A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
A New Day!
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This Morning
Woke at midnight to fight a shadow for the wife. Shadow flew back to Peter Pan like nobodies business! Who da man?!
* This morning I have a sore throat; hurts to swallow or talk. And some sneezing. I despire being ill.
Profoundness from a 7 yr old: While I am scrambling eggs in the kitchen, “Sounds like you are in a rock band!”
Too tired to carry on. Gonna add tonights wood to the fire and go to bed.
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We just had an erectile dysfunction drug commercial on tv that said “…although rare, erections lasting longer than 4 hours require immediate medical attention” BAH! Can you imagine!
[sidebar] I think in high school I probably needed medical attention on more than one occasion although I’m sure attention from any of the cheerleaders would have sufficed.
A new way to view London: from a toilet –
Usable bathroom exhibit boasts one-way mirrored walls
Focus problem! Heart is not racing buy my chest feels like it is. The cold of this office isn’t helping.
Took entirely too long but had much fun editing our photos for our snow day. see them here
I used to take such good care of my things. My cd collection was alphabetized and no scratcheds. Now my discs are regularly used as frisbees and half of them can’t be found and the other half can’t play without several episodes of skipping.
I’m a potential iTunes customers for sure!
For productivity, today the boom box contains Sublime
So far a great day! Playing board games with the kids, sledding with the kids, and now Microsoft Office 2003, One Note 2003 and Business Contact Manager 2003 arrived! Woot!
The sledding reminded me how fun it is to be a kid and how thankful that I can relive it as a parent. I think the rest of this snow the hill is all theirs and my bottom is staying dry. I went down the hill tandem individually with Noah, Sarah and Amy. Unfortunately, Tommy at 191.5 pounds (86.86 kg thanks OnlineConversion.com) is too heavy to ride together; besides, with our combined weight we would have gone into the creek and probably a mile beyond that. Sarah and I had trouble steering together and we toppled…brrrr. Amy and I picked a small hill and she giggled profusely. Noah after a couple of runs says “I want to play with Amy.” What a great brother!
I’m back inside and dried up. I may go out again but this time will be totally as an observer and cheerleader.
Going sleding with the 7 and 10 yr old.
Diving board made from cardboard.
Problem. Diving board missing. Cooking shears missing.
I’m playing Mouse Trap with Noah and Sarah and could not have had a worse run of luck. I just now got my first piece (the stairs) and only have 2 slices of cheese. The kids have put on a total of 8 pieces and have huge piles of cheese. They are having a great time.
I felt myself being short and gruff with the 13 yr old and quickly put it into check. Anger is too strong an emotion to describe my feelings but I will use it for lack of a better word. The 13 yr is having a good time building a model that my father bought him during our Christmas visit. My true anger was directed at myself; I should have given him the time to help him learn modeling by now. I wanted to teach him how to trim the flash, make looking up ways to paint it fun, and enjoy the time with him building a great looking model. I also had some directed at the grandparents for allowing him to start this model because he looked unguided; my main irritation being that no newspaper was put over the work surface – glue everywhere. No irritation with Tommy. The model thus far looks good and I told him so.
I recognize that my feelings are greatly misdirected and that I can still teach Tommy modelling and now he has some experience to grow on. I have grown and learned.
