I am not usually up at this time of night, but I just returned from the late show of Tron. I went by myself on military night. It was OK. I can't really recommend it. (I can recommend True Grit however) I am glad I told Brooke to just get some sleep...she would have hated it.

This quarter is going well so far. I was able to convince my advisers to let me take one less class this quarter. So I am now able to spend more time developing software for my thesis. I am now on schedule for leaving here in July. I will still have a few classes which I will take distance learning from Kansas. I will start school at Fort Leavenworth at the end of July and officially graduate from here in September. It looks like graduation will synchronize well with the races at Laguna Seca, so I will be back to walk....and watch fast cars. This new schedule change allows me to get on a Summer transition for assignments. All you that have served know that there are more assignments available during that time because that is when people like to transition. Right now my number one request is to go back to Europe after KS. It looks like there will be several spots available, maybe even where we lived before. If we do go, more people will need to take advantage of the situation this time. You can't beat Europe tour guides that have 2 cars, a local house, and pay U.S. gas prices in Europe.

Back to the present...The rest of the family must be out of this house by the end of May. So, they will go to Washington and do the summer play thing until July and then we will link up in Kansas.

I think Brooke has done a great job updating about the kids. They are doing terrific things, and a father couldn't be more proud.

Anyway, that is my effort to blog. Miss you guys.

Mike