First thing's first. Stacey has owned her 1994 Toyota Camry since... well, 1994. It has traveled across this country (from Boston to Portland and back and forth to Chicago from both of those places) a couple times over. Earlier this year the front driver's side wheel began to loosen up (not the nuts on the bolt, but the wheel on the axle) and has felt like it was about to fall off with each left turn. Finally the driver's side door handle broke off, making it impossible to open that door from the outside. Sounds like an ideal car, right? Well - we finally got us a new car. Introducing our 2010 Scion XB!
The color options weren't great, so we went with black. We know it looks like a hearse - thanks for bringing it up. For a new car, it's real cheap. For Rill. Cheap. Rill. We're able to put a fair amount down and have great monthly payments. So yeah. New car for us!Second piece of news: I have officially began a clinical study of a constant blood glucose monitoring system. I have had diabetes for 20 years and something like this is amazing! I went in on Friday afternoon and got two sensor "implanted" (they weren't really implanted as much as "attached") on/to me.
I often forget that they're there until I brush against them. They each keep track of the glucose level of my blood which I can read off a meter at the push of a button. 
This monitoring system is still in its early phases and I'm a part of the first group of guinea pigs to try this out.It's not exact, but it's usually not too far off. I like this science stuff.
Along with all these things happening - I was hired to write for Rayman's Raving Rabbids 4 (I worked on 3 last year) again, so hopefully I'll be getting another trip to Paris soon. It has been a lot of work this past week, but I'm done with the first (of four) assignments so from here on out it should just be fine tuning.
The shows at the theater are going really well. We've had over 50 people in the audience at each of our mainstage shows (Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm). We tackled the Silent Film genre for Neutrino this weekend and did our second episode of our kids show today, which was taped for Portland Community Media.
The theater celebrated it's first anniversary yesterday. We opened our first show October 10, 2008. We've come a long way, baby!
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I am so pleased at your choice in Toyota subsidiaries for your new car. Pip will at last have a cousin. We really liked the "no haggle" requirement for Scion car sales, although the guys did manage to talk us into tire insurance. When faced with a choice, never take tire insurance over cruise control.
Good work with blood monitoring. I think it would be even cooler if your glucose could Tweet you.
Happy to hear things are going well. Continued best of luck in Portland
Thanks guys. Things have been going really well. 2009 seems to be ending on a high note!
Matt - Stacey and I will be in Chicago right after Thanksgiving, so we plan on seeing you and Brandi!
Excellent! We look forward to seeing you two.
On a related note, the ultrasound yesterday showed that the baby has dropped into a head-down, face-down position, which is good for birth-giving and the right thing at the right time. If Brandi could only find a comfortable position to sleep, she might feel a lot better. As it is, she's looking forward to getting kicked less.
Can't wait!
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