A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
Steak and BJ Day – March 14th I stumbled across this and realized we’d missed an important holiday this year. So ladies, and guys, mark your calendars for March 14th 2005 so you don’t miss it next year.
Forget Atkins! Get your pet fat!
Animated sex? Naked women? Streakers? They’re all in this year’s crop of upcoming titles.
You know.. Even when games were nothing more than text they were riddled with sex. And if they weren’t, I recall being able to construe them into being sexual. Hormonal teens will make it happen one way or another. Today’s games are just better quality sex!
The father-in-law dropped by and we took apart one of his phones to try to get a working one again. A coke got spilled on the mother-in-law’s phone and it fizzled. That phone was from Verizon (the crappiest phone company on the planet. Do NOT use Verizon!). They have an identical phone from Sprint (no longer have Spring service). Model numbers are identical! Anyhow, Verizon won’t flash the Sprint phone and those phones don’t use sim cards so they are stuck with a working phone but cannot get the service.
They are going to end up buying a new phone and I bet their contract gets extended to at least 2006. Phone companies are getting to be about as crooked as credit card companies.
Amy is a riot. She goes to a chair and slaps the seat with her hand and says “Sit Daddi Sit”
Later she comes to me and I think she is say ‘look dada a ball’ then she drops from her hand a blank ant and says “Look dada a bug!” She is quite proud of herself but I jump and scare her. Oops. I told her “good job” and we high fived.
I know why I can’t get out of bed even though I’m awake. My mind races with the hundreds of things I need to be doing and I can’t decide what to do so I go back to sleep. From now on, I will set a “get up early goal” before going to bed. I will say “if I get up early, this is what I will work on..”
Blast! Amy is awake. She is now suppose to rise for another 1.5 hours or more. I need to look in that room anyway for the medicine.
Found it! Tommy obviously got distracted at the television last night. It’s by the tv.
A New Day!
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This Morning
I woke before the 5am alarm and turned it off so the music would not disturb the wife. Was awake enough that I should have gotten out of bed. Instead I lounged and had some bizarre vivid dreams.
Now I cannot find Tommy’s medicine. It’s refill time so I cannot give it to him from the bottles. I had planned on cleaning manically in the kitchen before Cathy woke and instead I’m tearing the house apart trying to find something that I should be able to pickup with my eyes closed. This is so frustrating.
John Kerry is mad about unemployment. John Kerry didn’t vote in the Senate Tuesday. Jobless bill fails by one vote.
Did my candidate screw up?
The snake passed. It definitely was 1.2 meters (4 feet) or more. Since the cat killed the chipmunks and I’m taking out the habitat and the snakes, a part of the appeal of the yard is lost for me. It’s been a long time since I noticed Racoons or possum too. The owl is rarely heard anymore and I haven’t seen the hawk alight in years.
I am still excited about the progress on the yard. I have great plans!
Yuck. Just ran the lawn mower over a 4 foot (1.2 meter) black snake and it lived. I like having those snakes around. They keep the mouse population down. I need to go put it out of its misery and bury it.
A New Day!
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This Morning
Woke feeling miserable this morning. Got the kids up at 6 and slept until 6:25 then gave Tommy his medicine. After getting the kids off I came home to sleep some more but mostly laid in bed listening to Amy play over the intercomm. An hour later or so she started to ask for Dada so I went upstairs and we sat on the couch together and watched television and she wrestled some. After Cathy woke I returned to a deep sleep for 2.5 hours. I can feel my body fighting something and winning.
Last Night/Afternoon
It was Cathy’s birthday and of course I went upstairs with intention of reminding the kids but I forgot and they went the whole day without saying anything to their mother. Poverty and stress kept me from making her special day anything special at all.
In the evening Tommy stayed home to watch a movie while Cathy and Sarah did some mall shopping and Noah, Amy and I went to a muddy soccer field to have practice cancelled. We all ended up gathering at IHOP minus Tommy. This disturbed Noah greatly, “I wanted Tommy to come.” So Noah and I had one of those conversations about decisions and consequences and making choices.
Later a naked Amy was sitting on Tommy during reading time and peed on him. He reacted but for Tommy it wasn’t altogether that bad a reaction.
Sarah and I watched a movie on the Mayan pyramids as an extra credit assignment then I realized we missed Smallville! Ugh! Got to spend some time with Cathy after the kids went to bed.
I went and picked up two cakes from Rita’s Bakery (thanks to a wonderful mother-in-law) and delivered one to Cathy’s mother (who will deliver it to her mother) and one to Cathy.
Now I prepare for a meeting followed by an interview.
Amy has the greatest way of saying “hello”… “Hi Dada Hi!” and I now reply “Hi Amy Hi!” It’s so sweet!
A New Day!
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This Morning
Woke at 5 to silence the music and debated getting up. Woke again at 5:50 and turned the alarm off so it would not go off at 6. Noah woke me at 6:10. Gave Tommy medicine at 6:25.
Last Night
Spent quality time with the wife. As tense as she’s been lately something seemed to have dropped. She was much more relaxed.
