My daughter has stuck a note for her mother directly on the screen of her monitor with duct tape! Guess I won’t be getting her an LCD panel monitor anytimes soon. I also can’t convince her that her WordPress blog is far better and more powerful than her Xanga blog. At least she improved the appearance of her Xanga a little.
Category: Daily Life
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
Waking on the numbers
I woke this morning at 4:44. I love doing that! Of course, we are limited to 5 (technically 10) opportunites to wake when the digital clock reads all the same numbers. The day I wake to 6:66 I’m hiding under the covers! (And yes, I know, I really should be more concerned about waking at 6:16)
Frustrating but nice
I love my children. Evan’s "DadaA! hahaha"s are particularly nice. But the responsibilities of adulthood are often fraught with conflict. I have a phone interview in an hour and 15 minutes. I desperately wanted to get an introductory email to the company but have been unable to compose it. I wanted to take the two hours prior to the phone call to calm myself, review my resume, and prepare. Cathy is not feeling well this morning so instead of preparing myself, I am doing the right thing and letting her rest while I watch the children. Honestly, I do not need to prepare for an interview but my wife needs to feel better.
Sometimes pictures need captions
I just had to add a thought bubble to this picture. To really appreciate this picture you should also look at this one a year ago (and another good one this month).
Put my wife in JPGMAG!
Please have a look at my wife’s submission and give her a yes vote for the October issue of JPGMAG. Thanks! Just referring to it as "my wife’s submission,"
noting that it is a picture, and hyperlinking to it should get lots of interest. I’ll entice you more and let you know the picture involves breasts.
We are ready for Hollywood!
Hehe! Time flies and memories fade but the joys that fill our lives are forever memorialized in blog. I just re-read my family’s re-enactment of a Malcolm in the Middle sketch.
Escargot – faster than rabbits!
Apparently to control the snail population in Tommy’s 6 gallon tank, we need a snail eating fish, like a Clown Loach, and a 30 gallon tank. Dr Helm explains. I didn’t know snails could grow to 3 inches long!
Err In My Ways – I sleep too much
I was up at 3am. Evan was having one of his best crib sleeps ever and the diaper overflowed. I was wide awake. Could have been productive but I let the call of the sheets drag me back down. Now I pay the price. Today desperately needs to be about code but it also desperately needs to be about emails and planning. Quad I
I’ll gladly pay you on Tuesday
Working for yourself has a few challenges such as having a client run off sans large payment, another client on the slow to pay, a hellish project running behind schedule, and simultaneously have the scheduled child support check moved to the end of the month. There’s today’s TMI. This is why you are supposed to keep 6 months of income in your bank account when working for yourself.
Marital Sin!
Ooops. I’ve done in now! I left the car with no gas. And I was trying to be so well behaved!
From the mouths of babes
Amy: "We sold Noah to the gypsies."
Dad: "Oh, those poor gypsies!"
Amy: "Noooo. Poor Noah!"
Hello Technorati!
Is it Spring yet?
Thus far, in the past 2 days, we’ve moved roughly 160 gallons of stuff (mostly clothing) to Goodwill. And removed every VHS movie that wasn’t homemade from this house (with minor exceptions – The Wall, Diablo Follies, …). Whoopie!
How to make Dad feel bad.
Amy is very weepy today. She cried twice at school, and talked about missing Lucy. We suspect "Missing Lucy" means "I feel sad and can’t express why" or something akin to that. I feel helpless. I do not feel that I am meeting the basic needs of my family. I can hear my wife’s voice in my head, "Don’t make this about you" but I cannot helping feeling like the root cause of the problem.
Ill logic
Sometimes I feel less like a programmer (or am I a developer?)
- Developers have some knowledge of the domain and the business
- Developers care about maintenance burden
- Developers know that work methods are more important than technical chops
- Programmers try to solve every problem by coding
- Developers seek repeatability, programmers like one-off heroics
- Programmers like complexity, developers favor simplicity
- Developers care about users
- Developers like to satisfy a need, programmers like to finish
- Developers work, programmers play
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Well, right now I could go either way. Mostly if I can’t get over this technical hurdle I’m going to go nuts and beg for a phone support job. By his definitions, usually I am a developer.
