cc: file, Tony Hafen, Pauline Nelson via mail, Sara and Des Penny, Lloyd and Luana Warner, Diane Cluff, and Maxine Shirts.
"Rachel is the Laurel's President in Nottingham Country Ward now. This week was New Beginnings for Young Women. I was so impressed with the way she introduced each of the six girls who will be joining the Beehive class this year. The roses we picked up for them at Albertson's were so beautiful. Very symbolic of these young girls. It was a very nice program, and it was a real pleasure to share it with her and Andrea. Wish you all could have been here with us.
Hayden Hudson, whom Matt and I Home Teach even though he is not yet a member, sent me the following about millenial new beginnings:
On the business front, which occupies all of my attention these
days, I had a good meeting with the principals at Petris, and a
good teleconferece with Christian Singfield in Brisbane, and all
of the principals at Lawrence Technology and at CDX in Dallas.
It takes forever for folks to make a decision, even though I wore
my new blue tie and new socks that Melanie and Jared gave me, and
so I still don't have a signed contract in my hand. Hopefully we
will get some of these opportunities tied down and start seeing
some income flow in over the next few weeks. Andrea is definitely
tired of being the wife of an entrepreneur, and would like to see
a new beginnings. For those interested, tomorrow I should finish
up some examples of data capture and distribution using the
Infinite GridSM for a contract Petris is pursuing with the AAPG,
which Walden 3-D and Dynamic Resources and our consultants will
hopefully do the lion's share of the work on. You can see these
pages at http://www.walden3d.com/aapg, although right now the only
active pages are the bottom blue bar, which goes to the Infinite
GridSM and the large scale composite images in the subdirectory
at http://www.walden3d.com/aapg/images directory.
On the family front, we have a new cell phone which gives 3,500 minutes of free calls on weekends and after 9:00 at night. Even though I'm not very good on the phone, I will attempt to call more regularly to see how each of you are doing. Audrey and Heather talk to Andrea each week, and when I answer the phone they ask for Mom, so I won't push envelopes there. In my new beginnings I called this afternoon. Roice's phone number is disconnected. Ben and Sarah's answering machine picked up. Paul and Kate were just leaving for a church meeting. Melanie was at the neighbor's house. I got Sara's answering machine. Rob has a good heart, and I continue to hope and pray for him, and, I'm sorry to say, that is all, since he has been explicit as to not wanting any communcation with me.
On the Internet front, for the last six months there have been some absolutely horrible e-mails come to andrea@walden3d.com, to info@walden3d.com, and to rnelson@walden3d.com. I don't know who put us on these e-mail lists. I do know the worst ones are to Andrea, and these Thoughtlets are the only place where her e-mail address has ever been used. This week there were new lows in the titles, talking about improper family relationships. For everyone's information, all e-mail to andrea@walden3d.com is automatically forwarded to my e-mail, and so I have been able to file the garbage to hand over to private detectives and police. Although I do not currently have the resources to pursue the source(s), I have kept all of the e-mails, which includes the header information, and it is only a matter of time before a new beginnings where I will have the resources to go after the source of this pornography, and to do so with a vengence.
On the personal front, counting swallows (../0153.html) is a new beginning that is helping me. To prove my point, at the bottom of this Thoughtlet is data for the first month, and an associated graph. Andrea asks me how counting swallows helps. Diane Cluff wrote and told me it would be impossible for her to do this. And to me it is a simple scientific experiment. Given a little data, I can watch the trends, identify what helps and what doesn't, avoid that which doesn't help, and do that which helps. For instance, it helps to drink a lot of water. It doesn't help to eat popcorn, especially big bags with butter and 50 swallows per bag. It suprised me how the scales showed this the next day (probably salt keeping in the water). Oh well! Now I know. I'm 11.76% of the way to my goal after only one month (geophysicists are often accused of carrying the decimal places out beyond significant values, yet in my gut I figure the real action in a Forier Series occures just beyond the nyquist), and so hopefully you will all be seeing less of me by Thanksgiving, when on this trend I should be over 100% of the way to my goal.
I hope you each have a great week, and as we start this new year, you are each satisified with your invidual new beginnings."