Before school this morning, Billy put together the track below for Martin to play with during the day. Martin had fun playing with except for one small problem. If you look at the layout, once you go into the circle at the top, you can’t get out without backing up. Whenever he would drive his train into the circle, he’d get upset with it and insist that it was broken because he couldn’t get his train out.

Around Christmas this year, Billy and I were able to go to a couple of college basketball games. The first game was UVa vs Elon. This was the first time I’ve been to John Paul Jones arena and it was very impressive. The game was fun, but not particularly exciting. Virginia manhandled Elon (as they should have).

The second game we went to was VMI vs the University of Richmond. This game was much more exciting. VMI opened to an early lead which Richmond reduced to 3 point by half time. Richmond took a 10 point lead mid way through the second half that VMI was able to eliminate and take a 1 point lead with 3 minutes left. It came down to the wire with VMI coming up short by 2 by missing a 3 pointer at the buzzer.

It’s been a while since I provided an update on the garage. That doesn’t mean things have been idle, although they haven’t been moving as fast as I would like. Today I completed the electrical rough-in inspection. This included the ditch being dug (by hand), pulling all the wire and wiring up the subpanel. In addition, since the last update, we repaved the driveway to tie in the garage.

This year for Billy’s birthday, we tried something a little different. We decided to have a gym party. We did all the normal stuff, but then spent an hour in the YMCA gym playing kickball. I think the kids had a great time!

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