Reality Me

Category: Daily Life

Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.

  • How we are found

    Yesterday someone found my blog by searching Google for “cooked chipmunk in dryer”. I come up as the 2nd listing on the results!

    I love the Internet!

    Here are my last 20 searches:

    29 May, Sat, 23:07:24 Google: motorola v400 ring answer length

    31 May, Mon, 13:48:44 Google: geocaching reality television

    03 Jun, Thu, 06:39:27 Google: billy teeths buy

    04 Jun, Fri, 14:02:49 Google: teenage asperger’s

    04 Jun, Fri, 15:28:02 Google: juggler bottles

    04 Jun, Fri, 18:07:48 Google: naked 5th graders

    04 Jun, Fri, 19:53:51 Google: “spectrum fairness”

    07 Jun, Mon, 03:59:55 Google: huffing canned air

    11 Jun, Fri, 12:37:43 Google: shaggy eatting pizza Scooby Doo

    11 Jun, Fri, 17:58:11 Google: tetrafluoroethane huffing

    11 Jun, Fri, 18:49:36 Google: “libby lu” teen girl target

    12 Jun, Sat, 01:00:10 Google: resume juggler new orleans

    13 Jun, Sun, 22:31:24 Google: libby lu’s in atlanta

    14 Jun, Mon, 15:26:43 Google: credit card swipper cleaning

    14 Jun, Mon, 18:42:15 Google: juggler + blogspot

    15 Jun, Tue, 16:40:36 Google: “fix USB port”

    18 Jun, Fri, 00:47:51 Google: tetrafluoroethane huffing

    19 Jun, Sat, 10:25:56 Google: tetrafluoroethane huffing

    20 Jun, Sun, 07:01:18 Google: autonomous lawn cutting system is called the “Weed Eater”

    20 Jun, Sun, 12:56:02 Google: cooked chipmunk in dryer

    “naked 5th graders”?!!! 1) Who would search for that?! 2) Why would it find me?!! (that’s evident. 5th graders reference is Sarah’s field trip etc and naked is in many references to Amy and Tommy) I get an awful lot of finds on “tetrafluoroethane huffing”.

  • Goals

    a) prepare for morning meeting DONE

    b) go to morning meeting DONE

    c) see daughter off to church camp DONE

    d) call friend regarding a website and maybe sell him my kayak DONE

    e) send pricing to person requesting information about a website

    f) decide how to proceed with “barter” client

    g) submit 1 resume/cover letter

    h) update monster.com

    i) update dice.com

    j) Aspie support group

    k) Lunch DONE

    l) Support wireless network client

    m) send pricing to friend regarding website

    n) answer friend about helping him in June and July

    o) send friend confirmation on price of kayak

  • A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

    A New Day!

    Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:

    This Morning

    Completely and utterly wigged out.

  • Goals

    a) some home repair DONE

    b) swim with the kids DONE

    c) review “pay comes later” site in preparation for meeting

    d) cook dinner DONE

  • Lost Humor

    Somewhere along the line this comedian traded humor for stress. My wife often cracks jokes that I respond way too seriously. I want my humor back!

  • Book Recommendations

    I’ve been given two boook recommendations. I cannot review these yet but they come highly recommended from a good friend.

    The Church Beyond the Congregation by James Thwaites and SoulTsunami by Leonard Sweet

      

  • A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

    A New Day!

    Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:

    This Morning

    The inlaws had Sarah, Noah and Amy for the night. Wahoo! We could sleep in except that my body won’t let me.

    Had a pleasant phone call from my brother where I talked his ear off.

    Called my father to wish him a Happy Father’s Day.

  • Cathy suggested these pictures should be done in…

    Cathy suggested these pictures should be done in order. They are too big to render in a line in most people’s browsers so I will describe them assuming you are reading left to right and top to bottom.

    The first picture (shows a soccer goal) is to the leftmost of what we all call “the lower lot”. Beyond the burn pile is the area that has a grapevine and will become a garden. This picture was actually taken from the bottom of the driveway.

    The 2nd picture. View from the dining room window. The stuff on the right is being trimmed back.

    The third picture is the view directly behind the house. Notice how our private jungle encroaches upon us. Note: all these “hello” pictures can be clicked on for larger images.

    The fourth picture. Here is the rest of our rain forest down the backside of the house. View still from dining room window and to the right of the initial dining room picture. Posted by Hello

  • This is in the lower lot directly behind the house…


    This is in the lower lot directly behind the house and is being cut back dramatically to be landscaped after it is under control. The tree in the right hand corner is the dogwood that is seen with the bird feeders from the dining room window. Posted by Hello

  • Amy the Innocent

    A couple of nights ago Sarah left her container of makeups unlatched (Amy can’t open it when its latched) and lying on her floor beside her bed. The kicker is that while Amy raided the makeup, Sarah was on her bed reading a book and taking no notice of Amy’s activities!

    Who me? “Come on! I didn’t do anything…”

    I give in! “OK! You busted me…”

    I want to be my big sister! “I just want to be like Sarah sooo badly!”

    Ewwwww “Eeyuck! Look what I did!”

    I'm clean.. “I’m clean! It’s the tub’s turn!”

    Once again, Goof Off comes to the rescue!

  • Tommy Hides

    This is how Tommy spends an unusually large portion of his days now. Yes, like Prego, he’s in there!

    Tommy hides

    In all fairness, here is Tommy up and about. He is walking the grandparents dog in our cove (our house to his back).

    Tommy hides

  • Don’t talk to me until after my first cup

    Looks like its “kill people’s bandwidth day”! I hope everyone has a broadband connection.

    Noah before his first cup of coffee.

    Gimme Joe!

  • Pineapple Bacon and Cheese Toast

    With Judith’s great recipe posts as my inspiration, I decided to post some pictures of one of my favorite quick and tasty breakfasts. I woke one morning in my early teens to the smell of bacon cooking and watched my father make this. Never being one to shy away from trying new foods I chowed down and loved it! Thanks Dad!

    Ingrediants

    slice bread

    1 slice of bacon per slice of bread

    1 slice of cheese per slice of bread

    1 pineapple slice per slice of bread

    Cook the bacon. Lightly toast the bread. Apply a pineapple slice to each slice of bread. Break a bacon strip in half and place the bacon across each pineapple. Then place a piece of cheese over the bacon.

    preparing the sandwich

    Place the prepared sandwiches under the broiler for a few seconds to melt the cheese onto the bacon and pineapple. Best served warm.

    preparing the sandwich

    Enjoy!

  • Tim Dragged Me In

    Tim of Spy Journal posts Bush Shoot Out. It’s a quick fun game without being impossible. I’m playing on the hardest level now and finding myself taking one too many breaks to have a quick bout with the terrorists! Thanks Tim!

  • Huffing – Canned Air

    I probably get a hit a day to my blog from people searching for information on “tetrafluoroethane huffing”. I don’t know if these are concerned parents or experimenters looking for instructions on how to do it safely. THERE IS NO SAFE WAY!

    Live healthy, eat healthy and you will have natural buzzes that beat anything a substance can give you!

    My original post from April appears in the box below.

    I had a question about my “canned air” reference. This is neat stuff. The chemical composition is 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane (at least in the Fellowes brand that I buy). It’s a chemical under pressure that is typically used to blow dust out of computers. If you turn it upside down the chemical will spray out in liquid form and can freeze ants or be used to remove bubble gum stuck to something.

    I found it interesting that when I bought this at Walmart I had to have an “age verification” which severely slowed me down at the self-serve checkout. This forum discusses the “blackouts” and “paralysis” caused by huffing canned air. Would You Know If Your Child Was “Huffing”? (scroll down to see article. Note 1999 publish date.)