Year: 2004

Sarah’s purse was found in an obscure cranny under the front seat of the car. She squealed! We celebrated by taking a direct trip to Toy’s R Us and spending the Toy’s R Us card dry. Amy slept through the trip and awoke briefly as we were leaving. The wrinkled brow and slow glowering seemed to scream “hey, I missed the fun place.” In the car she return to sleep.

Couldn’t focus on the electronic stuff so I went out in the yard and went to town on the holly tree and the shrub beside it. Those bushes must of felt like Bruce Springsteen after his motocycle accident and his father had the barber come to the hospital and cut off all his hair. I found our mosquitoe breeding ground and could actually see the hundreds of larva swimming around. Hopefully the front yard will become safe for play now except for the fact that the bushes no longer offer much of an obsticle to the retaining wall. Perhaps its time to see how much fencing costs.

That little bit of yard work brought afternoon sun to the driveway and cleared away any habitat for the nasty bugs and mosquitoes. Was a giant step toward doing some proper landscaping.

Time to regroup. No focus. Too much going on in head.

Promised wife: a) fix http://www.domesticpsychology.com and b) get the plants out from under the deck DONE

In process: a) restoring friends OS

Need to: a) put a sales form on Superior Internet Designs b) update TN Lottery Results c) work on overseas client site — begin formalizing the spec and outlining the code structire — create development environment and basic documentation

Want to: a) do at least one part of one home improvement project and b) a little yard work DONE

Cathy points us to another personality test and I discovered I am Sober Emotional Destructive Leader. This makes you a dictator.

results —personality key

A New Day!

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This Morning

As predicted, I am sore but I really enjoyed last night. Amy awoke at 8am and I could not pull myself from bed. She played until 8:30 and I reluctantly ask Cathy if she would let me sleep in (which I did until 10:30–what a bum!).

When the fireworks started lastnight, Amy could have startled, screamed, cried and jumped into the nearest adult arms. Instead, she rose to her feet in one bound, squealed with joy, clapped her hands (which is always so cute looking), yelled “yeah!” and laughed. For most of the show she was enraptured. About 2/3s of the way through she lost some interest but was overjoyed with our outing. Tommy was on pretty good behavior. Sarah had a friend and was naturally perfect (with the exception of not owning up to dying Amy’s hair). And Noah is the angel always is. The boys had a real tough time not participating in the juggling show (they like to yell out the punch lines and otherwise heckle but its thrilling for them and I need to nurture that somehow).

The juggling at the church went exceptionally well despite my recent lack of practice. I had a terrific time and did some decent juggling. Everyone seemed pleased. I am too tired to say more at the moment.

Wow.. That took audioblogger a full day to get posted.

Sarah lost her purse with over $150 in gift cards she got for her birthday. This is a parental failure as our own disorganization and procrastination has led to the hurt feelings and sorrow of a young girl. I am distraught.

I’m not handling the stress well this afternoon. My body temperature is up. I can feel heat emanating. I will end up enjoying tonight but the preparation for tonight and the distraction from the things I need to be doing is killing me.

This town is failing so badly that even the bushes are hitting the road.

a) practice juggling for tonight’s event (I’m totally in the wrong mindset for a performance)

b) visit the IRS postponed

c) fix my Microsoft Partnership registration

d) sell something

e) answer 2 newspaper job ads

f) pick up friend’s Windows XP Home Edition CDDONE

g) email overseas reference with pricing informationDONE

CFXHosting doesn’t like my lack of paying them and has turned off our personal domains. A good friend had offered to move the domains for me to her servers and I had to put my priorities into finding money first. I also in good conscience could not switch services owing one money but now what’s that got me?

Time to call customer service.

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This Morning

At 4am my alarm went off and I was almost convinced to get up. At 4:30 Amy fell out of her bed and I sprinted upstairs. When I got there Sarah was holding her trying to comfort her. She’s a great sister to Amy! Sarah wasn’t sure if Amy fell from her bed or Amy’s bed. I suspect it was from Amy’s bed but she missed the padding or hit the edge of the padding and bruised her eye. This morning is is blackened and swollen but Amy is in good spirits. We tried to get her settled and I tried to get some work done but she needed both parents to help protect and calm her. I knew if I returned to the bed I would not regain my momentum. Eventually Amy asked for “big girl’s bed” so I put her upstairs. I fully expected that I was being conned and thought within a few minutes I’d her talking and playing but she actually returned to sleep and so did I. I awoke at 8am with super hyped anxiety but have since mostly calmed myself.

About an hour ago Amy fell out of her bed. I think she missed the padded mat and hit the hardwood floor. She’s gonna have a shiner for a bit. She is obviously uncomfortable as she keeps crying out.