2007 In a nutshell

How did 2007 get in a nutshell? What an incredibly large nutshell! –AP
Microsoft Paint –BW

In January, we and Craigslist teamed up to find Zoe about 20 miles away in Terrell, Texas, bruised and battered, and just a few days away from being dropped in a 24-hour kill facility. She is now happy, healthy, and double her weight. Our white carpet survived a few dozen onslaughts with minimal permanent record of the carnage.

In March we went to Clearwater, Florida for Sheree’s birthday. Thanks to the serendipitous fact that Orlando’s Discovery Cove was just 90 minutes away, Brett’s failure to find a Clearwater dolphin-swimming venue in Clearwater was saved with a quick drive.

In July we joined Sheree’s family in Missouri for the Udells’ 20th annual Lake of the Ozarks vacation. Boating, drinking, boating, drinking, jetskiing (whatever spellcheck, that’s how we spell it in the Show-Me state!), and sunning was a nice relaxing vacation, and our first after missing the last two years honeymooning and moving to Texas.

We were blessed to attend a couple of weddings, and couldn’t be happier for our friends. Here’s wishing them all the best!

Brett started a new job at Nice Systems, whose name is a seemingly endless amusement for every client who likes to entertain his sense of humor. “You guys sure are Nice to work with.” et cetera, ad infinitum. And so on.

We went to yoga religiously. In fact, we were named co-Students of the Month at Rockwall’s Body Synergie. Sheree found it so fulfilling, she began a practice teaching L-3 coworkers.

Sheree surpassed her duty as Class President, and had more than half attend the Lemont Class of 1997’s 10-year reunion.

We finally put some of the space in our house to work, hosting Sheree’s family a few different times, and for Thanksgiving, getting Brett’s family all together in the same place!

Our December visit to Chicago was warmer than Dallas! And the weather was two days late delivering a White Christmas.

Please let us wish you a Happy New Year! (hopefully one better than Apollo and Thor will have, now that they have a new pack leader – their worst nightmare!)

Keyboard Shortcuts - Google Search

Google Experimental Search:Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
J	Selects the next result.
K	Selects the previous result.
O	Opens the selected result.
<Enter>	Opens the selected result.
/	Puts the cursor in the search box.
<Esc>	Removes the cursor from the search box.

Too bad that right now you can only choose one of Google Labs' experimental search offerings. Timeline view and autocomplete would be great additions, but at least now we have a choice. Not too long ago, Google had removed the option.

I love saving ¼ of a second at a time, thousands of times a year.