A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
New Airport Game! For the bored traveler you know have the ability to entertain yourself for hours. Compete against other travellers and have government paid referees determine the winner!
Took wife and baby downtown to pickup circus tickets; Amy slept. Had car trouble on the way back (transmission could be dying == $1500+- probably + or it could be a fluid problem). Went to Joanne’s and Gina’s to drop off Project Linus boxes. Went to Smart Toys (someone tell them I can fix their webpage) for a birthday present and Amy woke to get to play. Returned home to find our latchkey keys know how to get into the house.
Conversation with Tommy‘s teacher transcribed. Our phone systems should do this automatically! The technology is advanced enough. It’s silly that we don’t have automatic transcriptions of all phone conversations and meetings. And I don’t mean recordings. I mean electronic editable, searchable text documents.
I feel like I need a refund of several years of my life for all the wasted time documenting conversations with employees, covering my ass documentation, and documenting political meetings with places like the school system.
Home phone systems should automatically produce electronic transcripts for logging purposes.
Fort Campbell officer robs bank, surrenders Iraq sounds like such a fun place.
Wahoo! One more cover letter and resume sent. This for an IT Web Master Database Marketing Expert position. You have to love titles like that!
Ooops. Just noticed the cover letter I sent to the insurance company had the POB of the last company that the template was used for. I just gave them a strong reason to circular file my resume!
Wahoo! Submitted a cover letter and resume to a local insurance company that specifically asked for ColdFusion!
Ran to Kinko’s for more boxes. They’ll have even more this evening if we want them.
Went to Cingular and paid $128 cell phone bill. Stared at phones, drooled, dilerated, left without a new phone.
Went to United Printing and got more boxes. One of Noah’s scout buddy’s (Will) Dad (Jeff) runs the business!
Returned home. Working on cover letter. My cover letters suck.
Scientists find new face on Turin shroud
Deane Hill man wins case with MPC The neighborhood of elitists is in the news again. After failing to close of roads used as “shortcuts” through their neighborhood, they now choose to attack a neighborhood that has run an accounting business from his home for 5 years.
Rare whales spotted for first time in 20 years. Giant cigarette-shaped thing now moving away from earth Thanks Fark
Women plan to protest as topless barber shop opens Aw come on! We are staring at them anyway! Why not uncover them?! I’ve wanted a topless barber shop since I was 12!
Ray Bradbury praises Pres. Bush’s space plan; also says to ignore that gremlin on the plane wing looking in at you Too many good headlines by Fark today.
Sony’s new 25 GB Blu-Ray Disc made of paper. Finally, we can smoke our video games Thanks to Fark for the headline.
a magnetic motor that consumed almost no electricity This sounds like it belongs in The Museum of Unworkable Devices (see the original post for earlier comments).
Thanks to My Likes and Dislikes for the link.
Tom Tomorrow on the President’s speech — I’m speechless!
Thanks to Whoa Mama! for the link.
Thanks to My Likes and Dislikes for the link.
The Out-of-TownerWhile Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard. By Fred Kaplan Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at 4:54 PM PT
A New Day!
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This Morning
Woke at 6:06! Whoa! Rushed upstairs to get the kids moving and prodded Tommy into getting dressed and doing math work. Ticked Sarah off by making her look at her day planner ( “I thought I only had to do that on Monday’s!” ); trying to instill time management skills in her is going to be a royal pain ( “I don’t check things off. I erase them when I’m done. If I don’t erase them, well, I KNOW I’ve done it.” ) Quizzed Noah briefly on his spelling words.
Carpooler wasn’t ready either. Talked to Noah and Sarah in the car asking “so what do you do at your friends’ houses when you spend the night.” Sarah gives a brief answer followed quickly by “can we turn on the radio.”
Amy certainly has a lot to say this morning.
Last Night/Afternoon
Picked Tommy up at school. I called him at 3:08 to tell him that I was on my way and he should not get on the bus. 15 minutes later I arrive at the school and he is still in the classroom unattended. The lady at the front desk was even taken back.
Tommy and I drove to the West Knoxville Travel Bug Hotel to find that the brandnew logbook has indeed disappeared. I hate vandals.
I then when to a cloth store and got permission for us to put out a box for Project Linus.
Tommy and I made it to STAR where he did very well.
On our return we stopped at Michael’s and dropped off a letter for the management to see if we can leave a Project Linus box there. Then we went to Joanne’s Etc and got permission to leave a box there.
For dinner we went to Rafferty’s and ordered 3 racks of ribs to go. While they were preparing it, Tommy and I drove around. He declared “Let’s go in Fantasy World!” (thinking it was a magic store) so I explained that it was a place that sold ladies underwear and dirty books and he changed his tune to “Let’s put them out of business” so we had a brief discussion on captialism, morals and right from wrong. In the end he said, “ok. I just won’t shop there” which was a great conclusion for him to draw. We went to Lowe’s and looked at plumbing snakes and flowers. Happened to drive past a strip club on the way and because of Tommy’s over reaction to the adult store and “not liking girls” I used it as an example to explain “it’s ok to like girls. Some guys pay money to see girls take their clothes off” and left it brief not wanting to go into details except to mention that its very expensive. We picked up our ribs, headed to Weigel’s for 2 gallons of milk, then home to enjoy a great meal.
Evening was battling with Tommy to actually complete some work. Then Cathy and I watched some Kingdom Hospital and fell into a deep sleep.
