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Last night, Ken and I took Yvonne, Eddie and Randy to our local Mexican restaurant for dinner. We had a great dinner, then went home and got caught up (well, maybe not totally) on each other’s lives. Ken went to bed around 10:00 and I stayed up a bit later, but finally had to call it a night. They’re leaving this morning to head down to Louisianna where they will be attending the wedding of one of Yvonne’s friends and visiting with her family. They’ll come back up here next week on their way to Virginia Beach, so we’ll have a second visit with them.  I would love to talk to Eddie about his experiences in Iraq, but there just wasn’t time these last two days. We did talk a bit about what he’s going to be doing going forward. I asked him if he was going to learn  any foreign languages and he said no, but that he was seriously considering learning Chinese as he would receive more pay if he had one of the “hot” languages — Chinese, Korean, Farsi or Arabic — I asked him if he had any plans to go to the language school out in California and he said no, but he knew quite a bit about the school, so I think he’s probably checked it out.

All this talk of languages made me think of Kitty’s son, Matthew who has taken quite a few languages in college — last I heard he was taking Swahili and Chinese. He has quite an affinity for language and picks them up pretty quickly. He graduates this year and will be entering the Army.

Our new server is supposed to be here today (snow willing in the North). It was supposed to be here yesterday, but got held up in Chicago. Guess it will be a really long day today as the push is to get it up and running and the database transferred and the program update installed and tested. I hope we can get it all done tonight, but I’m prepared to come tomorrow after the show is over to finish up.

Well, I need to get back to work.

Y’all take care!
Love,

Margaret