Month: January 2006

…because this would be my luck

This is in response to those who needed something a bit more shallow.

Good “guy” fodder.

Lord of the Rings was wonderful.

I waited years to see The Chronicles of Narnia.

But NOTHING can match the excitement over this upcoming release!

A nice new, overdue, batch of powder on the ground this morning.

I stayed up late watching 24 with the pretty one. We thought it best to tape it and watch it after the kids were in bed. We exercised our viewer discretion as advised.

The one thing I love about watching that show on tape is that you have a good idea how much time is left. We started it at 9:15pm and got excited when the minutes on the show caught up with the real life minutes (we fast forwarded through the commercials, except for the American Idol commercials. Those are usually pretty funny).

I am finding my self quoting a verse to my children that was often quoted to me.

“Be sure your sins will find you out”

I got an oversized Hershey’s Kiss for Christmas. It has been sitting on the side of my bed.

One of my youngn’s has been snitching some of the candy. It wasn’t hard to determine when comparing the teeth marks. (I will protect their identity, but you can be pretty sure it wasn’t “thing 3… that would have been a tooth-mark”).

Her sins found her out pretty quickly.

But, that doesn’t nearly compare to the lady in this story.

Now HERE is a marketable skill!

Great intentions for the weekend. Saturday night was supposed to be a birthday party for Thing 1. However early in the day on Saturday, I felt that something was not quite right. By lunch time (or lack thereof), I was getting to know my porcelain friend.

So we had to call 16 little girls and tell them they could put away their princess costumes for a week. The “ball” had been postponed. That made me feel worse than my illness.

Sunday morning, things were starting to feel better, but I was just weak and didn’t have much of an appitite (as you may not after reading this entry thus far).

I felt bad about wasting a day in bed, but then remembered that the day was filled with 2 play-0ff football games and the season premier of 24. Not a bad day to be ill.

24 didn’t fail me, with its 2 hours of unbelievable (as in “there is no way this would ever happen”) action. In the first minutes of the show, one of my favorite characters was gunned down(spoiler link here).

Congratulations to the journalism students at my High School Alma Mater for breaking a pretty big story.

http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/179500.html

I never got along well with much of the “Pony Express” staff when I was there a decade ago, but that may be because I always had a feeling they could take over the world.

(Later edit…)

Holy cow, I just re-read my post. I wasn’t there a decade ago. I was finishing my second year of college a decade ago.

I am getting old!

I saw a letter jacket yesterday with an “11” for the year. I remember going to school with “91’s” THAT’S 20 YEARS FOLKS!!!

(Later, Later edit)

Wow… my second year of college 10 years ago. I started a part time job with my current employer May of my Sophmore year.

In May, I will have been with the company for 10 years.

For a Gen Xer who entered the workforce at the peak of the technology/employment bubble, I would say that’s pretty good.

I am not a big pet person, but if you want to be creative, consider a gift of a glow-in-the-dark pig.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/01/12/taiwan.pig.reut/index.html

My computer died this week. The hard drive made a funny noise, then nothing…

I went from having 8 Gig free on my hard drive, to having 32 Gig free on my new hard drive.

Needless to say, stuff was lost.

I was in the habit of backing up, so things aren’t as bad as they could have been. I am just slowly discovering what exactly was lost, as I go through my normal computing.