Reality Me

The Knoxnews’ Blog linked to my wife on her road rage post! I hope she doesn’t forget the kids and I in her celebrity.

A New Day!

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This Morning

I’m on my last day of this Plumtree Portal contract. I’m disappointed because the project did not achieve the desired goals. A co-worker assures me that I had a daunting task in front of me and that I did great work. I don’t like leaving something incomplete.

On a big positive we are beginning week 23 of the wife’s pregnancy (click here to offer name suggestions) (and a discussion on vasectomies) and I finally got the nerve to tell my parents. Funny how we grow older and still fear our parents judgement! They reacted well but I bet they had some interesting conversation when the phone hung up. My mother asked “how are you going to get by?” I assured her we will although with no predictable income I sometimes wonder myself.

I get the weirdest smells in the house sometimes. Rarely but from time to time I could swear that I smell cigarette smoke. A quick check of the kids shows they aren’t sneaking smokes. The wife doesn’t smoke and neither do I? So I conclude it must be the fire place or a leaky window and a strong wind current carrying it from a neighbors house.

Well for the first time I’m sitting here swearing up and down that I’m smelling a cigar! Very faint. But there is that sweet yet pungent smell in the air. Could it have something to do with the Jasmine and Peppermint oils I’ve been putting in the incense burner?

Amy (2.5): “Yeeeehaw!”

This Morning

Wow! I woke up at 2:30 to begin documentation work and because MS Word was crashing and this machine is so dog gone slow it is now 4:30 and I’m just getting in gear. That’s what most of my days are like. I spent hours getting to the point of being able to do something only to be distracted by something else or redirected to other efforts. It’s very frustrating.

On the positive side, the lottery numbers are posted.

Today’s challenges:

• 8 hours of coding (PHP)
• 72 hours of documentation (Plumtree)
• 8 hours of security setting adjustments (Plumtree)
• 3 hours training other staff (Plumtree)
• 1.5 hours mundane name and setting changes in system (Plumtree)
• Spend 6am-8am getting the kids off to school (I’ll get to the office at 9am)
• leave office at 2pm for bank and pick Tommy up from school
• by 4pm have Tommy in Lenior city for STAR until 5pm with a 20 minute drive on either side
• plan a Scout meeting and have materials ready for a 6:30-7:30 meeting (I’ll get out at 8pm)
• Cook remaining 2 lbs of ground beef or throw it away
• prepare dinner and feed family (can you say McDonald’s!)

Firefighters Suspended for Sex on Duty

…three men, including a captain, admitted to having sex with a fourth firefighter, a woman, while on duty…”They even conspired to keep it secret by putting one person on watch so they wouldn’t get caught.”…The probe follows an investigation after city firefighters attended a local porn-star costume ball last July.

Hehe! They had the balls to type “The probe” within the context of that article!

I’m certainly glad its over

Apparently I don’t need glasses anymore. (I’ve lost them). Found them in a very logical place.

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This Morning

Mishandled Tommy this morning causing problems with the wife.

Need to buy gas for the grill and a new cpu fan. Went to the inlaws to be there while their chimney was inspected and I left oranges and Tommy’s homework there so I suppose I have to run out that way too. I have days of documentation to create and programming to do.

I am worth $2,347,860.00 on HumanForSale.com

The CPU fan on my development server is dying. I’ve shut the machine down to save its life.

I smell a storm a brewin’!

Student: I’m overburdened.

Master: Then lighten your load.

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This Morning

Holy cow the short term is gone! I was just sitting down to post something inciteful complete with a good title and wham! it’s gone.

Things on my mind:

• Invoice client
• Fix son’s scout uniform and my scout uniform
• Work on project 1, 2, 3 and 4 all at the same time
• Balance budget
• Fix car
• …

I wish I could sleep for a week!

In 1972 our government first conceived the 2001 terrorist’s attack as written in a 1977 report summarizing 5 years of research and suggestions that “is a sound plan which will curtail the risk of hijacking substantially.”

How many organizations dropped the ball?!