Well, what's been going on? We had a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch at the Wilsons', followed by a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at Ginger's. I ate too much, of course. Very tasty, though. Mmmmmm.

We've been having lots of fog (and a little snow!) in the Treasure Valley this past week. Very eerie.

Blogger now does this weird pinging thing periodically, then tells you if it can't 'phone home'. It's bizarre because it causes the bottom portion of the screen to flash every once-in-awhile, apparently using an Ajax-like mechanism to see if your post will get posted or not (in advance) - if not, it displays a nice little message saying "Could not connect to Blogger.com. Saving and publishing may fail. Test connection now." I've only seen it a few times, as it doesn't happen that often. (It normally goes away in about a second.)

We watched Nerea's kids this past Saturday morning. They enjoyed playing with Becky and Jared. Becky and Jared got sick on Sunday, Jared with a cough, and Becky with a fever and unsettled stomach. They're better now, though.

Am I the only one who hasn't seen this yet? DNA genealogy:

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Where/How do you get DNA from a deceased relative?

We went shopping with Darlene and Bonny at Boise Towne Mall on Saturday night. Bonny and Becky both got some Book Thongs at Waldenbooks.

I scored "Seinfeld" Season 5 on DVD for my birthday, also. We watched the infamous "Puffy Shirt" episode - not as funny as I remembered it, though. I also got "Eldest" by Christopher Paolini on audiobook, but haven't started listening to it yet. I'm in the middle of another audiobook right now: "A Knight of the Word" by Terry Brooks, and will hopefully finish it here in a few days.

In looking through the Hickory Farms 2005 holiday gift catalog, someone would have to be silly to pay $125 for ~5 lbs of meat and cheese (in "The Diplomat"), when you get the same amount for $60 (in "The Gold Miner") if you can live without the goofy crackers and nuts. (They're certainly not worth doubling the price.)

We ate some grub from Panda Express and McDonald's whilst at the mall. We also tried the new Cranberry Mustard and melt-aways at Hickory Farms. Mmmmm. The kids got a balloon butterfly and balloon hat at the mall.

I scored Brad a sack of potatoes (different from the last time), which he can pick up at my folks' place once again. =)

We happily did the house inspection and the "almost final" walkthrough on our new home on Monday. It's amazing that a thorough inspector can find some things wrong even on a brand-new house. (They're going to fix them.)

I've been running the Boinc distributed computing client with it's associated projects for the past couple of weeks - very cool. I like that you can manage all the projects in one place. I'm currently contributing on Seti@home, Rosetta@home, Einstein@home, Climateprediction.net, and Predictor@home. Climateprediction.net is a killer because each workunit takes around 1153.5 hours to complete (that's 48 straight days). The others usually only take between 2 and 8 hours, so it's easier to see progress on those. Since I've got a dual-core CPU, however, I can run two workunits at once, so I run Climateprediction.net on one almost continuously, and cycle through the others in a random order. They give you a "due date" for each workunit, and for the quick ones, it's just a few weeks, whilst the Climateprediction one is a year out. Of course, I'm aiming to finish mine in the 48-50 days timeframe, but I can see why it might take up to a full year if you only run it as a screensaver.