Well, as the picture and description elude, I managed to catch her smiling tonight. Note the size of George in the foreground. He’s still about twice her size.

Anyway, we’ve both seen her grin and even heard her laugh before…but it wasn’t caught ‘on film’ as it were until tonight. It was actually quite by chance when I was working on getting her daily picture in. I noticed a smile starting and I quick took a picture, hoping that I could catch it. Indeed, I did. At least part of it.

It’s simply joys like that which make it all worthwhile. 🙂

Alright, now that I’ve got the sappy stuff out of the way, well…not quite, I guess. While I was at work today, I heard the old familiar Willie’s jingle (for Easter) played many, many times throughout the day. Sung by old Willie himself. Every time I hear any of Willie’s old jingles, I smile and think fondly of him. He was quite the guy — a true people lover — and I find it a real honor to have actually known him (and a similar sort of thing to be able to sing next to him). There really isn’t anyone else quite like Willie.

Okay, I’ve really got the sentimental stuff out of the way. I promise.

So today was a traditional Monday, with the exception that it was Haircut Monday this morning. So I’ve lost some weight (hair), and that’s a Good Thing. There’s a reason I religiously get my hair cut every four weeks on a Monday morning — because I can’t stand if it goes any longer than that.

When I got home this afternoon, I ended up dismantling the VCR from the set-up in the living room, because I needed to capture some video off a VHS tape to eventually convert to DVD. This is because the gal whose tape we have (of some of Beth’s students doing presentations) needs her tape back. Soon. So, I took the opportunity to capture another item off VHS I’d been meaning to do for some time. So, in a way it’s nice I finally got around to capturing some video, but conversely it’s not exactly what I’d wanted to do tonight.

Ah well. I’ve left the VCR connected to my computer for a while; we’ll see if I capture any other video or if I put it back and simply wait and capture more video once I actually order and install the RCA jacks for the Cat5e cable currently in the walls between the living room and the office. My guess will be the latter…

It’s been pretty quiet here tonight; the only really new thing is that it’s been snowing outside…basically since about 6:30 this evening. Off-and-on right now, but there’s a definite white coating on the ground now. We’re now in a winter storm warning…and it’s quite possible that we might get that 3-6 inches of snow overnight. We’ll see about that. I’d rather have it as snow (as opposed to rain) after our latest battle with the rain…so I welcome the copious amounts of snow. It will help with everything trying to keep up with the melt and runoff.

Anyway, that’s about all I’ve got to say this evening. Seeing as how the NCAA tournaments are now over (as of a few minutes ago), the 10PM news should be on shortly…and then I can go to bed.

So until next time…

–MZ