We had a nice visit from the Christine and Jared and the five grandkids (8 and under) last week. They were here for the funeral of Jared’s mother, who had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for several years.

Their visit resulted in bit more noise than we normally have. They are all quite well-behaved, but there is an inherent ‘joyful noise’ when they are around. They were able to spend a lot of time with Jared’s family (lots of cousins in that family) who live in the area. I got to stay with the two youngest during the funeral day, which was not as hard as I let on. I did change a few ‘dirty duds’, but was stoic during the whole process.

We watched lots of “Sprout”, and I usually had at least two on my lap at all times (and, unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of room on my particular lap). Our other daughter Stacy brought along her Wii, along with her new Wii Fit, so the kids had fun playing the games and using the Wii Fit. I declined, however, since I really don’t want to know my BMI. I did play a few racing games with them. I am not a game player, due to minimal coordination skills, but I did manage to win a few of the races.

Their family is also pretty good about cleaning up toys and stuff, and left the house in pretty good shape. They left yesterday, so when I got home from work it was much quieter than usual.

At least I think it was. Hard to tell with all this leftover ringing in my ears.

I did manage to do a bit of minor improvements in my free File Transfer site (www.filehurl.com ) . I got a comment on my “Security Dawg” site recommending another ‘free’ site. But that place was not really free, and it certainly has limitations, although it might be a bit prettier. I replied in the post on Security Dawg comparing that ‘free’ site with the FileHurl site.

There are a few people using the FileHurl place. Right now, I think that it just needs a bit more publicity. Although I could do some self-publicity by posting to other sites such as Digg or Lifehacker, I’d rather (at the moment) let actual users do that. But the site works well (and easily), so give it a try if you need to transfer any size file to someone else.