31
Mar 2008
My original goal was to have our basement completely finished by the end of March. I looked at the calendar and discovered that today is the end of March. Considering the fact that I have yet to start hanging drywall, I don’t think that I’m going to meet my goal.
When people set goals, then horribly fail to meet them, they will usually set a new, more realistic goal. I think that I’m going to be a bit different here. Yeah, I could push the “wannabefinished” date back to the end of April, but we’re going out of town this weekend and the week after that, my mom is coming into town. That means that I realistically won’t be able to spend an entire Saturday working on it for three weeks. If a goal can’t be accomplished within a week, then it isn’t worth setting. Just kidding. I hope to be done with everything by the end of May.
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28
Mar 2008
You may have noticed that I have a new link under our ‘Favorite Blogs’ on the right side of the page. It’s for Stolen Droids, a joint venture between me and some of my former geek coworkers. Basically, it’s where we can talk hardcore geek stuff without offending our wives. I’m pretty sure that Holly doesn’t care about The Endor Holocaust so I put my thoughts on it over there.
If you are interested in seeing what geeks talk about, go check it out.
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27
Mar 2008
We’ve had a bit of a rough time lately with our health. If I recall correctly, Alex was exposed to something a few months ago. Now, every week somebody new seems to be sick.
I’ve determined that having three little outbreak monkeys, a wife that is surrounded by outbreak monkeys every time she does a clinical, and me working with an outbreak monkey means that there’s a good chance that we’re going to get sick. It’s like our life is a pinball game and the virus that we keep getting is just banging around, racking up points each time one of us goes down. Stupid flippers…
Alex, Hannah, and I all spent Easter weekend sick. Instead of looking for Easter eggs, we were all in a NyQuil induced sleep. Well, I was anyways. The kids had to settle for children’s Motrin. Now, we’re all trying to get over this nasty bug that refuses to die.
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Category: Alex, Emma, Family, Hannah, Holly, Jeremiah
Tags: Alex, Emma, Hannah, Holly, Kids, Motrin, NyQuil, outbreak
24
Mar 2008
Well, CBS has gone and done it again. They canceled Jericho. The show that made history by being brought back from cancellation, only to be given a crappy time slot and an even crappier lead-in just couldn’t produce the numbers that CBS found acceptable to justify a third season.
I have to admit that I’m not really surprised. The writing was on the wall even before the first episode of the second season aired. CBS was basically doing this to get fans to stop sending tons and tons of nuts to their mailroom. They knew that we were angry about the show ending on a cliffhanger so they decided to placate us with seven more episodes to tie everything up all nice and pretty like. I have to say though that those seven episodes were amazing. They were quite literally some of the best television that I have ever seen. (That’s saying a lot.)
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20
Mar 2008
You may remember a few weeks back when I posted about or dog, Oscar not liking our new bed because he can’t jump up on it. If you don’t remember, you can read it here. Well, there has been a new development in the new bed saga.
Yes, Oscar is still sleeping on the floor. He did figure out though that if he runs all the way down the hall and into the bedroom, he can usually jump on the bed. I think that it’s a bit too much work for him though. He’s come to the conclusion that it’s just easier to sleep on the floor. But that’s not the new development.
The new development has to do with Holly. After the first few nights on the new bed, she decided that having her extremities go numb while she sleeps is a bad thing. Apparently the springs in the mattress like to dig into her all over the place causing extreme pressure and discomfort. As a result, she doesn’t sleep well and requires a pillow in between the two of us.
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19
Mar 2008
I’ve been having a serious case of writer’s block lately. There’s a lot that I want to post but can’t quite get it right when I type it out. Until my brain gets itself right with my wordsmith skills, here is a funny commercial for M&M’s.
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13
Mar 2008
Last night I decided that the only thing that’s holding me back from finishing insulating the ceiling in the basement is a lack of light. That’s not such a big deal, but in order to get power to the light switch, I needed to wire every single plug in the basement. Why did I have to put the switch at the end of the circuit instead of the beginning? Guess I didn’t think that one through very well.
I decided that I just needed to take the time to get the wiring done. As much as I hate wiring outlets and switches, It needs to be done. Well, now it is. I didn’t kill myself or start a fire. I did see some sparks but that was not my fault.
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09
Mar 2008
Today while I was making the kids lunch, I discovered that there was red and green coloring all over the wall. And I mean all over. It started in the kitchen, went down the hall, and covered the walls in both of the kids bedrooms. Coincidentally, both Alex and Hannah were running around with red and green colored pencils in their hands. Figuring out how the marks got on the walls was not going to be a tough mystery to solve.
I asked Alex, who was holding a red pencil, who did the marks on the wall. He immediately threw Hannah under the bus and blamed her. His three-year-old brain isn’t advanced enough to get rid of the incriminating evidence he was holding in his hand so he ended up getting busted and spending extra time in the corner for lying.
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07
Mar 2008
Lately Hannah has decided that it’s fun to use her full vocabulary when told to do something. For example, last night I told her to get her pajamas on and get into bed. Her response was something along the lines of “No Dad. I don’t want to get my pajamas on and go to bed.” I think that most kids would respond with a simple “no” but not Hannah. She has to show off her wordsmithiness.
Another recent example of Hannah’s use of verbalizing complete thoughts came on Wednesday night when we were all in the van. The kids were being very loud so I asked them to be quiet. Hannah immediately responded with “No Dad. You be quiet.”
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06
Mar 2008
I had a beautiful rant all typed up on how horrible television commercials for “social introduction” phone lines are but it was pretty harsh so I decided to not post it. It’s too easy to blast some model who is unconvincingly trying to tell me that spending the night at home alone while talking to complete strangers on the phone is her favorite thing to do. I like to think that I’m above taking such cheap shots but how stupid do these people think I am? Like she’s so socially inept that the only way to meet people is by paying $4.99 a minute. Get these commercials off of the air.
Anyways… What I finally decided to write about is packing peanuts. You know, the things that you use when shipping a big box with a small item inside so that it doesn’t break? While they may prove useful to many people, I strongly dislike them.
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