A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
We just had an erectile dysfunction drug commercial on tv that said “…although rare, erections lasting longer than 4 hours require immediate medical attention” BAH! Can you imagine!
[sidebar] I think in high school I probably needed medical attention on more than one occasion although I’m sure attention from any of the cheerleaders would have sufficed.
A new way to view London: from a toilet –
Usable bathroom exhibit boasts one-way mirrored walls
Focus problem! Heart is not racing buy my chest feels like it is. The cold of this office isn’t helping.
Took entirely too long but had much fun editing our photos for our snow day. see them here
I used to take such good care of my things. My cd collection was alphabetized and no scratcheds. Now my discs are regularly used as frisbees and half of them can’t be found and the other half can’t play without several episodes of skipping.
I’m a potential iTunes customers for sure!
For productivity, today the boom box contains Sublime
So far a great day! Playing board games with the kids, sledding with the kids, and now Microsoft Office 2003, One Note 2003 and Business Contact Manager 2003 arrived! Woot!
The sledding reminded me how fun it is to be a kid and how thankful that I can relive it as a parent. I think the rest of this snow the hill is all theirs and my bottom is staying dry. I went down the hill tandem individually with Noah, Sarah and Amy. Unfortunately, Tommy at 191.5 pounds (86.86 kg thanks OnlineConversion.com) is too heavy to ride together; besides, with our combined weight we would have gone into the creek and probably a mile beyond that. Sarah and I had trouble steering together and we toppled…brrrr. Amy and I picked a small hill and she giggled profusely. Noah after a couple of runs says “I want to play with Amy.” What a great brother!
I’m back inside and dried up. I may go out again but this time will be totally as an observer and cheerleader.
Going sleding with the 7 and 10 yr old.
Diving board made from cardboard.
Problem. Diving board missing. Cooking shears missing.
I’m playing Mouse Trap with Noah and Sarah and could not have had a worse run of luck. I just now got my first piece (the stairs) and only have 2 slices of cheese. The kids have put on a total of 8 pieces and have huge piles of cheese. They are having a great time.
I felt myself being short and gruff with the 13 yr old and quickly put it into check. Anger is too strong an emotion to describe my feelings but I will use it for lack of a better word. The 13 yr is having a good time building a model that my father bought him during our Christmas visit. My true anger was directed at myself; I should have given him the time to help him learn modeling by now. I wanted to teach him how to trim the flash, make looking up ways to paint it fun, and enjoy the time with him building a great looking model. I also had some directed at the grandparents for allowing him to start this model because he looked unguided; my main irritation being that no newspaper was put over the work surface – glue everywhere. No irritation with Tommy. The model thus far looks good and I told him so.
I recognize that my feelings are greatly misdirected and that I can still teach Tommy modelling and now he has some experience to grow on. I have grown and learned.
A New Day!
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This Morning
Woke at 5am. No snow on the ground.
Woke at 6am. News says schools are cancelled.
Woke at 7:30am. Light dusting. Ground can still be seen through the snow. Looks like someone lightly sprinkled powdered sugar on the ground. I get frustrated with myself because at this point I could have put in 2.5 hours of work. Now it will be another 1.5 hours before the wife gets up and I won’t be able to do anything.
8:02am. Weather warning for heavy snow between now and 4pm. Prediction 3-6 inches. Earlier it was mixed with rain and barely visible in the air. Now it’s coming down much stronger. Looks like a Christmas card in the air.
Last Night
Went to the Jeff Foxworthy show as a Red Cross volunteer. No incidents so we got to enjoy the show. My favorite part was listening to Foxworthy talk about the stupid things our generation was allowed to do versus the rules imposed on our kids today; things like running wild in a car versus carseats and seatbelts. Had more affirmation that lawyers are destroying our society. Had more affirmation that our society needs to move to socialized medicine as I talked to an elderly man whose health insurance costs were rising while his pension was lessening.
Phone rang. IM beep. And in-laws walked in the door. Nothing to get done before the show.
I can’t get any programming done today. I can get in my chair and bring myself to be focused long enough to knock out this 1 silly piece of work. Probably 1 solid hour is all it would take but my mind is racing with “review first aid materials” (don’t want to look like a moron tonight), “clean floors,” (mother in law babysitting kids here) “chop wood” (they are now saying we are getting 4-8 inches of snow tonight–the kids are in shorts right now!), “get upstairs and check on the 10 yr old watching the 21 mth old,” (house really needs cameras all over the place), “oh, the 13 yr old should be checked on,” (he’s got strep) “I need a bath,” (not gonna happen) “everything needs to be done in 45 minutes” (ugh!).
