Beebe4

Going to Florida tomorrow, and very excited. 3 days at the beach hanging with the family… and two days off from work… can’t complain about that.

Here are some photos of Olivia the newest member of the Mccammon family.

So my friend at work just showed me a site that translates any page into a eubonics readable site (it’s called gizoogle):

Here is what my site would look like if I were cooler.

My friend from college, EN (short for Edwin Noah, but said as you would Ian), works for GE, setting up some big plants or something or other. Anywho, he was recently transfered to a city near Rome and sent out the email below.

A little backgroud, Ewa is his polish wife and they have been living in Italy for about 2 years now.

I’ve been assigned to Civitavecchia, on the coast, near Rome, for the next two weeks.

So I drove through Rome today, around it really on the GRA (The Rome Ring). Traffic was normal, but the attitude in Italy is hardly such. On Saturday night when the Pope died, we had just finished dinner and were walking through the old town to a bar and people were milling around outside of the church. I was with the English teachers and when I asked the barmaid if the Pope had just passed, she said “Si, dieci minuti fa.” ~Ten minutes ago~. They were holding a mass/vigil for the Pope when he passed. EVERY tv channel showed nothing but footage from St. Peter’s, Pope montages and related news.

On Sunday, the only thing on was Mass from St. Peter’s Square. They suspended the soccer matches for the weekend. Rome added something like 40 trains a day funneling into the city. I could not get a reservation where I wanted and am therefore staying on the coast away from the city for work this week. MTV has been showing nothing but inspirational-type videos for the last two days, streaming text messages across the bottom.

I had immediately texted Ewa when I heard the Pope was dead. She heard the announcement in between songs, inserted insignificantly it seems, between country hits on the Armed Forces Network radio station in Frankfurt. Poland, according to Ewa’s sister Hania, has shutdown. The mourning period has commenced and will remain until the funeral. Hania and her boyfriend, Sebastian, are considering coming here for the weekend.

Ewa is flying back from Frankfurt on Wednesday, into Rome. My sister Becky is traveling to Rome on Thursday to stay with us in Civitavecchia and she and Ewa are going to go to the funeral on Friday. I, of course, am working, but they will be in my thoughts. Even my atheist self was in tears watching the coverage on Saturday night. Truly the biggest scene to hit Rome in 27 years is happening in the next few days. It’s a very interesting time to be here.

E.N.

More Georgia Tech and Norfolk news:
Norfolk is number 34 on the list of unwired (WiFi) cities
and surprisingly (and sadly)
GT is number 100 on the list of unwired colleges.

Just wanted to say happy birthday to my younger sister Amanda Jane! Can you feel the virtual love?

I hope you get your choice of cheese for your birthday. (the present is in the mail)

Apparently, someone wrote a program that notifies you when your laundry is done…

Check it out

Had a great time with almost all of my family last weekend. We celebrated birthdays and Easter and just got to spend some QT with everyone. Mandy was missed. I am excited that we get to see more of them over the next few months. Can’t wait for the mini vacation in Alligator Point.

So I have comments, and a few friends and family that read this blog thing… so I would like to ask you guys to review Heidi’s site and give us some CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM… it would help us make the site better, which means more money for Heidi, which means nicer Christmas present for Ben and Sherry!!

So please visit www.dig-itdesigns.com and give it the once over, kick the tires, what have you… then come back here and post some comments about idea to make it a better website… lacking information, confusing things… etc… if you prefer you can just email me your comments.

Thanks!

So I have gone and gotten myself addicted to a TV show. I am not afraid to say I love watching The West Wing. With my DVR (Digital Video Recorder), that I am paying an extra $10 buck a month for to rent the box through my cable company, I can record three different series since Bravo is showing them at an insane frequency. They play it 4 times a day. There are only 6 seasons with 22 shows each… They are going to run through them like nobodies business. But I don’t mind, because I need to catch up.

Anyway… I just watch the couple of shows when Chloe gets kidnapped and the president steps down… pretty impressive television. Plus I like the fact that it makes me think about political issues, which is something I have never really cared that much about.

I think I should run for some small office here in Norfolk, I think I could do a really good job at it…. plus my wife would be a good advisor considering she is a political science major.