Welcome to NewsLand 2002!

Sunday, June 16, 2002
Mr. Mom is at home while Mrs. Dad spends the afternoon and evening at her part-time K-Mart job. This will be an interesting week as finally I have several job interviews. Hopefully they will go well and I'll be gainfully employed once again. According to the press, my former employer, Nortel Networks, is laying-off another 3,500 people, so the right sizing has taken longer than they thought. Gregory and Spencer asked if they could play outside this afternoon. That usually means a half-hour clean up afterward. We weren't disappointed as our little devils took oranges, lemons and apricots off of our trees and smashed them on the hot pavement. Naturally they bake to the concrete and stone, so it takes more than a hose to clean up. A bit scrubbing followed by some Gregory scrubbing, and all was back to normal. If you haven't seen our lost treasure pictures of Gregory plus some slightly out of focus pictures that Gregory took, click here.

Wednesday, June 5, 2002
It's been a long time since I updated the ThomasLand News. I did get around to adding many video capture pictures of the family that I had taken since Christmas 2000. It takes about 5 minutes to process each picture. I wound up looking at 5-1/2 hours of videotape to get the ones marked NEW. You can take a look in VIDEOLAND at them by entering http://thomasland.org/videoland and looking for the CHANNELS that say NEW.

Tuesday, June 4, 2002
There are also lots of new goodies that my Internet Service Provider (ISP) is making available. I've implemented two of them: a new FEEDBACK system and a SEARCH system. Try them out from the WHAT'S NEW section of the MAIN ENTRANCE and send me some FEEDBACK if you have the time.