Month: February 2005

I’m most productive when my desk is clean, my music collection is alphabetized and all cds are in their cases, I have daily exercise and I have daily fiction reading.

Right now I have none of that.

Withers “Wiz” Morgan (University of TN, Knoxville)
Elizabeth Wilburn (Cary, NC)
Joanna Grist (Wilmington, NC)
Andy “Drew” Ward (Medford, NJ)
Brian Larose (University of TN, Knoxville)
Chris Jepeway (University of TN, Knoxville)
Bruce Gay (Cary, NC)

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) has passed. As Sammy Davis Jr had Mr Bojangles, I’ve always feared Willy Loman’s fate for myself.

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This Morning
I’ve been neglecting my links of late due to extreme stress and the fact that my computer has slowed down to the point of almost being unusable. Time for more RAM me thinks.
Today let’s add juliepatchouli and Bitchin4Sanity.

The dog and the cat are hilarious. The cat is not declawed and the dog just wants to play with the cat. The cat wants the dog to play but by her rules. She typically parks herself within range of the dog, a window sill or bookshelf, and the dog will come up to her and sniff her and lick her. When she’s had enough she plays drums on the dogs nose and for some reason never uses her claws. The dog doesn’t get it and keeps trying to lick her so the cat incorporates both front paws pounding on the dogs nose as fast as she can. It’s a sight I need to video.

Stand up (9.3MB – 37 seconds. I have to figure out how to compress video!)
Get the message (4.4MB – 17 seconds)
Good doggie..have a pet (1.4MB – 5 seconds)

What happened to Partisan Shots? I was having trouble reading it for a bit because of a Mozilla problem and now David appears awol. Anyone know what happened? I certainly enjoyed his writing.

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This Morning
I slept like a rock last night with vivid dreams. Yesterday I had close to no productivity and today I’m feeling stressed over it.

Winging life doesn’t work. I don’t even have a short term plan right now. I used to have a 10 year plan, a 5 year plan and short term plans and goals in my life. I used to know to the penny how much money was coming in and going out. I’m a disorganized mess. I have to pull it together!

Today is on-site client support day. I’ll leave the house in a few minutes and be on the road until close of business so I’ll fall further behind on deliverables to out of state clients.

Of the 20 scouts, 7 showed and still managed to be a raucous as the full count. We had a great time! We started the meeting with attendance doing the camping game “My name is ___ and I’m taking a backpack.” Next person “My name is ____ and I’m taking a backpack and a hiking staff.” And each consecutive person adds an item. It went over very well. Then we played a memory game where I placed 17 items on a table (should have been about 24) and covered them. I broke the boys into two teams and gave them each 30 seconds to stare at the table. Then they were recovered and the boys had to write down everything they saw. Again. It went over well. We had a discussion and matching game on folklore. And ended the evening with a game of balloon basketball.

Bear Den

Den Meeting

February 10, 2005

Agenda

• Flag Ceremony

• Attendance

• Thomas reads folklore

• Memory Game

• Break into groups (Folklore and Balloon Basketball)

• Closing

Requirements Met

4a Tell in your own words what folklore is. List some folklore stories, folk songs, or historical legends from your own state or part of the country. Play the Folklore Match Game on page 48.

15b Play two organized games with your den.

15c Select a game that your den has never played. Explain the rules. Tell them how to play it, and then play it with them.

Take Home Achievement

4b Name at least five stories about American folklore. Point out on a United States map where they happened.

4c Read two folklore stories and tell your favorite one to your den.

15a Set up the equipment and play any two of these outdoor games with your family or friends.

_____ Backyard golf     _____ Kickball

_____ Badminton    _____ Softball

_____ Croquet    _____ Tetherball

_____ Sidewalk Shuffleboard     _____ Horseshoes

                     _____ Volleyball

Balloon Basketball

Activity Level: Moderate

Needed: Large to medium-sized playing area, any number of players, inflated balloons, empty cardboard box or wastepaper basket.

Use an inflated balloon for the ball, batting it around from player to player, and boxes or wastepaper baskets for the goals. Score as in basketball, except that a broken balloon counts five points off for the side that broke the balloon.

I’m running the den meeting for 20 nine year old boys tonight by myself. I still don’t have the boys names down pat. I’m nervous as a chicken in a fox house.

64 64 64 Zoo Lane

64 64 64 Zoo Lane

Just enough of a tune

To drive you insane

64 64 64 Zoo Lane

Student: Why is nothing in my life predictable?

Master: I knew you were going to ask that.

You know on Monday when you go up the stairs you turn left if you want to go to the bathroom.

Then on Tuesday when you go up the stairs and you turn left if you want to go to the bathroom.

On Wednesday morning when you go up the stairs you turn left if you want to go to the bathroom.

On Wednesday afternoon having solely worked on the garage when you go up the stairs you turn left and there is no bathroom.

This is programming.

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This Morning

Yesterday was programming galore. My client will demo the product to his clients today at 5:30 so every moment of today has to be focused on code. I can take a breather tomorrow.