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Today’s goals: banking, work on the contracted web… January 14, 2004 9:11 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeToday’s goals: banking, work on the contracted web project, cook the chicken and beef jerfy, work on self web project
add a commentA New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa… January 14, 2004 8:52 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeA New Day!
Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:
This Morning
* I actually get up! Did not return to bed. Granted, I didn’t get up until 6:30 but I did get up!
* Bathe the 7 yr old
* The kids are in jolly moods and I’m nice to them. No grumpies!
* Return from car pool to bury the cats 2 day old mole kill (in warmer weather it would have been fly food by now) then have a “sexual responsibility” talk with the 13 yr old-topics: cleaning up after that personal activity, tissues by the bed, not leaving seminal fluid about, disease–what fun!
Last Evening
* Seems we forgot to give the 13 yr old his medicine
* The 19 mth old splits her lip just as Mom is trying to get out the door for a Girl Scout training meeting on selling cookies (which none of the other generous mother’s would donate time for). I lose my temper not because it happened but because no one cleaned up the toys. It was an irrational and unreasonable response. It bugs me that I’m such a loose cannon now-a-days. I used to choose my battles so much more carefully.
* Chaos calms and the 10yr old gets on her home work, the 13 yr old settles in bed for reading, the 7yr old works on his Daniel Boone project and I join him for some Internet research. We print a 17 page document and staple it to look like a book (I was hoping this would engage him better than loose papers) and set him down to read it. He gets through most of it before I give him a break and send him to bed to read Yu-Gi-Oh..a book that reads right to left but is printed in English.
* Cingular text messaging was down so I spend 1/2 hour on hold to get tech support to tell me its down in all markets and they don’t know why. “Could be morning before its back”
* Call Dad to wish him a happy birthday. Find out my brother got his job in South Carolina. At least someone is getting employed.
* Wife returns and we discover the 7yr old didn’t make it (in the morning he remains strongly opinioned that he did not wet his pants)
* Evening of email, chats and tv with the wife. Strong dizzy spells in bed.
* 13 yr old stayed up well past midnight masterbating. Tired dense dad goes upstairs to see what the noise is about to have 13 yr old quickly jump from the bathroom to the bed onto his stomach only to ask a stupid question “why the hell are you naked?” to get a well deserved blunt answer of “I was playing with myself” — pause — “oh, do you need to change your sheets?” which was prompted by his statement of “I had to wash my hands.” You DINKS don’t know what you’re missing!
Afternoon of chaos Good amount of programming s… January 13, 2004 10:43 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeAfternoon of chaos
Good amount of programming started.
The Internet went berserk and email wasn’t coming through while we were trying to get ready to leave the house for doctors appointments. 7 and 10 yr old home from school and straight to car already holding 19mth old and 13yr old (yes, car…we need a van badly Donate here) Forgetting the check for the bank, we head to doc appointment 1. Dropping all others at office, the 7 yr old and I head to McCay’s for the freebie cultural papers to help the 10 yr old with her long term school report. Stomach still feeling poorly after the dizzy episode in the bath.
Long and short, the 10 yr old finishes and we leave the 13 yr old on his appointment and go to UT’s International House (wow! nice web page) for local cultural info..kinda draw a blank although its fun forcing the 10 yr old out of her shell. We get to the info desk and the lady says “Can I help you?” so the 10 yr old looks up at me with those longing eyes and I reply “It’s your report” and physically step away. She handles herself remarkably well speaking clearly and confidentally while silently cursing my existence. We head out for our first pee emergency and barely get the 7 yr old into the Marble Slab’s bathroom. Hmm. Delimia. Should we buy something? I almost buy the wife some ice cream but that would create a living nightmare amongst the kids. Off to Sonic for dinner then back to the doctor’s office and onto rush hour traffic and another pee emergency with no where to stop. We are in front of the Cherokee County Club and I debate letting him pee on the golf course. I allow social stigma to prevent me from stopping at the Green’s house and asking for the rest room. In hind sight had they refused I could have simply let him water their shrubs and we would have saved a wet pants. It was however a good lesson that he needs to take advantage of every stop and use the rest room because when the urge comes, he goes.
We thought we had made it when we pulled over in a church parking lot and he watered a tree then upon entering the car said “Thank you God”. It was adorable!
* well, off for some quality time with the wife then a return for some late night programming.
add a commentDizziness There has to be something physilogica… January 13, 2004 2:56 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeDizziness
There has to be something physilogical about the dizziness. When I bath and put my head underwater it takes off bad. If I keep my eyes open and fixated on a static object its better but still there. Working on the facial on the ladder 24 feet up was trippy.
Baby Cognition
The 19 mth old continues to amuse and amaze me. She brought her soccer ball to me and I said “go put it on your slide” and she thought about it, then walked half way through the house to stand at the midpoint of the slide; obviously not good enough, after a brief pause she goes to the ladder, hefts the ball up to the platform then climbs up to put the ball down the slide. Fantastic!
* The local job I’d like won’t start interviewing … January 13, 2004 12:25 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life* The local job I’d like won’t start interviewing for a week or 2. It sounds exciting! The timing on these things isn’t going well. I’ve contacted a local entertainment group to see if they have any work for me in the meantime.
add a comment* been procrastinating on becoming an Amazon affil… January 13, 2004 11:40 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life* been procrastinating on becoming an Amazon affiliate. Now fixed. Application submitted. Granted, that distracted me from work which I am now getting back to.
add a commentAh! The only way to work. Allnetic Timetracker run… January 13, 2004 11:09 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeAh! The only way to work. Allnetic Timetracker running, some really good Indian sandwood incense burning, Sting’s Mecury Rising blaring in the headphones.. Erie Mon!
add a comment* terribly unfocused. seems I need an immediate go… January 13, 2004 10:53 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life* terribly unfocused. seems I need an immediate goal. Here it is: get a cup of coffee, put on headphones, create dev environment for new project (track hours)
add a comment* NEED FOOD! January 13, 2004 10:11 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life* NEED FOOD!
add a commentWahoo! Tennessee Lottery Results is coming! Also T… January 13, 2004 10:09 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeWahoo! Tennessee Lottery Results is coming! Also TN Lottery Results. Starts January 20, 2004!
add a comment* It’s hot as Hades upstairs and cold as a refrige… January 13, 2004 9:46 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life* It’s hot as Hades upstairs and cold as a refrigerator downstairs. I’m so tempted just to light up a fire in the wood stove. Negatives: none of the wood is split and the flue hasn’t been inspected for 2 years.
add a comment* One marketing email off January 13, 2004 9:09 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life* One marketing email off
add a commentA New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa… January 13, 2004 8:48 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeA New Day!
Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:
This Morning
* Woke at 6:07 and got the kids going. I was wide awake but could not convince myself to do stretching exercises or even go upstairs and just read. Went back to bed until 6:35 when I returned upstairs the 7yr old was dressed and the 10yr old had been sleeping on the couch. Can’t blame her. Got them motivated and return to bed until 7am. Went upstairs and gave the 13 yr old his medicine, read and took the smaller two to pickup up their friend and go to school. Each time I went to bed either in my sleep or while lying there I thought about what needs to get done and the money situation and get time I experience more dizziness.
* 13 yr old doing what he is supposed to be doing!
* Today ends at 2:30 (maybe). At 2:30 our afternoon doctor appointments begin. I enjoy being a part of these kind of things although I recognize that our time could probably be better spent divided. It’s difficult for me to be productive in the late afternoons anyway.
* Goals today: Submit 3 resumes, get major work done on the small project, solitic other work, get magnetic sign for the car (maybe)
Last Night
Quality time with wife. Found sleep at midnight.
Delimia! Me body wears down. I need to (1) wo… January 12, 2004 10:54 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeDelimia!
Me body wears down. I need to (1) work on the work I accepted and haven’t started. I agreed to get it done by the end of the week and that will happen. (2) Work on the finances–I must have a concrete figure for all that is owed so I can strategize on what gets paid and what doesn’t. (3) my own website (4) submit a resume but all I want to do is (5) chill with my wife in bed and rest.
add a comment* Just returned from D&D session with the 13 yr ol… January 12, 2004 10:38 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life* Just returned from D&D session with the 13 yr old. I think he got a better idea of how the game functions. He is jazzed and went straight to “maybe I can be a GM.” If I stay in town, I’d like to work it out where perhaps I run sessions for a younger age group of kids. I know time is so abundant for us right now. I just don’t know what to do with myself.
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