Reality Me

It’s Pinewood Derby time again! Noah and I are hard at work putting together his car at the last minute (the race is tomorrow). We’ve decided to make the Pink Pearl eRacer! The car is shaped and sanded. Noah has learned a lot about straight edges, rulers, angles, Drimel tools, and sanding. I’ve learned that I’m still a procrastinator.

It’s also cookie time in TN! I have to install a wiring harness in the station wagon this morning so that U-Haul will rent us a trailer otherwise we have no way to pickup the quantity of cookies our Girl Scouts did so well selling. I’m mostly there. I’ve identified (with much effort) where the wires will route and that was probably the hardest part. I’ve grounded it and am now in the process of identifying the other wires.

Amy rose at 4:55am this morning and went straight to her brother’s room to play with Playmobile. I went back and asked her “why are you up? Do you want breakfast?” to which she replied, “I play with legos.”

Her vocabulary, grasp of language and the concepts that spurt from her mouth constantly amaze me. She said half a dozen things yesterday that dropped my chin.

Just as I’m starting to get into the programming groove the morning chaos blows everything away. I woke at midnight and tried to convince myself to stay up. That would have been 6 out of 8 of my work hours. 4am rolled around and I tried hard to convince myself to get up for 2 our of 8 work hours. I finally rose at 5am which was better than the normal 6am.

My 9:30am deadline is going to hit me like a ton of bricks.

I remember in my teens..would have been 14 or 15..I walked down to the pond at the end of the neighborhood, climbed a tree 10 or 12 feet high (3-4m), daydreamed for a bit, watched some people that never saw me, then I napped deeply, in the tree, on the branch with a pleasant, warm breeze as the only thought on my mind, with no worries. Irie.

I’ve decided we need to move to Colorado. Perhaps Buffalo. Mork (amz) liked it. Anyhow, the dog likes the snow very much so we need more snow!

The other day we had Molly at the dog park and ran into a family of similar size to ours that had a large, all black, German Shepherd. It didn’t take long to figure out they had both come from the same breeder in Greenback, TN. He was two years old and the family said he has finally quit chewing on things so much and is still rambunctious. He was a good 2 to 2.5 hands larger than Molly. It was a good trip to the park. Molly performed well and showed off her jumping skills after I set up two 18″ jumps before and after the large ramp. She would jump the hurdles, run over the ramp, then jump the other hurdles. She didn’t always jump and didn’t always clear but we had much fun!

U.S. Prepares to Test Bird Flu Vaccines Still unsure how to catch all the birds.

Saddam’s half-brother captured Other half remains at large.

Today was a bit of a blur with some shades of programming, outlines in email, textures of phone calls, and highlights of marketing all on a canvas of decent productivity. What a happy picture!

To jump over 4 lanes of interstate at you need to be going 100 mph. (original story)

My absolute favorite morning routine:
Amy looks to Daddy as she reaches toward the cat and asking for approval says, “I be nice. I be gentle.”

I’m a fantastic programmer, manager and technophile.

There is no challenge that I would not accept and always have success.

Too reaching. Too contrived. If there is one thing I am not, it’s envious.
Two places.

1) I’ve spent a bunch of mental energy of late remembering those people in high school that were more assertive and self-confident than myself in the realm of dating and pondering how bygone times might have been different.

2) Thinking about those folks that stayed the course, followed the rules, conformed to society, work 8-5, and have nice cars, spacious houses, lawn service to keep the elegant yards, weekly maid service to fend off the filth and other things that fall under Gluttony and Greed and further contribute to Wrath and Sloth.

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I went to Earth Fare today (I suppose I need say no more) and splurged by allowing myself to eat some sushi and I wasn’t really hungry. Since Cathy had to eat low carb and low sugar today the trip to Earth Fare was done with good intentions yea Gluttony struck none-the-less.