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Amanda and I have a bird feeder outside one of our windows. It has a mirror on the back so when we look through it, the birds don’t see us, but we can see them. We’ve had different types of birds come to it. Mostly we’ve had dark-eyed juncos coming to this feeder. We used to have a different feeder without the mirror so it was easier for the birds to see us and they wouldn’t stay very long. Well today I was watching some stuff online and heard a different type of whistle coming through the window. I looked over and saw a different type of bird. I have seen lots of these birds in Washington at Amanda’s folks’, but never here. It was a chickadee. I do not know which kind. According to my bird books there are three different types of chickadee in Oregon. This bird was doing something no bird had done before in this feeder. It was attacking its reflection. It was the funniest thing to watch. It would attack its reflection, and then get something to eat, and then attack again. Eventually it left and a dark-eyed junco came. Then the chickadee returned and fought with the junco, who scared the chickadee away. All in all, it was some nice bird watching.

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Last night, Amanda was gone on another retreat. This was her third and final one. I think it was her final one – at least for training anyways. She went with her staff to Silver Creek Falls, so I was a little jealous. They are actually still gone, so I hope that they are getting plenty to eat and drink. Because I wanted to be like my wife, I decided to sleep on the floor in the living room with mats and a sleeping bag. I also used to lantern to read. It was the first time using this sleeping bag and it was mighty warm.

Amanda has an ultrasound on the 30th of August to determine the age of the little guy. Hopefully we’ll get that situated and then let everyone know exactly when the doctors say he is due.

Last night Amanda was gone and had asked me to do some laundry. The machines in our building were replaced recently with machines that take a card swipe instead of quarters. So ITS had to hook some hardware up to get them working properly. Well they were up and ready to go yesterday so I went to swipe my card (which I have had tons of trouble with) and nothing happened. Well I swiped it several times and finally it said that there were no funds available. I knew that wasn’t true because I had just put money on it the week before. So I went to the machines I used before on the other side of campus and they said the same thing. Well I tried swiping my card in the machine to add money to it, and that wasn’t working either. I was getting a little frustrated. So I walked to the Law Library and tried using their machine to add money, but the card was not responding.

Well this morning I went into the card office and they fixed it up for me. The magnetic strip had gone bad. It still worked for the doors because they use different strips or something like that. Now I can do my laundry.

Something else I wanted to mention. When Eric started his blog, he said that he was just going to ramble and write what he thinks. I guess he stopped thinking on April 3, 2006, because I have not seen a post since then.

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post 19

I love my wife very much. She is gone a lot right now with work, and I really appreciate all that she does. I miss her right now because she is usually home. I also do not feel very good, and I do not like being by myself when I do not feel very good. I also have to go to PEC tomorrow because both the EQ president and first counselor are out of town. So I hope that I am feeling better tomorrow.

Well I am going to go read the Priesthood lesson.

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I went grocery shopping today. I usually never think about this because it doesn’t happen to me very often, but I got the loudest shopping cart ever. The wheels were so blasted loud I hated moving around the store. I was just glad to get out of there. Anyways, that is all I have.

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Can you believe it? I just posted the other day, and here I am posting again. I am home alone right now because Amanda is gone at a work retreat. I do not think that there has ever been a night that we have not been together that has been because of a thing that I had to go to. Every single time that Amanda and I have been apart at night, it is because of things that she needs to go to. Sometimes I just wish that I had to go to something like a scout campout or some other activity. Of course I am not a scout leader anymore. I was put in after all the summer fun last year, and taken out before it this year. Oh well. That's the way it goes. I have been playing with music stuff and hanging out here. Pretty boring and I wish that my pal Amanda was here. I should go to bed because I am getting tired, but then I may feel even lonelier. I think I will fall asleep to a movie or something. That is what I did before I had a wife. I would kiss my movies to sleep. I guess that sounds weird and that is because it is. Well, good night to you all.

Skippy

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Well, since the last time I posted I have become a world traveler. I have now been in several different countries (along with my wife) but I have still not seen all that I wish to see. We went through Western Europe and had a grand time. We were there for the month of June and got back in the beginning of July. I know that most of the people that will read this already know that I did this trip, but I really don’t have a lot of other stuff to write. I had a great time at a couple of family reunions in July – one in Lafayette, Oregon, and the other on Fox Island, Washington. I wish that my family lived closer so that we could go to each others’ homes and hang out and do laundry and play games and make movies and share recipes and the like. I am glad that I get to do many of those things with my parents who are not far away.

School starts u again in less than four weeks. I am excited and a little scared because all my classes are one right after the other and I really don’t want to get burned out. But I have to get it done, and I want to get it done, so I am going to get it done.

I love my wife very much. She is very nice to me. I am not writing this because she is reading over my shoulder but if she were I would still put the same stuff. She works hard, and I try to do things around the house, which never seem to get caught up on. We are thinking of becoming apartment managers when we are not living here at Willamette anymore.

It is late and I have a latch-hook project that I am working on and I want to do a few more lines before I go to bed, so good night to all of you who have been waiting for me to post again.

Skippy