don't forget your booties because it's COLD out there!

Wayne's highlight of the week was beating his friends senseless for the sake of art. Between that and the huge bruise he got in racquetball, how could his week get any better?

My week was a bit more tame. I started and completed my first sewing project on my own sewing machine. Who knew it could be so much fun? :) I started off easy, just making a dust cover to put over the sewing machine when not in use. I looked up someone's directions online, and then modified it. I think it is a good thing it was easy, because I didn't even think to print out the pattern or pin the fabric together...I just kind of made it up as I went along. And it worked out alright, which is nice. I have sewed before, but this is only my third project (ever...the first two were a simple skirt and a duvet cover), and the first one that I have done without any supervision. [Any hints at how to hem pants is a plus...mine need it. -Wayne]

Wayne spent a good chunk of Saturday morning getting paintings on frames for the art show that opens this week. We bought all the wood we needed at Home Depot Friday night, and he put them together on Saturday while I was gone at a YW camp meeting. I still have a hard time believing that it is necessary to start planning camp six months ahead of time. I suppose that is just the difference between the girls and the boys, and I should learn to just accept that. But how does it take six months to plan a one week activity???

I got a lot of work done for my thesis this week. There's still a lot left to do, but it's coming along. I have the two basic pieces ready...one that uses machine translation to create paraphrases, and the other that finds noun-phrases and preposition phrases in the sentences. Now I need to combine these in a meaningful way. So this week I'll look at statistics for phrases that move so we can decide how to use this information with the MT part of the system.

Well, happy Chinese New Year to everyone. We're going to go finish dinner so we'll be ready when our guests arrive. And have a fun groundhog's day this week. Bring on the Spring! :)