A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
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.
Cover letter drafted. Baby awoken. Cover letter and resume will be sent tonight.
Reassembled plumbing with Amy’s help. It still backed up. I need to rent a more serious 2″ snake (50.8mm) OR call in a plumber. Hmm…
I need to get dressed for errands.
Blast. Baby awakes. I’m so close! I need a few more minutes.
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Made a new business contact and impressed by referring him to a friend of mine (friend thankful). Good karma all around.
Sent updated resume to both recruiters and new business contact.
Cleaned sink. Now ready to reassemble pipes.
Cooked BLTs…did I wash my hands?
Still can’t get ms word working on this machine. Where’s that software?!
Just snaked the pipes in the upstairs bathroom. I hope it was sufficient. I’d really like to go in with a rented one that would do a better job. I may schedule that for a weekend once a year and just snake all the pipes.
Before I can reassemble the pipes I have one more length of pipe I want to clean out. Long blonde hair all over the place…hmmm.. I suspect I’ll be snaking the pipes frequently for the next couple of decades.
Indian tribes sue to reclaim about a third of Colorado, but will settle for a single casino Thanks Fark for the headline!
I think this is ridiculous. Some of these Indian’s asking for their land back are about as much Indian as I am Irish. Well the Irish were screwed in America too! I want justice. The Irish built most of Knoxville. I want a third of Knoxville but I’ll settle for a nice office building!
Other stories like Cherokees get coveted Smokies land where the Great Environmentalist GW Bush gave 143 acres for the purpose of building schools (you watch how quickly the schools become casinos) irritate me to no end. Yes! Part of the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway was an agreement that the lands would be handed over but over time I think the value of the National Park as a natural resource outweights the necessity to honor that deal and that compensation should have been made in other ways. Besides, all my maps are screwed now. There are also vast treasures to be found in the Smokies for the outdoor adverturer that gains the skills and permission to go off trail. Cabins can still be found with tables set, watches in place etc just as if someone had been living in them yesterday. Taking land from the Smokies destroys such history not to mention the environmental impact from the construction vehicles and human habitation of that 143 acres. It was an idiotic move.
I’m having a full pot of coffee today!
Look! Jobs I can do in Iraq!
EMW has an immediate need for a Network Engineer to support US Military operations in Iraq.
ok. I think giving anyone that works in an IT department a “gun” is a bad idea!
TN Delivers Live Weapons to Oklahoma (aka Lowe’s Customer Bitten by Rattlesnake)
Osama bin Laden wants to make a deal with Europe
The Museum of Unworkable Devices is a fun place to visit. Within it ther are several places like the Gallery of Ingenious, but Impractical Devices This site is fun and irritating. I know just enough to believe that some of these devices should work and just enough to know why they don’t.
In the 7th grade I did a science project on perpetual motion where I hooked a generator to a motor. The generator was started by a crank and was supposed to power the motor which would in turn power the generator and so forth. I was very steamed that I could not get this to work.
A New Day!
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This Morning
Awoke at 12:52am to a crying baby. She had moved from her bed to the hardwood floor. There is a soft mat near the bed that she could have chosen but instead was on the floor. I hugged her, gave her a fresh pacificer and put her back to sleep. At 5:50 she was crying again but from the bed this time. I brought her down to the crib and stirred the crew.
Last Night
Was more tired than I thought I was. Watched some of Groundhog Day with the wife. Went back to errands around the house then returned but didn’t even make it through Futurama.
