May 24 post

This one is for Jean N.

It has been about a month since the last post.

Sister gave birth to her first child on May 23rd, yesterday. Sophia weighed 8 pounds and 7 ounces. She cries a lot, and did not sleep the night but then slept for 5 hours this morning. Perhaps there is an adjustment cycle. Mother is there at the hospital as sister recovers from her C section. Some bleeding today, which I am told is normal and expected. She'll come back to the house on Sat.

We finished our CMA case. We were the only group out of 5 which chose to not get into the MAS plants and sell the patent. There was a large negative NPV if the gov't funding did not go through which we did not expect given the technology only satisfied some conditions required for funding. We expect to have the marks in Aug shortly before year 2 starts. The case was the toughest part of the year. Next year the board report is 10,000 words with more detail expected. 4 months of hard work.

Training sessions have been going well. Richard has missed a few leg sessions, but I have been consistent.

Purchased the XBOX 360 three weeks ago and got through Gears of War on hardcore mode and most of Lost Planet on normal. Gears is tough with a few trouble spots such as the Pumping Station section where the Theron Guards first appear with the torque bows and then the final battle with General RAAM. Finally finished him off with the Lancer, the torque bow and all four grenades. Lost Planet has a delay in some animations which are frustrating since you need to move out of the way quickly and often you get run over before you have a chance to recover repeating the cycle. Looking forward to Grand Theft Auto 4 and Assassins Creed in the fall.

Saw Spiderman 3 and 26 Weeks Later. Spiderman 3 was disappointing while 26 Weeks Later was inconsistent and illogical.

Currently reading The Looming Tower, a history of terrorism from the 1940's.

Will post again soon.