So the road trip to Omaha went fine. Sad to help close down an office that had coworkers that had been together for 27 years. Drive out was fine. Driving is much easier during the middle of the day. I'd actually forgotten what it's like. All those road trips for ultimate? Almost always Friday nights, and then Sunday afternoon/nights. On the way out used an iPhone App, NPR Finder, to find NPR stations as I worked my way across Illinois and Iowa. I was able to download and install the app while driving. Not only that, but I wanted something like this back in my Internet services class my senior year, but I imagined it as a web site companion for MapQuest, I had no idea that I'd be doing this from my cellular phone while driving in a car. What's crazy is that there was a guy in the class that had a cellular modem for his laptop. That was crazy. And this was before classrooms had wi-fi. Not only that, but on the way back i decided I wanted to listen to This American Life. So again, I downloaded and installed the app on my iPhone, then proceeded to stream and listen to multiple shows. All while driving. Seriously living in the future. Didn't feel like eating out by myself though. So just fast food for meals. Ended up coming back on Thursday, only really had to do work on Wednesday. So that's my first work trip. Hopefully it won't be a regular occurrence. On daddy day care this weekend, until Monday. No plans though for Independence day.

So went to Mexico. Came back. And back to work. Somewhere in there Lucy loves the water, wades through kiddie pools, and even likes to dunk her own head in. She also likes sand and moving it from one spot on the beach to another. However, she came back with a slight fever, which spiked early Tuesday morning, so we went to the Children's Memorial Hospital to get it checked out. Nothing a little Motrin didn't fix. She got a pediatrician visit on Wednesday, where the diagnosis was Hand-foot-and-mouth disease, and just Tylenol and Ibuprofen to keep the fever down, and make sure she's drinking and eating. And she is. I blame myself for feeding her by hand on the airplane ride back. She was pretty good on the way there in the plane, and even snuck a nap in. On the way back she couldn't sit still, always moving. Very tiring. Vacation itself was very nice and relaxing, even with with 4 kids. Always ended up in Gabe and Sania's room for breakfast and/or dinner. Only rained at the end of the day. Spent a lot of time at kiddie pools or on the beach, mostly pools. Only once went in to downtown. Loved having an Airport Express to share the wired network connection. Also saw a lot of iPads in the lobby where there was free wifi, and saw a couple other tablets, possibly a Tab, maybe something else. Lucy also got her afternoon nap, which was nice because we got an afternoon nap as well. Only once did she not sleep through the night, and we tried putting her in bed with us, but she just wanted to play with us all night long instead.

Switched back to Goodreads and Miso for book and tv/movie check-ins. Both offer rss feeds, which allows me to plug them into storytlr to keep track of my activity. And will look better than the time shifted GetGlue check-ins that I have been using. I started out on those two, but switched to GetGlue strictly for the rss feeds. Also had to make a Miso plugin for storytlr, which was super easy when I used the Goodreads plugin as a base. Very easy. So Lucy's pretty much all better. Just some residual stuff from the blisters or rashes or whatever it was from the hand-foot-and-mouth disease bout she had. Starting to act even cuter now, and laughing a lot, which sounds amazing. Good times. On Nightly Load Supervision for this past week and this upcoming week due to vacations. I was hoping to get some things done that I've been putting off for monitoring it, but always seem to be super busy. Seemed like we had a little lull there last week, and I should have taken advantage and tried to plow through some outstanding items, but nope. Just adding to the pile. Moved furniture around a bit in the living room, so Tracy's in the bedroom now for work, behind a lockable door. HIPAA. Seems like we got a bit more space, and I've got a workstation that I can watch TV from without turning my head now. Also really glad Warehouse 13 is back on. I love that show. Upper Wacker construction has moved in front of my work building, which gives me like 2 extra blocks of walking whenever I'm headed anywhere. All my home machines are on Lion, which is pretty sweet. My mom got her iPad replaced when the screen went bad, but forgot to keep the old SIM card. They're supposed to get it back tomorrow. Hopefully.