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* Back from IEP. Boy was that ever a group of people happy to see us! Hate looks and tense air.

* IEP took 15 minutes to get started and lasted 15 minutes. The school system obviously does not have these children’s interest at heart.

* Went to Knoxville Vistor’s Center for the 10yr old’s cultural project. Then home.

-Now preparing to go to the inlaws and work on a fax.

* I want the ability to buy some nice dress clothes.

* The 10 yr old got me going when I put the baby down for a nap and got in the tub he began playing his guitar loudly. We had a confrontation and I spoke strongly too him using some poorly chosen words like “you better damn well find out” in response to his “I didn’t know” Which was a good lesson topic and I didn’t over talk it and I didn’t really yell at him. I spoke firmly. The lesson topic specifically said was “There will be many times in your life where you ‘don’t know’ but you’d better damn well find out.”

* Day quickly going to hell. If you use the Covey planning approach, you’ll recognize that I struggle to be in Q2, live most of life in Q1 and too often slip into Q4–I’d say this is typical of most people. Q1 is killing me!

* Grabbed that powernap—oooohh so nice!

* Helped bathe the baby and put her down for her “not nap” (ie. she’s not napping)

* Some tech support to father-in-law

* Time to get freshened up for the meeting with the school system–a bunch of politically correct pain in the butts that realize all they have to do is talk crap to us a lot and we eventually move on. I debate taking this on as a pet project to bring change to the system. It would not impact us but would certainly make things better for future special needs children. Ah, that’s not the real reason–I’d just like to see a couple of idiots shit canned.

* No rest for the weary. Baby awoke as I began craving a powernap. May try to steal one anyway as wife is asleep on the couch and the 13 yr old is in his room on his Gameboy SP

A New Day!

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This Morning

* Up at 1:30 to check on the fire

* Up at 4:30 to check on the fire (still going and I didn’t need to get out of bed)

* Alarm at 6:45, got out of bed at 6:10 to get the kids up. The 13 yr old is wide awake and asking for schoolwork! Is this his last minute attempt to prove he doesn’t need to be put back in the school system?

* After getting the kids going and brewing coffee, I refueled the fire

Today’s goals: IEP at the school, PHP work to be completed and uploaded, Phone calls to all other web developers, calls to potential employers

Last Night

* Worked on the fire and got it going again. It’s a miracle considering I had no fire starters and only wet wood.

* Watched arrested development with wife and fell asleep.

The secret to the morning

I’ve finally come to realize the secret of morning hours. For our sake let’s consider the wishful morning hour 4am and the realistic one 6am. Here’s the progression:

Teens

Mornings are necessary for a good parking space at school. 1 hour of flirting guaranteed. The shower helps wake up.

early 20s

Too hung over. The morning hours are when you stumble home from the bars and passout

late 20s

Mornings are once again social time…only now its at the gym and you feel great. Much work gets done because you get to the office before anyone else. You think you’ve discovered the elixir of life!!

Post 20s

Mornings are an unachievable goal where you dream of getting to have some quiet calm time to yourself where you can do something like read the newspaper before it gets thrown away. Instead, mornings mean rushing around trying to get the kids ready for school.

* Time to help my 7 yr old memorize a speech at the last minute.

Hahaha! I just got a spam titled “Great Deal on ’84 Models!” Weeelll. Let’s assume they were legal in ’84 at, what?, 17 years old and that would make them….47 oops. 37 (I must have been tired thanks for the comment)! So yes, you are going to get them for a steal!!

* Been putzing on the computer for the last hour playing with blog tools. Found a friend has linked his blog to mine using Technorati. That was very exciting! I begin to regret putting such a negative twist on it to begin with now that I’m starting to enjoy it so much. This has been fun but my eyes are watering and although this was relaxing, I feel I should have been doing something like cleaning.

* Wife and baby are trying to sleep. Wife fighting migraine; baby screaming to get out of crib (I will rescue in a second).

* Spoke with mother and father on the phone. I think they are going to save my butt for a couple of weeks but I’ve got to get a job immediately!

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* Whew! Debts calculated. Files in better order. Office starting to improve. Now if I can get the mess a little more under control and can get an income, things will be much better.

* Hopping out of my skin. Took another meclizine (stuck in throat) and switched to decaf tea. Back to filing and finances.

* Lunch break over.