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This Morning

Wife very stressed. I’m stressed. I’ve yelled at the kids. She’s yelling. We’ve bothed reminded each other to stop (we don’t want yelling under any circumstances). Folks will be here in an hour. Still 2 days of cleaning to achieve. I need to bathe. Dog school at 3pm. Possibly D&D tonight. Still have 20 hours of programming to do on a single project and many hours on others. Must prepare for traffic court tomorrow to fight that bogus stop sign citation.

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Priorities

These priorities are in relation to this weekend.

  URGENT NOT URGENT
IMPORTANT
  • Heat Pump Repair
  • Client 1
  • Client 2
  • Client4
  • Clean House (in progress)
  • Pickup Cookie Tray
  • Client 3
  • Client 5
  • Get Tommy’s Bed
  • Dry wall client
  • Play with children
  • Repair car
NOT IMPORTANT
  • Haircut
  • Blogging
  • Deciding ‘what to do next’
  • Review friend’s novel
  • Lost
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Brisk

It’s 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4° C) outside right now. Very crisp. There is a small sliver of ultra bright white moon in the sky. The stars are extra sharp and out in mass. The sky seems clear of all pollution and obstruction. As I walked the inlaw’s dog (here for the weekend), I could not keep my eyes from gazing at the sky. It felt as though I could reach up and pluck stars from the darkness.

I love it when the air feels so crisp! I am not so thrilled when the heat pump goes out as it noisily did last night.

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Ring Ring

I just had the most interesting phone call.

Woman on phone: “Hello?”

Me: “Hello.”

Woman: “Hello?”

Me: “Hello!”

Woman: “Hello? Is there anybody there?”

Me: Frustrated with Cingular, desperately moving phone to try to get better signal. “Yes, I’m here. Can you hear me now?!”

Woman: “Hello?” Click.

Voicemail Computer Voice: “If you would like to delete this message, press 7. To Save it, press 9.”

Yes, I was was really checking my messages on a call from 10 hours ago.

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This Morning

I’m a bit stressed today. I really need to not go into the office and work on other focuses but we have to deliver today. It’s like all my milestones are falling on the same day. We have soccer tonight and guests arriving tonight to boot. The guests will be in the mountains and have said they won’t come by until Sunday but last time we had a surprise visit on Saturday. My wonderful wife has been working so hard to get the house in order.

I need a couple of new monitors downstairs. The two I have are getting so dark that at times I can barely read them. That has to be impacting my productivity.

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This Morning

What a great start to the day! I woke at 3am with energy but went back to bed. Considered getting up at 4 and finally rose at 5:30 to bathe and get ready before the kids. Got Tommy up and bathed and now he wanders the house reeling in the pleasure of not having to groggily rush out the door.

It’s raining outside. I’d rather not drive into the office today. I’m torn. I have so much to do and so little time! Throw in complications like meetings and appointments. Monday evening: soccer

Tuesday evening: —-

Wednesday evening: STAR

Thursday evening: Scouts

Friday evening: soccer

Saturday evening: —-

Sunday evening: D&D for Tommy

I should be working like a 16 hour day. 24 hours in the day. Minus 2 hours for each evening event leaves 22 hours. Minus 2 hours in the morning getting the kids off to school leaves 20 hours. Minus 8 hours sleep leaves 12 hours. Wait a minute. That should be less. Minus 5 hours sleep leaves 15 hours. Minus 2 hours for driving and other unexpected things. Leaves 13 hours. Minus 1 hour for preparing and eatting dinner in the evenings leaves 12 hours. Minus 1 hour for lunch bathroom breaks etc leaves 11 hours. That’s not bad. I should be able to accomplish a lot in 11 hours.

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Actions Louder than Words

Nicky makes a good point. Let’s not talk politics anymore. Our path for the next four years has been laid however we need not allow our civil liberties to be swept out from underneath us. A call to all Americans regardless of party views! Step up to the plate. For the next 4 years (and hopefully the rest of your life), write letters, make phone calls, send emails and be a part of the political process. When legislation is proposed, make your views known! Be an active American not a passive one!

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Let’s have conspiracy!

So for fun, let’s step into GW Bush’s head for a minute. Let’s add in a few prime time quality flash backs and replay some dialogs that Junior has had.

Senior’s End of Term

GW: “Daaddee. It ain’t right that you didn’t get another term.”

Sr: “That is how the political process works son.”

GW: “But it tain’t right. You watch! I’m gonna get your Cold War back! I promise!”

Flashback Pre-Election 2000

GW: “Daaddee. I thinks I wanna run fer president.”

Sr: “Son. I don’t think you have what it takes.”

GW: “Daaddee. It looks like a lot of fun. Neat toys! You can make some calls right?”

Sr: “Sure son. But you are going to have to listen to everything I tell you.”

Flashback Election 2000

GW: “I’m gonna lose! This ain’t right.”

*ring ring*

Jeb: “Hullo.”

GW: “Jeb. Yer the gov’ner. Make those votes right or I’ll tell everyone about that time I found you and Charlie nachid.”

Jeb: “Fixed.”

Flashback Pre-election 2004

GW: “This doggoned divided House and Senate makes my job hard.”

*ring ring*

CIA: “Thank you for calling the CIA. We fix things! Can I help you?”

GW: “Make sure that House and Senate is mostly Republicans.”

*checks polls*

GW: “This son of a gun has a chance!”

*ring ring*

CIA: “Thank you for calling the CIA. We fix things! Can I help you?”

GW: “How good are you at counting?”

CIA: “Good enough to tell you that you don’t need to pack your things for at least another 4 years.”

Flashforward Pre-election 2008

CIA: “Oh! Hello George!”