Been busy since we got back from Austin.
Jess’ mom, Linda, came into town and so we’ve been having fun, Abby enjoys her grandma.
Work is good, but we’re coming up to a release, so hopefully all will be done and ready quite soon.
Pray for my nephew Brennan who was bit by a dog – some stitches apparently took care of things, but we hope his healing will leave no scars.
Oh, and this is the 151st article in my database – Cool!
Resting in Him,
Randy Peterman
Frozen in time, or at least in time to hit the ground as snow the rain fell from the clouds, turned into little ice crystals and then sold itself on Ebay.
Actually, it didn’t sell itself, we helped.
Tony (with my help at the end) made a large snowball out of the 1 inch or snow in his frontyard.
Then, we took some pictures and put it for sale on Ebay (picture).
We actually got some bids.
Anyway, it was fun, it was funny, it was only part of the day.
But hey, don’t interupt my time with my buddy Tony 😉
Randy “Round Rock Rebel” Peterman
Today we drove to Round Rock.
Slowly.
It took us approximately 5 hours to get here.
I will grant that eventually we stopped for dinner which added some time, but
we just kept getting delayed by traffic and more traffic.
Dinner was a unique experience.
We stopped at the Cracker Barrel in Waco and were seated quickly, our waitress was really nice and took our order almost immediately.
Here’s the problem: the water had fish in it.
Not really, but it tasted like it had fish in it.
So I ordered a soda.
The soda contained Waco Water ice in it.
This is like new Fish Flavored Diet Coke, look out lime and lemon!
It was really not so good.
The waitress asked if I wanted a second serving and I couldn’t pallette a second serving of fish soda.
However, we got to the Nuzzi’s and the weird water experience is all gone.
Now it’ll be time for a wacky weekend.
Resting in Him,
Randy “Water Quality Management” Peterman
Tonight Jessica went out to see a movie with her friend Louanne Mason, they saw Miracle.
I think that’s a story about a bunch of Canadians that moved to the U.S. to be in the Olympics.
Ha ha.
Canadians move to the U.S. all the time, they do it to make big money on our comedy circuit.
Witness Martin Short, Jim Carey, Peter Jennings, William Shatner, Mike Myers, and Harlan Williams.
Oh, and the artist formerly known as Tom Green, however, you have to consider him funny to put him in this list.
Anyway, while Jessica was out I took Abby (new pictures) to get gasoline in the Stratus and to buy something at the store.
While on the way I quizzed Abby on words to see if she could repeat them.
She did OK with words like ‘wonderful’ and ‘puppy.’
However, she really butchered our last name.
Peterman ended up something like “P’da.”
Grandma and Grandpa she can say, but her own last name is a real tuffy.
I’ll have to work with her on that.
There are words I know she knows.
Words like cookie.
Abby loves cookies.
She walks around the house saying, “Nemo! Nemo!”
Or, “Cooky, Cooky, cooky!”
Sometimes, just for fun she’ll start saying, “Jess. Jess.”
Overall I think she’ll score well on the SAT’s next week as we’ve signed her
up for one of those prep-classes the day before, they say that kids are
sponges at this age.
Speaking of sponges she likes Bob, the square panted sponge.
Maybe he’ll be on the SAT’s.
If she scores high I think I’ll give her a cookie.
Resting in Him,
Randy “Square Pants” Peterman
Abby and her Craziness
This last weekend while helping remodel at Doug and Amanda’s house I saw a commercial for Cinderella II while passing the TV carrying something (I don’t recall what it was).
There’s a lot of television that you shouldn’t take in passing.
You should take it sitting down.
You should actually not take any television, at least not unless you’ve paid for it.
Anyway…
What grabbed me was that the commercial boldly proclaimed, “This time she’s in charge!”
As usual, my mind went wandering off imagining what that meant.
Close your eyes and imagine the following with me:
Ha ha!
If you’re reading this, then your eyes aren’t closed.
So then, open your eyes with me and close your imagination as we imagine the wonderful whirled of Dizzy bring Cinderella II life.
She’s sitting there on a nice bay window seat, soft cushion underneath, outside the birds are chirping, singing a song just like they did in the first movie (you must capture the minds of the children with familiarity, if it’s not familiar now, it will be when they watch it for the 234th time).
As the birds sing they start to draw near.
The screen pans over to a smallish hole in the castle walls and a cute, chubby mouse (Gus) squeezes out onto the castle floor, other mice pour out after him and in a quick second Cinderella sees the mice and screams with a blood curdling scream, “How on earth does blood curdle?”
The mice scatter, the cat comes running in, blood and carnage ensue.
Children are scared by this, their parent’s sue.
Someone gets upset because their name has been infringed upon in the legal process, her name is Sue, so she gets involved in a litigation as well.
Lawyers get rich, their client’s get mixed up in the legal system and before you know it John Kerry’s beating them in the polls as well.
Anyway, Cinderella being in charge sounds a whole lot like trouble.
Is Disney hurting for cash?
Are they running out of culturally diverse movies where the mother dies in the first few minutes of the film (note that in The Lion King the father dies, but what in the heck happens to the mom)?
This evening Abby called me a geek.
Well, not really.
Actually, she was trying to say tweak.
Tweak because in the Little Miss book Little Miss Naughty little miss naughty gets her nose tweaked.
However, when her nose got tweaked in the book Jessica (playfully) tweaked Abby’s nose.
It is so cool to be Abby’s dad.
She’s just so amazing to me.
Jessica’s a great mom, too.
I’m truly blessed.
The Bible study software that I bought back when I worked at the Manger in Carson City is way outdated.
Therefore I’m working on some of my own, tonight I made a basic web interface that has a left frame with the Bible broken up into testaments (Old and New), the books (in traditional canonical order) and then each chapter as links.
The links open up in the right hand frame showing the chapter selected.
There’s a lot left to do, but I’m in such need of some study software that a King James version on my machine (so I don’t have to be connected to the Internet)
Resting in Him,
Randy “Bibliotech” Peterman
I had heard that insurance can be a pain in the bottom to deal with.
In fact I had heard that Allstate was particularly rough to deal with.
My experience so far has been painless and Nadine, the gal who’s handling my claim is rather friendly and helpful.
She asked if there was any questions I had, whether I had any issues with the rental car or anything else and was really nice to work with.
I hope I never have to deal with insurance again, but in case I do I hope I get someone as nice as her.
The Honda looks great on the driver’s side read quarter panel because the body shop did a good job.
However, the other side of the car has some dings from doors hitting it.
So now I’ve got an imbalanced Honda 🙂
I’m pleased with this experience – it makes me glad to know that I don’t have to worry about my claim.
Resting in Him,
Randy “Happy as a Clam” Peterman
Got the Honda back this morning.
Everything’s in ship shape.
Which is a good thing, normally you’d not want your car to be shaped like a sea fairing vessel.
However, I don’t want my car to look like a blood vessel either.
Apologies for the non-sequiturs.
Killed some more bugs for work at home last night.
The uninterrupted work time is fabulous for efficiency.
OK, I’m at work so I better get on it.
Resting in Him,
Randy Peterman
Last night as I was going to bed I heard the sound of dishes getting taken care of.
It was 12:20 at least and I was pooped.
However, Doug was up still and was taking care of things so that in the morning everyone else could go on about business as if the dishwasher magically washed the dishes all by itself.
As if the clean dishes got put away all by themselves.
As if the water filter (you must filter the water in North Texas) got filled up all by itself.
Doug was a tired guy serving his family and guests.
I’ve often thought about what makes Doug such a good dad, husband host and friend, I don’t think it’s the water!
Thanks Doug!
Randy “General Contractor” Peterman
