Monthly Archives: March 2008

Eliot Spitzer

Just kidding, we don’t need to write about Eliot “Hey, money can’t buy me love, but it’ll buy me xes” Spitzer.  Instead we need to spend time talking about important things like the fact that I’ve been working a lot the last couple weeks.  There’s not much on my plate right now except:

  • Being a husband
  • Being a dad
  • Being a son-in-law (one set of in-laws in town now, and the other set & family will be here in two weeks)
  • Working many hours
  • Bible study preparation
  • Sunday school preparation
  • Breathing
  • Pretending to sleep

All of that aside I’m very glad to be where I am.  I’ve got an opportunity each moment to get some great stuff accomplished, learned or taught, but I just need to pace myself.

Jessica has done a phenominal job as a wife and mother.  It blows me away to continue to see her serve this family and various friends.  She’s just a huge blessing in my life.

The girls are striving to find our breaking points.  Abby is smart and at her parent teacher review last week the teacher had nothing but good things to say and strongly encouraged us as parents.  Evie has a tooth coming in and so she’s been a basket case.  Both of them together can go from playful banter about princess and ponies to behaving like ogers and dragons.

I had a bio-meridian test done two days ago at a specialists office and it looks like my body is beating up on the parasites and I’m very close to having them beaten and destroyed.  My immune system is weaker, but I’m taking supplements to get it hyped up so that I can begin eating like normal again.  I could sort of tell I was making progress because my body weight plateaued.

Anyway, that’s a short status update on things around here and I hope to get back to ‘normal’ by 2010.

Oh, and one more thing, Jessica turns thirty this month, so I have to figure out a birthday present.  She’s been dropping hints.  And by hints I mean explicit statements of what I will do with the birthday money 🙂

Thankful Thursday: Listy Edition

Yesterday I watched the girls playing outside. Evie had been bundled up and put on one of her hats (I should have taken a picture) with little bits of material spiking out atop it. Abby was running about playing in the small remnants of snow as she likes to do even though we tell her to avoid the mud. Jessica was doing something in the kitchen next to me (I believe dishes were being put away, but I don’t recall clearly enough). Life was good. I’m very, very blessed to have the family that I do.

I’m thankful for

  • My family
  • My friends
  • My clients
  • My church
  • My Bible study group
  • My blogs
  • My house
  • My general health (parasite aside)
  • My country (wacky as some of it may be)
  • Pictures to remember much of this by
  • The imagination I’ve been given
  • You for reading this

Thinking in Lego

Abby has finally discovered the fun that is Legos. However, she has the patience to put together a fifteen piece set, but the desire for my 100+ piece ship set (from when I was a kid). That is of course how Jessica got roped into putting together the ship set. She is still working on it. It is now going on hour five or so. The problem is that many of my sets were all jumbled together so she has to find the right pieces inside of the thousands of pieces across the floor.

Jessica asked, “Are you laughing at me yet?”
To which I replied, “No, you have to learn to think in Lego.”

Thinking in Lego is what I would call the ability to see the spacial requirements of the project and instinctively be able to find the shapes and pieces simply because you know what Lego has to offer. I used to be able to do this, but at present my patience and lack of recent experience puts me at about a 30 piece kit. Jessica is a completer, though, so she will complete what she starts. I have learned to not commit to anything that I know will take more than two minutes. Which is about as long as this post has taken me, so it must be done.

Irony

This is kinda geeky, but it was funny for my programmers brain. A short bit from my IM conversation with a friend, Matt:

Randy: I installed IE8 beta last night: it really screws with everything because it is set to ‘standards mode’ by default now and every website on the planet has IE hacks 🙂
Randy: It is also clunky and slow 🙂
Matt: Well that’s just great.
Matt: I’ll have to take a look later.
Matt: Maybe we can detect it and set isIE = false and isMoz=true.

Confession: I Love Make-Over Shows. Sort Of.

I really dig make-over shows. I don’t like the shows as much as I like the before and after stuff. I would totally love to have a network dedicated to them. Except that I’d have to record the shows and watch them like I do today. That is that I watch them in fast forward. I like about thirty seconds of the show which is where they show you the before and after. Thirty minutes of TV is now about thirty seconds of TV and that’s where I’m good. I don’t need a second more. I know all of the tricks that they do on the shows so I don’t need to see the bloody surgery parts, the tooth whitening or the botox.

I’m good enough with the before and after shots – because I’m currently living in the current before and after now. I’m not likely to be extremely made over. But I’m likely to be extremely fast on my TV watching.

Sitting in the Waiting Room

My brain is still on vacation due to the last remaining strains of this cold I’ve had. After a week and a few days I had hoped I would be over this stupid thing. I somehow feel like its a side effect of running Windows or something. My anti-virus didn’t catch something.

Either way: we’re feeling somewhat better around here, its just that we’re not all better all the way. Evie and Abby will run and jump and play no matter what they feel like (other than the flu, which causes Evie to snuggle me just long enough to throw up on me), but they do sound mostly better. If all goes well they’ll be right as rain tomorrow and we’ll have to velcro them back up onto the wall in intervals to have things be quiet again 🙂