Pasture-ized
My pasture, let me show you it. These pictures were taken in 2007, a few weeks before Evan was born.
Month: January 2011
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Hard drive
Today is a good day to die… if you don’t know how to handle a car in this kinda stuff.
Getting home with the little guy this morning was much more adventure than I wanted. I was acutely aware of having precious cargo on board, and was perhaps a bit more nervous behind the wheel as a result… and still stopped (or kinda-sorta-almost-stopped) to ask folks who’d actually had wrecks if they needed any help. Help might take a while to arrive out here in the boonies – I thought it was worth asking about. I’d hope someone would do the same for me if I was in the ditch.
This’ll all reduce to slush today and refreeze tonight, and my street never gets treated by the county or anyone else. Best I can hope for is that Xena will shuffle out there and poop on the ice, and maybe I can get some traction.… Read more
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In Romania, I’m HUGE
A minor admin note: I help admin a friend’s forum and he’s been getting hit by a ridonkulous number of spambots lately; when I went to check my own forums it wasn’t so bad, but when I checked here… WOOOO! I’m apparently big in Romania with users who have names identical to users who already comment on the blog plus one or two letters (my favorites were “PapaStud” and “Gapporina” and “softsoftwebsXXX”). So needless to say, I deleted a bunch (~250) of bogus blog accounts today that had never commented. If I deleted a valid account – one not signed up for by a toaster – in error, my apologies.
I don’t know who’s decided to beef up their spambot game all of a sudden, but between the two sites… they’re gettin’ on my nerves.… Read more
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Little E vs. BASIC
So you want to program a subroutine in BASIC, but your bose is dopped ub because you hab a code? Little E has you covered. Allow me to introduce… … Read more
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Ain’t it funny how the night moves… while it’s reading in bed
I put Evan to bed tonight and he kept on talking to himself for quite a while, so I thought it was worth checking out. I’m getting better about being a “quick draw” with my phone’s camera, and as I peeked around the corner into his room, I saw this little face:
But what the heck was he still doing up with that light on? … Read more
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Why I hardly ever watch TV at home
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A good start on not being a hermit like dad
Little E already has his first invitation to a birthday party this weekend. Wow! This means his social calendar is 100% more busy than his dad’s. Apparently the theme of this shindig is going to be Batman, so there’s no telling what the boy wonder will get up to.
Every day at work I see a commercial for some hair coloring product where a grey-haired guy says “My hair says experience,” while his darker-haired doppelganger says “My hair says energy!”
All I can think of is: “…and my hair says AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!”
Guess you kinda have to be there.… Read more
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It’s a NEW CAR! Wait… WHAT??!?
One of the things I do at work is to “prep” and check shows that will air later that night, the next day, etc. etc.; I also have other duties that occasionally mean I have to stop that task in its tracks and come back to it minutes later (or longer). If something urgent happens, I don’t even look at where I stop – I’ll just have to figure it out later. And when I come back to it later, it’s still sitting in the middle of the show I was working on, and I see something like this.
Susie’s picked Door #3! Dr. Oz, tell her what she’s won! … Read more
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Short, sweet, to the point
I had originally started writing quite a rant about the attempted assassination of Rep. Giffords, and the pointless murder of six other people who just happened to be nearby. But then I realized that I was spending whole paragraphs saying what could be better said with less flowery language. So here goes. … Read more
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Little E vs. sleep and parental authority
Little guy really didn’t like my suggestions that his little tired butt needed to go to bed tonight after a long cranky day of refusing to take a nap. He was also kinda difficult to have any kind of a conversation with:
LITTLE E: I don’t want to do what you say. I just want to watch cartoons.
ME: Well, I’d like to win the lottery without the morally reprehensible and mathematically inadvisable step of buying a ticket, but we don’t always get what we want.
[pause]
LITTLE E: Can I watch cartoons?… Read more
