A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
Lot’s of catching up. What day! Let’s start with the current state of affairs:
-13 yr old in bed reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
-10 yr old in bed reading It’s Like This, Cat
-7 yr old in bed reading Hank the Cowdog
-20 mth old being forced to stay awake until 8:30 despite almost falling asleep on her feet but mesmerized by the cartoon Catdog
* lousy day
Time to check the 10 yr old and 13 yr old out of school for their joint therapy session. I wish I could be a fly on the wall for this one!
* Dropped the 13 yr old at school. The teacher I despise was there to greet him. Coincidence? Forgot to buy milk on the way home.
Things on my mind this morning:
-Insurance
-Finding work
-Travel Bug Hotel
-Asperger Support Group
-Red Cross Training tapes (big guilt. We borrowed them before Christmas and the lady says “Please try to do these this week or it won’t happen.”)
A New Day!
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This Morning
* Awoke at midnight and noted that the fire was still strong but that I should probably put wood on it since the wood was wet and we wanted to keep it going. Didn’t do it.
* Awoke at 2 am and tried to recover the fire for 30 minutes. It seemed to be going and at 2:30 I was wide awake and considering a bath. Instead I returned to bed. The fire died.
* Awoke without an alarm clock at 6:19 in a panic but not the usual spring from bed cursing type of panic. I maintained myself much better than I normally do.
* Got the 7 yr old and 10 yr old moving and I went back to bed for 10 minutes but started feeling guilty for not being upstairs so I got dress and went up stairs to lie on the couch while they fed themselves and prepared for school.
* Grandmother called to say she was almost here with the costume pants for the 7 yr old; she pulled in as we were trying to leave but then could not find the pants and feared she had dropped them on the driveway at her house. She pulled up to let us out and as I pulled forward it sounded like we had a flat tire; turns out it was just a rock in the tread. The carpooler wasn’t quite ready and I dropped the kids at the carpool lobby which irritated the 10 yr old. Grandmother calls and says she is at the school and found the pants under a fedex box and is dropping them at the office. I ask her to hold them and in leau of getting milk I pickup the pants since the rest of the costume pieces are at the house.
* I return home and the 13 yr old is in “give me attention” mode and ends up getting me worked up a little but not badly.
* Time to take the 13 yr old to school.
Last Night
Was totally unfocused and useless last night. Read blogs until my rear was sore then went to bed 9:30ish and watched tv until I passed out.
* Got my brother launched in this world of self publishing. I must break away from the computer for a bit.
Feeling a little blown-away and overwhelmed right now. Like the walls are closing in.
[16:50] * CFNews reports: Al Gore’s kid forced into rehab – http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=166285&nid=25 Doesn’t this just prove that he fit the presidential mold really well.
Why does time fly so?
* Picked up 13 yr old and mentioned that the bus people had not contacted us yet and the teacher said she’d look into it. Apparently he had a good day and they are trying to “slowly” get him into classes. Sounds to me like they are doing academics within the special setting and not mainstreaming into regular classes.
* Dropped 13 yr old at home and pickedup 7 yr old from friend’s house to talk with his teacher. Had an opportunity to be more social with his friend’s dad than I have in the past and that was a good feeling.
* Came back and chopped some wood and the neighbor across the creek was burning rubbish hollered at me and we exchanged niceties something that hasn’t happened in the 6.5 years I’ve been here and that made me feel good.
* Going to settle in for some programming now.
* gone to pickup 13 yr old. Odd that the school hasn’t contacted us about busing yet.
My 13 yr, 10 yr, 7yr and most of all 20 mth old children love Finding Nemo!
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From the same website, Great Moments in Sports has some funny ones. Almost every picture is sexual in some way (something falling out of clothes somewhere). The 3 bull fighters picture is the kind that should make a guy consider a new profession!
* Went to overly long meeting where I broke my own rules of efficient meeting running and chatted too much. Good lunch. Good company. Baby was wacky tired.
* Going to chop a little wood, brew some joe, then get to programming
