Da Evening February 5, 2004 11:30 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentThe scout meeting was interesting. I’m bothered because 1) I don’t feel I’m working hard enough with my son on his scouting and 2) he’s earned a badge and not received it for 3 meetings despite reminders. Sometimes I feel singled out. I had that feeling tonight like I had in my early teens. I had just moved to New Orleans and suddenly I had no history but everyone else had history since they’d known each other for years. I was invited to hang out and play with the other kids but I never really felt a part of the other kids. I always felt like the outsider. Years later I realized I was just being neurotic.
So, am I being neurotic again? Or am I in the wrong tax bracket? Do I not give enough to the community or play the right politics? Or did I really get a hex put on me by some voodoo queen when I was living down in New Orleans and now my family is having to suffer through some twisted ironic luck because it isn’t bad luck; it’s alway “ironic.”
Time for bed.
add a commentHow I PC’d a Mac G5 February 5, 2004 10:56 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentFeeling slightly tense. Watching self. February 5, 2004 6:32 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentFeeling slightly tense. Watching self.
add a commentPreparions for the night February 5, 2004 5:32 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentGoing to rain hard today. Flood warnings already issued for the morning.
So, I wised up and made kindling. Now going to wash the floors. Then prepare myself for the meeting tonight. I’ve got about a half hour to pull this off.
“Dad, you know. It gets muddy when it rains.”
The ride back from the school was quiet except for… February 5, 2004 4:59 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentThe ride back from the school was quiet except for the phone call from the teacher saying the 13 yr old left his homework. So we turned around. I made some casual chit chat but for the most part we were each in our own world.
Time to clean the floors.
add a commentCleaning February 5, 2004 3:58 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentJust got done cleaning. Succeeded at getting all upstairs trash out of the house. Changed and fed the baby. Cleaned oven hood, stone top and sides, microwave inside and out, kitchen counter tops, sink, emptied clean dishes and refilled dishwasher. Left to do in kitchen: kitchen table, refrigerator, and floors.
Time to go pickup the 13 yr old.
add a commentBaby just laughed outloud. She’s so great! February 5, 2004 2:08 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentBaby just laughed outloud. She’s so great!
add a comment11-1 February 5, 2004 2:01 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentDay is slipping by. I’ve done some programming and watched History Channel while having lunch.
The baby has just woken from her nap and the wife is at the school until 2. The wife will return. And shortly after that the 7 and 10 year old will return and then I’ll go get the 13 yr old only to return home to clean up for the Blue and Gold scout banquet tonight.
My mind feels like the marbles inside are just rolling around.
add a commentSchool Wars February 5, 2004 1:58 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentThe school system seems to have it in for my sweet innocent 7 year old. I’d like to see his file as it is right now. I swear the idiot he had in kindergarden black balled him.
add a commentFont change February 5, 2004 11:51 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentReduced my font per a request. Please let me know if I made things unreadable.
add a commentFebruary 5, 2004 10:45 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentI hate bill collectors. $57 to NBC Visa.
add a commentHitler took over the world! February 5, 2004 10:04 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentI must have seen 30 of these New VW Beetles on the way back from the school today. They are everywhere! Of course, this could be “red car” syndrome since the kids play the “Slug bug” game everytime we are in the car. They’ve started showing a lessor interest in the game and for that my bicep is thankful.
add a commentTime to take the 13 yr old to school. February 5, 2004 9:08 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentTime to take the 13 yr old to school.
add a commentLet’s talk about Breasts! February 5, 2004 9:07 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentThe entire problem is that the United States is dominated by a bunch of prudes who make sex taboo. By making it taboo, we turn sex into the mystical thing that curious teenages just have to find out about. I bet that if it was “just sex” we’d have more people being less experimental. Or in the worse case, being safer about things.
I remember being a teenage when the first bra commercial came out. Let me tell you, as a teenager that was perusing every medical journal he could find, was amazed that National Geographic was allowed in schools, and knew where Dad’s and his friend’s dad’s collections of dirty magazines were kept, this bra commercial was gold! I spent hours trying to capture it on video tape. Yes, this was long before you could go on the Internet and just download it. We also couldn’t print pictures and taking the television into the bathroom was absolutely out of the question because it took 2 grown men to move a decent sized one. Allow me re-emphasize for the younger generation that hasn’t seen our media change so drastically over the past couple of decades that in my lifetime I can remember the debate about whether to allow bra commercials to be shown on television. In the early 80s (I think) the first commercial ran that tastefully showed a woman without a shirt. It caused an uproar! Here’s a woman in a bra on television. Well, there weren’t shows doing that and to most people this was like bringing a strip show into your living room. Now, we see Victoria Secrets and Haynes commercials all the time. They are still fun to watch but the astonishment is gone. Even Kmart had a guy dancing in his boxers.
Unfortunately, people seem to have a problem distinguishing tasteful nudity from raunchy pornography. I think our society tends to lump them into the same category. Janet Jackson did tasteful nudity (granted, it may have been inappropriate for the viewing audience but that’s not what this discussion is about) including it strategically placed in an artistic presentation with the timing of the nudity coinciding with the appropriate lyrics. What we see every day in the inboxes of our email is pornography.
What gets my goat the most is that she was primarily covered up.
This article “Jackson May Back Out of Grammy Awards” notes “The fiasco also affected NBC, which decided to remove a glimpse of an elderly patient’s breast in Thursday’s episode of “ER.”" which is a shame because obviously there are people in our society that see “it’s just a breast”.
Late to school. Been practicing the 7 yr old’s spe… February 5, 2004 8:04 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life , add a commentLate to school. Been practicing the 7 yr old’s speach. He is nervous about presenting it the way we’ve instructed but I think he’ll try.
Perhaps Cingular will work today.
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