I responded today to the status report request from the DePaul PhD Committee. It seems like I have been working on this forever. It was a bit consuming. My wife was getting a little upset. She would say, "Aren`t you finished with those early morning yet." Well I sent it today. I sent an email to my adviser to see if he would send a report about me. He said that he would send it on May 2nd. I think he will. I am not sure what he will write about me. I am not sure it matters. I have all the data that shows my progress. I guess he could say that I did not keep him informed. Conversation is a 2 way street. I am sure that he knows about most things. I am not sure he knows about my social networking. That`s ok. He does not really need to know that stuff. I will post my status report as soon as I remove peoples names etc so that everyone remains anonymous. I think that it is better that way.

I plan on working on the html for the answers to the 2007 exam questions next. It is summer, I am slowing a bit. I started running with the guys at work again. It will be 2 weeks on Friday since I started. Running and swimming, two a day work outs 3 times a week. These first couple of weeks I am a bit run down. It will pick up here in the middle of the month. These guys go 6 miles at lunch. I am doing good just to stay up with one of them near the end ever day. I think that I will catch up to his fitness level here soon. It remains to be seen whether I can do that or not.

I think that my blogs will become more infrequent for a while. I need to see how this will play out. I will keep you all posted as to my progress as things prevail.

I have started looking at "R" again. I spend less and less time on the 2007 html. I am going to get the "R" installation on my laptop up to date and start looking at source code. I know that I need to explain to you guys what I am doing with this but you have to just know that it is pertinent to the PhD.