Day: January 2, 2005

I am failing so badly.

1001 Day Project

How to write a best selling fantasy novel.

We pushed our couch back against the wardrobe so the girlscouts could all gather on the floor for their sleep over. The dogs are flipped because they can’t walk behind it to go outside. We open the door and they (mainly the 12 year old) pace back and forth trying to figure out how to go behind the couch instead of walking straight out the front door.

The cat has knocked a single piece of food out of her bowl and it went under some mail on my desk. Now she is digging manically to get that one piece of food.

It must be this house!

My wife has a 30 GB Ipod that because of her Windows 98 computer she basically could not use. I feared the battery so dead at this point that it would have to be replaced. I bought a 2 year, no questions asked replacement warrantee but I think I let it expire without using the warantee. (action item for self: go bang head repeatedly into a concrete wall)

I’ve had the Ipod charging directly from a wall socket instead of the firewire port for the past two days and I’ll be darned if the doggone thing didn’t turn on this morning! Going to keep her charging for a bit whilst I find the software and see if it holds a charge. I still fear the need to buy a replacement battery.

Late afternoon yesterday I was with a friend of mine helping a mutual friend of ours convert his computer network at his pizza restaurant from wireless back to wired. One of his computers sits on a shelf near the ceiling. To get to this machine I stepped back from the cabinet (imagine the height about where your kitchen sink would be) and I took two steps then launched myself through the air. On the counter sits the keyboards and an array of papers etc leaving about 10 cm for my foot to land so I choose to land my left foot sideways in that 10 cm space and use my right foot on the side of the cabinet to stablize myself then spin to balance myself on the toes of both my feet.

A couple of sentences later my friend had processed the action and commented “even when I was younger I wouldn’t have done that.”

I guess I’ve been watching too much Jackie Chan.

Just how much fight should go into this. I’m an activist at heart and I know how to bring about change. At the University of Tennessee I brought about a major change during my time there. How many battles can one person fight? I have it within me to bring about change to the school system here but at what sacrifice and what gain?

Molly has been through dog school and has sort of learned to sit, stay, lie down, heal and so forth. We must keep practicing!

She also knows to shake hands.

One of our Christmas decorations is a pair of bells that hang on the inside door knob of the front door. We are in the process of teaching Molly to ring the bells whenever she wants out. She has now rang them deliberately twice. Sometimes she sits by the door, points her nose at the bells, and just stares.

On a very big positive, we haven’t had a pee accident in the house in 36 hours or so! Of course, over the past two days I made an exerted effort to give her lots of unleashed playtime outside. The laser light at night in the yard really drives her nuts and provides great exercise!

A New Day!

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This Morning

I fell asleep at 9pm last night and woke at 9am this morning. I feel much better now!

My wife and I are at odds on how to handle sickness. She feels sickness is not an excuse for slowing down. That life must go on. I feel sickness is the body’s way of saying it needs rest to make repairs. I think exercise should continue or increase when sick to help produce more white blood cells and then there should be much rest. The body can heal itself if given the opportunity.

Today I must commit to computing.