Hot

It's murderously hot.

The heat is bleaching the green out of everything.

These Worhol prints remind me of it,

now that the sun's gone down.

No Skwish!

Six Sigma Blue Belt Certification

Sweet! I completed my blue belt project last week, and received my certificate and blue belt today from my boss, Charlie.
Six Sigma is fact-based methodology used to achieve, sustain and maximize business success, and it's used as part of "best practices" in corporations across the county.
I attended a training course last month and analyzed and completed a process analysis to determine if we could improve one of the processes we use in our department.

Dominion's certification program is highly regarded in the business world. Talk about a resume builder!

And yes, it looks just like a martial arts belt. My boss is working on his Black Belt certification.

LOL Cat

This just made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Check out the link to this website. Best LOL cat ever.

Our Big Bang on the 4th

A huge storm rolled through around 4:30 yesterday with 60 mile-an-hour winds. The strong winds and horizonal rain battered trees, toppled fences, bent street signs, and left about 1200 of us without power.

The neighbor's back fence bore the brunt of the winds! The entire fence along the back of his property is toast.

No need to prune that large tree in the back now!

Oh, snap!

When it was finally over, we opened the back door to find that the dumpster had tipped over and large branches had accumulated, partially blocking the door.

Fireworks were cancelled :(

Our power was out from about 5:30 p.m. unil 10:00 p.m. We cheered when the lights came back on!

Wall-E

We saw Wall-E last weekend, and it was awesome! Parker is now obsessed. As soon as we got back from the movies, he drew the main characters, Wall-E and Eve. He also created a pretty authentic Wall-E out of Legos!

Thai and Goodbye

Amber's last hurrah! The family got together at the Thai Room in Richmond to celebrate with her.

I'm a little suspicious of the cuisine!