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Oops. I slept again. I had intended to get to a stopping point in my PHP coding then shift to Plumtree work and from there I was going to paint one wall and hang some lights on the tree.

Right now PHP and I aren’t getting along. I am asking nicely for PHP to upload a file from a form post and it’s rudely denying me. print_r($_FILES) after the post returns Array() despite checking server settings of file_uploads set to 1, upload_max_filesize set to 2M, and upload_tmp_dir with no value (which means it should default to /tmp and the permissions are 777).

I have to say I really enjoy my life!

I took much pleasure in watching Noah sing with the other 3rd graders. He blinked rapidly the whole time (time for glasses? nerves? tired?), yawned several times, appeared to mouth the words or just not sing at points and bellowed out the lyrics at other times. He really seemed to enjoy himself and I’m not going to shoot him down by griping about anything such as the yawming (I did have to ask about the eyes..I had to know if his eyes were hurting).

Sometimes as a parent it is so difficult to focus on the things the child did right and ignore the things the child did “wrong” (I’d prefer to say differently.) It is so easy to see where someone could improve..be that a co-worker, a public official, an actor, or your own child. We should not let our search for perfection destory another’s moment of glory.

Amy was very well behaved and also a pleasure to watch growing. She is very impressive.

I love cooking meals that span days and can be done ahead of the evening rush. Last night I made a chicken pasta that is basically a contrived meal (no recipe) and I do a “cheats coronation chicken”. I will have to post both later. The children love the chicken pasta and my wife and I love the coronation chicken (although this is more of a curry chicken).

I’m so ticked at myself for sleeping as much as I did last night. I didn’t need that much rest.

My wife and I have very differing philosophies on sleep so on nights that I should not be sleeping but “need” sleep she won’t stir me however last night we was kind enough to try to wake me several times but I was too far gone. I can’t set an alarm clock because it wakes her too and then she can’t get back to sleep.

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NOoooo! I only had a few more hours of work to do and I made the mistake of taking a powernap..and 8 hour power nap!

The grifters I have for neighbors just reported that that “two big screen televisions” were stolen..and “you’ll see another rental truck out here today because we can’t live without one.” Before these people moved in we had no crime rate in this neighborhood. This had to be setup by them. When they want a new car they conveniently get rear ended. Everything they own is rented so when they want something different it gets “stolen”. If the televisions were really stolen it was by someone that knows them.

No the part that gets my goat. I watched a truck pull into their driveway or yard as it almost hit my Jeep. I meant to go out and talk to them but I got distracted. I wonder what the outcome would have been.

I came home from work early and made the 8 year old and his 10 year old friend cry by cursing at them at telling the older one to never come over here again. Yup. I’m getting better with age!

Whew! I really wish I had another 20-30 solid hours to put into this project. However, it has shaped up very nicely and I’m uploading the code to the live site for client review. There are two critical missing pieces but hopefully I can wrap those quickly.

Wahoo! I’m kick tail! Much coding done. Unfortunately, much more needs to be done.

25°F (-3°C per onlineconversion.com) right now. This house needs better doors, windows and insulation. I should be under the covers!

I love working late at night! I just wish my body was more up to it. I lack the stamina I had in college (except in some areas..ahem!). It’s so quiet at night and the phone doesn’t ring to distract. I get so much work done! Unfortunately, I’ll probably pay for this allnighter over the next several days.

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Virtual Island Sells For $26,500 real US Dollars

The MMORPG Project Entropia has just announced that its first treasure island sale via Auction has gone for a grand total of US$26,500.

Last night in the Asperger’s Support Group a mother recounted a tale of her son’s daredevil activities and I had to chuckle to myself because it sounded so similar to my attempt to touch the sky.

I was probably 5 in Wilmington, NC. It’s a quaint little oceanside town of 60,000. Good people. Our house was a one story house with a nice sized front and backyard. The front yard had a huge Magnolia tree with one branch that had a horizontally split in it. My brother and I could put the handgranade shaped seed pods into the split and move the branch to make it devour the cone. We called it The Alligator.

I have always been a climber. Wouldn’t stay in my crib. Climbed down the side of Grandfather Mountain. No tree could stop me. No precipice could frighten me.

One day between the ages of 3 and 6 I took it upon myself to “touch the sky.” I climbed that magnolia tree until my little head popped out of the top. The branches must have barely been supporting me. Fortunately a sharp tone from my mother brought me back down. The story from the support group told of the child demanding that his mother rent a crane to get him out of his tree! (She talked him down)

Today Cathy threatened me with death.

We have snow! Well, dandruff in the air and you can barely see it but it’s still snow!

Makes me want to run outside and spend 3 days preping the sled hill (removing roots, stumps and other obsticles).