Wow! I completed a task!
Estimate faxed.
Email tech support completed.
Category: Daily Life
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
Nervous Breakdown Pending
Cell phone has got to be traded in today!!
Note: Half the ^%$%&(* day is gone and I haven’t done anything productive!
today i feel old
today i feel old
So hard
I really feel like I’m frequently cursed. Everything seems to take so much more effort for me. My cellphone is very non-responsive..like the software is low on memory. It has also quit making noises. I just did a test call and it doesn’t ring anymore. I double check all settings and the volume is set the loudest it can be.
So I pass on troubleshooting that and continue to make my phone call to compusa. The number has been changed or disconnected.
Does problem and problem after problem happen to other people? I thought our society is supposed to be advancing. Great! We live longer but we spent more of our lives wasting our time! I’d rather have a shorter life with less headaches!
Productivity?
The wife is up and its time to….tech support.
Video Game Brain Damage
Yesterday I declared it a day of no electronics and we got more work and play out of the boys than we have in ages. Today, Noah has already put in over an hour of play on his Gameboy and already he is walking around like a drooling zombie.
Big Brother II
The Son of Patriot Act Also Rises
While activists and politicians work to repeal or change parts of the Patriot Act that they say violate constitutional rights, Patriot Act II legislation — which caused a stir when it came to light last year — is rearing its head again in a new bill making its way through Congress.
The bill would strengthen laws that let the FBI demand that businesses hand over confidential records about patrons by assigning stiff penalties (up to five years in prison) to anyone who discloses that the FBI made the demand. The bill would also let the FBI compel businesses to cooperate with record requests, and it would expand the government’s secret surveillance powers over noncitizens in the United States.
The bill would strengthen laws that let the FBI demand that businesses hand over confidential records about patrons by assigning stiff penalties (up to five years in prison) to anyone who discloses that the FBI made the demand. The bill would also let the FBI compel businesses to cooperate with record requests, and it would expand the government’s secret surveillance powers over noncitizens in the United States.
This is scary. Starting to sound like the old Soviet Union.
A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…
A New Day!
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This Morning
Slept through the night (I think). Up at 7am to rouse Tommy and do my stretching exercises. I almost talked myself out of the stretching but man does my back ever feel better for having done them!
Goals?
a) submit resume to jobs advertised in yesterday’s paper (this should have been done yesterday)
b) decide whether or not to accept a 2nd interview for a job I am far overqualified for that pays $9.50 per hour more than I am getting now DONE
c) do something with my parking ticket (either pay it $25 or appeal it-$0 or $92) DONE
d) find a contract immediately
e) sales calls
f) follow-up letters to previous sales calls
h) evaluation and bid on network project and web application project
i) trade in cell phone for one that works
j) fax invoice for services rendered DONE
l) eat lunch DONE
Exceptional Dinner
I’m going to compliment myself on this one because the steaks came out just right!
Helped Noah collect ants for his ant farm. Strange. These little things I once or twice a year battle to get them out of the house I am now bringing into the house on purpose. Couldn’t help but stare and watch them work.
Amy was jazzed to be home. She obviously had a blast this weekend and was quite wired. She ran around giving everyone big hugs and had a perpetual smile on her face. I think she loves her trips with her grandparents but is always excited to return home.
Done out. Time to lay in bed with the wife.
Most of hardwoods
My typically weekly cleaning includes scrubbing the hardwoods minus the bedrooms. That’s done.
Time to cook dinner.
Kitchen cleaned
Whew! Kitchen cleaned and I mean CLEAN! Scrubbed all exterior surfaces (inside the cabinets and fridge alluded me). Moved the appliances and scrubbed under them. Scrubbed floor.
Onto hardwoods…
Gaming
Tommy, Noah and I played an adventure in Dungeons and Dragons and had a blast!
Tommy just ran over one of my dwindling supply of …
Tommy just ran over one of my dwindling supply of moving straps with the lawn mower. I can’t be angry at him although he is supposed to look where’s he is mowing. I have to be angry at myself for not putting it away in the first place. I don’t want to waste energy being angry. Just learn learn learn. Two steps forward one step backwards.
Decision made
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A New Day!
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This Morning
As we lay down to bed last night my wife comments “there is no baby here tonight. You don’t need to wake up at 2am, 4am and 6am.” I questioned the 2am. The 4am is an alarm I have oft set. The 6am is the other alarm. I said “no problem. There are no alarms set.” I woke at 1:45, 3:30 and 6am! I finally dragged myself from bed around 9am because our visiting dog (we have the inlaws dog while the inlaws have our girls) was barking and I just knew that if she didn’t get a walk there would be more mess than I was sure was already upstairs (she prefers to poop on our wood floors instead of the grass).
The next debate. As my family sleeps, what is my next move?
a) Cook bacon, eggs, toast and sausage DONE
b) Clean my office and/or desk
c) Get the paper and submit resumes
d) Work on automating one of my websites (the stages: make database driven, grab data automatically)
e) Read a book
f) Home repair
g) Clean the garage
h) Play Dungeons and Dragons with the boys DONE
i) Work on wife’s web projects
j) Weekly cleaning of kitchen, bathroom, wood floors minus bedrooms, and wood floors in the bedrooms
k) Fix lunch (sandwiches) DONE
l) Cook steaks for dinner DONE
Noah rises.
