Category: Daily Life

* My cat gargoyle normally on the monitor has taken to insisting on my lap. This either means that its time to get a flat panel display, the liter box needs changing, or she needs food or water. I think I’ll assume its time to get a flat panel display.

* Dr Brother calls and gives me some advice for the dizziness over the phone. I’m very excited about his approach since my gp said that the only thing I could do was wait it out or do some time consuming expensive physical therapy. Besides, I like my bro’s more holistic approach.

* Starting to freak. It’s 10:49 and I haven’t begun programming. Setting aside all other distraction and programming now.

Wal*Mart to end our way of life

“KB Toys Follows FAO Into Bankruptcy” Is it just me or does anyone else recognize that in a few years we are going to be screwed to the Wal*? Once Walmart underprices all major stores out of business, the toy stores, the grocery stores, the sports stores, and we have only Walmart to shop from, the prices will shoot through the roof!

I’m off to buy Wal*mart stock…

Today’s goals: banking, work on the contracted web project, cook the chicken and beef jerfy, work on self web project

A New Day!

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

This Morning

* I actually get up! Did not return to bed. Granted, I didn’t get up until 6:30 but I did get up!

* Bathe the 7 yr old

* The kids are in jolly moods and I’m nice to them. No grumpies!

* Return from car pool to bury the cats 2 day old mole kill (in warmer weather it would have been fly food by now) then have a “sexual responsibility” talk with the 13 yr old-topics: cleaning up after that personal activity, tissues by the bed, not leaving seminal fluid about, disease–what fun!

Last Evening

* Seems we forgot to give the 13 yr old his medicine

* The 19 mth old splits her lip just as Mom is trying to get out the door for a Girl Scout training meeting on selling cookies (which none of the other generous mother’s would donate time for). I lose my temper not because it happened but because no one cleaned up the toys. It was an irrational and unreasonable response. It bugs me that I’m such a loose cannon now-a-days. I used to choose my battles so much more carefully.

* Chaos calms and the 10yr old gets on her home work, the 13 yr old settles in bed for reading, the 7yr old works on his Daniel Boone project and I join him for some Internet research. We print a 17 page document and staple it to look like a book (I was hoping this would engage him better than loose papers) and set him down to read it. He gets through most of it before I give him a break and send him to bed to read Yu-Gi-Oh..a book that reads right to left but is printed in English.

* Cingular text messaging was down so I spend 1/2 hour on hold to get tech support to tell me its down in all markets and they don’t know why. “Could be morning before its back”

* Call Dad to wish him a happy birthday. Find out my brother got his job in South Carolina. At least someone is getting employed.

* Wife returns and we discover the 7yr old didn’t make it (in the morning he remains strongly opinioned that he did not wet his pants)

* Evening of email, chats and tv with the wife. Strong dizzy spells in bed.

* 13 yr old stayed up well past midnight masterbating. Tired dense dad goes upstairs to see what the noise is about to have 13 yr old quickly jump from the bathroom to the bed onto his stomach only to ask a stupid question “why the hell are you naked?” to get a well deserved blunt answer of “I was playing with myself” — pause — “oh, do you need to change your sheets?” which was prompted by his statement of “I had to wash my hands.” You DINKS don’t know what you’re missing!

Afternoon of chaos

Good amount of programming started.

The Internet went berserk and email wasn’t coming through while we were trying to get ready to leave the house for doctors appointments. 7 and 10 yr old home from school and straight to car already holding 19mth old and 13yr old (yes, car…we need a van badly Donate here) Forgetting the check for the bank, we head to doc appointment 1. Dropping all others at office, the 7 yr old and I head to McCay’s for the freebie cultural papers to help the 10 yr old with her long term school report. Stomach still feeling poorly after the dizzy episode in the bath.

Long and short, the 10 yr old finishes and we leave the 13 yr old on his appointment and go to UT’s International House (wow! nice web page) for local cultural info..kinda draw a blank although its fun forcing the 10 yr old out of her shell. We get to the info desk and the lady says “Can I help you?” so the 10 yr old looks up at me with those longing eyes and I reply “It’s your report” and physically step away. She handles herself remarkably well speaking clearly and confidentally while silently cursing my existence. We head out for our first pee emergency and barely get the 7 yr old into the Marble Slab’s bathroom. Hmm. Delimia. Should we buy something? I almost buy the wife some ice cream but that would create a living nightmare amongst the kids. Off to Sonic for dinner then back to the doctor’s office and onto rush hour traffic and another pee emergency with no where to stop. We are in front of the Cherokee County Club and I debate letting him pee on the golf course. I allow social stigma to prevent me from stopping at the Green’s house and asking for the rest room. In hind sight had they refused I could have simply let him water their shrubs and we would have saved a wet pants. It was however a good lesson that he needs to take advantage of every stop and use the rest room because when the urge comes, he goes.

We thought we had made it when we pulled over in a church parking lot and he watered a tree then upon entering the car said “Thank you God”. It was adorable!

* well, off for some quality time with the wife then a return for some late night programming.

Dizziness

There has to be something physilogical about the dizziness. When I bath and put my head underwater it takes off bad. If I keep my eyes open and fixated on a static object its better but still there. Working on the facial on the ladder 24 feet up was trippy.

Baby Cognition

The 19 mth old continues to amuse and amaze me. She brought her soccer ball to me and I said “go put it on your slide” and she thought about it, then walked half way through the house to stand at the midpoint of the slide; obviously not good enough, after a brief pause she goes to the ladder, hefts the ball up to the platform then climbs up to put the ball down the slide. Fantastic!

* The local job I’d like won’t start interviewing for a week or 2. It sounds exciting! The timing on these things isn’t going well. I’ve contacted a local entertainment group to see if they have any work for me in the meantime.

* been procrastinating on becoming an Amazon affiliate. Now fixed. Application submitted. Granted, that distracted me from work which I am now getting back to.

Ah! The only way to work. Allnetic Timetracker running, some really good Indian sandwood incense burning, Sting’s Mecury Rising blaring in the headphones.. Erie Mon!

* terribly unfocused. seems I need an immediate goal. Here it is: get a cup of coffee, put on headphones, create dev environment for new project (track hours)

* NEED FOOD!

Wahoo! Tennessee Lottery Results is coming! Also TN Lottery Results. Starts January 20, 2004!

* It’s hot as Hades upstairs and cold as a refrigerator downstairs. I’m so tempted just to light up a fire in the wood stove. Negatives: none of the wood is split and the flue hasn’t been inspected for 2 years.

* One marketing email off