A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
This weekend I juggled for Children’s Hospital at the Zoo. I completed a split rail fence along my driveway’s retaining wall. I provided tech support to old people. I celebrated a friend turning 50. I purchased the most expensive appliances imaginable and they still won’t match my socks or fold my shirts. I performed hours of basement archaeology. And I awoke Monday morning exhausted and tender.
What a beautiful rain we are having! My jungle in the back yard lush and almost glowing.
It is always Home Depot’s Kids’ Workshop today and free comic book day.
Big storm on the way so I awoke at 6:40 to work on completing the installation of a split rail fence along the retaining wall. It’s now complete! Trips to hardware stores? Zero! Completion time including cleanup? 9:40am. I have so much time left in this day I think I’ll remodel the kitchen!
What do you do? Get up at 6:40am and do yard work of course!
This Sunday, May 5, a triathlon will happen in Knoxville which includes a $50,000 purse.
Competitors will swim up river from Volunteer Landing (evading the floating bodies at Calhoun’s) just past First Creek, turn around and swim down to Second Creek. From Second Creek they will bike to the Gay Street Bridge then to John Sevier Highway and back downtown (24 miles). The run will be along the Neyland Dr Greenway, through Tyson Park, continuing down Third Creek Greenway, all the way down Cherokee Blvd, and back ending at the World’s Fair Park.
See more at the rev3tri website.
I’m pretty sure I just sent one of my children to school without breakfast. She was so excited about her field trip that I think we both overlooked it.
So much needs to be said.
Yahoo!, Destroyer of All Things Digital, has purchased Astrid, an online to-do list app and will shut it down in 90 days.
I maintain that if I ever make an Internet company successful, the last thing I want is for Yahoo! to buy it.
Marriage – the longest funeral procession you’ll ever live through.
FU
No, it’s not just a crazy accident. No four/five year old should have a real gun!
A FIVE-year-old boy who was playing with a .22 caliber rifle he’d been given as a gift accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister in their Kentucky home
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the children’s mother was cleaning the house at the time and had stepped outside onto the porch
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The rifle had been given to the boy last year and was kept in the corner of a room. The parents didn’t realise a shell had been left in it.[Source, Herald Sun, US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2]
Again, I use this as an example of why schools should remain gun free zones. Mistakes will be made. Lives will be lost. And mark my words, no armed teacher, staff member, or janitor will stop an active shooter…it just doesn’t happen that way.
Student: Did I have to yell?
Master: NO!
We should be allowed occasional weeks without sleep without repercussion. This is one of those weeks.
Well there you have it. I’m a freaking genius!
intelligence has been linked to unconventional sexual practices and frequent sexual activity, thoughts and fantasies.[57]
Here’s footnote 57 citing the original source:
Thompson, Mark (1). “3”. Who Should You Have Sex With.
Sourcebooks Casablanca. p. 78. ISBN 978-1402242045
