The next weekly post.

Anna hasn't been feeling well.  She's been on her ped's rotation and probably picked some little bug up from one of the kids which has left her with headaches and a sore throat.  Today was suppose to be spent in the peds ER but she decided to call in sick so it isn't spread to the rest of the world.  I feel bad for my little wifey, she's a sniffley mess.

Sushi has come and gone three times this month so far.  Once at our neighborhood favorite place Ichiban, once at a higher class place for one of our friends birthday parties called Hachi's Kitchen, and lastly we used a Restaurant.com coupon at a place called Blue Fin Sushi. Hachi's gets the award for the tastiest and classiest place, Blue Fin would be the most cost effective place if you're buying a couple rolls individually but Ichiban still remains my all time favorite with their awesome taste and the all you can eat option.  Lucky for me it's just a block from where we live!

Work has been chugging along.  Last week I spent a few 12 hour days getting the office computers updated with the latest software so we can begin going paperless.  We will be one of the first established Chicago optometry offices to change from a paper files system to paperless EMR (electronic medical records).  Last week Officemate was installed on our newly built server.  One of the challenges with converting an office like ours (established over 15 years ago) is scanning all the paper files into the server.  All should be set up this coming week using ECR Vault which I'll be teaching co-workers about so they can do all the gruntwork of getting things scanned.

The rest of the family videos came this week as well.  There was a bit of a scare when the box was opened because one of the videos got crunched during shipping (thanks UPS), however, the video that broke was the Safety First video from my dad around the 2002 Olympics and there's plenty of backups.  None of the other videos have backups (which is why I'm doing this).  I've only started on one of the videos but I've found a few jems I've posted to Facebook and one to Youtube.

Secrets Are So Much Fun

So I've been diligently working on a secret project for some secret family and it's going to be a pretty big surprise, unless the secret gets out.  It's been fairly time consuming however I've been having an absolute blast at it.  Some of my family know about it and others don't, but it's been a great project to work on and things are coming together quite nicely.  However, if I keep writing about it I'll probably end up spilling the beans and I don't want my parents Christmas present ruined early (oops, did I say that?)

Aside from the project, I've been jumping through hoops left and right to get ready for the imminent arrival of the eighth of September, which happens to be the first day of classes at DePaul.  I really regret to inform everybody of some sad news.  Due to multiple circumstances involving time, transfer credits, money and work I will not be able to attend DePaul University to complete my undergraduate degree in Chemistry in preparation for optometry school.  Not enough credits transferred from BYU to DePaul so I would need to be in school for more than 2 years in order to finish, which means if Anna matches in California (fingers are crossed that she will) then I would have to leave school again just before I would graduate.  So I'll wait until we know where we're going to be for the next set amount of time before attempting to finish school.

It's a nice weight off my chest, to have made a decision about what I'm going to be spending my time doing for the next couple years.  I wouldn't be a very nice person to be around if I was back in school full time and had a part time job to help pay the bills (which is why I did so poorly while I was at BYU, too much on my plate).

It's getting late again, and I just finished with another one of the project sections, I'm going to bed.