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This Morning

The puppy made it through the night without pooping in the house! (at least I haven’t found it yet).

Got Tommy up for school and Noah off to Zoo Camp. Returned home with hot doughnuts and a fire inside me to get some resumes off before lunch then spend the afternoon with some marketing and sales and the evening on development.

Took a few minutes to experiment with Blogger’s Post Pages (Settings->Archiving->Enable Post Pages). I had not done this yet as I was afraid that anyone with a link to the old style of permalinks would lose their link. Today I confirmed that Blogger used some good planning and the old style links do not break! Everyone should enable Post Pages!

Overall we had very pleasant children today. My morning was exceptional and after I got my stress under control in the afternoon I maintained well. Hooks got hung in the bathroom, 3 clients received attention (2 maintenance, 1 project), irs said I’m not going to jail and it looks like the kids will settle down early tonight.

Wallet found in passenger floorboard of Jeep. Evening chaos begins with Tommy becoming surly, Noah starting to hold his own against Tommy, Noah and Amy in tub, dinner needing cooking, puppy defecating and urinating on everything, setting sun’s glare so bright on monitor that I can’t see to type. Wife frustrated and irritated. Amy screaming. Sarah sassing. Tommy grousing. Noah spacing. Me blogging.

Ok. I’m calm. But having a mildly hysterical moment inside. Often I removed things from my pockets when I’m not going anywhere. It’s bad to sit on your wallet all day. I always put them in the drawer by the bed. Everything is in my pockets. Except my wallet! Think Think Think….

Michael Jackson’s got nothing like this! Mr. Six, “Follow me!”

I lost my temper badly with Tommy because he came down right as Amy woke and I had not made the milestone I was hoping for. I was angry with myself and took it out on Tommy. I feel horrible.

Ironically, the temper revolved around a neighbor’s borrowed DVD “Anger Management.” I even broke the case in a show of anger. I feel like to total schmuck. This was a Murph moment.

I think I made ammends and saw the err of my way.

So after helping my client I decided to drop in my Uncle. My Uncle explained that I had not filed taxes in 4 years and that on the first 3 of those it looks like I did not owe anything but the first 2 I would have been due refunds (no longer available). My Uncle was pleasant and assured me that I’m in no real trouble and told me how to get on with the paperwork.

Did you know that if it looks like you owe money and you don’t file a return that the IRS will prepare a return for you (with zero deductions) and send you a bill? That is what I’m working on avoiding with this past year.

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This Morning

The morning went well. I’ve learned how to park downtown so I had fewer hassles (although I was 1 penny short of the $1.50 parking fee). I was able to fix my client’s woes rapidly.

“Isabel Sanford of ‘The Jeffersons’ Dies”

I’ve now given Amy something scary to dream about. Tommy and Sarah got excited about driving through a car wash. I thought fearless Amy that enjoyed the fireworks so much and loves the rain would get a hoot out of it. She became so terrified that I almost just drove out while the machine was running. I felt so helpless.

President Bush is in town today which means traffic woes and votes will be bought.

We missed getting stopped by a road block by 30 seconds. Whether it was for the presidential motorcade or the assine 100 days of road blocks to raise money for the police department I’m not sure. I still think those should be illegal. By what right do they have to stop me if I’m not breaking any laws? Seems completely unjust! Of course, we are breaking a law by not having Noah in a proper child restraint device and that will cost us $300-500 but that’s another story.

Like musical chairs I’m off to another meeting. The first one went well. This next is Tommy’s doctor and we will all sit around and say “hmmmm” then change his antidepressant.

Some good looking ads in Sunday’s paper. Must answer them.

My day in a nutshell:

1) meeting

2) pt sql fax

3) tommy meeting

4) lunch

5) another app

6) noah

7) irs or swingi

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This Morning

Only cleaned up puppy poo once last night…then 3 times this morning.

Off to a meeting!