Category: Daily Life

The tree is decorated! (yes, I know.. the top has a lighting issue) 

Current state of the room. Needs to have the molding at the top taped so I can finish up there. Needs another coat. Needs a coat of polyeurothene on top of it. This is going to be tight. 

It’s starting to look like a light Tennessee marble. Speaking of which, I’ve ridden horses through one of the quaries used to marbleize some of Washington D.C. I’ll have to go back wih camera and show some pictures.

Received my Microsoft Action Pack yesterday. I’m dying to build a machine and get to playing now! MS CRM server, Mobile Messenging Server and SharePoint server all have me drooling!

Another competitor for Google is Blingo (which probably uses Google’s API). Blingo gives prizes (Ipods etc) along with search results.

Why is http://drinksparks.com/ for over 21 only? Oh! I haven’t read it yet but I bet this is one of those energy beers! Like mixing uppers and downers. Why not just drink water?

Amy made Lucy festive for the holidays. Lucy mutter “oh the indignity!” 

All lights on! 2 half strands out due to bad bulbs but that’s an easy fix. Kids decorating! 

Tree last evening. 

tree at midnight. picture this morning. 

A New Day!

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This Morning

Woke at 7:30. Mild panic quickly repressed. I’m just too relaxed from last night’s accomplishments to get upset today.

Spent some time this morning finishing the lights on the tree so that the kids could decorate. All strands are on and two half strands are out but that’s a matter of finding the bad bulb.

Whew! I have sacrificed on programming duties but another load is off my plate. Now I can focus on getting more off. My shoulders feel lighter.

So far I have not yelled at Tommy despite his blatant attempts to engage in fights.

I need to spend the day painting.

I need to spend the day working on the tree.

I need to spend the day in the office.

I need to spend the day shopping.

I need to spend the day planning.

I need to spend the day budgeting.

I need to spend the day with the kids.

I need to spend the day splitting wood.

I need to spend the day on home repair.

I need to spend the day on computer maintenance.

I will spend the day on the day and at its end I will know how the day was intended to be spent.

Student: I’m freezing my ass off!

Master: Then light a fire under it.

Walls now completely trimmed out. This Behr Sandwash paint is a pain! One brush stroke puts it on, the next takes it off. About 1/3 of a gallon went to trimming the walls and they will need a 2nd and maybe 3rd coat. At least now I can switch to the roller. 

A good friend recommended that until I get the lights on the tree that I get one of these.

Care was taken with details such as the softness of the thighs, panty lines on the pillow’s “backside” and wrinkles in the lap of the skirt so as to make the pillow look and feel as real as possible.
“We thought our main customers would be men in their 20s, but even men in their 60s are buying it,” Igarashi said.

A closer picture.