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This Morning

Despite getting up at 2 4 and 5 am I feel well rested. I had my panic attack. I calmed myself.

Scribblings that will n’ver be:

I walk upon a precipice

Drunk in the beauty that surrounds me

I teeter on the edge

And step without looking for the cliff

A Raven calls down to me

I look up and proclaim “N’ver more!”

A slip! Rocks tumble reminding me of the height

Mind yourself! And keep the path.

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Top 10 Things Said By Doug While Hooking Up His New Monitor

10. Now my computer runs faster.

9. So that’s what happened to the other cat.

8. Maybe I should open this mail from 1988.

7. The silver doesn’t match my keyboard and case. Perhaps I should buy a new computer.

6. Only 1 comes in a box?!

5. What’s this button do?

4. Look at all the purdy colors.

3. Ow my eyes! My eyes!

2. And all this time I thought I was in DOS.

1. Oh! So it IS porn!

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This Morning

My morning…

After that I took Noah, Sarah and her friend to their respective bus stops. Ever since we had the child predator hitting on teenage girls several miles down the road I’ve stayed at the bus stop with the girls. It is a nice time for me. Although the girls ignore my presence and pass notes instead of talking I am happy to be with them. I listen to NPR and sometimes read for the 20 minutes it takes for their bus to arrive.

I return home to play the parrot game with Amy. That is, I decided to give her Welch’s Grape Juice (origins as ‘non fermented wine’ for churches) and I said, “say ‘nectar of the gods’!” and that sweet two year and half year old voice squeaks out “neck ter o gods” with excitement. So I say, “Say ambrosia” and she parrots “am bro ssssh uh”. Very cute!

Time to work.

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Typical Evening

Had a client need an emergency housecall so I skip dinner. I get home at 11:30pm and prepare my meal only to find the 8 year old, who is sleeping on his new mattress for the first time with no sheets, having a nose bleed and trying to care for it himself by using every one of the decorative towels that were just cleaned and stacked in the bathroom to be put away. While cleaning up the nose bleed and blood stains the puppy starts gagging and pukes.

15 years ago I would have laughed myself to tears had someone told me my life would revolve around defecation, urination, puke and other bodily fluids.

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Guilty of not checking my sources!

Unbelieveable! I thought I was impervious to hoaxes. I read cautiously and check Snopes and other sites to confirm stories particularly of questionable nature. Well, I guess I have gotten slack.

My post about 1954 Popular Mechanics guess at what a home computer in 2004 would look like is really an exhibit on submarines in the cold war at the Smithsonian Institution.

The picture is actually an entry submitted to an image modification competition, taken from an original photo of a submarine maneuvering room console found on U.S. Navy web site…

 

Someone needs to let Mostly Risible know also.

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Wooohoo! Progress!

I coded! And coded well! I really am enjoying working with PHP and MySQL but would still recommend ColdFusion over PHP anyday. As I do more OO work with PHP that opinion may become more 50/50. For instance, Object Oriented programming is not the answer to everything but in some applications it simply makes sense to use OO.