I was ready to go out of the door at 6.20 am, but just as I put on my shoes I heard Leo cry. Looks like he is the next in the family to get this cold; Nora has had it for three days now.
This weekend I upgraded OpenBSD on the server. I started at version 4.9 and did several upgrades in a row, to end up at version 5.4. Rebooting the server has always been a bit risky, as it would rarely (or never) come back up by itself and I'd have to call Jaap to reboot. We investigated and found out what happened: the server's BIOS would warn that no mouse was attached ("press F1 to continue"), thereby messing up my remote reboots. Attached an old mouse fixed that.
It's a bit embarrassing that my OS is so out-of-date. 4.9 was released in May 2011. Even 5.4 is not the current version yet -- it was released two years ago. I started upgrading to 5.5 when I realized that with the 64 bit timetracking this would not be a trivial upgrade, and certainly not something to try out late Sunday night.
I took the day off on Wednesday and it was great. I wanted to cook some new dishes for Thanksgiving and that was fun. Nora helped me measuring and scooping. For the boys I cooked beets, they really liked that but I had to laundry their clothes afterwards.
I also tried to make gravy but that didn't really work out. I was suspicious of the turkey meat I used so I threw it out and decided to get a ready made container from Whole Foods.
Around 2.00 pm I got them all ready and we went for a walk. We met Sasha at the Metro station and went to the store together, then the playground at Clarendon Commons and then back home. Late in the evening Jonathan and the kids arrived but we were still asleep. A good thing, because at 6.30 am Nora was ready for a new day.
The weather was great today so we went for another long walk in the afternoon. We drove to Court House where we parked and from there we went down the hill to Rosslyn. We had coffee at the Starbucks in the new Target and then continued over the bridge to Georgetown.
This morning Nora and I watched the arrival of Sinterklaas. I brought out the Sinterklaas books and we read a few of them.
We went for a long walk in the afternoon. We checked out Mom's, a new grocery store at the site where Bergman's used to be. It was a great walk.
After dinner Nora put her shoe at the fireplace, together with socks for Leo and Adrian. We sang three songs. A little later she went to Sasha and asked her: "let's look outside!". She remembered from last year that at one point there was a big bag with presents outside. We explained to her that wouldn't be the case tonight.
"De eerste winter was er een zak. Maar niemand klopte! Toen we de deur open deden zagen we niemand".
She was very excited and I was surprised she fell asleep at all.
This weekend I upgraded OpenBSD on the server. I started at version 4.9 and did several upgrades in a row, to end up at version 5.4. Rebooting the server has always been a bit risky, as it would rarely (or never) come back up by itself and I'd have to call Jaap to reboot. We investigated and found out what happened: the server's BIOS would warn that no mouse was attached ("press F1 to continue"), thereby messing up my remote reboots. Attached an old mouse fixed that.
I took the day off on Wednesday and it was great. I wanted to cook some new dishes for Thanksgiving and that was fun. Nora helped me measuring and scooping. For the boys I cooked beets, they really liked that but I had to laundry their clothes afterwards.
Sometimes we call Adrian бузанчо -- baby with cute cheeks. Nora misunderstood that word and now calls him близанчо, a cute name.
The weather was great today so we went for another long walk in the afternoon. We drove to Court House where we parked and from there we went down the hill to Rosslyn. We had coffee at the Starbucks in the new Target and then continued over the bridge to Georgetown. 
This morning Nora and I watched the arrival of Sinterklaas. I brought out the Sinterklaas books and we read a few of them. 