Happy 9th Birthday, Krista Lynn.

Krista was born on a very snowy night. Sandra and I were baby-sitting the boys at their house. When Mike and Lynn called with the news ("It's a girl," shouted the boys, hopping around the room.), we debated a long time before deciding that it was too stormy to make it to the hospital that night, even in the Subaru. We had perhaps two feet of snow and the old St. Vincent Hospital was on top of a hill. We waited until morning for our first visit with our new little girl.

Mike had (and has) a snow plowing business. Through that evening, people were calling him at the hospital, congratulating him on the birth of his daughter and then asking if he'd be plowing their driveways soon.

Today, by comparison, we have a couple of inches of fresh snow which is now changing to sleet and freezing rain. We'll have rain and then temperatures close to 60F by tomorrow.

I've been using the beta (pre-release) Microsoft AntiSpyware software on a couple of systems and have been favorably impressed. It caught a couple of things that other tools didn't find. Currently this software is free; Microsoft hasn't determined how much, if anything, they'll charge for the final product.