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  • The birds are very happy. I put thistle out and th…

    The birds are very happy. I put thistle out and the finches cannot get enough of it.

    The baby is very happy. She is eatting breakfast and playing with her toys.

    The 7 yr old is very happy. He is pretty much always happy.

    The 10 yr and wife are asleep so I assume they are happy. The 13 yr old is at the grandfather’s and the center of attention so he is happy. And I am burning the eggs…but I am happy!

  • A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

    A New Day!

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

    This Morning

    * baby cries at 7:30. Negligent dad let’s her play in crib while taking care of some necessary things

    Last Night

    * Watched Monk and Talked with wife until after midnight then drifted off around 1 am into a deep sleep

  • Pain

    Shoulder blade still hurts.

  • New cell phone time!

    Now trying to decide between the Motorola v400, Nokia 3595 and Nokia 3200. Open to other options but I’m sticking with Cingular so it has to be a phone that works with them.

  • Very tense evening between wife and I.

    Very tense evening between wife and I.

  • Comments solicited

    Seeking recommendations on memory supplements. Please post your suggestions in comments.

  • Afternoon whirlwind. Business lead phone call then…

    Afternoon whirlwind. Business lead phone call then Had a late lunch with the father-in-law. Then got my sunglasses repaired. Then spent the afternoon talking tech with the Cingular sales force. Drove home as the tail car in a funeral procession. Took several miles for me to realize why everyone in the oncoming traffic was pulled to the side of the road!

  • My wife feels that everything I do toward the 13 y…

    My wife feels that everything I do toward the 13 yr old is mean, aggressive, attacking or down right wrong. I no longer feel that I can instruct or discipline the boy without upsetting the wife and that I must majorly backoff.

    I admit that I have become ill tempered and short of patience with the 13 yr old but I am conscious of this and am working to be more forgiving, relaxed, fun and friendly with him but its not something you turn on like a light switch. I didn’t become impatient with him overnight.

  • Wahoo! Progress. Only took a week but I sent off a…

    Wahoo! Progress. Only took a week but I sent off a coverletter and resume to a company that looks promising. They wear suits, but they look promising.

  • Achievement!

    Ah! Resume and coverletter properly revised for submission to another company. Cross thy fingers.

  • Old People in my house!

    My wife and I independently sported hippie wear today wife choosing a rainbow colored “peace now” tie dye and myself a blueish calming tie dye with an enchanting face in the moon on it.

  • Incorrect CSS!

    Hello All! I have given a few of you a class description to add to your templates to create the boxed border around things you want highlighted. My css was incorrect. It worked in IE but not Mozilla

    The old css looked like this:


    .boxborder{padding:5px 5px 5px 5px;border:1px 1px 1px 1px solid black;}

    To correct the problem and make the borders visible in mozilla, the new css should look like this:


    .boxborder{padding:5px 5px 5px 5px;border:1px solid #000;}

    If this is new to you, you can add the class to the <style> section of your blogger template then when you want a box around some text simply put the following into your post:


    <div class="boxborder"> This text will have a box around it. </div>

    When I quote a news article or person, I use another class I’ve added called “quote.” It looks like this:


    .quote{font-size:90%;font-style:normal;margin:auto;padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;letter-spacing:.08em;}

    To use it type the following:


    <div class="quote"> Text to be indented for quoting. </div>

    Note that in the class definition a period preceeds the name but in the usage the period is excluded. So in your div you would used class=”quote” rather than class=”.quote”.

    Enjoy!

  • Comedians and the election

    From Jay Leno:

    “The White House has now released military documents that they say prove George Bush met his requirements for the National Guard. Big deal, we’ve got documents that prove Al Gore won the election.”

    Juggler’s addition: “GW’s national guard records are full of holes. Kind of like his claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction!”

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