Well, interest in the house has been pretty minimal thusfar. We did have one couple who “absolutely LOVED the house” make us a ridiculously low offer. I guess they didn’t love it THAT much. LOL! We aren’t in a hurry as we would really rather not move before Christmas, so it all worked out for the best.
The good news is Jourdan competed in the Academic Olympics for southern St. Tammany parish last weekend. Academic Olympics is a testing competition for several different curricula, in this case administered by the local High School Honor Society. Jourdan competed in sixth grade Social Studies, and won FIRST place. WOW!!!!! My, he was proud of himself. We were too. Congratulations Jourdan, well done my boy!
We have gone through three different investors in our attempt to roll up three high technology companies with no interest. We are still talking to my friend about investing, but the discussions seemed to be stalled at present. I’ve got another friend in Houston who has been courting investors for a while for another investment that I will approach after the first of December if our current discussion doesn’t go anywhere. Two of the three owners realize that they have to do something in order to service the large anticipated increase in business for next year, so if we don’t lock them up shortly, I think our deal is going to fall apart. Time will tell.
Not much more to tell at present. Meghan is home for Thanksgiving, and it’s great having her home, with her turtle, Bosco. We turtle sat over the weekend while Meghan went to the LSU-Ole Miss football game. He did get left in the car Friday night after we got home from picking him up. It got rather cold, but he was no worse for wear, thank goodness. That’s the second time I’ve tested Bosco’s ability to endure temperature extremes. Hopefully it will be the last!
Things are starting to pick up at work. I’m rewriting the software for the End Measurement Device (See June 19th, 2005 entry) to allow for more precise calibration. The software is written for use on a Symbol palm based PDA. The software development package, Satellite Forms, is pretty rudimentary, so it’s taking a while to get the functionality that I want in the system. It’s sort of like a very stripped down Visual Basic. The package has extremely limited editing functionality so there is a lot of repetitive typing and copying and pasting to text editors for higher level functionality, like find and replace! Canyon Offshore has also asked me to quote on the construction of another Suction Pile Control system like the one I built for them some 5+ years ago. Hopefully my prices won’t shock them too much! I’ll post more about that later as an Engineering entry!
That’s all for now, please have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!