Memoriam

Val Lindholm
01-Jun-1942 01-Aug-2005
We miss you

Robert attended the memorial service for Val in Breckenridge today. It was a stirring event. There were many people there that he hadn't seen since we moved from Summit in 1999. Susie wanted to attend, but her classes prevented it. Many people there asked about her.

The Val's sons, Doug and Greg, were there and they setup a table with a large variety of pictures that Val had. There was also a painting that Val did (in the bottom left of the pic) of the cross on calvary. He wasn't particularly religious but he was astonishingly spiritual. The service mentioned several times that he had issues with organized religion. They also had on display one of his 'big books,' a daily reader, and his bible (very well worn, highlighted, and marked).

There was a potluck luncheon afterwards, with quite a few people in attendance. Robert wishes he didn't leave the real camera behind or he would have taken some better (quality and quantity) pix. He arranged to take it and promptly set it down just before leaving. He didn't notice the oversight until it was too late to go back and get it.

There was quite a bit of reminiscences of Val and his impact that he had on every one that met him.

Of course Bill was present. He forgot that he had his camera until later in the luncheon. So here is a pic of Bill being Bill - taking pix of everone there. We should work on him a bit to get a digital camera.

Broadband

Well the DSL line is up and running!!!!
Now we can really multi-task (on the technical side).

We had a fairly spectacular storm (for these parts) with wind, hail, rain, lightning, and a few power failures. The official rainfall was 0.97 inch. To put it in context, the average for the month (the whole month) is 0.91 inch. It doesn't touch what's been happening in the gulf coast area but it's pretty wild for here.

Susie is finishing up a presentation that is her homework for school - of course the DSL showed up after she was 90% done with it. The presentation she's putting together is supposed to be about 45 minutes long based on a chapter from the book for the class and she's been searching the web for the material to put in it. The school had some transparencies of the charts and lists from the book but most of them were missing (she found out that they were missing after she selected the chapter).

Robert spent the day at a transmitter site, since it was zapped last night by lightning. The radio group also just entered another "book" (ratings period) so the timing of the station failure was perfect (ala Murphy's law).

Neither of us got much sleep last night as a result of the phone calls; the equipment at 23:29, calls to the equipment trying to get it running, the 04:30 call from the other Robert that he found out it was down. Robert decided that the trip was too dangerous in the dark since the (long and very rocky) road was wet. In fact when he did go up in the morning he slid off the road at one point (just into a ditch with weeds) but he drove thru it.

Spam - n - more

We've turned on an anti-spam feature to the site since we've been getting spam comments. (we've been deleting the spam manually) It won't prevent comments - it just adds a step where you have to enter a displayed series of characters before it'll be posted. The feature is called word verification and it prevents bots from posting comments.

We went to the Colorado Mountian Winefest on Saturday. We found that our palates are in pretty good company, since the wines we liked were the Plum Creek Riesling which took Best of the Fest at the festival and the Old Town Winery Gewurztraminer (which is actually a sparkling wine and a bronze medalist at the fest).

Susie is still trying to get into the swing of being a student. At least she only has to deal with it for a year.

Robert ordered a DSL hookup so that should be up-n-runnin' this week. We're still looking into a domain name, so when we know what it'll be we will be changing email addresses to it. We'll try to keep the existing accounts active for a while afterward so we won't miss anyone.

Yeah!

Susie passed her Praxis test (teacher candidate test) - despite the fact she didn't think that she would.

Susie started classes this past friday evening and 8-4:30 on saturday. Right after she got out of school we headed out to Denver. We stayed with Robert's dad. We went to Denver for a business meeting that Susie had to attend.

Robert has also been working more on his linux computer. He retired the LinSpire software (it requires a paid subscription to keep it running) and moved to . It takes a bit more work but he likes the greater flexibility.

In a couple of weeks Robert will be going to the memorial service for Val (in Breckenridge at Father Dyer Church on Saturday, September 24th at 11:00 a.m.) but Susie will be left behind with classes.