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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Moving onto the Beach

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

This quote is as fitting to the Sierra Nevada as to Yellowstone as to here in Costa Rica. I am just in awe of the beauty God created for us to enjoy. I love that the Costa Rican take care of their land and try to keep that beauty here for everyone to see.

Early this morning I woke to the sound of monkeys, so I went out on the patio to see if I could see them. I couldn't, they were deeper in the jungle then I thought, but there were a few birds out. I wanted to walk around, but didn't want to wake my family by getting dressed.

Today we moved onto the beach. It was a long 4 hour drive, but it didn't seem that way. There is so much to see, even along the road. We even hit a little road block. Much different then the kind we remember in Yellowstone. This one was a high school band playing in the street because today is a holiday kind of like our 4th of July.

We made a stop for a snack.

Of course, the view was amazing.

We made it to our hotel and were greeted by this guy on the steps.

View from our balcony. This place seems deserted so that beach down there is all ours.

 We did some grocery shopping in Tamarindo and stopped to see the beach.

 Then we came back to our private beach.

After exploring the beach, I made us a real home made Casado minus the salad. I added the veggies to the rice instead.

A little after dinner relaxing.

Pura Vida,

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Last Day in La Fortuna

Our last day in La Fortuna... no set plans, just gonna explore.

Every morning, we start start our day off at this exact table. We were seated here our first night and we loved it because it is right on the edge and there are no walls or windows on the restaurant.

Every meal, this little green guy comes out to greet us.

While waiting for Dr. C, the kids and I went outside to take a few pictures around the hotel restaurant.

We decided we couldn't leave La Fortuna without seeing the hanging bridges. Personally, I liked the bridges we walked over before zip lining better. But, I am glad I got to see these also.

There is a wild boar down there if you look very, very closely.

And a wild monkey!

After the bridges and a very long nap for me, back to the pools to relax.

L is at the top of the slide ready to go down.

And there is Dr. C shooting out of the slide like a cannon.

Why stay at 1 pool when you have 10 to enjoy.

These are some private pools with 2 seats and jets in each.

After the pools, we went into town to eat at a Soda and have an after dinner treat. There is this neat grassy area in the middle of town, so we sat and relaxed there. It was quite busy, lots of families and not a single child on an electronic. They were all running around with each other playing with soccer balls, scooters and tag. You know, the old fashion stuff.

C & L were twirling around and then having races and a little 1 yr old was trying to chase after them.

Here is a summer salt race.

It was so much fun just being a part of the town this night! Some of the parents came up and introduced themselves to us and we chatted a bit as much as we could with our limited Spanish. Again, people have been so nice everywhere we go around here, not just the workers on the tours.

I am excited to see the beach.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

More exploring this wonderful country!

There is just something special about Costa Rica! Everywhere we go, the people are so kind and helpful! The beauty is unreal, the jungle never quiets, and the weather is perfect. I love the feeling of walking through the pouring rain with nothing but shorts and a tank top on and it’s warm. When it is not raining, it has been perfect weather also. They say it gets hot here, but I don’t know if I believe it.

Each day has seemed like 2 days here. We have our morning adventure then come back for some down time (reading for the kids, nap for the adults) then our afternoon activity. Today just like every day we started with our buffet breakfast at the hotel where the hugest butterfly was on the wall. It was probably 3 inches across.

 Then we took a little walk while we waited for our tour to pick us up for repelling down some waterfalls.

On the drive to the waterfall that we repelled from we road in the back of a tiny pick up truck on a rocky road.

This is just the inside of a bathroom. I don't know, but maybe Dr. C is obsessed with bathrooms in other places. I always find pictures of them. It's either that or he is amazed at how clean they are.

L all ready to go...

There goes C...

L 1/2 way down...

We took a different road back from the waterfall, this one is a little less bumpy.

Arenal Volcano from observation point, when the clouds are not there, you can see smoke coming out of the top. The sky is constantly changing here!

Observation point...

This trip reminded us when little C was in kindergarten and he wanted to be a bird watcher for about a year of his life. We reminded him and he thought that was so crazy, didn't remember it and said how it would be so boring.

Later we went to La Fortuna Falls for a little swim.

It is 500 steps down to the falls. Little C counted to make sure they were correct.

A little too crowded to our taste, but I'm glad we didn't skip it.

Someone is happy he made it back up. I don't know why it was so hard, little C and I had to wait for him at the top. Maybe he needs to hit the gym more.

We found a little Soda for dinner. That a little family owned local restaurant then went for a walk through town.

C & L picked out some souvenirs.

And it poured on us. Big C, little C, & L ran back to the car while I walked.

It poured for the rest of the evening till about 8 or 9, but that didn't stop us from a little night swimming.

Apparently it didn't stop anyone else either since this is the most crowded I have seen the pool.

Pura Vida,

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The Hidden Value of Peer to Peer Networks

You might have in all probability heard individuals saying they’ve a “community” as a result of all their computer systems within the workplace or dwelling are related to the Web.

Be that as it might, the time period “community” on this case doesn’t replicate the true nature of this explicit setup. To say you could have a community simply because your computer systems are related to the Web is like saying your automotive is a truck as a result of it has wheels, an engine and room for some cargo. Certain, you possibly can strive stuffing a front room’s value of furnishings in your automotive, however you’ll certainly encounter issues virtually instantly.

Clearly: similar to a automotive is not designed to move massive a great deal of furnishings, Peer-to-Peer networks by definition are extremely inefficient setups for places of work -even small ones.

So, what’s a Peer-to-Peer community? IT

Most of us have used a Peer-to-Peer community in some unspecified time in the future in our lives. Everytime you entry a pc over the web to obtain a file, or the printer within the subsequent cubicle to print a shade presentation, you might be utilizing a “peer” system that is related one way or the other by some kind of community. Peer-to-Peer (or “P2P”) refers principally to the way you join to a different system on a community. Bear in mind Napster or Kazaa? These had been clear examples of huge, internet-based P2P networks. Customers might -via software program of their computers- set up a direct connection and share information by way of Web to a different pc anyplace on the earth.

On paper this may increasingly sound like an amazing thought, however in actuality its advantages will not be nice. Whereas music and video lovers adored -and media firms hated- it, P2P networks are in reality an especially poor selection for workplace environments.

Think about this: 1. Your workplace has a P2P community, and a couple of. You’ve gotten an enormous presentation arising and have spent a full week working in your Energy Level. You now want enter from co-workers to be able to finalize it. How will you share this file with them to allow them to add their adjustments and return it to you? Since you could have a P2P community, your choices vary from “plain inefficient” all the way in which to “very harmful”:

a. Ask your IT man to “share” a folder in your pc so others might entry it;

b. Electronic mail the file to others after which interact in a number of “sends and receives” till it is performed (otherwise you surrender in frustration);

c. Use some form of media storage (CD, DVD, flash reminiscence) and bodily hand a duplicate to everybody concerned…after which retrieve it.

At a look you would possibly suppose there’s nothing incorrect with these choices. Nevertheless, none is environment friendly or safe, nor will it stop human error. Let’s dissect them additional.

File sharing:

Sharing a folder in a pc is in and of itself a nasty thought. Anytime you “share” one thing you change into extremely weak to all kinds of virus assaults.

Subsequently, by making an attempt to unravel one drawback you are actually creating a complete set of latest ones. Keep in mind that the principle job of any virus is to copy itself and inflict harm. Maybe you could have an antivirus, however how positive are you that it is up-to-date? When you have a P2P community, likelihood is your IT infrastructure shouldn’t be effectively maintained and your safety software program is outdated and weak to assault.

If the specter of virus infestation will not cease you from “sharing,” this in all probability will. In an effort to entry a file on one other pc, you want two issues:

1. A direct (bodily) connection to the system

2. A consumer identify and password to entry the “shared” useful resource

In different phrases, for each shared folder you could entry in another person’s pc, somebody (i.e.: the IT individual, the community administrator, and many others.) has to create and share permissions with everybody concerned. For instance your workplace has 5 computer systems and every pc wants at the least three shared folders; that is 15 “shares.” Every time a brand new worker is employed you will have to incorporate his/her consumer identify in every of the 15 shares -or on the very least those that he/she must entry. Shortly, this evolves right into a nightmare that haunts many a enterprise proprietor or workplace administrator. One frequent -yet silly- observe is to maintain the identical consumer identify to keep away from altering a earlier worker’s identify. Finally you find yourself with Joshua working underneath Maria’s consumer identify, and Emily working underneath Bob’s.

E-mail sharing:

For places of work with out actual networks, e-mail sharing is undoubtedly the commonest observe of all choices.

For instance you could have a 30 MB (megabytes) file -not an unlikely state of affairs given the complexity of some video and graphic files- you want to share together with your colleagues. Since your P2P community depends on a 3rd occasion e mail supplier like Gmail, Hotmail, or AOL, your e mail has to journey all the way in which to their e mail server someplace in Oklahoma or Timbuktu and return to a pc that’s 4 ft from yours!

Sending a big file to anybody over the Web shouldn’t be solely inefficient, but additionally burdensome to the system. That is why most e-mail suppliers restrict to 20 megabytes the utmost dimension of any file transferred over their e mail servers.

One other massive drawback is the dealing with of shared emails information. When you want to change a file you acquired by e mail it’s essential to first put it aside in your pc, in any other case every little thing will probably be misplaced whenever you shut it. Suppose you’ve got issued 16 revisions to that file over a time frame as you’ve got emailed it forwards and backwards to your colleagues. Errors and omissions are certain to occur with all that forwards and backwards (plus the attaching and reattaching), except you create a versioning system in your pc in an try to hold observe of the adjustments. By the point you might be performed you should have a minimal of 32 emails per individual within the challenge!

Media Sharing At Work:

This most cumbersome choice may fit for individuals who do not thoughts burning or saving information into a number of CDs, DVDs or flash drives and hand them out to each individual within the staff (plus accumulating all of them again with their suggestions, reloading them within the pc, after which re-burning, re-saving and re-distributing, over and over).

Summing Up

The hidden prices of a P2P community will negate any perceived “financial savings” and expose your enterprise to a substantial waste of helpful time and manpower, to not point out loss and misplacement of information. Time and cash will probably be wasted fixing recurrent points that would have been averted with a correctly configured community.

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Project failed? You get what you deserve!

3 of 10 software projects fail, 3 succeed, and 4 are ‘challenged’1.  When projects fail because you cut corners and exceed your capabilities then — you get what you deserve.  You don’t deserve pity when you do it to yourself.

We estimate that between $3 trillion and $6 trillion dollars are wasted every year in IT.  Most of this is wasted by organizations that are unskilled and unaware that they are ignorant.

Warning this article is long!

However, there are organizations that succeed regularly because they understand development, implement best practices, and avoid worst practices (see Understanding Your Chances).

In fact, McKinsey and Company in 2012 stated:

A study of 5,400 large scale IT projects  finds that the well known problems with IT Project Management are persisting. Among the key findings quoted from the report:

    • 17 percent of large IT projects go so badly that they can threaten the very existence of the company
    • On average, large IT projects run 45 percent over budget and 7 percent over time, while delivering 56 percent less value than predicted

law-unintended-consequencesProjects fail consistently because organizations choose bad practices and avoid best practices and wonder why success is elusive (see Stop It! No… really stop it. to understand the common worst 5 practices)

What is amazing is that failures do not prompt the incompetent to learn why they failed.

RinseAndRepeatEven worse, after the post-fail finger pointing ceremony, people just dust themselves off and rinse and repeat.

The reality is that we have 60 years of experience in building software systems.  Pioneers like Watts Humprey, M.. E. Fagan, Capers Jones, Tom DeMarco, Ed Yourdon, and institutions like the Software Engineering Institute (SEI)  have demonstrated that software complexity can be tamed and that projects can be successful2.

The worst developers are not even aware that there is clear evidence about what works or what doesn’t in software projects.  Of course, let’s not let the evidence get in the way of their opinions.

IngredientsIngredients of a Successful Project

Successful software projects generally have all the following characteristics:

  • Proper business case justification and good capital budgeting
  • Very good core requirements for primary functionality
  • Effective sizing techniques used before executing the project
  • Appropriate project management to the size of the project and to the philosophy of the organization
  • Properly trained personnel
  • Focus on pre-test defect removal

MissingPiecesEvery missing characteristic reduces your chance of success by an order of magnitude.  If you know that one or more of these characteristics are missing then you get what you deserve!

Missing some of these elements doesn’t guarantee failure, but it severely decreases your chance at success.

Let’s go through these elements in order.

This article is very long, so this is a good place to bail if you don’t have time.

Proper Business Case

IfYouBuildItThis is the step that many failed projects skip over, the hard work behind determining if a project is viable or not.

Organizations take the Field of Dreams approach, i.e. “If you build it, they will come...” and skip this step due to ignorance, often resulting from executives who do not understand software (see No Business Case == Project Failure). These are executives that do not have experience with software projects and assume that their force of personality can will software projects to success.

Some organizations claim to build business cases, but these documents are worthless.  I even know of public companies that write the business case AFTER the project has started, simply to satisfy Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

A proper business case attempts to quantify the requirements and technical uncertainty of a software project.  It does due diligence into what problem is being solved and who it is solving the problem for.  It at least verifies with a little effort that the cash flows resulting from the project will be NPV positive.

Business cases are generally difficult to write because they involve getting partial information.  This can be very difficult if your analysts are substandard (see When BA means B∪ll$#!t Artist).

Very Good Core Requirements

Skeleton Once a project has a proper business case then you need to capture the skeleton of the core requirements.  This is a phase where you determine the primary actors of the system and work out major use case names.

Why expand requirements before starting the project?

Executives have a business to run and need to know when software will be available.  If you don’t know how big your project is then you can’t create an effective project plan.  You don’t want to capture all the requirements so core requirements (i.e. a good skeleton) helps you to size the project without having to get the detailed requirements.

This is why executives like the waterfall methodology. On the surface, this methodology seems to have a predictable timeline — which is what they need to synchronize other parts of the business.  The problem is that the waterfall methodology DOES NOT WORK (see last page).

The only way for managers to get a viable estimate of a software project is to expand the business case into requirements that allow you to determine the project’s size before you start it.

Calculate House SizeThis process is just like determining the cost for a house by the square footage and the quality, i.e. 2500 sq. ft at normal quality (~$200 per sq. ft.) would be approximately $500K, even without detailed blueprints.  Very accurate estimates can be derived by sizing a project using function points.

Effective Estimation

RulersNow that you have core requirements, you can determine the size of the project and get an approximate cost.  You are fooling yourself if you think that you can size large projects without formal estimates (see Who needs formal measurement?)

Just like you can determine the approximate cost of a house if you know the square footage and the quality, you can estimate a software project pretty accurately if you know how many function points (i.e. square footage) and quality requirements of the project3.

There is so much literature available on how to effectively size projects, so do yourself a favor and look it up.  N.B. There are quite a few reliable tools for an accurate estimate of software projects, i.e. COCOMO II, SLIM, SEER-SEM.  See also Namcook Analytics,

If you don’t size a project then your project plan predicts nothing

Of course, you could always try a management declared deadline which is guaranteed to fail (see Why Senior Management Declared Deadlines lead to Disaster)

Appropriate Project Management

AgileManifestoYou must select a project methodology appropriate to the organization.  Many developers are trying to push their organizations towards Agile software development, although many developers are actually quite clueless about what Agile development is.

Agile software development needs buy-in from the top of the organization.  Agile software development will probably do very little for you if you are not doing business cases and gathering core requirements before a project.

Discover how developers who claim that they are ‘Agile’ have fooled themselves into thinking that they are doing Agile development. (see Does Agile hide Development Sins?)

Trained Personnel

IncompetenceManagement often confuses seniority with competence.  After all, if someone has been with the company for 10 years they must be competent, no?  The reality is that most people with 10 years of experience only have 1 year repeated 10 times.  They are no more skilled then someone with 1 year under their belt.

Learn why in general it may be useful to get rid of older developers that are not productive (see No Experience Required!).  Also when it comes to development, you are definitely better off with people that do not rush to write code (see Productive Developers are Smart and Lazy)

Focus on Pre-Test Defect Removal

I’ve written extensively on pre-test defect removal, see Are Debuggers Crutches? for more information.

It is likely that you know all these ingredients that make for a successful project, you’ve just assumed that even though all these characteristics are not present that you just can’t fail.

Quite often projects fail under the leadership of confident people who are incompetent and don’t even know that they are incompetent.  If you want to know why intelligent people often do unintelligent things see Are You are Surrounded by Idiots?  Unfortunately, You Might be the Idiot..

There probably are projects that fail out there because of circumstances out of their control (i.e. natural disasters, etc) but in most failed projects you get what you deserve!

Fallacy of the Waterfall Methodology

The waterfall methodology is widely attributed to Winston W. Royce.

The irony is that the paper he published actually concludes that:

In my experience, however, the simpler method (i.e. waterfall) has never worked on large software development and efforts and the costs to recover far exceeded those required to finance the five step process listed.

That is Mr. Royce said that the waterfall process would never work.  So much for the geniuses that only read the first 2 pages of the paper and then proceeded to create the “waterfall method” and cost organizations trillions of dollars in failed projects each year.

The waterfall methodology was pushed down our throats by ignorant managers that saw that the waterfall seemed to mimic factory processes.  Because this was the process they understood, they icorrectly assumed that this was the right way to develop software.

If any of these guys had bothered to read more than 2 pages from the Royce paper they would have realized that they were making a colossal blunder.

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1 Challenged means that the project goes significantly over time or budget. In my estimation, ‘challenged’ simply means politically declaring victory on a project that has really failed.

2 This applies to projects that are 10,000 function points or less. We still have problems with projects that are larger than this, but the vast majority of projects are under this threshold.

3 Quality requirements depend on how reliable the project must be. If the risk is that someone might die because of a software malfunction the quality, and therefore cost, must be much higher than if software failures only constitute an annoyance.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

My Blog Vacation....Because of my real life vacation!

This Saturday, Jake, Sadie, and I, will be starting our 18 hour drive to Vermont.  We are so excited to make our annual trip to New England and this one will be extra special because we will be meeting my mom and dad their who will be getting back from their mission!!!  We will be gone for over a month.  I feel kind of like I should be in a Jane Austin book taking off for so long-what a life they all lived back then going visiting for weeks on end! All my extended family is still up north so we always enjoy seeing everyone.  My sister will also be making the trip with her kiddos all way from the Ukraine!  Talk about an amazing family reunion.  Aaron and Nana Harmon will be flying up to spend a long weekend with us over Jake's b-day weekend and we are planning on celebrating his decade birthday in style-on the lake!  The picture I have with my blog title is one of my all time favorites.  It is of Jake last year in Lake Groton where we will be...Did I mention I was excited?!?!?

I am officially starting my blog vacation a few days before the real one starts.  My list of things I have to do is not shrinking, but the number of days to do it all is....Not to mention the fact that I just found out I have a pretty big blog project ahead of me.  I finished reading Sense and Sensibility last week (LOVED IT!!!) and I was going to change the picture on the left side of my blog to show the book I am reading next (Wuthering Heights-I am really trying to love it but it is depressing...but I can't put it down, even though it is depressing!!!) but I couldn't...It turns out I have used up all the space that blogger allows for uploading/storing pictures.  When I get back from vacation I have to start the long and tedious process (thank you Jamie over at Welcome to the Madness for explaining to me how to fix it!  She is the go to for all things blogging, homeschooling, preparedness, homemaking...You get the picture-she is a genius!), of making my pictures smaller to make more room.  Because really what is the point of blogging without pictures!  Especially when I will have 2,547,934 pictures to post when I get back from my month long trip!!!  You are jealous aren't you?  Not about the hours of fixing my blogging mistake, but of my MONTH LONG TRIP!!!  (****Just in case any would be burglars are reading this-remember my husband will be home and our house is protected by Smith and Wesson.  I have always wanted to say that. :)  But it really is so please don't try and break in.  That concludes the "paranoid thoughts" part of my blogging...****)

I will miss you all my blog friends!!!  I will have to take a whole day to read all the posts you guys write while I am gone! :)  Did I mention that Camp (that is what our whole family calls the cabin on the lake my Grampa Smith built, where we will be staying 3 of the 4+ weeks we will be gone.  Camp is the cabin's name I guess you could say.  I will post pictures of camp when I get back...and fix my blog!)  has no phone, TV, computer, or cell service?  It is a REAL vacation. :)  So, don't have too much fun with out me and check back in about the middle of September when I will re-enter the blog world!

Friday, July 22, 2011

If you only go 2 places in the blog world today GO HERE:

1. Check me out on a great blog I LOVE called Diapers and Divinity!  It is Find-A-Friend Friday and I am the friend!!!  Stephanie's blog is amazing!  You will love her great take on motherhood, beliefs, and life in general.  Thanks for having me on your awesome blog Stephanie. :)

2.  Check out Jaime's great post on Welcome to the Madness. It is about food and  the shortage of it in parts of the world, our throw away society, and a society untouched by the world.  READ IT, WATCH THE CLIP, AND SEE WHAT POPS INTO YOUR HEAD PEOPLE!!!  LOVE this blog!  It really made me think about how prepared our family is and if I am listening to the promptings I know I am getting...

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

A glimpse into Aaron's life.

Broken record moment: Aaron works 3rd shift.  I worked third shift last night too...8pm-6am pulling tags and putting up new ones.  I was okay until around 4:30 when my ipod batter died and I took a little break.  Bad idea-stopping made me realize my head was a little foggy.  Jake got to spend the night with our long time family friends (first time he has spent the night alone at a non-family members house.  But they really are family so I don't know if it counts or not) Sharon and Ron.  Sharon is my mom's best friend from high school and I grew up with her children.
I was excited to get home and get in bed for a nap/sleep but couldn't fall asleep.  When Aaron got home at 7:00 he gave me tip to read and it would make me fall right to sleep.  It didn't...I am at too good a part in Sense and Sensibility to fall asleep!  I finally gave up around 8:30 and slept, waking up every 15 minutes until 10:30 and I headed out to get the Jakester.  He had a great time with Sharon and Ron building with Lego's, playing Mario Kart, and using this very cool Crayola tracing thing-a-ma-gig from when Sharon's children were kids.  But he missed me and gave me about a million hugs and kisses when I got to their house. :)

Fast forward and it is almost 2pm and we have one of Jake's friends from church over until after Cub Scouts tonight.  His parents are chaperone's (sp?) at Youth Conference and we planned a couple of months ago to have him over a couple of times while they are gone so he could have a break from his 2 nieces under the age of 3. :)  Who knew it would fall on a day following my first time ever working 3rd shift.  I am glad I told BiLo I could work 2 days a week for the 3 weeks before going to Vermont (good gas money for the drive) so it could give me a glimpse into the sacrifice Aaron makes for our family 5 nights a week.  I told you he rocks.  My brain feels oddly empty and I don't feel like eating at all.  Maybe I should stay up all night more often.  I wouldn't ramble on all the time and I would have to lose some weight by not eating right?

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

I looked out the window and what did I see?....

...It wasn't popcorn popping on the apricot tree like in the sweet Primary song. It was Sadie playing in her little pool that was almost empty and had the hose laying in it from when we filled it for her yesterday....You see we fill it up and she spends her time splashing it all back out (then rolling in the dirt when she is all wet...).  We turn on the hose with our foot because the hose bib is behind a bush.  It has this adorable metal bunny on it rather than the regular circle knob and it pretty easy to turn on just by tapping it down with your toe and then turning it off by putting your toe under it and lifting.  Apparently Sadie has seen us do it and turned it on herself.   I looked out the window (after letting her out 20 minutes before) and saw that the pool was over flowing and she was dancing around it happily....We have created a monster.  So, the question is how so we stop her from turning it on when ever she feels like it?  Any suggestions?

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Brain Declutter...I have a lot on my mind.

Some of it important, some of it not so much....

*I went and saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2 in 3D today.  I have read all the books and seen all the movies.  It is so strange to have spanned over a decade in one book/movie series.  It was a really good movie.  It played out like it did in my head when I read the book.  I really enjoyed it.  It seems strange that it is "over".  I am not saying I am emotional about it or anything...Just saying it has been a long time span from when I read the first book all the way to watching the last movie...As for my first 3D movie, it was cool but I don't think it makes the movie better.

*"Perspective" has been on my mind lately.  What is important? I have been thinking about life in general every since there was a death on Aaron's side of the family.  Kirsten is Brian's (Aaron's cousin who is just a year or 2 older than us) wife of not quite 6 years who just passed a way from cancer.  They have 3 children under the age of 5, one isn't even a year old.   They found out she had cancer in the winter and she died just a couple of weeks ago.  What will Brian do?  How do you pick up the pieces from that?  He lives in Texas, with no family close by.  Kirsten was a stay-at-home mom.  Will he put them in day care?  And those are the easy questions.  How do you keep the memory of your children's mother a live when none of them will remember her?  Do you pack up your whole life and move closer to family?...I can't imagine what I would do without Aaron...or what he would do with out me.  My heart aches for them...All I can do is pray for them...Did I just say "all"?  You know what I mean right?  I guess what I mean is there is nothing I can physically do that will help.  You know what I mean?  When you say your prayers tonight keep The Wren family in your thoughts please....

*We leave for Vermont in 2 weeks!  Which means: MY PARENTS GET OFF THEIR MISSION IN 2WEEKS!!!!  Where has the past year and a half gone?  We are so excited to see them!

*I finished reading Pride and Prejudice a couple of weeks ago-did I mention that?  It was so good!  I loved it!  I celebrated my first time reading it by renting the movie (the newest version.  I was going to rent the older one to but our local video store doesn't have it...) and it was wonderful.  I already knew that though because I have seen it several times.  I am onto Sense and Sensibility and I am enjoying it so far.  Now that I am done watching Jericho I can get back to reading...

*Jake had two firsts in the past 2 weeks.  He ran a mile without stopping with Aaron on Tuesday while I was at a Primary meeting and he met me at the door to "brag" because he was so proud of himself.  I am proud of him too. :)  He also bore his testimony of Joseph Smith to me a week ago Friday as his morning devotional while we were homeschooling.  It was amazing to hear him bare his testimony and feel the Spirit and know that he really did know Joseph Smith restored the gospel to the earth.  We continued to feel the Spirit while we read our scriptures that tied in perfectly with what Jake had borne testimony of.  Long story short we both had tears in our eyes and the Spirit in our heart.  What a great way to start the day!
*My sister and her family have had a really tough week.  They have waited a long time and finally welcomed a puppy into their family last Saturday.  Stella Luna is the name that Saku (my nephew and her owner-he has wanted a dog for a long time...) gave her and he said the name just came to him.  Long story short they have spent the week wondering if she was going to make it because of a very serious virus she came down with the 2nd day she was with them.  They live in another country and the vet has been coming to their house to treat her.  In the states this very sick (in critical condition) would be staying at the vet and they take care of everything. They have had this sick, sweet little puppy at their house trying to care for her the whole week.  Just today she was taken to the vet so they could try to recoup and get some sleep...So, if you don't mind keep Stella Luna and her family in your prayers too.

*Jake asked me today (this is a conversation that comes up every now and then) what I would do if someone came to our house and offered us $500,000,000.000 (yes that is 500 billion) in exchange for Sadie.   I said I would take it...Is that bad?  Jake said he wouldn't take it.  I of course would miss Sadie terribly but I feel like she would understand. I mean dogs really want their masters to be happy right?  Since this is a hypothetical I am adding in that they are wonderful people who have acres of land with rivers and lakes, other dogs for Sadie to play with, and that we can visit her anytime we want!  Does that make me a bad person?  I mean I love my dog and she is a spoiled girl that leads a great dog life...Why do I feel bad about this when it would obviously never happen?

*Did you know that if you are making a recipe that calls for cream you can substitute milk mixed with melted butter?  I didn't know it but it works.  Google is a good thing.

That is good for now...There is a lot more very random things rolling around in my noggin but I am sick of typing and I am sure you are sick of reading (if any one is).

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

I can't even come up with a title for this post...

How about stuff we've been doing that I have neglected to post about and now I have to dump them all in one post so I don't get so far behind I never feel like posting again?  Yep that sounds about right.  So, here is a quick on words but not pictures post to catch up on life.

Jake is learning how to type.  He doesn't like to write very much and he has been wanting to learn how to type the right way so we are going for it.  He is in the memorizing of the keys stage....
We set up a reading tent....I mean why would you want to read in the comfort of your air conditioned home when you can sit in a tent in your backyard, when it is 100 degrees out with a heat index of 110?  We took it down today because there was a thunder storm brewing.  I think the tent bed is about to make it's appearance again soon.
This is one of Sadie's favorite things to do.  Believe it or not I had just refilled the pool about 10 minutes before this.  She likes to dip her head in it, kick as much out as she can, get completely wet and then do this...
...Roll in the dirt.  She then starts the process over again.  Can you see why the freshly clean pool water only lasted a few minutes?  She is crazy.  I think it maybe due to all the lotion she licks off our skin as soon as we put it on.  There must be something in it that is killing her brain cells.  It is a good thing she is totally adorable, cuddly, and loving other wise she wouldn't stand a chance in this world.
We have apparently been watching too many episodes of Man vs. Wild and Dual Survivor at our house because Jake has spent a couple of days this week in the backyard practicing his surviving skills.  Here is his shelter:
He even made a rope swing in a tree to cross the snake pit.  It used to be a fish pond and Aaron finally has time to fill in the hole since he is out of school until the middle of August.  Wouldn't you know it.  He has some time off (he is still working full time 3rd shift...) and it is in the hottest possible time of the year to do yard work...
I packed a lunch and made my way out to our dangerous backyard to share a meal with my favorite survivor man.  I am a germ-a-phobe but dirt doesn't bother me.  It probably should since we have a dog that goes to the bathroom out there...Okay, I just puked in my mouth a little now that I have really thought it through...Just kidding I didn't.  Still not bothering me so much.  Strange how people bathroom germs can literally make me puke (public restrooms are one of my worst fears), but dirt that our dog has possibly peed in doesn't really bother me...It really is interesting how the human mind works.  Keep in mind I did not look like this while eating my lunch...
Sadie enjoyed my apple core...
Freezer pops are a must in the summer.  He looks kind of like he could be homeless in this picture doesn't he?
We also went to the library and enjoyed seeing some exotic animals...This lady was great.  She was funny and she gave a lot of facts about the animals...none of which are coming to mind right now...

How many people can say they have seen a Bear Cat in person?  They aren't even at very many Zoos because they are endangered.
They sniff peoples/animals heads to get to know them and show affection.  She looks like she is pain in this one but she was really just talking or something...
At the end you could wait around and pet the chinchilla and we did.  It was sooo soft.  We walked out the door and I told Jake we should probably go back and thank her.  Luckily we did because Jake got to hold it.
And while he was holding it some other children asked to pet her dog so she held the dog while Jake got to keep holding the chinchilla.  He was very proud that he got to hold it longer than any one else. :)
Okay, as usual there were a few more words than I anticipated.  I am sure that doesn't surprise you.  I am caught up on my pictures-mostly because for whatever reason I haven't taken as many as usual.  I guess I better get on it!  What have you all been doing this summer so far?

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Behind the times...

Why am I posting at 11 something at night?  Because I had to do a quick post to tell you: YOU MUST WATCH JERICHO...when I decided to check out a few other blogs I follow...An  hour later...You get the picture...When Aaron left for work at 9:00pm (I feel like a broken record, but just in case some one new happens upon my little blog: he works full time 3rd shift so he can go to school full time during the day.  He pretty much rocks.), I was laying on the couch with a headache wondering if I would be able to stay awake for the 2nd to last episode...Well, I did  stay awake and I watched the series finale too-AND IT WAS AWESOME.  I can't recall a show that ended as well as this one did.  I am sure there are tons of people that wouldn't agree, but I loved it.  Seriously, you need to watch this show!!!  It is so interesting and it makes you feel like if you looked out the window this could actually be happening.  It would be horrible!-but it really makes you thankful for the Constitution, those who are willing to fight for it, and having our freedoms intact.  If you are patriotic you will love it.  If you like dramas that could be true to life, you will love it!  There is some violence but nothing to graphic.  I am NOT a lover of violent movies or shows and I could handle this. There are some "worldly" moments, but they aren't vulgar or anything like that.  It is a good representation of our society and the effects of poor decisions.  Don't you love how I am giving a review of a TV show that isn't even on TV anymore?  You all have probably already seen it and are wondering where I have been.  If so, what did you think of it?  If you haven't and you are still wondering why the title of this post is "Behind the times.." than just take a look at the date on this ad for Jericho's 2nd and final season:
Returns Fall of 2007...I am a little behind the times.  :)  I vaguely remember seeing the previews of this, wanting to watch it, and for whatever reason we didn't.  We probably missed the first episode or something...That was back before we had a DVR and this is the kind of series that you must watch all the episodes to really be able to follow it.

Thank you Netflix's for bringing me up to date.  Thank you Norb and Elizabeth for introducing us to Netflix. :) Thank you Aaron for working 3rd shift and having down time so you could be bored and find this show to watch.   I am going to bed now, and plan on going to bed early for a week to make up for staying up late and watching all 29 episodes in a week and a half...What can I say? After almost 14 years of marriage it is hard to go to sleep alone.  I have no problem sleeping once I get in bed-it is the getting in bed part. :)  Have fun at work Aaron.  I think I stay up late partly out of guilt that I know you aren't able to sleep...You are the best.  But I am not going to lie:  I also couldn't go to sleep until I could barely keep my eyes open because I just had to see what would happen next! :)  Watch it. You will love it.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Five Minute Friday: Grateful

Over at The Gypsy Mama it is time for 5 minute Friday and I am ready to just write.  Just write with no proofreading.  Just write what comes to mind when I hear the word Grateful and a lot comes to mind!

Grateful...Grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who knows me.  Who made me who I am and who leads me every step of the way.  Grateful for a hardworking husband who sacrifices sleep to provide for us.  Grateful that he supports us in every way.  Grateful that he loves me inspite of my craziness.  Grateful for a boy who brings joy into my life every second of every day.  Grateful that he loves learning.  Grateful for his health and strength.  Grateful for his love.  I am grateful for the freedoms I know.  I am thankful to those who made and make that freedom possible.  I am free to speak, worship, and think how I choose.  And I choose to love the Lord with all my heart.  I choose to keep my family close.  I am grateful for choice.  I am grateful for Teva flip-flops, sleeping, cool breeze on a hot day, the feeling of dipping your toes in cooling water, I am grateful for life.
Stop.  Five minutes just isn't enough to even scratch the surface of what I am grateful for in my life.  What are you grateful for?

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Happy 4th of July Ya'll! This is how we do it in the South...

On the 4th of July we packed up the car and headed down to Cowpens SC and spent the day with friends and family.  We had a Redneck Independence Day as Ranee (my sis-in-law) called it.  We spent the day eating, swimming, making homemade root beer, and shootin' guns.  Aaron even got to shoot a M-16.  Who owns M-16's you ask?  Good ol' boys from Cowpens that's who.

Aaron, just floating.  And yes that is you in the background Jake.  He was concerned he wasn't in the picture.
Riannon getting ready to try a front flip.
Jake in the middle of a front flip that kind of went sideways a little...
The big kids: Jake, Elliot, Alex, Della, and Riannon.

Don't you wish this was your backyard?  I do.
The big kids built forts out of all the rafts for most of the day.

This is just some of the arsenal...If we ever get attacked I know exactly where I am going.  Aaron saw me posting this and said we will probably get a call from the FBI. :)
Ranee and Amanda, 2 of Charlie's Angels.
Aaron shooting the M-16.  I really missed the best picture.  His face after he shoot it.  Like a kid in a candy store.
Riannon smelling the root beer.
Jake got a little too much sun and didn't drink enough water so we spent a little time inside rehydrating and letting the ibuprofen kick in.  This was their game room, fully equipped with this game, pool table, pin ball machine, air hockey and all the action figures you can remember from the 80's.  This is a almost 10 year old boys dream...
If you don't know what the South Carolina flag looks like than you should look it up.  I am not from SC but I admit it is the coolest state flag.  It was being recreated right in the backyard that evening.  A Palmetto Tree with a crescent moon.  The guys tried desperately to snap a picture with there phones...I had to take a picture of them. :)
My camera is just a point in shoot (that I LOVE with all my heart don't get me wrong.) and I couldn't get a good picture with it any more than they could with their phones!

Night swimming..
Glowing wrist bands for the big kids...
...and the little girls.
The frog we shared the pool with that day was glad when we were done swimming and he came out of hiding.

This is a picture of the guys hurriedly moving the fireworks away so they wouldn't all light up at once.  Just a few seconds before this the fireworks were all about a foot away from the lite ones...

Happy Birthday America! I am thankful to live in the most amazing country in the world.  I am also thankful for our forefathers that through Heavenly inspiration established and fought for this free country.  I am also extremely thankful for all of our soldiers that have fought and continue to do so for all of us to be able to spend Independence Day this way.
(Sorry we didn't get to see you Nana and Papa Harmon.  We will be heading back done soon.)

400th post...

This is literally the first time I have been on the computer in a week.  There is just too much summer fun going on to be at the computer.  Not to mention that Aaron has gotten me addicted to the old TV show from a few years back called "Jericho".  It is on Netflix and I (and we, when Aaron has been home) have spent the last several nights (besides the 4th)  staying up way to late (1:30 one night...) watching episode, after episode.  Have you seen it?  It is about a little town in Kansas struggling to survive after the US has been attacked (by who, I don't know yet...) and had several major cities (including DC) obliterated  by nuc's.  That makes it sound like I am a weird-oh for wanting to watch it, but trust me it is awesome!!!  What does this have to do with this being my 400th post?  Nothing. It really just explains why I haven't been on the computer for a whole week because I usually blog at night after Aaron has gone to work ...

Jake saw on my dashboard that my next post was going to be my 400th and he told me it should be something really special.  No pressure there.  Maybe subconsciously that is another reason I haven't posted...I finally decided on the something special that this post could be about.  Or maybe this is just my way of getting out of really having to think about writing something down.  Any who...July 1st was the day we could file to homeschool because that is the day our county considers the start of the official 2011-2012 school year.  Last Friday we got on line and named (Jake decided on the name finally) and filed for our homeschool.  And because I am a picture taking fool I have pictures.  This is a big moment-I wanted to document it!  Are you bored yet with my forever talking of homeschooling?  Sorry.  The novelty has yet to wear off.  :)

So, our homeschool is called: Harmon's Learning Academy. At first it was going to be Jake's Learning Academy but he decided it should be Harmon in case we ever have a baby. :)


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Blair, David (1820–1899)

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This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, (MUP), 1969

David Blair (1820-1899), journalist, was born on 4 June 1820 in County Monaghan, Ireland, son of Thomas Blair, soldier, and his wife Jane, née Burns, both of Scottish descent. After elementary education he became a 'juvenile teacher' and then went to the Hibernian Military School, Dublin, where he was a model pupil, gifted in composition. He left in 1835, worked in an uncle's business but found it distasteful and in 1840 joined the Ordnance Survey of Ireland as a calculator stationed in Limerick and then Cork. In 1841 he transferred to Southampton where for almost nine years he worked on the triangulation of England and the survey of London. Intelligent, zealous and ambitious, he remained unsatisfied in his work, even speculating in 1848 on a military career, and found expression in supporting the Chartists as a lecturer in Southampton, in reading and in church activities. Deeply interested in intellectual movements he professed social reformist ideas within a Presbyterian piety which provided him at 30 with the missing direction. Attracted by an advertisement in the British Banner, he joined John Dunmore Lang's contingent of trainee clergymen for New South Wales and arrived in the Clifton at Sydney in March 1850.

He was ordained in October and appointed to the Bathurst Street Church. Influenced by Lang's republican views and democratic activism, Blair clashed with him and by November 1851 was at the Turon goldfield, lecturing, preaching, writing and even prospecting. The life was rough and unrewarding and he soon returned to Sydney, joining (Sir) Henry Parkes on the Empire. By January 1852 he was in Victoria, eagle-eyed for advancement. He soon achieved prominence as secretary of the Anti-Transportation League. He was also the Sydney Morning Herald's correspondent and sub-editor on the Argus until 1854 when, dissatisfied with his wage and angered by the conservatism of the Argus during Eureka, he tried unsuccessfully to start a more radical paper. Not surprisingly, he joined Thomas Bright, an ex-Empire man, on the raw, outspokenly egalitarian Age. Involved in political problems similar to those he had pondered as a Chartist, he continuously advocated such principles as fully representative responsible government, totally free selection and the complete separation of church and state especially in education, while attacking inequality, the squattocracy and corrupt politicians. As a supporter of the diggers he also attacked illegal and unjust actions of government at public meetings as well as in print, and so became associated with the radical Land Reform League of 1855. He entered politics himself in 1856.

Periodic employments characterized Blair's career, but his first years in Melbourne were stabilizing. In 1852 he had married Annie Macpherson, sister of James Grant, later minister of lands, and settled to a career as journalist, politician, controversialist and littérateur. With a slashing style, relentless principles and prodigious knowledge he contributed more than the ten thousand leaders attributed to him and the innumerable speeches, lectures, articles, dramatic criticism and letters-to-the-editor on such subjects as surveying, spiritualism, drinking, democracy, Shakespeare or immortality. His articulate involvement in his intellectual milieu, local and British, established him as a man of quality. The Victorian Review could depend on Blair for an abstruse article, the Beefsteak Club for a speech, the Shakespeare Society for a debate, at a time when such men were not abundant. Privately Blair saw himself not only as an intellectual but as a Christian. The man who in 1860 claimed to know the lost secret of Christianity and followed scientific developments remained assured of literal New Testament truth and his own immortality. He had attacked the earlier 'mental hanky-panky' of spiritualism, phrenology and free-thought and was in 1893 debating with theosophists in the Bacchus Marsh Express. His confidence sustained him throughout his multifarious activities.

As a politician Blair achieved little, though as member for Talbot in 1856-59 and Crowlands in 1868-71 he served his constituents' concerns with roads, water and leases; as a parliamentarian his fidelity to constitutional forms made him unpopular. In the 1860s and 1870s he served on the technological commission and was secretary to the commissions on religious education, penal discipline and friendly societies. His public career culminated in the publication of three historical works: in 1876 the fulsome introduction to Henry Parkes, Speeches on Various Occasions Connected With the Public Affairs of New South Wales 1848-1874; in 1878 the pioneering work, The History of Australasia; and in 1881 the grandiose Cyclopedia of Australasia, confidently presented as the essential reference book. He intended to further patriotism and to make a permanent contribution to the civilization of the south, but his work was marred by unashamed plagiarism, inaccuracy and subjective assessments. He died on 19 February 1899 at his home, Oyama, Armadale, and was buried in the Melbourne general cemetery. He was survived by two sons and four daughters.

Too dogmatic as a scholar, too unimaginative as a literary man and too principled as a politician, Blair's contribution came from his role as a man of letters and his talent for journalism. Lack of humility and sympathy led to an unpopularity entirely unrelated to the high standards by which he lived and wrote.

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  • A. D. Gilchrist (ed), John Dunmore Lang, vol 1 (Melb, 1951)
  • Parliamentary Debates (Victoria), 1856-59, 1868-71
  • Melbourne Review, 2 (1877), 3 (1879)
  • Victorian Review, 1 (1879)
  • Centennial Magazine, 1 (1888), 2 (1889)
  • Age (Melbourne), 7 Dec 1854, 9 Apr 1856, 20 Feb 1899
  • Argus (Melbourne), 26 Dec 1885
  • Table Talk, 23 Aug 1899
  • David Blair papers (National Library of Australia)
  • David Blair letters (State Library of Victoria)
  • Henry Parkes letters (State Library of New South Wales).

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Jill Roe, 'Blair, David (1820–1899)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,, published first in hardcopy 1969, accessed online 20 July 2019.

This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, (MUP), 1969

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John Cheyne Garran (1905-1976), grazier and historian, was born on 21 September 1905 at Prahran, Melbourne, second of four sons of Sydney-born (Sir) Robert Randolph Garran, secretary to the Attorney-General's Department, and his wife Hilda, née Robson, from England. Educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, John studied arts for one year at the University of Melbourne. In 1925 he rowed in the Victorian VIII. That year he began work as a jackeroo on Mossgiel station, near Mossgiel, New South Wales, and rose to overseer before 1929 when he took up his own property, Bonshaw, in the Federal Capital Territory. He later added nearby Erindale to his holding.

On 26 September 1932, at the chapel of his old school, Garran married Elsie Pearl Chrisp; they were to have a daughter before being divorced in 1938. Enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force on 1 June 1940, he was sent to Malaya in February 1941 as a corporal in the 8th Divisional Supply Column. He was captured in February 1942 and compelled to work on the Burma-Thailand Railway. Released in August 1945, he returned to Australia and was discharged from the A.I.F. on 3 December.

Garran had specialized in raising sheep for wool and mutton, but he also grew crops, ran some cattle and kept a number of pigs. Thoughtful and scientific in his approach, in 1937 and 1938 he was awarded master farmer certificates for 'skill and enterprise in diversified farming'. In 1948 he won the New South Wales Agricultural Bureau's progressive farmer competition. Next year he travelled overseas to study the latest methods of agriculture. On 7 December 1955 at St Paul's Anglican Church, Canterbury, Sydney, he married a 38-year-old dietician Winifred Ellen Wilson; they were to have two sons and a daughter.

Chairman of the board of Canberra Community Hospital in the late 1940s, Garran was also an executive-member of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales and of the Australian Capital Territory division of the Arts Council of Australia. He performed with and was president (1953-56) of the Canberra Repertory Society: 'because of his own deafness, he was always very conscious of the need to project clearly and this added weight to his utterances both on and off stage'.

From 1970 Garran contributed articles on the wool industry to the journals of the Canberra and District and the Royal Australian historical societies. With his knowledge of sheep-breeding, he became sceptical of previous interpretations of the development of the Australian merino and believed that John Macarthur's role in founding the industry had been overrated. He set out to write a thorough account of the historical and genetic development of the merino. His manuscript was to be completed by Leslie White and published as Merinos, Myths and Macarthurs (Canberra, 1985).

Six ft 4 ins (193 cm) tall and loose limbed, Garran had a subtle sense of humour and was unfailingly courteous. Despite suffering prolonged dysentery as a prisoner of war, 'honest John' had been a model of duty, self-sacrifice and devotion to his mates. He bore no lasting hatred towards the Japanese. As a historian he displayed practicality, common sense and perseverance. Survived by his wife and the children of both his marriages, he died on 5 January 1976 at Red Hill, Canberra, and was cremated.

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  • R. R. Garran, Prosper the Commonwealth (Syd, 1958)
  • A. Edgeworth, The Cost of Jazz Garters (Canb, 1992)
  • Canberra Historical Journal, Mar 1976
  • Country Life, 15 Mar 1946
  • Bulletin, 16 Apr 1947
  • Canberra Times, 7 Jan 1976
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C. C. Creswell, 'Garran, John Cheyne (1905–1976)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,, published first in hardcopy 1996, accessed online 20 July 2019.

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  • The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) has for sixty years attempted to solve Fermi's paradox: if intelligent life is relatively common in the universe, where is everybody? Examining SETI through this lens, this volume summarises current thinking on the prevalence of intelligent life in the universe, and discusses sixty-six distinct solutions to the so-called paradox. It describes the methodology of SETI, and how many disciplines feed into the debate, from physics and biology, to philosophy and anthropology. The presented solutions are organised into three key groups: rare-Earth solutions, suggesting planetary habitability, life and intelligence are uncommon; catastrophist solutions, arguing civilisations do not survive long enough to make contact; and non-empirical solutions, those that take theoretical approaches, such as that our methodology is flawed. This comprehensive introduction to SETI concludes by looking at the future of the field and speculating on humanity's potential fate.

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    Part I. Introduction:
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    2. Fact A – the great silence
    3. Classifying scenarios and solutions to the paradox
    Part II. Rare Earth Solutions:
    4. Habitable worlds are rare
    5. Life is rare
    6. Intelligence is rare
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    20. Probe exploration is dangerous
    21. The aliens are quiet
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    25. They are already here
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On my way to Washington D.C. on 16th October I took some photos of Baltimore skyline from the bus window and I uploaded one of them to Instagram with the title “Never more, never more… Baltimore” as a citationistic tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, one of the main writers (Lovecraft and Le Fanu being the others) who inspired me to start writing tales during my childhood. The next morning I happened to visit the Capitol, right on the first day after the end of government shutdown, and while I was entering the rotunda, a photographer took some pics of my visitors group. The same day I spotted out by chance Alec Baldwin posing for a photo session behind the Smithsonian Castle just after I've been interviewed by a tv news crew along the National Mall. Eager to complete my American tour of Vermeer’s paintings started by visiting The Metropolitan Art Museum and the Frick Collection in New York, in the early morning of the 18th I reached out the National Gallery. While I was waiting for the museum to open, I glanced at the dozens of newspaper front pages displayed outside the Newseum on the opposite side of the road. On the The Sun of Baltimore an iconic photo of people entering the Capitol Rotunda illustrated the main article “Back to work and on to next deadline”. When I realized that the man in brownie jacket and hat portrayed in that photo was not my doppelganger, I instinctively asked to a person near me if there was a way to buy a copy of that newspaper in Washington. He enthusiastically answered that he was from Baltimore and that he could easily send me a copy. Yet this has been just one of the many numinous chains of coincidences I experienced during my USA adventure.

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It will be our 7th year as husband and wife. Time really flies when you’re having fun!

We’re swimming with the whale sharks, watching the fireflies and kayaking at the river. Yup, we’re off to Donsol, Sorsogon! We hope to see Mayon volcano up close, too! This is perhaps the closest I can get to my dream of becoming a wildlife photographer for National Geographic or Discovery. I hope I already have my DSLR by this time.

Back up plan is to go to Camotes Island and Moalboal in Cebu. Actually, we’ve been wanting to go there since last year. It’s just that we can only cover two islands with our limited vacation leave. Since Cebu is easier to go to, we decided to prioritize Donsol this year. After all, we haven’t been to Bicol together. I’ve been to Legaspi a few years back and had a magnificent view of Mayon. However, as with all my travels without my hubby, it wasn’t as exciting and I hardly took photos. So here’s our chace. And I can’t wait to taste the authentic Bicol Express again!

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