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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.

Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock

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).

Wow! I just watched Time fly by. I swear today the Earth is spinning faster than it normally does.

I was watching out the back window and a hawk swooped down and flew about 5 feet off the ground through our trees then whooshed up to light on one of the Oaks. It caused quite a stir in the community. I’m not certain if it scored any small fowl but it was a beauty to watch!


(similar to this hawk) 

Amy: “Thank you Dad. Thank you.”

Tell you what, nothing feels better.

Dad: “Noah, don’t go in that bedroom.”

Noah: Goes in bedroom anyway.

Dad: Loses temper.

Noah: Cries.

Tell you what, nothing feels worse.

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