Category: Family stuff

MCAT scores were posted yesterday at the AAMC website. Last night my wife and I logged on to check her score for the August exam. After some breath holding waiting for the pages to load over our puny dialup connection we finally got the scores. She did much better this time around and improved her score by 6 points over her previous test! A big achievement. So now much stress is relieved and life can get back to being mostly normal.

Well, seems my mother-in-law has decided what our girl child (should we ever choose to have one) will look like. The image comes from an Adobe ad in some technology in education trade magazine. Apparently the girl in the ad is of Asian descent and bears a resemblance to my wife when she was a kid. Who knows.

My wife’s parents even dug out her old baby shoes. Yet another thing to ‘encourage’ us onto the road to babydom. Teeny little leather shoes with her name written on them.

I think I shall see about getting the shoes electroplated. It’ll look cool on our knick knack shelf.

When you’re newlyweds, everybody drops subtle hints about providing them with their first/next grandchild/niece/nephew. With us they don’t hint anymore, and there’s nothing subtle about it either.

My brother-in-law is planning on getting a Yamaha FJR1300 sometime next spring. He’s trying to convince me to get a motorbike too. I doubt I’d get one like he’s planning on getting, but the new Honda Silverwing scooter looks pretty cool, and is a little more my speed (no shifting to deal with). My father-in-law already has a 1987 Honda Helix that I’ve ridden. It’s a fun little bike to ride.

I doubt I’ll be getting a bike anytime soon, although a Trek 2300 would be pretty sweet. For the type of riding I do, it’s probably overkill, so I’ll settle for a Trek 2000.

Since we’re saving for a house now, any big purchases will have to be carefully scrutinized. I don’t think I’ll be getting any of these for a while yet. Besides, I have nowhere to store them until we do get a house.

Labour day, and I’m taking the day off. Weekend was pretty decent. We were up at my wife’s parents’ again this weekend. This time her aunt and uncle (and associated horde of 6) were visiting, on their way back to NYC from their Florida vacation. It was an entertaining weekend. The first time in a long time there were that many people in the house. We ended up doing a bunch of cooking again, but it wasn’t too bad. At least there was no barbequing for me. We left that for my wife’s brother this time.

First half of the MCAT is over, and my wife says she feels better about the verbal section this time than she did last time. So if she can pull off the same scores for the rest of the test that she got last time, I think she’ll be a shoe-in for med school.

Here are a couple of neat NOAA satellite photos. Before the big blackout a couple of days ago, and after. It’s neat to see just how much of that area went dark.