Category: Daily Life

I have had a most exceptional day. I am very happy!

chili prior to a product demo… what a mistake!

everything is so loud today!

I have watched so many simple dreams and wishes fade off into the distance that I have reached a point in my life where I believe it is less painful to quit dreaming than it is to have dreams and not see them fulfilled.

Giving up? No. I need not dreams. My children need dreams and hopes. Rather than waste dreams on me I will help them develop their own dreams and be happy by seeing theirs fulfilled.

Ada Calhoun in her essay “Middle Ground” explains “Why teenage girls and middle-aged men belong together.”

I haven’t read the article yet but it’s got one of those titles that makes you do a double-take.

Last night the cat and the puppy slept on the bed with Cathy and I all night long. Usually they chase each other. It was quite nice.

A New Day!

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This Morning

Still have some sinus but I’m feeling rested and much better. This week is going to be nuts.

I am failing so badly.

1001 Day Project

How to write a best selling fantasy novel.

We pushed our couch back against the wardrobe so the girlscouts could all gather on the floor for their sleep over. The dogs are flipped because they can’t walk behind it to go outside. We open the door and they (mainly the 12 year old) pace back and forth trying to figure out how to go behind the couch instead of walking straight out the front door.

The cat has knocked a single piece of food out of her bowl and it went under some mail on my desk. Now she is digging manically to get that one piece of food.

It must be this house!

My wife has a 30 GB Ipod that because of her Windows 98 computer she basically could not use. I feared the battery so dead at this point that it would have to be replaced. I bought a 2 year, no questions asked replacement warrantee but I think I let it expire without using the warantee. (action item for self: go bang head repeatedly into a concrete wall)

I’ve had the Ipod charging directly from a wall socket instead of the firewire port for the past two days and I’ll be darned if the doggone thing didn’t turn on this morning! Going to keep her charging for a bit whilst I find the software and see if it holds a charge. I still fear the need to buy a replacement battery.

Late afternoon yesterday I was with a friend of mine helping a mutual friend of ours convert his computer network at his pizza restaurant from wireless back to wired. One of his computers sits on a shelf near the ceiling. To get to this machine I stepped back from the cabinet (imagine the height about where your kitchen sink would be) and I took two steps then launched myself through the air. On the counter sits the keyboards and an array of papers etc leaving about 10 cm for my foot to land so I choose to land my left foot sideways in that 10 cm space and use my right foot on the side of the cabinet to stablize myself then spin to balance myself on the toes of both my feet.

A couple of sentences later my friend had processed the action and commented “even when I was younger I wouldn’t have done that.”

I guess I’ve been watching too much Jackie Chan.