One of the ladies from church volunteered to give us some free babysitting this past weekend, and why would we pass something like that up? We went to see "Shrek 2" while she watched Alex. Loved it!

I just got back Friday night from a business trip to New Jersey to visit a company Zimmer just bought. I was supposed to be helping to define their process and critical parameters better but it looks like they have done a lot of work on just that in the last year or so, and there wasn't much to do there. We all were also supposed to be looking for "synergies" which I take to mean places we can cut costs. However they've been operating pretty lean for a long time now and it doesn't look like there is a lot there either. All in all there wasn't really anything that couldn't have been done via video conference.
Beth and I participated in a garage sale yesterday. We made about $160 in all. Sold a lot of baby clothes and some general junk, I sold my table saw, router table, and behemoth desk and got $60 to put toward the new chop saw I want. I'll need it to finish the room downstairs, in which I have nearly all the drywall put up now. I'm thinking I'll install a drop ceiling instead of trying to drywall it. Last Tuesday was my first softball game (missed the first two), we played a doubleheader and lost both. I was 2-2 in the first game and 1-3 (should have been 2-3, but ump made a bad call at first) in the second. All were grounders. Alex is getting closer and closer to walking now; he's been putting several steps together more and more. Then he realizes he could get somewhere a lot faster by crawling so he drops. Today I've started working on getting the camper ready for Memorial Day, in just a few weeks...The fact that we don't have anything that can pull the thing is darned inconvenient. As I type this, I have full gray water tanks and no way to get them to a dump station. But, with gas at $2.08 this week and likely higher soon, I don't see us getting a truck anytime soon.

Tonight was the last night of league bowling, the banquet and fun night. It was definitely an off night for me; It's kind of sad when you bowl no-tap games and don't make your average. Beth is unable to bowl anymore, so it's just as well the season is over.