Imported From Livejournal

Here’s the news from my mom:

Dad called to find out about your building permit. He was told it was
not ready, and it has a date stamp of March 4th (even though he has a
receipt dated February 7th). The building inspector had some kind of
accident and broke his ribs, so they don’t know when he’ll be back at
work. Dad tried to call the builder, to see if he can push something
along, since there is a part-time associate building inspector, but
there was no answer. The good news is, your address is 194 Berry
Corner Road.

I got my picture in the paper! Jessi and I are small and in the background of the picture of the Trivial Pursuit event we went to Saturday night. Our team ended up in 3rd place, and my brother and I each won door prizes. It was quite a fun event.

I took the plunge and ordered Vonage, to make calls over the Internet for much cheaper than a regular phone line. Our new phone number is (774)-490-7314, which we’ll be taking with us when we move to Charlton. However, since we don’t have the hardware for it yet, that phone number will just redirect to our regular phone line for the time being. The number is based in Sturbridge, so my parents and friends in the Charlton area will be able to call us as a local call, even while we’re still in Worcester. It’s pretty nifty.

The Southbridge Evening News reports that nobody has taken out nomination papers for the position of Town Moderator in the town of Charlton. The deadline for taking out papers is Wednesday, and the deadline for submitting them with 50 signatures on them is Thursday. If nobody officially signs up for wanting the position, I may submit my voter registration for Charlton and start a write-in campaign. I figure with my parents, brother, wife, and self I’ve got 5 votes, and I can probably get a few more with our other contacts in town.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. — Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)

Background: pezzonovante took a religion quiz where he scored as an atheist, but in the discussion he said that “In belief I’m agnostic, like any good scientist, but I practice a more atheistic religion due to the lack of anything to hang my hat on (see also ‘Good Scientist’).” I replied further down that “It would be scientific to examine the evidence, and then come up with a ‘current working theory’ as to the existence and nature of God, which could of course change as more evidence is discovered and presented.” Then, rgfgompei was a little confused that I said that, saying:

I just spent a good chunk of yesterday evening and this evening setting up a wiki on cooperjr.name. Hopefully, this will make it easier for Jessi and I to edit it, and maybe we can have some sections for all our friends to edit if people are interested. I also added on a quotes page, porting over Jessi’s original “Welcome to Mass. Academy” page, as well as adding a few more quotes.

• Last week, I got notification that I’ve officially graduated from WPI.
• Yesterday, my car went past the 80,000 mile mark.
• Today, we had worship for the first time in the new expanded part of the church building.
• Tomorrow, we should hear back about the status of our building permit.
• Next Sunday, Jessi has a birthday.

Well, I’ve seen other people doing it, so why not follow the crowd for once. Here is a list of 10 things that I’ve done that you probably haven’t, in no particular order: I’ve

1. Scored an Out on my high school softball team from the position of Scorekeeper.
2. Become a level 1 Magic: the Gathering judge
3. Gone to Costa Rica 3 times
4. Enjoyed learning and using Scheme
5. Seriously considered purchasing a 26-port networking switch or two for my home
6. Itemized the deductions on my tax return
7. Completely reconfigured my home network, including replacing hardware, merely so that I could try running IPv6
8. Attended a rally on the Mall in Washington, DC
9. Got my name and picture on Microsoft’s web site
10. Started my three WPI projects in reverse order (MQP, IQP, Suff) and completed them in the correct order (Suff, IQP, MQP)

Just since there may be some programmers still out there who don’t realize this, I figured I’d throw up this Public Service Announcement for them: There Ain’t No Such Thing As Plain Text.