Reality Me

Ok Michael Crook. One, don’t stammer. Two, if you are going to be on national television, get a hair cut. Three, ashen gray skin means people aren’t hearing your words because they are asking themselves "just how long has this guy been dead?" Four, cucumbers on the eyes. Five, day spa not night club before going on national television. And most importantly, six, think before you speak. Fox news bats one home.

If you are in Knoxville and play drum or bass, Barry needs your help. Go see the show!

Somebody slow down the blasted clock!

Student: Do you take the long road or the short road?
Master: Do you want to be profitable or good?

So today is beautiful! The rains come tonight or tomorrow. I want to be working in the yard. I have to help get Sarah off to camp this afternoon. Things floating around in my mind:

• Sarah to camp (4-5 hours)
• Clean house
• Finish work (roughly 10 hours) for client 1 and call client 1 today
• 8 hours work for Client 2
• Clean office, clean clean clean
• Spend 8 hours on MS Money, Quickbooks and TurboTax
• Do a home repair
• Spend quality time with family

I suppose some choices shall have to be made.

(note: if the picture above is offline or not updating then the stream is offline too)

If on this beautiful Sunday you have nothing else to do, for fun and to see how well it works, I’ve turned on a streaming video of me programming. Watch for the head scratch, the amazing nose pick, astouding coffee drinking, the grimmace, absolute consternation, the occasional grin (probably reading your blog), and for the lucky few with good timing–the laundry swap! (warning! You may see my back side during the laundry swap. I’ve choosen particular tight jeans today for the viewing pleasures of the ladies)

Enjoy the monotony!

Student: Is there a supreme being?
Master: What does He say?

We took the kids out to the park yesterday to meet up with the grandparents, aunt, uncle, and two cousins. Everyone had a blast. Molly came along and in 5 kicks ate a soccer ball that I purchased on the way. I let her off leash for the soccer and she was perfectly well behaved. The law is that the dog has to "be under owners control" not "on a leash"; I had that discussion with some other dog owners walking their dog without a leash who said some people get rather indignant about it. We had only 3 incidents.

1. While I was eating I had the lease under foot and Molly bolted to see another puppy. We had already met and the owners didn’t seem concerned.
2. Once my nephew threw the soccer ball while I was not paying attention and I lost the leash
3. And a barker came through the park. Molly growled and barked but chilled after we let the two see each other. I had good control over Molly but gave them much opportunity to figure one another out.

For much of the time Molly wore her leash but laid on the ground between her people with no one holding the leash. I was very impressed with her behavior.

Noah climbed the outside of the tall enclosed slide. He’s a broken arm waiting to happen but makes me grin because he is such a boy and doing so many of the same things I did at his age.

Tommy chose to stay home. I think he likes it because he can eat, play electronics and do basically anything he wants without fear of someone getting on his case.

Sarah enjoys this old banana board (skinny skate board) that I had stashed in the garage so she was puttering all over the park while the 3 year old sister and cousin chased her.

The younger two were coddled.

A great time was had by all.

I’m downstairs frantically working but want to watch Noah playing Little People with Amy. So I set the webcam on Cathy‘s computer to stream video to my desktop. This is great!

Student: I need to do something that I can’t.
Master: Define need.

Here’s a work-safe must view for all you MMORPGer’s out there.

I woke at 2am then again at 4:30 and finally rose at 8:30. Of course, in times of high-pressure deadlines I find myself calmly taking the time to put a bandaid on a finger that a sparkler burned over the weekend. The finger cannot possibly hurt but the memory of the pain is burned in.

Student: I am not happy with myself.
Master: Ah, the source of everyone’s problems.

Apparently Greenland just doesn’t have terrorism…at least according to The Terrorism Knowledge Base

Tanzim Qa’idat al-Jihad Fi Bilad al-Rafidayn is the current name of the terrorist group led by Abu Musab Zarqawi.

Some terrorists use bombs. Their speciality is having people stand in front of large groups and try to pronounce Tanzim Qa’idat al-Jihad Fi Bilad al-Rafidayn.

Wow! I never realized how many terrorists attacks the US has sustained!

Today is a day to create an excuse to write a check. It is the last time for 100 years that you will be able to date your checks as 7/6/5. If you can’t think of anyone to write a check to my name is spelled McCaughan.