Happy Post-Memorial Day Everybody!

I have briefly taken control of the Baltimore Seitz Blog to post Allison's piano recital. On Saturday we drove to Columbia (Maryland, not South America) to listen to AJ play some tunes on a piano. Of course, she did great! As somebody that barely has enough musical talent to play a CD, I am amazed what Allison can do with a piano.


Yesterday we went to Matt and Di's house for some pool party action. We got quite a bit of swimming in before the rains came. Matt went crazy with cooking - we had ribs, chicken, bratwurst, and delicious crab dip. I felt like I was in one of those Roman parties they talk about when describing gluttony. When we recover from our food coma, I'm sure we will be ready for some "low carb damage control".

Of course, with the rains came some power outages. As is par for the course in Maryland, when the power surges, we lose major appliances. This time it was the entire heating and cooling system. Being cheap, I cracked open the furnace and took a look. Looks like a burnt control wire. Kind of smells like barbecued dog inside the furnace. After I make sure that my accidental death and dismemberment insurance is paid up, I'll go back and take a whack at soldering the wire back onto its post. I'm not sure, are furnaces 240V or 480? I guess that really only impacts the size of the spark - plus I think that the crazy Einstein hair look is all the rage nowadays anyway.

I got a call today from one of the science fair judges. Apparently he felt bad that Scotty did not win the overall Science fair. Since Scotty is my son, he felt it would be unethical for him to "win", but he wanted me to know that Scott gave the best overall demonstration, and clearly understood the content best. Plus, he had explosive soda reactions ! how cool is that? Let's see if I can upload the video.