things. Once we finished, he tried to take down a few of the knobs in the other rooms. Since he can't turn screws, he wasn't very successful. I told him he did a great job, and I meant it.

Our Nanny, Charlotte, likes my wife's MacBook so much, she wanted to get one too. She had me order her one. It just came in. I forgot that some people still have dialup at home, so I neglected to mention that the new ones don't come with modem's built in. She was like, "Oh, well, just order me one." I was about to do it when I realized that Apple is charging $50 for them. Charlotte didn't seem to mind, but I thought it was a bit steep, so I looked around. That seems to be the going price for a USB modem these days. It's probably the case that modems are hitting legacy status where the sales aren't that high, but the people who need them have to buy them. I guess that means they can charge more.

I talked to my old friend/former co-worker Heath the other day. He had a linux question, but decided to take the opportunity to catch up. We're supposed to have lunch next week. I've known him since junior high school and happened to end up working at the same company for a few years. After he left there, I tried to get him to come work at BMH or Alion, who recently bought BMH, because I like my job, and I think he would be a good fit, but he ended up going to work here for our old CEO, Carl Hewitt. BMH/Alion just didn't call him back fast enough for an interview.

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Dawson wrote the above text. He wanted to say something too.

Heath likes to remind me that he once accidently saw my brother Arlo's butt. I won't tell the story, but I thought it was a nice segway into the fact that Arlo just got engaged. I'm very happy for him. He found a nice lady named Leslie (note that the "s" is pronouned like an "s," not a "z"). He had my Granddaddy Mike Winesett, who is a jeweler, made the engagement ring. He made my Sarah's as well. Only my brother Ross needs to get married and all of my Granddaddy's grandchildren will be married. Not that any of that is really interesting to anyone but myself, but most of the topics I discuss have those qualities. Sarah still pretends to be interested. She actually might be genuinely interested since she's known me for 10 years now.