I wish I could update this more frequently, since I really got into it for a while. But I just have so much less time now.
My days are about half filled with working on the course I am TA’ing (TA = Teaching Assistant). Which means testing the labs (circuit design and operation), doing the homework and labs, preparing downloadable solutions for the website and doing the grading. The rest of the time I am preparing my oral exam (topic: Patterson Methods) which has a tentative date of October 19.
Our Holly is in fruit, which is the first time I remember since we bought the house:
< Holly
Just now as I was taking these photos our front garden was overrun with a plague of flying ant-like insects. There were so many we could see them eating the leaves away on one of our plants. We blasted them with evil toxins from a can (which I didn’t enjoy doing, because I expect the collateral damage to spiders and the like was high).
KLS got an early birthday present today – a ‘Rose Coral’ DS Lite:
Which is timely, since she only just started playing her new favourite game, Cooking Mama! This is a game in which you cook (mostly Japanese) food by completing various minigames (such as cutting vegetables or measuring rice). She enjoys it a great deal and has been playing it constantly since I bought it for her. Since it’s a mere $20 here in the States, if you have a DS you may want to pick it up.
I just told her I blogged Cooking Mama, which she is playing as I type, and she said she was just ‘making a spring roll’. She was at the stage where she was ‘ripping the heads off the shrimps’ 🙂
Nintendo finally announced the street date (November 19) and price ($250) of the Wii this past week. I’ll be there launch day to buy one (and Zelda, and an additional controller). The idea of a pack-in-game (Wii Sports) is a great one, and I think it will be very successful for them. Not that they were going to have any trouble selling the Wii in the first place…