Reality Me

I slept in this morning and paid the price. The puppy is making great progress at moving to the outside for doing its business. This morning it couldn’t wait and hid its pee in the bathroom which goes under the cabinet and makes for a very difficult cleanup. Ironically as I slept I dreamed I was Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black (amz) except I wasn’t Death I was the Devil but I was teaching people values and I had an obsession with eatting sugar (Men in Black?). It was humorous to reveal my identity to the preachers and other folk I encountered while I pointed out their sins.

Snot fair.

Last night I dug out a bucket of un-opened mail circa 2001. Now, why not just toss the whole thing? Some of this mail still might have some relevance. But I did burn about half! The next pass will be far more discriminatory.

In other finds, I’ve been battling the sluggishness and memory problems of this computer..an Athlon 900mhz with 256 MB PC133 ram when suddenly I remembered a computer in the garage that I’ve been scavenging parts for various reasons. It had 256MB PC133 ram in it! So as of today at not cost I am upgraded to 512MB ram! I might just have to play some Pirates (buy at Amz) to see if it performs better!

Certain in our house don’t last beyond one use. Neosporin in our house is a one use item. After its used on a single cut or scrape the tube disappears. My daughter and I did the hapless search this morning to treat her papercut. On a different note, it looks like everything can be bought on Amazon. I think I’ll try to start making more purchases there.

In other Lost, last night’s episode was fantastic. In the flash back scene where the Japanese man delivered the thank you and got the dog did anyone see Hurley getting out of a car on the television that the child was watching? I love how the flashbacks tie the characters together. I also find it intriguing that the two people with apparent special abilities both verbalized that they “like it here.” I wonder when the boys special talent is going to be revealed. The preview for next week’s show has me wanting to fast forward my life and get this week over with.

USA Today writes ‘Lost’ Island burns with mystery By Bill Keveney

If you don’t read Sanity Adrift, you should. He has produced yet another gem!

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Oh man! I bought some good beans yesterday. I feel like a ex-coke head that just “took one snort for ol’ times”
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good beans, good incense, good dub…hell if a check comes in the mail today I may start thinking I’m dreaming

This Morning
I woke at 3:22 again this morning. I like the 3:22 time. I just wish I would rise. Again at 4:30 and sometime in the 5 o’clock hour and finally rose at 6. I have a blogging buzz at the moment as I’ve been blogging and typing too much and ignoring things I need to be doing. Time to turn attention to those things.

Today is all about programming.

Student: Master, you smell funny.
Master: I smell the same as you.

Could this possibly work?

So I started the day with some spackling in the bedroom. Then I took 15 thirty gallon trash bags of clothing and toys that we collected from the kids rooms during the last mass cleaning and stowed in the garage to Goodwill. Since things that smell good to me don’t smell good to my pregnant wife we stopped off at Green Earth Emporium and bought some incense that she should find more appealing. Some grocery shopping and then home to finally find her maternity clothing! I should clarify that I’ve torn the bedroom and our storage system apart trying to find these clothes. The clothing was the inspiration to get the donations to Goodwill. I’ve randomly walked into the garage and stared hoping that something would metaphysically happen to show me these clothes. Today Cathy decides to check the garage herself. After 3 minutes she points at the box and says, “What’s in that?” She is so happy! Of course, the clothing was stored in a box that solitarily sat on top of our freezer and could have been discovered weeks ago had I “looked up.”

The Goodwill bags were a major impedance to making progress in the garage. The other challenges to finishing the buildout in the food pantry/garage are:

• Rework electrical
• Rework hvac duct work
• Plumbing for hot and cold for potential sink in garage, icemaker in food pantry, optional washer dryer connection in food pantry
• Drain for hvac condensation trap
• Drain for option washer and garage sink
• Dryer vent
• drywall
• Shelving
• Doors
• Paint
• Flooring

Wahoo! More database progress!

Mixed 2 tablespoons water with 5 drops peppermint oil (same brand I use) and 7 drops rosemary oil (same brand I use). MMmmmm.

Listening to Jimmy Buffett’s Boats

Yahoo! I achieved stretching! Noah stretched with me. What fun! I enjoy Noah quite a bit. He’s such a genuinely good person.

MSN today offers Strategies for getting back into an exercise routine By: Lou Schuler

On no! I’ve run out of coffee! Not actually a big deal except that I’m almost out of herbal tea too! I’ve cut my caffeine intake way down. I allow myself up to 3 cups of coffee per day. No sodas. I drink decaf tea with the exception on one or two herbal teas that have minor caffeine in them.

Yesterday I actually did something for myself. I worked on the database design for TN Lottery Results. As soon as the database design is in place I can lay a new look on the site. Right now it looks like such trash. I also put in some client hours programming. And had a very rewarding time working with my son on a school project.

In the evening I had the Asperger’s Support Group and arrived after several of the guests. They were setting chairs up around tables which I don’t think is conducive to a support group setting so after some room rearranging and confirming our dates out to August we were rolling. Fantastic discussions! What a wonderful group of people we had with caregivers for people of ages 5 to adult. Everyone contributed and we had interesting topics such as ‘will an aspie ever be able to write?’ and ‘is the messy eatting sensory or fine motor?’ and ‘do they have friends?’ (a resounding “no” simultaneously from the entire group). Of course there was some school discussion and other topics. I was spacey. Having taken the wrong car to the support group I left Cathy needing to get to her meeting and taking the girls without a car seat.