Early mornings are not a good time for me to be awake. It's not just that, since nobody's up, I search through the pantry at my leisure and find all kinds of non-healthy things to eat... and then eat them (I'm currently working my way through a 12oz bag of chocolate chips). The real problem is that I sit there in the quiet and I think about things ( Read more... )

Just in case anybody missed it, McCain had his ass handed to him by Obama last night. In summary, the exchange went something like this:

• McCain: Hey Obama, you suck.
  
• Obama: Actually, McCain, the policies that I have presented are entirely appropriate for the current economic and social climate, whereas yours are not.
  
• McCain: You hang out with ( Read more... )

My son is adorable. Even while I'm changing his diaper at 5:30 in the morning. Good times ( Read more... )

Like most people in the world, I never studied economics. If I did, I'd probably be able to spout pseudo-scientific reasons why one economic stimulus package would probably work better than the others to save the US from this self-wrought fiasco. But of course, I'd still be just guessing and I'd probably be as wrong as the economists who said last ( Read more... )

We just signed a lease on an apartment in Rome, Ga, and then signed a lease for our house with the people who (hopefully) will eventually buy it. So outside of my hangover-like headache due to stopping caffeine intake cold turkey I've a happy camper. And now, good night.

- Zohar S.E.

I hate houses. You buy one and you think "Hey, what I great idea! I own my own land, my own house, and a piece of the American dream!" Then you realize that you're wrong. You don't actually own your house, you see - you rent it from the government for whatever taxes* they think is sufficient to make some kind of profit off of your new spot on the ( Read more... )

I long for the day when programs are no longer judged by which is more stable. What a crappy way to pick a preferred operating system or a web browser or a graphics program. Maybe I'll live to see that day. I sure hope so.

- Zohar S.E.

This week Joseph made some changes to his daily routine. First he decided that he liked sleeping in his cradle instead of his bouncy and that he no longer liked being in his car seat. Then his breathing got a lot better, as in less congestion, especially at night. He also decided that waking up at 1am to discuss everything from the proper way eat ( Read more... )

Since my last post... let's see... I've mowed the yard, steam cleaned the carpet, did laundry, mowed the yard, shnuggled with my shnuggleberry, gotten fairly decent with my snazzy new dslr camera, mowed the yard, gotten moved to a new position in the production engineering department (yay!), mowed the yard, vacuumed the carpet, mowed the yard, ( Read more... )

Yesterday Joseph got a couple of vaccination shots. Last night he was running a low grade fever (normal, so they say) and was having a little trouble breathing (not good). So while Wendy was changing his diaper, she called the nurse we were supposed to call if he was having trouble breathing and the nurse asked some questions and then told Wendy to ( Read more... )