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Baby Andrea woke up a lot last night. I am tired. This last week we made a cheese, and we actually cheddared it. This is the first time that I have cheddared a cheese. Hopefully it ends up tasty. It has been being pressed for about four days now. I will wax it tonight if I remember to (and if it is dry enough). This saturday we will start playing 42 Earths (weather we are ready for it or not). I have done more work on the SRD, and continue to work on it daily. Baby Andrea has also decided to start playing pat-a-cake. She has learned so many new things to do in the last few weeks. She has gone from barely crawling to crawling across the entire house. Standing only with help to pulling to standing. Watching rusty walk around to chasing rusty around. She has started 'singing' on command, and who knows how many other things. It is really amazing to see her progress. Alison's birthday went well. I made her a treasure hunt birthday game, and she had to find her presents. She said...

The vacation is over. We made it back safely, and in a timely manner (although we had some concerns about the latter - our flight got cancelled, and we had to quickly get onto an earlier flight to make it home before church). I have made great strides in my SRD you can download it here , if you want to (Unless you like table top RPGs, I wouldn't really recommend that). I am now feeling ready to start the game. Our dog was watched by my younger brother Daniel during our vacation. We also let him use our car as a form of payment. He didn't know that you have to turn off the radio in between uses or the batteries will die, so it was apparently less useful than it could have been. Alison's garden is doing well. The plants are growing quickly. Additionally, I re-waxed the cheese that was made right before the vacation. It is looking pretty good.

As of yet the vacation has been swell. We have spent a lot of time on the beach - boogie boarding, walking, and collecting shells. We also went to the Mormon Battalion Historic Site, Balboa Park, and the Poulson's old house. Baby Andrea has started to pull to standing, and climb up stairs. We played some games (including a modified Baron Munchhausen, five crowns, and a dice stacking game.) Swee and I caught up reading Girl Genius as well as Darths and Droids. I am continuing to work on my plans for the new role playing game. I have the SRD practically completed, and am working on the world generation. I should start talking about making characters to people.

Tomorrow we leave for CA. We are going to get everything packed tonight. We will be gone all next week (seeing Becky's mission, as well as other things.) My SRD is moving along nicely. I have made a lot of psionic items, and am nearly ready to make a second release. I think that I will make some teaser pages (to hint that I will be delivering some pages in the future) I am looking for a new manga to read on the airplane. Perhaps Swee and I will read Nausicaa (as she has never read that), but we might just read separately. If so, I want to find something like Yotsubato, Cromartie High, or Azumanga Daiho. My last cheese is pretty dry. I have to remember to wax it tonight before we go on our date. Oh, also, our dog doesn't yet have a sitter... that will be important to get.

This morning I went to the SLC Library book sale. We got 3 bags of books for $11. That is a pretty good deal. This weekend we made another lb of cheese, and a double batch of granola. The granola is so good with Swee's yogurt, and 'ape jelly'. I eat it pretty much every day. We made faux curry pizza last night. The ingredients are: garlic bread, red sauce, cheddar, bacon, pork sausage, anaheim peppers, and curry powder. layer them like a pizza, and bake it (250 for a half hour, 'just like every thing else'). My secret gift for Swee's birthday is complete. Also, my D20 Modern SRD modifications for 42 Earths are sort of done. I need to add new psychic items, and search for errors. Here is the link to it. This weekend, we are going to be leaving for Becky's homecoming in California. It will be a week long trip, and will use up a lot of my vacation. Also, there are boxes of ~300 comic books at the local DI for $50 each. There are about 12 of them. I think that ...