February 19, 2008 - I did my last batch of carpooling with Ellie today. I had a relatively uneventful day at work, other than going to the Post Office to mail out post cards. I was hoping that I would be able to just pay for the stamps and then have them run the post cards through a machine that prints the postage paid on them, but there is no such thing, at least not at this branch. Still, it was nice to get them in the mail, even after manually applying 106 stamps. I'm excited to see how well this marketing campaign works. After work Ellie and I fed the dogs and then picked up her car. It looked really nice after going through detailing earlier, and she is happy with it. The only thing we are going to have to do to it is put in a new radio. We hit the gym for a while, then Mike came over and joined us for dinner. I made chicken marinated in this awesome Pineapple Sake Teriyaki mix for me and Ellie, and Mike brought a Delmonico steak that I cooked for him. I noticed something on the Volvo that disturbed me a little bit...the odometer wasn't adding any miles. It is broken. The car runs great, there are basically no problems with it, except now we don't know how many more miles it has than 135k. Does it have 136k, or 235k or what? We're going to have to look into what legal protections we have and see what our next move will be. I started building a family tree today. I started with me, and kept adding. I'm up to about 140 people now, including Ellie's family. The program is really cool. I can put in all kinds of information, and for Ellie and I, I was able to add us as engaged. Some people were divorced with multiple spouses over the course of time, and I put all that in. I was surprised at how little I know about my family outside of the people I interact with on a daily basis. I had to go back to my great grandparents to be able to add in a lot of my cousins. I'm hoping that by the time Ellie and I get married, I have this thing completed so that I can have a chart on the wall showing everyone at the wedding how they know everyone else. Whenever I go to weddings or family events it is always really confusing to me how we are all related.