November has been an excellent month.
Fintan has strengthened his arms and can now hold himself up, so crawling is emminent. Orianna can now talk amazingly well (which she loves to d all the time). We got Christmas lights up. I got my Projector & screen mounted out in the office/garage, and dug through about half of the huge pile of dirt that has been in our driveway for 2 years.
ZebraStrut has been progressing nicely. We got our 5th member, and are now going to get the business license and figure out all that bureaucratic nonsense.
ExpoStrut (the first product we are doing under our ZebraStrut umbrella) is going well. The website is about 75% done, the iPad app is about 50% done, and the card reader portion is about 25% done. Our original schedule was to be finished by Sept 2011, so we are well ahead, even though at the moment we really only have 2 of the 5 people working (until Jan that is).
We went to Idaho the week before Thanksgiving and I built a wall in my parent's basement (well, I replaced a wall I'd previously built from junk in their basement with a reall 2x4/scheetrock/insulation wall). It went well, but I did crack a rib in the process. The worst part was that my dad said "you probably shouldn't do that. I cracked a rib that way once." To which I responded "Yeah, but you're old," approximately 10 seconds before I cracked my rib. Very embarrasing.
The other lousy thing was that our car died in Malad on our way up to Idaho. We'd paid it off just a few months prior, so that was very dissapointing. But, we are now the proud owners of a minivan. We can blend perfectly into any street in Utah. So, if you have any stealth operations you need to do here, you can borrow my van.
We stayed in utah for Thanksgiving. My boss helped me fry a turkey, and I am convinced it is the only way to do turkey now. It took about 30 min from start to finish, and you end up with a delicious fried turkey. Baking takes WAY to long, now that I know you can fry.
Wishing you all a happy holiday filled with fried foods,
The Bates Family
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