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Well, I woke up in a blizzard this morning here in the frigid tundra of the North! The blizzard wasn’t particularly significant to anyone here because it was too warm for the snow to stick, but the wind is enough to turn your bones to ice! I was glad that I got a lot of the website development work done yesterday, it makes the work for this week a lot easier, in terms of wrapping up the bugs, etc. And also because it means that we don’t have to do the winter chores today (clear the gutters, put up snow fences).

Winston has no idea what to do with the wind. Every time he goes outside, he just runs in a complete sprint in laps around the house. He has a decidedly displeased expression when he finally slows down enough to go to the bathroom (note- not stop!), then he races back onto the porch to get back inside as quick as he can! He is doing good, we had a training session yesterday, so he is relearning all the lessons he learned in Oxford, and getting out of some of his bad habits.

School has been taking up most of my time. I get up at 530 and head to school to get to the gym by 7, then workout for an hour, shower, and I can get to my office by 9. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have classes pretty much all day, including the class that I teach. Tuesday and Thursday I have most of the day off to work on coding (unfortunately not for the website, rather for my software engineering class), but I do have a class in the afternoon. I get to leave usually around 530 or 6, but sometimes much later depending on my projects, and I get home around 7 or 8. So it is a pretty long day.

We just got home from church- for you non-Lutherans out there, today was a special Sunday celebrating Martin Luther’s 95 thesis (he posted them on a door on October 31, so we celebrate the Sunday before). Basically that just meant that we sung A Mighty Fortress is our God, and had a sermon about Luther. The coffee is brewing, the paper is bought, and dad is making sausage biscuits and gravey, which Winston is very interested in.

So here is to a first real blog post, in hopes of many more!