Reality Me

I’m beginning with the closet on the premise that it will finish first and fill up quickly. The final design (for a later stage of the project) will have this doorway arched. 

Noah’s new room makeover has begun. How do those DIY guys get such full pictures of the rooms they work on? 

The kids are quiet…too quiet.

Poor Noah looks so dazed. I think he is sleeping sitting up. Molly (the puppy) is leaning up against him. Very sweet!

A New Day!

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This Morning

This day started off strong on a 4:30 note. Man I hope I can keep that wake up time going!

All last week I had Victor Vito and Freddie Vasco (for those looking for just the cd) stuck in my head. Anyone know what they ate? Did you know there is a story book that goes with it?

This morning I wake up humming “this hat is my hat and makes me feel fine!”

Wow! On Whaddaya Think of That? Laurie does a rendition of “The Cat Came Back” and “Wimoweh”.

And because I like Laurie Berkner’s music here is Buzz Buzz.

          

Student: I want to improve as a teacher of those around me. Give me your criticism.

Master: I have only good things to say.

I helped the wife get the girl’s new room in order and began painting on Noah’s new room. Hopefully I can burn some midnight oil and get it wiped out quickly. I have such plans for his room! They will be spread out over time. Yikes! I’m not photo documenting!

Time names President Bush Person of the Year

You know, when my mother used to tell me “anybody can be president” I thought she meant to inspire me to high aspirations. I had no clue she was being literal.

I complete a project! Wahoo! It was appealing MySQL database driven PHP project. I had the pleasure of designing the database from ground up and creating the code from scratch. It came together very well. As with any project I would love to keep tinkering on it but we have come to a stopping point where I am satisfied and so is the client.

It is a very good feeling!

Now I am jazzed about getting a house project done. Today will be a balance between paint and coding. I would like to get some shopping done too but that will have to wait.

Noah likes grapefruit!!

(man Sarah’s a grouch right now)

A New Day!

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This Morning

Yesterday Noah and I spent the morning at the old Outlets Limited Mall which is now a deteriorating building devoted to good causes. Today Noah and I helped the the Mayor was there. I had no idea. For that matter, I don’t even know what he looks like.

Ran across this at Circuit City trying to get the Slick Deal of a Belkin Wireless G router for minus $3. Missed the boat. The router is now $19.95 after a $50 mail-in rebate. 

So I am still trying to figure out “where do you sit?” If things are handled differently in your restrooms, the white paper hanging on the wall is intended to go on the seat of the commode for people that fear germs.

There was a guy in the stall when I took the picture. When he came out I commented on the oddness and he laughed and said, “that deserves a picture!” Unbeknownst to him, the shutter had already clicked.

Never lose your glasses again! 

I spent most of yesterday troubleshooting why I could not get a file to upload with a form and php. I naturally jumped to enctype and immediately confirmed it to be enctype=”multi-part/form-data” because that is usually the problem. Then I checked all the various server settings. Finally this morning I reduced the code to its simplest form to test and got a file to upload! Then I realized that enctype=”multi-part/form-data” was not correct. enctype=”multipart/form-data” is correct.

So many wasted hours!

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I no longer feel so bad. I use O’Reilly’s HTML Pocket Reference to double check syntax etc and sure enough on 24 they have printed “multi-part/form-data” instead of “multipart/form-data”. Since I do file uploading so infrequently I used their reference instead of my editor’s shortcut. I still recommend the reference (if for anything, the color chart in the back is very helpful).

Slick Deals has a couple of good ones today:

Belkin Wireless G Router -$3 after $50MIR

Free Anarchy Online MMORPG Game (note: this is an 817.6MB download. Bittorrent uploads pieces of the same file you are downloading it as you d/l so expect 3 times that in bandwidth.

I’m getting both!

Isn’t Desperate Housewives all about discussing your neighbors? If network television can do it so can I!

The night before last my wife and I watch a truck back into the neighbors drive or front yard. I almost went out to talk to them because the way it backed in looked like it almost hit my Jeep but got distracted. Later that night we receive a phone call but I missed the call.

Yesterday morning at 7am one of the neighbors is knocking on our door. Apparently the previous night someone stole their two large screen televisions (rented). Now this is not the first time they have had things “stolen” from their house. Once it was a jacket and video tapes or something as silly. I think once they said someone broke a window to get in.

Now one of the first things I checked when looking to buy in this location was crime rate. There is none. And none of the other neighbors have ever complained of any theft.

Last night I come home and notice that one of their cars is in the street with the engine running, no lights on and two people sitting in it. I drove past it twice to see who was in it. As I park in my driveway I notice their other car also has the engine running, no lights on and a person in it.

Conclusions?

One possibility: they stole the televisions from themselves and were worried that I saw who did it ergo the phone call and the inquisition.

Another possibility: they really were robbed (ex-boyfriend?) and were hanging out with hopes that the crooks would come back and they would take matters into their own hands.

Actions?

I called the sheriff and requested some increased patrols through the neighborhood.