Yahoo! Making progress on the db design in mysql. Need to take a break. Miss wife.
Day: January 14, 2004
good times * took the 7yr old and the 10 yr old t…
good times
* took the 7yr old and the 10 yr old to Krispy Kreme for their great report card doughnuts. Teased them the whole trip saying I was dropping them off for an all night study session at the school “since you got such good grades and want to keep them good they are going to have you stay at the school studying math and spelling” I even went into the school parking lot. I kept prompting “but what would YOU do for an honor roll student” and asked the question many different ways. I was almost to Krispy Kreme before they figured it out.
bad times
* Was having a relaxing evening and watching Smallville with the wife and wanted to get my dinner but my carelessness knocked over an open container of apple sauce which hit the ground perfectly to cover me from head to toe. I was furious and really held it back but still yelled “who’s apple sauce am I wearing”. I resist any cursing but still questioned why open containers were in the fridge and the wife got mad and I feel like absolute crap. I thought I was going to pop a blood vessle in my head because of the mixed emotions but mostly anger towards myself for losing my temper. Now things are unbearably tense.
* That was completely embarassing. Ex-wife’s name …
* That was completely embarassing. Ex-wife’s name on the paperwork and the in-laws paying the Nov, Dec and Jan mortgage payments. Add on another 2 grand that I need to repay to generous people. I look back at the manuals I’ve written and the planning and strategy tools I’ve built in the past and they were so well thought out and well done. I should not be here.
* in laws here to pay mortgage. Head pounding.
* in laws here to pay mortgage. Head pounding.
* Picked up 10 yr old at school. She’s having diff…
* Picked up 10 yr old at school. She’s having difficulty with addition and subtraction of fractions and about to go onto multiplication and division and I’m racking my brain to remember least common denominators and such.
Political If you haven’t, you should look at http:…
Political If you haven’t, you should look at http://www.bushin30seconds.org/ and read George Orwell’s 1984
This afternoon has been quite an adventure. * Wen…
This afternoon has been quite an adventure.
* Went to the bank to deposit an insurance check. Balance still negative but account doesn’t get closed until the 19th so I still have a chance to save it.
* Went to Nature’s Pantry. Doc Bro bought some ear candles for me but the customer service guy couldn’t find them. He was the first rudeish person I’ve ever run across at Nature’s Pantry. I asked, “Could they be at the register?” To which he replied, “No. We wouldn’t do that.” Vmails to the Bro and wife.
* Office Depot to get a bound pad of paper for the 13 yr old’s school work and erasable coloring pencils. At the check-out, I notice a table set up with a sign “Free Blood Pressure Check” Just what the brother ordered! First numbers come in at 178/86. 2nd numbers 143/86 pulse 72. Oh I remember the days of a 58 pulse everytime!
* Coming out of Office Depot channel 8 WVLT interviews me, unshaven and not at my most literate, for a 5:30 report they are doing on whether or not unlimited long distance saves money. I gave good commentary but wasn’t minding any of my actorial training. I am and probably always will be a theatrical performer instead of on camera.
* Brother’s wife is on the phone when I am passing Nature’s Pantry again so we go in and speak with Michelle who says “Oh, it’s by the register” (remember, “we would never put it there”?) So I’m prepared to have my ears vaccuumed. Looking forward to it. Maybe my hearing will improve 🙂
* Passing Am South I stop for their promotion and get the kids some B-97 promotional items, sign up for $1000 give-a-away and turn down a free checking account and a chance to grab money out of their money booth.
* Back to work
* Pep Boys contacted to correct UPS debacle. C…
* Pep Boys contacted to correct UPS debacle.
Careful with insuring packages
Pep Boys sells Dad a scooter for the 10 yr old’s Christmas. It accidentally gets shipped to his house (damaged) so he insures it and ships it here. Pep Boys agrees to take it back but it UPS ships it from here to Dad’s house then sends a letter explaining that the package had insufficient packing and therefore they weren’t responsible for the damage.
So! Why didn’t the sales clerk look at the package, the description, the weight, and the insured amount and decline to insure it. I thought that if you “insure” something that you are accepting the risk and contracting to pay if the risk happens. Double-check before you waste money insuring packages!
Student Loans BLAST! The wife’s student loans…
Student Loans
BLAST! The wife’s student loans went into default a while back during her divorce or something. I worked with the collection agency and we’ve paid $550 per month for the past year to get back on good terms. The end result would be getting to refinance the $45,000 remaining at today’s interest rates. We missed the very last payment and have until tomorrow to make it up by Western Union or we have to do the whole year again and won’t be able to refinance until after the next election (with more than likely higher interest rates). This rots!
* Been working hard. Must break for lunch and a ru…
* Been working hard. Must break for lunch and a run to the bank soon. Want to incorporate some marketing as I go but don’t want to suit up.
* My cat gargoyle normally on the monitor has take…
* My cat gargoyle normally on the monitor has taken to insisting on my lap. This either means that its time to get a flat panel display, the liter box needs changing, or she needs food or water. I think I’ll assume its time to get a flat panel display.
* Dr Brother calls and gives me some advice for th…
* Dr Brother calls and gives me some advice for the dizziness over the phone. I’m very excited about his approach since my gp said that the only thing I could do was wait it out or do some time consuming expensive physical therapy. Besides, I like my bro’s more holistic approach.
* Starting to freak. It’s 10:49 and I haven’t begun programming. Setting aside all other distraction and programming now.
Wal*Mart to end our way of life "KB Toys Follow…
Wal*Mart to end our way of life
“KB Toys Follows FAO Into Bankruptcy” Is it just me or does anyone else recognize that in a few years we are going to be screwed to the Wal*? Once Walmart underprices all major stores out of business, the toy stores, the grocery stores, the sports stores, and we have only Walmart to shop from, the prices will shoot through the roof!
I’m off to buy Wal*mart stock…
Today’s goals: banking, work on the contracted web…
Today’s goals: banking, work on the contracted web project, cook the chicken and beef jerfy, work on self web project
A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…
A New Day!
Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:
This Morning
* I actually get up! Did not return to bed. Granted, I didn’t get up until 6:30 but I did get up!
* Bathe the 7 yr old
* The kids are in jolly moods and I’m nice to them. No grumpies!
* Return from car pool to bury the cats 2 day old mole kill (in warmer weather it would have been fly food by now) then have a “sexual responsibility” talk with the 13 yr old-topics: cleaning up after that personal activity, tissues by the bed, not leaving seminal fluid about, disease–what fun!
Last Evening
* Seems we forgot to give the 13 yr old his medicine
* The 19 mth old splits her lip just as Mom is trying to get out the door for a Girl Scout training meeting on selling cookies (which none of the other generous mother’s would donate time for). I lose my temper not because it happened but because no one cleaned up the toys. It was an irrational and unreasonable response. It bugs me that I’m such a loose cannon now-a-days. I used to choose my battles so much more carefully.
* Chaos calms and the 10yr old gets on her home work, the 13 yr old settles in bed for reading, the 7yr old works on his Daniel Boone project and I join him for some Internet research. We print a 17 page document and staple it to look like a book (I was hoping this would engage him better than loose papers) and set him down to read it. He gets through most of it before I give him a break and send him to bed to read Yu-Gi-Oh..a book that reads right to left but is printed in English.
* Cingular text messaging was down so I spend 1/2 hour on hold to get tech support to tell me its down in all markets and they don’t know why. “Could be morning before its back”
* Call Dad to wish him a happy birthday. Find out my brother got his job in South Carolina. At least someone is getting employed.
* Wife returns and we discover the 7yr old didn’t make it (in the morning he remains strongly opinioned that he did not wet his pants)
* Evening of email, chats and tv with the wife. Strong dizzy spells in bed.
* 13 yr old stayed up well past midnight masterbating. Tired dense dad goes upstairs to see what the noise is about to have 13 yr old quickly jump from the bathroom to the bed onto his stomach only to ask a stupid question “why the hell are you naked?” to get a well deserved blunt answer of “I was playing with myself” — pause — “oh, do you need to change your sheets?” which was prompted by his statement of “I had to wash my hands.” You DINKS don’t know what you’re missing!