So, it was a normal day at work until the afternoon. I get called into the boss's office and told I'm being laid off. It wasn't really a surprise, since there hasn't been much work for me to do for about three years now. Fairly generous severence package, but I'm back on the market. Bless friends, I haven't even been out of work for 24 hours and I ( Read more... )

So, a busy weekend. Went to the OC fair first to drop off V's entries. Five items, only one of which was juried. I drop off mine on Wednesday. I only have the one. After that, we headed to Mile Square Park for an SCA event. Enjoyed ourselves. I spent a big chunk of the day watching the kid run around the playground. We were all tired, but the feast ( Read more... )

I took yesterday off to take the grandson to Disneyland. Got a good start to the day and after a little confusion about parking and parking lots, we ended up in the Downtown Disney parking lot. That meant we were charged for full day parking there, but it was better than parking in the lot in BFE we were originally directed to ( Read more... )

So, I got home last night and was greeted by the silence of the TV. Now, ordinarily I would think this was a good thing, but there was also the lingering smell of burned electronics in the air. It seems the TV died an ugly death. So the wife was not happy. The kid was less happy than usual. And that all means I'm not happy. The wife had also worked ( Read more... )

So, got up a little late, took care of the usual morning business. House & car inspector due at 9:30, so I stayed home and did a little cleanup and stuff. He came, took a couple of pictures of the bathrooms and kitchen. Noted a few things about the home construction, then left. I got locks on the gates, but he didn't even look. It's probably just ( Read more... )

So, Friday we went to the graduation. I had to take the youngster out early because he wanted to run and make noise. We ended up aoutside the venue running back and forth. It was a good evening anyway, I just spent a big chunk of it in exile ( Read more... )

Was going to cook dinner last night. The daughter decided she was going to cook dinner to celebrate a belated father's day. Dinner was good, but daughter left immediately after eating and after making a HUGE mess in the kitchen. Predictably, I had to clean it up. I'm still not done with it, but at least I was able to find the coffee machine and ( Read more... )

Means a late night, so I'm working to stay awake this morning ( Read more... )

Yahoo just decided I need to change my password. Okay, bad enough they force me to change it, but then they tell me they have to have my mobile phone number? Like hell they do! I get enough robot calls as is. I hate being interrupted in the middle of everything by some automated phone call designed to tell me something I already know. And no, I don ( Read more... )

Lemme see, Friday was spent prepping for the Shield Tourney ( Read more... )