News from Austin

Hello again family! It was longer than I thought it would be before I posted again, but here it is.

Recently I have been learning HTML and CSS to do some website design. It has been a lot of fun. I have been practicing on austinburnham.com, so feel free to take a look at some of the stuff I have done, but keep in mind that it is a work in progress. My hope is to eventually be able to do a little bit of freelance development for some extra money.

I had both my job interviews. I did my best on both of them. I didn't have much of the experience they were looking for at Intel, but it was a good experience to be able to interview with them. They chose to hire someone else for the position. I had a "lunch date" with two people from Wright Engineering on Friday, and they called me that night to tell me I got the job. I start on the 28th and will be working about 25 hours a week.

Rhonda and I are soon going to be the Proud Parents of some vegetables! (the eating kind, not the people kind) I made a second planter box, and we planted in there. We now have two types of lettuce, spinach, radishes (to make us feel good about our gardening skills), snow peas, tomatoes, carrots, basil, and green onions. We also planted a few flowers- vincas and some other thing- by our back door.

 Congratulation to Rhonda! I am so proud of her and excited that she doesn't have to take any more classes. Thanks to everyone who came to support her!

I am glad for the summer too and finished this semester with my highest GPA yet: 3.53. I got my second and third A+ in college (even though the first two were in easy non-engineering elective classes).