Mike and I drove to Folsom yesterday for Lorin Fleming's funeral. The Fleming's have always been good friends, so Lorin's passing was especially sad. The service was very good and well-attended. It was good to see their family again, although the circumstances caused the occasion to be very somber. My parents and others from our old 5th ward were there.

The drive was nice, although a misunderstanding caused our drive there to be somewhat stressful. We though the services started at 10a, but they didn't actually start until 11a. We pulled into the parking lot at 9:59a quite panicked, but our fears quickly dissolved once we realized we were early.

On the way back we stopped at In-n-Out in Auburn, so the hype of the new one in Reno is a little lost on me. I wasn't going to spend an hour in line today to have yesterday's lunch. Still, I'll be ready and ripe in a couple weeks - hopefully by then it'll be settled down.

It's official - Emilie and I are homeless as of about 1:00p today. We spent the past week feverishly putting our belongings in storage. I went home to get the remaining stuff (a bunch of garbage) and found that a moving truck was parked in front of the house. They were ready to move in before we even finished moving out. I loaded up the trash to take to the dump and then proceeded to drive down my street one last time before the house was to become someone else's. It was sad, but I'm sure well get over it once we have another home.

Speaking of other homes, nothing has changed with the new house since the last photo was taken, in case you were wondering where the daily updates are. All the surrounding homes are being framed, so it's got to be close for ours, although we've already received word that they're a month behind schedule.

As I type this I am downloading SP2 for XP. I've successfuly installed it on one computer and caused one computer's performance to drop by about half. The average isn't too good. I'm particuarly annoyed about SP2 because I need a patch that is included with SP2 for a problem we're having at work, but we can't load SP2 yet. The patch can be installed separately, but you have to contact Microsoft support to get it. To contact Microsoft support you have to pay $99. I don't understand why I should pay them for a patch to fix a bug in their system. I'm sure that our company has a support agreement and I'm sure I won't be charged once I explain the problem, but it's still a huge inconvenience. The problem is that XP doesn't correctly recognize permissions when trying to connect to a web printer (as described in KB article 811230). Administrators can conect fine - Power User and Users cannot.

So we're living here with mom and dad. Now that I have no home to work on, no lawn to mow, etc. I'm sure I'll have lots of stories to tell and lots of time to tell them. Keep the edge of your seat warm! You'll definitely be using it!

It is getting closing to moving day, and I am starting to feel sad. I know I am going to miss my first house. This house did well for us, and we are leaving it. Sniff Sniff. Slowly boxes are being packed and heading to the storage unit. Brad and I will be homeless until our house is ready in January. Thanks to Brads parents we will stay with them till the new house is completed.

I am very sun burnt from our hiking trip to Mt Rose. It is only on my face, ears and neck. All I keep hearing at work is "the elevation was over 10 thousand feet what were you thinking not wearing sunblock" Anywhoo... Mike and I talked about putting sun block on, then about an hour later actually put some one, but it was after the fact that we were already burned.

Went to Gary Lovelands funeral today. It was a nice service and the whole Rock chapel gym was packed, even onto the stage.
A shirtless biker carying soda cans said as we were walking in "you cant fit all those people in that church". Brad and I said, well there is a huge gym that opens up from the chapel. I think he still left doubtfull. Funny
I didn't know the Lovelands, but the Carpenters were in the same ward when they lived in Sparks. I can tell he was a great person who set a good example, was service oriented and really loved his family. I wish I did know Gary Loveland.

We had a very mixed Labor Day weekend this year. We spent Saturday moving boxes from our house to the storage unit and then went to a birthday party for someone in our ward who turned 1.

After the birthday party I went by Best Buy and acquired some PS2 games that I've been wanting, but that had previously been too expensive. They dropped below the magic price-point, so they now belong to me. One is Crash Nitro Kart and the other is Viewtiful Joe. Just earlier that morning I was wishing they still made side-scroller games, but I wasn't aware of any. I was excited to find Viewtiful Joe - we'll see if it pans out...

We hiked Mt. Rose yesterday morning. We hit the trail about 8a and hit the peak by about 11a. It was a good hike, but we were all gimpy. Mike and I had gimpy knees and Emilie pulled a muscle. We made it, though.

After getting home from the hike we were saddened to hear about Gary Loveland. He was killed yesterday in a car accident while waiting to cross a street with two of his kids. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family...