Reality Me

Spent 9am-11am making phone calls and sending emails to try to drum up contracts.

Now must get ready for a convoluted lunch time.

Sarah and Noah got themselves read with happiness and no problems. After dropping them off at school I returned to find Amy playing happily in the girls’ room. I opened the door slightly and started to return to the kitchen to hear an excited voice say “ooeh Dada!”

How is it that if you put something in a pile for Goodwill that the children know it must be pulled out and played with. Amy instantly went to a ride-on toy lion although she has the most exceptional ride-on toy car. Amy is jolly this morning. Non-stop talking. Playing very nicely.

  

A New Day!

Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:

This Morning

My body is adjusting to the concept of waking earlier. At 5am my wife kicked me because the music alarm was on and I had not silenced it. I never fell back into anything more than a light sleep. Mostly I stared at the clock until 6am. The next challenge is making myself get out of the bed.

Sarah wanted something out of her room so I went to get it and Amy squeaks in the sweetest little voice “Hi Dada.” I had to reply “Hi Amy. Nite nite.”

This morning I’m in a cool, calm freak out. Needs: call all my contacts, letters to business, call local developers.

Last Night

What more Futurama with the wife. Can’t find any easter eggs on Disc 3 for Season 3 which is somewhat disappointing. After watching an episode of Futurama on DVD we turned on Futurama on television (just worked out that way) but we were both falling asleep so Cathy says turn it off. I began to get frustrated because the dvd remote was having absolutely no effect on turning the show off. After a few seconds Cathy says, “Oh! This is the tv!”

According to Durex – This a UK campaign and has some very nice posters and lesson plans from the link.

Special thanks to terreus for the interesting pictures that led to the Durex site.

I got a pile of trash (mostly construction debris) off the driveway and into the trailer so I can take it to the dump. I need to make 3 such trips this week to prepare for guests. I have an impossible amount of work to do, the money is gone, and I need to spend every waking moment trying to get work.

I have a networking opportunity tomorrow with a group of old associations/friends that could help but at the same time I need to be at Tommy’s psychologist appointment. Perhaps I could show up for 15 minutes then meet Cathy, Amy and Tommy at the appointment. That would accomplish both while not having to buy lunch at a restaraunt and not getting caught up in old gossip.

I made calls today regarding work — that was good. I should have made calls until my ears bleed — not good.

Just checked in with the recruiters and each of them said they’ve got me in the hands of 2 potential hiring managers and “end of the week” is a possibility for interviews. I hope my phones still work at the “end of the week.” There is also “another possibility” out there with one of the recruiters. And I’ve got my own searching that is supposed to have me an interview this week. That puts us at 5.5 possibilities with potential salaries ranging from $45k/yr to $80k/yr.

Lottery is Wednesday…

Amy is having a rough time.

The end is near. Hitting rock bottom AGAIN!

My mind is distracted with something I want to do and cluttered with the array of things I need to be doing.

This morning Amy wiped her eye while eatting a powdered doughnut and ran to me crying “baby boo boo!” I used the magic words “Daddy kiss it” and kissed her gently then asked “All better?” She said “all better” and walked off happy.

What a feeling!

They certainly added some interesting features as described in The Great Blogger Relaunch

My personal favorites are:

Built-in comments I still like Haloscan but I think I may experiment with Blogger’s commenting. Blogger’s system give you the ability to limit commenting to registered Blogger users, or allow anyone to commment, or only allow team members (for group blogging) to comment. The do not have trackback and to transition from Haloscan to Blogger’s comments would mean losing all my past comments. I think I may experiment with the new features in a new blog and then decide how to more forward. This feature certainly changes my pet project of writing a commenting system.

Post Page Archiving This is cool. Every post now ends up as its own page if you turn this on. So instead of using a permalink (which makes the entire archive load and waits until after the load before jumping down the page) you can now have every post with its own url. I’m a little torn on this one because it reads as if it will read like a Xanga post where you are looking at the one post and its comments but don’t have a clear way to return to the surrounding posts for the full story. Fortunately Blogger thought of this and has added Conditional Tags so that if you are on an archive page it gives you a quick way to return to the main blog.

And Posting by email In what looks like a system borrowed from Phlog Blogger now allows posts from email. If your email, such as a cellphone, tags an advertisement or other text to the end you can tell blogger when to stop by putting #end into your message. Blogger does not support picture attachments yet so I don’t think we can combine Phlog and Blogger quite yet but I bet it comes soon.

Judgment still out:

Profile Tags These allow you to use a tag like <$BlogOwnerLastName$> to show your last name. The benefit of course being that if your last name ever changes you can make that change in your settings and the change will be reflected in all your psots. These don’t really excite me.

There is still much to experiment with and learn to use. Good job Blogger!