Student: Should I bark at the children or use Socratic methods?
Master: Do you want immediate or long lasting results?
Category: Daily Life
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
Today’s challenges
Today I must get two children to the doctor’s office, get a complicated API to actually deliver data from a service provider rather than delivering an error message, finish half an inch of change requests to a website, and do a horde of paperwork including my 2007 taxes all due tomorrow. Somewhere in there I need to work in a nervous breakdown and winning the lottery.
When will this day light savings madness end?!
Went to bed at 1am (that used to be midnight) with the intention of napping a couple of hours, rose at 7:08am and by some miracle got three children to their bus stops in time and one kindergartner (may have a tardy) driven to school right at the bell.
Dog bath
Dear Knoxville Pros
Somewhere on Reality Me or Domestic Psychology is the story of my indiscretions. Yes, I picked up a prostitute once and it became public. Well, I cannot pick you up anymore*. Unlike Dick Cheney’s wife, and Spitzer’s wife, my wife will not stand behind me.
What’s the difference between a computer consultant and a prostitute?
Slate asks why is prostitution illegal?
*I can’t find the post relating the story, so for those that missed it, I was working late downtown once. It was about midnight when I pulled up to a traffic light at Summit Avenue and Gay Street (thank you Knoxville for allowing me to use the words prostitute and gay in the same post) in the Jeep with the top down. A lady walks up and asks for a ride. Being a nice guy, I let her in. Half a block later it has become blatantly evident that I was being very naive and I was politely telling her to get out. I suppose, for the sake of knowledge, I should have at least asked, "how much?"
Day light stupid time
Overslept. Two of my children can dress themselves like lightning! Looks like I’m driving to the elementary school and the high school.
Reinforcers
Scary moment
Immediate Knoxville Referral Needed: Climbing Instructor
Our Boy Scout troop meets Monday nights. This coming Monday, we had an instructor arranged to come in, show the boys some equipment, talk about safety, and so forth for 20-30 minutes. Our meetings in March are supposed to be focused on climbing so that our camping trip in April can be to do some outdoor rock climbing. Our instructor has a conflict. So on 2 days notice, I need to find someone that could talk about rock climbing, equipment, and safety for 20-30 minutes. Any suggestions? Email or call.
No smoking
Dreading Today
Self-fulfilling prophecy? Probably.
How to recycle appliances?
It is not a race
From the mouths of babes
Amy: "Dad, don’t you have a place where you work?"
Me: "I work in our basement."
Amy: "No, I mean like a place with lots of people."
Me: "I work by myself."
Amy: "Well, that’s how lots of people work. With lots of people."
It’s dead Jim
We just killed another dryer. Man we are rough on these things!
Update: By some miracle, a reseting of breakers, and being unplugged for the night, the dryer appears to be working this morning. However, I think it has issued its fair warning and a new dryer has to go up in the budget list of priorities.
