Me: “So, Noah, how’s it feel to be gainfully employed?”
Noah: “Pretty good!”
Me: “You know that Weigel’s card in your car you use to pay for your gas directly from your parent’s bank account? Let’s give that back to your mother.”
Noah: “Oh. Okay.”
Noah, complaining to older sister: “They made me give back the gas card.”
Older sister: “What?! They never paid for my gas!”
Author: Doug McCaughan
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From the mouths of babes
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I played chess with my son
Last night, as I prepared dinner, I asked my youngest (14) if he wanted to play a game of chess. He eagerly agreed and after finishing his battle on his computer game, set up the chess set on the table. We started playing. I made a move then prepped an ingredient for dinner. Made another move, prepped. After I stood up for the third time, my son said, “Dad, I’m going to go do my school work before it gets too late.” That hit me in the feels. Fortunately, dinner was ready to go into the oven for 30 minutes. I felt I was a few moves away from checkmating him so I said, “I’m about to end you. Let’s finish. This will be quick.” He perked up and I gave my undivided attention to him and the game. In the blink of an eye, the oven beeped. 30 minutes passed in the flash of an eye and the game had turned. Two terrible moves by me gave my son control of the board and he destroyed me. Then he returned to his room to either study or game or both. It was a great moment.
I wish I could turn the clock back 19 years and make every night like last night. I have allowed busy to replace bonds. Excuses to prevent experiences. I have great children. They have had good lives. I could have done so much better. With the time I have left, I will do so much better!
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Things I am learning
* SCRUM/Agile
* vuejs/Angular/React
* Hydroponic gardening
* The business of standup comedy
* AWS and Google Cloud services
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One of my favorite song lyrics
“My life is a mess
I should be depressed
But I’m having a good time.” -
Thank you Internet!
I don’t know what this is but I feel like I owe someone some gratitude.
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Of Grasshoppers
Student: My life should have been so much different.
Master: Perhaps you would enjoy the life you have more if you spent less time living the life you don’t have. -
Words of Wisdom
Don’t drink and buy apps for your cat.
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Of Grasshoppers
Student: Every time I get my head above water, another wave comes crashing down upon me.
Master: Maybe you should get out of the water. -
Deep Thoughts
I’ve given so much of me there’s nothing of me left.
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State of me
Saturday is upon me. Thought I’d start the day at 4am. It’s 9:15 and I’m just now moving around. There’s a thumping in my head like someone decided to make me walk to the beat of my own personal bongos.
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More Sunday progress
The floor remains on the driveway but the room has been cleaned and is ready for laying the underlayment down. Well, at least the first patch. Figuring out how to do this without completely removing the furniture from the room has been challenging.
Second client task is making good headway. The problem has been reproduced so solving the problem can commence.
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Sunday progress
One client task complete. Another in progress. And the floor is in progress.
Of course the dog took advantage of this situation to kill our bed:
Which no longer raises and lowers. There should be a manual option.
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Sunday, end of Spring Break
This week has been amazing. Amy went to Disney World from Friday to Tuesday. Evan, Cathy, and I went to Disney from Monday to Friday. I slept through Friday and spent Saturday tearing out the rest of the flooring in the basement that I’d spent the past year and a half putting down. We still found water under the floor from the February 23rd flood. A month later with dampness but no harm to the Nucore flooring. Amazing stuff.
Sunday’s focus is delivering for neglected clients on three projects, planning a scout meeting, balancing my books, and bringing the flooring in from outside where it has been drying since rains are coming again. It would be nice to begin putting the floor down but that’s dependent upon completing my programming. This time I am putting an underlayment down. Previously the manufacturer said none was necessary but this gives further moisture protection as well as sound damping and more insulation for a better temperature in the basement. -
Saturday, the end of a vacation
This week Cathy and I volunteered to chaperone the Bearden Middle School Band to Walt Disney World. That was a blast and will take hours of typing to describe.
Yesterday we returned and I intended to use the beautiful weather to finish pulling up, drying, and replacing the basement floor which became waterlogged during the flood of February 23rd. However, I was so exhausted, I slept through Friday. Rains come tomorrow. Now at 2pm I finally am ready to begin this massive effort. Let’s see how far I make it.