Mel and Alf's Homepage

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Welcome to MelandAlf.com, the place to catch up on the latest goings on with the wandering Covey family! Though admittedly, about half the family portion of the friends and family category live just up the way since we moved to Arkansas, we still have a lot of friends we'd like to keep in touch with and share our lives. We also have two toddlers and negative amounts of time to do it - hence the web page! We hope every one enjoys it! We've worked out a system to try and keep it better updated than the Tripod page - we'll see if it works!

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3/13/09 - Happy Friday the 13th! A lot has happened in the past three months, so there hasn't been much time to update things or do new videos on the YouTube page. I did, however, manage to get a tutorial featuring Aidan drinking coffee up, so feel free to check it out! We registered Ian for Kindergarten this week. Yes, he starts big, scary school next year (or might start, since we got a nice note stating that even though we registered him, thanks to the federal government, he might not get to go any way... so much for no child left behind, I guess). The people working with him in preschool think he'll do quite well in real school, but we may have a couple of minor backsliding issues to address.

On the "other news" front, I injured my arm and got laid off my "manly job" two weeks ago. No two weeks notice, no nothing, just a sneaky request to aid with inventory and then a hit-the-road-bub. Fortunately, after previous layoffs, meeting the new supervisor and seeing what the drilling business was doing, I saw it coming and was already looking. Even more fortunately, a tech company I've been courting since last February contacted me the very day I sensed things going south with a job offer! So this time around, the total time unemployed was four days. Yes, it was fun, but I'm back to being a computer tech again. So far, the company has a very unique and wonderful atmosphere, and they are very aware of burnout, so I may not be heading towards another "Office Space" moment after all.

That's all for now... I hope every one has a great Easter!



	_______________________ Welcome to MelandAlf.com, the place to catch up on the latest goings on with the wandering Covey family! Though admittedly, about half the family portion of the friends and family category live just up the way since we moved to Arkansas, we still have a lot of friends we'd like to keep in touch with and share our lives. We also have two toddlers and negative amounts of time to do it - hence the web page! We hope every one enjoys it! We've worked out a system to try and keep it better updated than the Tripod page - we'll see if it works! _______________________ 3/13/09 - Happy Friday the 13th! A lot has happened in the past three months, so there hasn't been much time to update things or do new videos on the YouTube page. I did, however, manage to get a tutorial featuring Aidan drinking coffee up, so feel free to check it out! We registered Ian for Kindergarten this week. Yes, he starts big, scary school next year (or might start, since we got a nice note stating that even though we registered him, thanks to the federal government, he might not get to go any way... so much for no child left behind, I guess). The people working with him in preschool think he'll do quite well in real school, but we may have a couple of minor backsliding issues to address. On the "other news" front, I injured my arm and got laid off my "manly job" two weeks ago. No two weeks notice, no nothing, just a sneaky request to aid with inventory and then a hit-the-road-bub. Fortunately, after previous layoffs, meeting the new supervisor and seeing what the drilling business was doing, I saw it coming and was already looking. Even more fortunately, a tech company I've been courting since last February contacted me the very day I sensed things going south with a job offer! So this time around, the total time unemployed was four days. Yes, it was fun, but I'm back to being a computer tech again. So far, the company has a very unique and wonderful atmosphere, and they are very aware of burnout, so I may not be heading towards another "Office Space" moment after all. That's all for now... I hope every one has a great Easter!