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Had a visit today with my daughter and the grandkid, Jude. Jude is 10 months old, 21 pounds and highly mobile. She is standing and crawling, verbalizing, and mimicking all kinds of things (like blowing a raspberry through her lips). She is joyous and very personable. She played and enjoyed everything for nearly three hours without a moment of fuss or contention. It was a joy to see them both. My daughter is doing well and clearly loves the child.

It was really cold this morning/last night. Had to crank up the wall heater to get the place warm. Lighting the space heater caused the fire alarm to go off. Cobwebs in the heater were enough to trigger the smoke alarm.

Dreamed a two-part dream last night. In the first part, I was riding in an SUV with men from the men's team. We were in two vehicles heading off into the wilderness, three of us in each SUV. It was night and we were traveling at a good clip through a heavily forested area. Large trees could be seen lining the roadway. We seemed to be heading off on a camping trip. The second part also found me in an SUV, but I was with three men that I didn't know. I wasn't sure where we were headed. The driver was going along at high speed when we hit a soft part of the road. The vehicle went up on two wheels and felt like it was going to roll over. The vehicle had some kind of gyroscope that steadied the SUV, let it balance on the two wheels and then brought it back onto the road. Everything happened in slow motion and I could feel the pull of the leveling device. It was an amazing sensation!

Weekend wanes! Will decide in the morning if I'm going to go to the RC CW dance class (assuming that there is one). Supposed to get really cold (and wet) tonight with some chance of snow in the lower areas.