Congrats to Holly's little brother Brian. They are expecting their 2nd child on Aug 7, 2007. Poor Marci is under the weather right now, but hopefully will be well soon.

I finished up the drywall in the upstairs hallway tonight... officially the last drywall I'll be hanging for a little bit (until I finish the upstairs bathroom and the nursery... which I'll start ripping apart soon).

Tomorrow is Walid's last day at work... he is moving on to NC. I am excited for his new position, but sad to see him go. :(

Holly is having a lot of heart burn right now... We'll have to see if this baby comes with a lot of hair!

Tomorrow will be spent cleaning the house preparing for Sat. Walid invited us out to dinner tomorrow night, so we may take him up on it...

We had a great Christmas this year. Alex and Tina were in town, so we spent a couple of hours with them on Christmas eve, which was very nice. We also got a lot of work done on the house. Thanks to Dave Lynn, who mudded our dining room, it is now entirely painted. I also have all the tile done in the laundry room and about 95% of the drywall hanging done in the upstairs hallway (of course, the remaining pieces all require some extra work to be done).

Santa blessed our little family this year and everyone enjoyed their presents. Mary and mom both came out for a nice breakfast (which has been tradition for the last few years).

This is kinda fun, I did a Google search and found an email I sent back in college. This was before the internet as we know it exists. My Email at that time was barnhart@knox and was on a system known as bitnet. After awhile, I had to add barnhart@knox.bitnet for email.

Here is my earliest found post, which can be viewed here

"

        I have recently started up a discussion list on ShadowRun, a fantasy
adventure similiar to battle tech, gurps, ect. It started with only 5 people,
but has built to 45-50 in a week. The mail is starting to overload my account
and I need to start up an actual list. There isn't much mail volume yet, but
growth is rapid and I'm expecting it to pick up greatly. I would appreciate
any help in finding a listserv to support this list. If anyone has any ideas,
suggestions, or can help me set it up please drop me a note.
                                                Thanks in advance,
                                                Brett Barnhart
                                                Barnhart@knox"

At 5:30 last night, IDOT called and asked if I wanted to plow some snow. Being the farm boy at heart, I couldn't refuse, so I went in at 7 PM and drove until 7 AM. Right when my shift was over, the snow really hit and Unit 7 Schools were closed today.

So, after working 9-5, then driving 7 -7, I had some meetings this morning, but I decided to work from home and get some sleep before the 10 AM meeting. There is a chance that they'll call me to come in again tonight, but we didn't get nearly as much snow as forcasted, which is just fine.