Reality Me

Played and read with the baby for a bit then gave in at 8:25 and turned on the television.

Had some coffee and read the paper.

After the 5am noise patrol, I fell back into a deep sleep. I should have stayed awake and worked. I had a bizarre dream that centered around the wife and I meeting some people with secret words in a cemetary. Had something to do with this elegant old historic house that was going to be sold off.

At 7:30 I heard the baby prancing around laughing loudly. The 7 yr old saved her from the crib (normally we let her play in the crib some but he did good). I medicated the 13 yr old and brewed coffee.

This basement is fridgid today.

A New Day!

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This Morning

* Woke at 4am and tended to fire. Should have stayed up.

* 5am noise wakes me. 10 yr old girl awake in bed; I check fever and she seems fine (I think). 13 yr old boy awake in bed

Going to take a break to regroup my thoughts and maybe read. This is a bad sign. It’s usually followed by deep sleep.

Returned home with the 7 yr old and unloaded the car. Began cooking pizzas for dinner and refueled the fire. Checked on the sick 10 yr old. Fever still high but feels cooler to me. Cooked 2 pizzas and fed the wife, the 7 yr old, the 13 yr old and myself. Cooked cup cakes for devouring tomorrow. Refueled fire.

Whew! Shopping done. I can’t step foot in Walmart or Home Depot without dropping $100. Anyhow, minus the forgotten milk, we are set for the next couple of days.

Cooking home made pizzas tonight. Maybe some treats. Ran into the guy hired to be a meat cutter at Walmart. He was hired before they changed business models. Now ALL meat is shipped in prepackaged. He sounds bitter but exclaimed “at least I get paid meat cutter wages to be a stock boy.”

Time to check on the sick 10 yr old then run to the store for supplies.

The snow has arrived.

It’s also 5pm and I’m starting to get a little strung at the apparent lack of productivity today.

Cleaned 7 yr old’s very icky trash can. Cleaned kitchen counter tops. The 13 yr old cleaned the stove quite well!

Time to shift gears briefly.

My computer crashed yesterday when I was trying to brag on the 20 mth old. Yesterday as I was preparing breakfast, I pulled out our George Foreman Grill to fry up some sausage (btw, this is a great addition to the kitchen!) and the baby, unprompted, seeing me pull the grill out says “hot hot” and blows twice. It’s adorable and makes me feel better that she recognizes things, like the wood stove, as hot and dangerous.

I told her she was smart and she said “smart” while doing the Baby Sign for “smart.” My wife signs great and I do ok but we still went to http://www.babysigns.com and bought the whole system. It really works!

    

Wahoo! Authentication procedure nailed down. From now on, any php site that needs a secured backend will go much quicker since the wrinkles have been ironed out and I now have a plug and play security system.

Taking a break from the computer. Think I’ll see if I can raise the temperature downstairs.

Bathroom scrubbed.

Other wants/todos: move wife’s computer upstairs, setup streaming webcam on birdfeeders

I drove through a very interesting part of town yesterday that to me really defined “East TN” and deserves a photographic essay. I will allot a day to take and post some pictures soon.