Happy New Year

Nala, the cat, liked Chuck's lap the best at the New Years party.

We spent our New Years eve with friends and neighbors, while Kaitlin also had some friends over to our house to watch movies and play games.  It was a fun evening full of food and laughter, and since they legalized aerial fireworks, people can't seem to pass by an opportunity to shoot them off, so we had a lot of those going off in our neighborhood.

We spent most of our post-Christmas week just hanging out at home.  We slept in, wore pajamas, ate lots of snacks, went to some movies, and were generally lazy.

Can you guess how many new scouts I'll get in 2014?

Chuck did go back to work but came home early several days because they didn't have a lot for him to do.  I also worked on getting my cub scouts re-set and up and going for a new year.  I screened all of my scout shirts for the year as well. 

Cyber Happenings

I mentioned a few weeks ago that Ruth has been doing some drawing and animation and posting it online.  As of today, she had 248 subscribers to her YouTube channel and hundreds of views on her videos. You can watch the first episode of her "Darkside" video here.  Everything she does is hand drawn - she doesn't use any special software to animate things.

Jared, Ruth and I have also been making Minecraft videos. It's fun to make them together, but no one really watches them but us. 

Ruth's My Little Pony videos are getting quite a following.

I hit 400 Pinterest followers over Christmas.  I don't really spend a lot of time on Pinterest. I post Cub Scout things I'm working on, and I also have a board of things that make me laugh.

I loved the music in the movie Frozen, so I spent an afternoon writing out the guitar chords for one of the songs by ear. It's not unusual for me to tab out a song for a student or myself, but I've never taken the time to post one online for anyone else.  As of today, my tab for "Let It Go" has had 33,940 views and is currently #46 at the biggest tab site online.