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• Kitchen cleaned up & dishwasher started, and it’s not even 1 AM yet. Did that wake me enough to do something more ethereally useful… #
• @caltechgirl Sorry I missed it! Maybe next time… :> #
• Not sure why I bother to sort & store my e-mail so elaborately if I still can’t find important ones when I need them months later. #
• Well, there’s a bit of quick revenue generating effort, I hope. #
• Perchance to sleep now… #
• Feels window-closingly like fall this morning. No wonder: 63.7 F, dewpoint of 64. Sheesh, hard to use a computer & keep mice away from baby. #
• Wondering how best to go about a domain sale to be sure they pay you & have them be sure they’ll get it transferred. Maybe list in TDNAM… #
• specifically for the purpose of the already (I hope) known buyer completing the transaction there. #
• Valerie is up and is infectiously sad this morning. That’s not good. #
• Val sad to be awake, sad I made her coffee, sad to have siblings, just sad. Waiting for her tortured soul to be more silently so. #
• Infanticide considered harmful. #
• I think poor Val is having sinus trouble from the smoke last night. I escaped in better shape than last time, though still feeling it. #
• @Pistachio My Blackberry is weirdly receiving SMS, but can’t send anything, receive e-mail, or hit the web. #
• @judis217 42? That means it’s your “answer year.” That’s 5 years ago for me. Happy birthday! #
• @Pistachio Well crap, you solved my Blackberry problem by mentioning reset. I’d powered it off but didn’t know to do soft reset. Worked. #
• Didn’t even have to do a double soft reset or a batteryectomy reset. Yay! It’s going nuts, receiving e-mail from the past couple days. #
• Oh fudge, all the bounces/rejects from my address that was spoofed for spam are on server, coming to Blackberry. 120+ just those. #
• @judis217 Heh. Hitchhiker’s Guide books, 42 is The Answer (to Life, the Universe and Everything), so I call it the answer year now. #
• Grilled cheese & tomato soup on the way for hungry kids. Except allergy boy, of course. He gets safe leftovers. #
• Baby who fell asleep in high chair is wide awake now, wanting to play with my computers, not sleep at all. Silly boy. #
• Just ate grilled cheese, tomato soup, potato chips, tiny bit of peeled apple. Can’t stop itching all over like I’m reacting as baby does. #
• Cheddar seems to have done that to me, but not other cheese or dairy that I’ve noticed. Hmmm… #
• Also tasted 1 piece of rotini with baby’s soy margarine. He’s not itchy but safe meal seemed to make him redder faced & splotch on chest. #
• I do 98% of cooking but meatloaf is Deb’s specialty. Pondering how to concoct one. It’s baking weather & sounds good. #
• Not that it should be a problem, considering the meatballs I invented off the cuff are some of the best I’ve ever had. Related foods. #
• @robmay That would be oatmeal raisin. Preferably with nuts. #
• Better start supper before anyone starves. #

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• @Shurakai Have you tried Michael’s? Bea’s? #
• @Shurakai calling Lynn to see #
• @Shurakai Nobody home or near machine at Lynn’s. Seeing about Michael’s. #
• @Shurakai Roger”s until Tuesday. #
• Now I’m really confused. Making fun of the implication that Indian programmers are subhuman (”icky brown people”) makes me a Republican? #
• @Shurakai Mom apparently didn’t want to take her car all the way to Maine, but Gram was itching to go, as they never do anymore. #
• Back to sleep for a while, before I freeze. #
• @listener42 Next up will be 2001: A Tweet Odyssey. #
• Sleep would be really great. #
• 62.7 would explain why it’s chilly. We’ll be sealing the place for winter before we know it. #
• @kcarruthers Covering windows with plastic, sealing the leaks around them with Mortite, in our case also sealing off a closet & front door. #
• @kcarruthers That and putting screens up, glass storm windows down, except in a few that lack them or need to be openable. #
• @kcarruthers That was what I figured. New houses also don’t need the effort, but in drafty 150 yr old New England houses… #
• Day not going as planned or imagined. #
• I love when allergy advice sites recommend safe foods that aren’t. #
• Buying 3 loaves at a time is no help when you run out of bread and can’t think of what to eat that’s not breadcentric. #
• @MikeG1 Yeah, I wouldn’t write about them either if I were you. #
• Maybe it’s time to try one of the barbers right here in town, no matter how good they are in Halifax. #
• Guess I have to go make supper and stuff… #
• Sadie drew her first piece of fan art last night, we discovered just before supper tonight. Have to scan it. #
• @Shurakai Ping! #

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• Intensely annoyed that the radio is off & won’t go on on my Blackberry, but my other T-Mobile phone seems to work. #
• All I can do to stay awake. Need to get kids to bed. Fun day but a handful. No pictures of Henry’s 1st swim, but he’s a natural. #
• Val caused a stir by heading off into the woods to explore. Hope she doesn’t get poison ivy consequences. #
• I did similar when I was 3-4, but more so, taking off “to pick blueberries” out of season. We were lone house surrounded by woods. #
• Still seems weird not only to have lots under an acre & houses so close, but to have *anything* nearby at all. #
• @y2vonne It’s your birthday today? Happy birthday! #
• @MikeG1 Annoying thing about kid’s meals is instead of being good stuff in small portions it’ll often be crap, as if kids lack tastebuds, #
• The sad, short half-life of helium filled traditional balloons… #
• Letting the Blackberry charge way up to be sure it’s not that. Deleted half the messages on it in case radio off was due to out of space. #
• Ironically, the Blackberry has been showing more signal strength than usual while it’s been refusing to communicate. #
• @Pistachio Crossword clue just now: “Nut in the cashew family.” #
• @Pistachio Funny, I was in it shortly before you tweeted this, noting the 1st of your updates. #
• Poring over XLS with actual tested salicylate contents of different foods, sometimes by brand, is fascinating. #
• 2 PM already? How’d that happen? Let’s see if I can have another bite to eat & get something done w/o waking baby while other 3 are away… #
• Spammer spoofing one of my addresses as the sender. Hate when that happens and I get a zillion bounces. #
• Blackberry started working briefly on its own, SMS only, seems to have stopped again. Got late notice from T-Mobile, a few tweets, now off. #
• Telling it to turn wireless on notifies you “turning wireless off,” as if it flicks on then instantly off again by itself. #
• Classic! Get on my T-Mobile, Blackberry Support, click troubleshooting and “…page you have requested no longer exists.” #
• If T-Mobile or RIM were like a certain cable company that “cares,” they’d have tweeted back at me already. #
• I love oatmeal cookies. I’m that freak who would prefer oatmeal raisin to chocolate chip any day. #
• It seems the Blackberry is receiving SMS, so @Shurakai tweeting just came through again, but can’t send e-mail. #
• Shouldn’t planned obsolescence fall closer to the end of our 2 year contract, in October? #
• No outgoing SMS, but I receive. So that’s 1/4 of the functionality. That’s enough for anyone, just like 640k. #
• Now where was I? #
• @Shurakai I have no idea. It’s always possible, but then you have to worry she’s babysitting & gram can’t get to the phone. #
• @caltechgirl Those sound good too. Oddly, I prefer the chocolate in traditional choc chip butter cookies than oatmeal choc chip. Raisins ftw #
• @Shurakai Were just discussing next weekend and pos of my bringing food. #
• @michellis7 Is that a trick question? #
• I turned OFF the Blackberry, plugged it in to charge the percent or two I’d used, and it’s over there buzzing like crazy receiving stuff…. #
• All in the form of family tweets. Didn’t know it received SMS while turned off (which it still was). #
• @SheilaS That’s not a Mac thing, but a latest Word version thing. If needed you can download a converter to allow older Word to open docx. #
• Eclectic supper, but good. #

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• @PeoriaPundit That’s a good post on the issue and makes it clearer than Sitemeter’s “it’s fixed” post did. #
• @feliciaday One hears that a lot. Luckily I’ve yet to have a problem, but I hesitated to use PayPal for years due to reputation. #
• Wondering why I pick up after them. #
• Sleep is so cool. #
• Trying to bore the baby into hanging out away from me so he won’t be mad when I go take a shower at 8:00. #
• He being so cute this morning. But then, he usually is. #
• I swear I typed that apostrophe s. The crossed my brain on the way to the hypothetical nerves to my fingers, anyway. #
• They. Not the, they. Must not try to type any further because apparently I lack the reflexes of a zombie yet today. #
• Couldn’t resist being inflammatory about someone’s opinion that Ruby is only fit for use if you’re outsourcing coding to India. #
• @MikeG1 I was shocked by the reaction to a looping link I got from your blog & sent to my mailing list of former VB support colleagues. #
• Right, make sure the car runs & doesn’t need a jump, before Deb leaves… #
• Silly car needed a jump. #
• Kids have recovered enough from their mother leaving at 10:30 so now maybe I can feed them before we get ready to leave… #
• I hate having to figure out what clothes can go on what kid and what to dress them in to go out of house. #

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• @sharone75 Will you be at, you know, Sunday? Or will you be off on vacation then? #
• @sharone75 That’s too bad as they’d add to the pool fun and chaos, and the childcare in the case of the babysitters in training. #
• I need to make sure the car still runs before I use it Sunday. #
• Waited out a Val tantrum thrown for no reason, now they are less ready for bed that they were. Or not, since I see them nesting in office #
• @lazycoder My 1st seemed to know as soon as the 2nd was implanted and starting to grow. But then I dreamed all 3 the year before the 1st. #
• How do so many 2 year olds make it to 3? #
• They grow up eventually… They grow up eventually… They grow up eventually… #
• Sneaking in watching episodes of @feliciaday’s The Guild at watchtheguild.com, and thinking of @Shurakai & co. #
• It’s been too peaceful too long. Even though the bathroom door is closed, I’d better find out why… #
• Welcome to the small children collider, where kids go around at high speeds like so many atomic particles. #
• Sadie declared me illogical for telling her not to do something that mom said no to previously but I didn’t, since mom is out of the house. #
• Tiny pieces of dried pineapple don’t seem to have bothered the baby. Pineapple & dried fruits in general are supposed to be especially bad. #
• But it’s always about quantity too, and they were one tiny piece yesterday and another today. #
• This is the 3rd time one or both girls have stopped a pending nap before it could start, which is a big time waster for me. #
• Just saw the alleged Site Meter/IE7 problem. Tested IE7. Can’t repro. Figure it’s a specific setting or update combo. #
• My IE7 on Vista is update-free. #
• @PeoriaPundit Ah, that would explain why I couldn’t repro it. I was amazed it wasn’t blogged there. You’d think they’d “know” blogging. #
• @chucksimmins IIRC when the cookie issue came up, I just blocked the specific one. #
• @PeoriaPundit I’m a bit confused as to why anyone would have Sitemeter code fall outside their body tags. #
• @PeoriaPundit That’s the thing, all that stuff gets parsed such that it’s seen by the browser as being within the body tags. #
• @PeoriaPundit So if it’s a matter of where it is in, say, a PHP file, that’s a lame way of putting it in their post. Oh well. #

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• Richard Viguerie is a spammer. #
• Neil Patrick Harris as The Joker in some future installment… #
• Val is sleeping in swim suit that Sadie used last year, after trying it on to see if it fit her now. So cute. Presumed swimming Sunday… #
• For which luckily only Sadie lacks a suit that fits. #
• Feeling geeky. Post on looping, each, array traversal in Ruby, unfamiliar to me, has me intrigued by the language. #
• Windows Mail in Vista fails in having easy way to say “this is junk” that echoes the “not junk” option. Too many choices. Want it to learn. #
• Learn implicitly, not by being told crudely to block a domain or a sender. #
• It appears not to “learn” from the “not junk” option either, though, making that just a shortcut for “move to inbox.” #
• Bathroom floor mopped. Little ones unexpectedly bathed. Threw in putting up new shower curtain for good measure. #
• Guess I’ll feed the little monsters. #
• Had no idea Jubal was a biblical name. Thought Heinlein made it up & Whedon borrowed. Didn’t know about the general. #
• What’s up with Sadie forgetting how to use a mouse and click on things herself? Sheesh. Okay, food… #
• @Shurakai CRT or LCD? #
• @pamslim I’d probably show based on stuff he could relate to, like here’s where we go to X on a map, now see how close that is compared to.. #
• @alizasherman Post hits close to home. Revealingly personal was part of how I met/married a fellow blogger. The more family read, the less.. #
• @alizasherman we’ve both been willing/able to say. My bad experience was this year when a local news event close to my family happened… #
• @alizasherman and a stink was raised by guy who owns biz that used to be in family, scary enough I’d have fled the state if I could. #
• @alizasherman Redacted a bunch of posts, none of which actually said anything bad or untrue, and in fact were sympathetic. Now barely blog. #
• @Shurakai It being a Microsoft product? :> #
• @Shurakai Hey, you never know. Tempted to grab a 15, oddly enough, for H. His is basically dead & the 17s & 19 are allocated/planned… #
• @Shurakai But… 21″ ones? Wow. Tempted just because, but even the 19 was kind of big for my desk arrangement. Hmmm… #
• @Shurakai Maybe I’ll take that and give a 17 to Gary’s house or whoever. #
• @Shurakai I hate grumpy bills. #
• @michellis7 See spot run. Run spot run. Better? :> #
• Sigh… Guess I have to see what the crying is about. #
• Let’s see how long it takes from deciding to do something meaningful to the time I am buried in children… #
• Last tweet RE kids was followed by just that & napping baby, who then was woken up at least 30 mins early by sister living dangerously. #
• Still had to put that 1/2 hr or so into soothing him back down & almost sleeping again. Now they’re all just mothing me. Time to start chow. #
• Sadie really enjoys Dr. Horrible. #
• @Shurakai You’re just watching it? If you’ve seen “Doogie” as an adult, it might not seem so odd. Plus, hello, Whedon. #
• @Shurakai Toy Story Buffy Angel Firefly Serenity Etc. Worked with Edlund a lot. #
• @Shurakai Or were you who-ing Michelle/Manda? You didn’t @ it. #

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• Should do something to celebrate not having needy kids becking and calling me. Ma- oops, I invokved Val by typing that! #
• Was gonna say maybe a shower, but first Val needs a drink. #
• @chucksimmins Happy birthday! #
• @chelpixie I was noticing that blocked followers seem to stay in my followers list now and just get flagged as blocked. Weird. #
• It’s uncanny. Typed a text to Deb & then thought the kids were leaving me alone so could do something. In they came. #
• @JonHenke My father had one of those, basically a cooler you plug into cig lighter, but it only kept stuff some amount below ambient. #
• My work here is done: Sadie just started singing “it’s a brand new day” from Dr. Horrible part 2. #
• @debbieweil I’ve used EE for years and still like it, but recently switched blogblivion.com to WordPress for a few reasons. #
• @debbieweil Archived the EE one to blogblivion.com/eeblog, and accidentalverbosity.com is still EE. Used pMachine at elhide.com/solo b4 that #
• Kids. #
• Pondering what to make for supper. And for kids in meantime. Thinking of boiling chicken legs & bootstrapping into something with lentils. #
• Holy crap, the baby just said “rice cake.” #
• @pixxiespaz They *are* cute, as I was reminded last night when Val fell asleep on coach & then putting Sadie to bed. #
• @pixxiespaz Sadie was using a toy pasta spoon & pretending to crochet, totally imitating her mother’s tone & manner, then told me she… #
• @pixxiespaz especially likes watching the Little Lulu DVD because there’s crochet in it somewhere. Never watched it all so can’t confirm. #
• @pixxiespaz Lentils? Yes! They are one of the really safe items, and he loved them, just cooked in chicken broth. #
• @pixxiespaz He happened to be chawing on a piece of one he’d apparently stashed. That’s one of the safest things. Rice is where you begin… #
• @pixxiespaz when you eat the safest, most minimal, clear system, then add back other things. Unflavored rice cakes, of course. #
• The sad part is the dairy & bananas, both of which would be super safe if they weren’t separate reactions. Still, he can eat a lot. #
• Especially in moderation. Which is why something like rosemary that’s bad is probably OK flavoring some things for him. Used it in fries. #
• Sound works on Sadie’s computer, MIDI & WAV, but Magic Schoolbus loses its sound from “seatbelts everyone” on. Strange. #
• Sound works on Monster Truck Madness, system sounds, playing WAV or MID files (Val was entranced by the latter). Bus Stop WAV test works. #
• It’s MSB-specific, but not CD-specific, & one that fails for Sadie works for Valerie. I’ll have to search & see if known issue. #
• Hmmm… why would priority level (??) of audio codecs change itself? #
• @chucksimmins Could be. Along with my comedy of errors cautionary book on how not to start and run a business, story of my experiences. #
• @jcaruso What really makes them idiots is setting the time too long or trusting a “popcorn” setting, then walking away. #
• 2 KB articles did not fix the Magic School Bus problem. #
• @venomouskate Oh man! That it does. #
• @margilowry Henry always choked easier than the girls ever did, but quickly became better than them at self-recovery. Lots of scares though. #
• Firepit smoke filling our apartment from no idea where in the neighborhood reminds me of the “I went to college” Romancing the Stone scene. #
• @neatlytangled Or to be “hempalicious” or whatever. #
• Jeez, my head is starting to hurt from it already. I’d only just gotten over the sinus problems from the batch of smoke 3 nights ago. #

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• Procrastinating about cleaning the kitchen. #
• Wasn’t planning to get so carried away, but I like the kitchen looking so much spiffier and usable. Giving the twerps a few minutes then bed #
• @neatlytangled http://buzzsugar.com/1819402 !!!11! #
• I think the girls actually *want* to go to bed, so waiting may have paid off in ease of disposal. #
• Had what I thought was a craving for dessert, but it turned into overwhelming desire for a tall glass of milk. Which we no longer have. #
• With 2 kids adversely affected by it, we’ve not been buying any. This is the most I’ve missed it. #
• Argh! It’s been behaving well enough I didn’t expect a tweet to be eaten. #
• Wish I weren’t too sleepy to stay functionally awake and that I didn’t feel gout flareup coming on. More water for me tomorrow! #
• @robmay You have a baby and you haven’t learned to Respect The Sleep? #
• Baby woke me up by finding a sippy cup from yesterday and trying to make sure I had a drink. Then got excited when asked if he’d like… #
• some clear Kool-Aid (exciteded) in his bluuuue cup (more excited). #
• Then I asked if he was practicing walking this morning, so he stood up and demonstrated. #
• You know you’re not awake when you type “exciteded” blissfully unaware you’re doing so, and don’t notice the spell checker flagging it. #
• In the turnabout is fair play department, Henry went and woke Sadie. That’s what she gets for not letting him nap over and over. #
• 1st emergency kid bath of the day. Yay. #
• Never heard of MS Expression Studio until today. $699 SRP would explain why. #
• @phillymac Filled in “it’s got groove, it’s got meaning” automatically. Very sad. #
• Getting a site approved for ads and then not setting a rate after approval would explain why nobody bought. #
• @tcpeter Was replying to “Cuil is the word baby” in http://twitter.com/phillymac/statuses/872545751 #
• @sekimori It’s a series of tubes, right? So what’s not to understand… :> #
• I can’t remember the last time my sinuses were this bad. Almost debilitatingly so. #
• Next frontier will be contact sensitivities. Just changed my shirt that clearly bothered the baby. #
• @tcpeter Ah, the within me part shows just what @neatlytangled has to put up with. Odd connections are what I do, incessantly. #
• Speaking of little guy, his nap was cut short by the upstairs people vacuuming of all things. Apparently the floor above us is wood. #
• So it’s not the sound of the machine, but the rolling back and forth thunderously. #
• If this weren’t sinuses, I’d be wondering when the stroke symptoms would start. Hope a couple more ibuprofen fix it. #
• @listener42 Well, having a food is better than being a food. #
• Time to hose cereal and cereal accessories off the baby and see how Sadie is doing with her French toast. Cuz why make it easy for me? #
• Was about to tweet jokingly about what could I start to do that’s useful to make the kids come in here. Opened a piece of writing. Voila! #
• I skipped the anticipatory tweet, but the outcome was exactly as expected. The girls introduced Henry to the Demon Frog. Hi, I’m baby Tad. #
• @Ithildyn *Waves* Hi Jen! #
• Naps are fragile. My typing that last tweet woke the baby near me on the floor. I should know that by now. #
• Remembered to look up salicylates in cottonseed oil, as that’s in Crisco. Not on food lists, but on topical list it’s considered negligible. #
• About to make fries in canola oil, which made me think of it. Serving them with turkey burgers. #
• For some reason I still read Cuil as “kwee” every time I see it, then have to stop think parse it. At least Yuil I read as you’ll right off. #
• @Ithildyn It’s supposed to be pronounced “cool.” #

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• Oh well, dork upstairs hasn’t played with fire lately, so it was due. Not sure closing one window & reversing my window fan will be enough. #
• Eww, it’s already overheating in here. #
• @ericasadun Is it wrong that I saw “RIP Light” and thought “I have won again, Lews Therin”? #
• @neatlytangled The laughter from office was at this: http://tinyurl.com/6p99eb. #
• @neatlytangled It’s almost Scalziesque. #
• @SeanMarler That waitress exchange is funny… and sad. #
• Instead of Henry Adam, we could have named the baby Malcolm Jayne and he’d have had the same initials as me. #
• At least that wouldn’t have been as obvious by the first name as naming Valerie Kaylee would have been. #
• For the first one, we always joked about naming her Zephram Rose instead of Sadie Rose. We were only joking… #
• We joke that Valerie’s middle name was after the dragon, and Henry was named after Hank Reardon. I told him he’d invent Ellis Metal someday. #
• Hey self! It’s OK to get sleepy now. Really. #
• My poor head. Sinuses. Between the weather and probably the smoke last night. Most of which had nothing to do with upstairs neighbor. #
• 81.4 Already, of an expected 88 here in scenic Middleboro, and feeling every bit like it’s about 95 and/or way more than 61% humid. #
• @robmay The PRC is on the list? That’s funny. #
• Just realized I’m running a couple hours late. Idea is to get to barber shop while it’s still morning so it doesn’t involve a 2 hr wait. #
• @swhitley I thought it was an unusual case of the IP bully being in the right, but yeah, PR nightmare. Should’ve just bought Scrabulous. #
• @swhitley Give the Scrabulous people a “why didn’t we think of that thanks for developing the market for us” attaboy and be well regarded. #
• Yep, Dark Knight is good. #
• @sharone75 You could totally leave them that long. If ours can’t handle that when Sadie is that age, I’ll be dismayed. #
• Now to remember everything at Wal-Mart… #
• Psyching self up to leave and arm and/or leg with cashier to cover cheese. #
• Annoyed I can’t remember if canola oil is one of the low salicylates ones. #
• @neatlytangled Cool! You beat Google to the answer. #
• Freakin Club crackers contain corn starch! So either it’ssafe or that’s one of his low level residuals. #
• Wow. 13 bags, $101.23 total. Including spices and a lot of produce, but aha, no meat. #
• @MikeG1 Not that I think Scrabulous had a right to anything so much as bringing them in the fold might have been a good biz/PR move. #
• Obviously I’d expect the price to be discounted from what it would have been if the idea had been original. Instead of it going to lawyers. #
• Of course, I’ve never seen it and don’t know how obviously a clone it is, but the name is blatant. #

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• Must be time to watch Notting Hill again. Just burst out laughing when a train of thought took me into a couple of scenes from it. #
• Specifically: Spike picking a T-shirt, Spike wearing the diving suit, Will wearing the prescription goggles to the movie theater. #
• @Shurakai Shhhhh… be vewwy vewwy quiet. And kill da wabbit too. #
• @Shurakai You know, they could change the Tweeter Center to Twitter Center with only a couple letters, but then random events would simply #
• @Shurakai not happen as scheduled, or be inaudible, or the audience size would be arbitrarily limited. #
• @SeanMarler I supported Dragon Naturally Speaking at a couple law firms. It mostly rocks & is a rare exception to upgrades not being better. #
• @SeanMarler There was one bad release when the company was changing hands midway, but it’s gotten astonishingly good. Way back when 3.0… #
• @SeanMarler was what we picked after buying and testing IBM Via Voice, Dragon, and Learnout & Hauspie Voice Xpress. Key considerations: #
• @SeanMarler Reasonably powered PC, decent microphone & sound hardware in PC, some people/accents it just doesn’t fly, train & use shortcuts. #
• @SeanMarler FWIW mostly they used Pro, but Standard probably fine. Also I think they may have a utility specifically for transcription. #
• @SeanMarler But not sure and doing a playback by a microphone may work enough to save typing, even if it needs editing. #
• Didn’t even notice Sadie going to sleep on a pile of bedding behind me in office. Then Val needed service & bedtime, went pullup-free. #
• Be great if it sticks this time, which is likely. #
• @Tammisworld Happy birthday! #
• @TraderMike Happy birthday! #
• Finished the daily stuff that falls into the “done by 8 AM” slot. #
• Cuil: #1 for real name. #1 at old site for pseudonym, but… #2 result for pseudonym is resume under my real name. #
• All that coffee should be accomplishing more than bladder overdrive. Apparently I’m immune today. #
• A while back I noticed an intense amount of inexplicable crawling by Limelight Networks. Wonder if they were working for Cuil in development #
• Fall must be coming. Now I’m almost unbearably hot. Overnight and into this morning it was downright cold. #
• Seems wrong that we borderline qualified for energy assistance on what I made before I was unemployed. #
• No wonder is was so easy to end up owing $2500-odd. #
• Just talking about what you get stuck in your head for what things *should* cost or pay to be reasonable. #
• I remember so vividly 20k/yr being a good income that it still seems wrong for not unreasonable rent & utils to be 18k/yr. #
• @Pistachio Missed that. Standard far better, but automatic is less annoying in stop & go traffic. My 88 Sentra got 30 MPG in part b/c manual #
• @MikeG1 ftl will always mean faster than light to me. notwithstanding fruit of the loom’s best efforts. #
• Not sure why the girls try so much harder to limit baby’s napping when both of us are here. #
• Appliance calculator tells me our electricity usage should be 3x what it actually is based on, well, what we have & how much it runs. #
• If McCain picks Romney, I might actually go vote just to vote against him. #
• Sleep would be nice. #
• Yuck. Kids. #
• Nice to see gas down to $3.77 around these parts. #
• Time to check the beans continue the dishes start the other food get a drink reorganize the freezer. #
• @christinelu Wow! Something views, but the first word completely escapes me. Looks like U, a bunch of lowercase L, and S. That’s absurd. #

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• Did I miss anything? #
• Henry walked for real today. 11 Months and 6 days old. Took about 4 steps in a row. Then took a couple more a couple times. #
• He’s past ready and was holding out on us. #
• Darn girls got up before 7:00. Which led to baby being up earlier than otherwise. Well, and me, since they rousted me. #
• Sinuses? Barometers? Who can tell the difference today? #
• The girls are drawing, and Sadie asked me to help her draw what sounds like “a kin tee.” I had to give up on comprehending. #
• If we send her to school, they’re going to torture her with speech therapy, but it really is bad how often this happens. #
• @jefferyharrell Well, yeah! Isn’t that the *obvious* thing to do? A herd, not a pack. More power to the government solves *everything*. #
• I have to remember that if the kids are that crazy, they probably need to eat, even if they don’t know it. #
• @poliblogger Ever read The Dark Knight Returns? I got it in the original 4 part limited release. If anything, it was conservative bashing… #
• @poliblogger Which makes the bit about the movie being the opposite amusing. Haven’t seen it yet, but assume people interpret biasedly. #

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• I meed to relearn the types of clouds and such, because Sadie has apparently sprouted a degree of interest. #
• Or we could just get her a lesson with @shanzan… :> #
• Unexpected: Sadie wasn’t ready to sleep yet when we were done reading books & Val was long out, so we ended up discussing human biology… #
• at length, starting with her bringing up bones. She seemed to know or have put together a lot, but we surveyed bones, tendons, cartilage… #
• joints, muscles, senses, major organs, with some points in detail, until she was sleepy enough. #
• Just realized it’s been 24 years since my source of ire and I would still avoid renting a car from Hertz if at all possible. #
• Perhaps I should not have had coffee at 8 PM. #
• Corn for supper. Mom dropped off 4 ears, and some other stuff, which is how the girls had unexpected plums for breakfast. #
• “Unexpected Plums” sounds like a blog name. Or a band. #
• @Shurakai I keep thinking he ought to be tweeting. #
• Haven’t even posted b’days yet. It’s my brother’s. Looks like it’s also b’day of one of those overrated famous for being famous dudes who I #
• dismissed as not worthy of attention years ago. #
• @PaulWalsh Entire West Wing series is on our DVD wishlist for someday when we can afford it AND the kids give us time to watch anything. #
• @PaulWalsh We also loved the sadly brief Studio 60. #
• Oops, I think my typing woke the baby. Still a pretty good nap. Allowed me time for a shower and shave! #
• @MikeG1 Can it be called “bread” if it’s half-baked? #
• @jefferyharrell I dunno, I didn’t mind the later season that much, and I kind of liked the final season, focused on the campaign. #
• Feels wrong to be buying sugar 20 lbs at once. #

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• @pixxiespaz H’s in East Bridgewater, near the Whitman Peaceful Meadows. #
• @Shurakai Oh my. #
• @Shurakai You’re sure it was just Mountain Dew? #
• Perhaps I’ll try to sneak in a shower while the kids aren’t looking & before I have to get them to bed. #
• Val slept all afternoon, so she’s liable to be up until midnight anyway. #
• @Shurakai Well, we can’t go having artificial hams, after all. #
• Too late. Sadie is begging for something to eat, since she barely touched supper. #
• @Shurakai Meat’s almost all she did eat, even if not all of it. Turkey meatballs, gravy, potato, carrots, green beans. Awesome meatballs. #
• @Shurakai Ground turkey, onion, garlic, egg, oatmeal, salt, black pepper, thyme, bay leaf, ginger, celery, cumin, red pepper, couple others. #
• Got a good pic of Henry brushing his teeth. I started calling him Charisma Boy today. He’s totally aware & in control of it. #
• @ericasadun “Well I used to have them just about all the time…” #
• @Shurakai I use that same line all the time. Kids, doncha know. Except they can’t have any pudding now because Charisma Boy is allergic. #
• Pondering whether I feel like attracting the kids into the office by trying to do a few minutes of useful. #
• Morning already? And the kids again didn’t let me get up first? Maybe I should have stayed up at 4:00. #
• Relentless. Wondering if I can write a single post today, let alone the important one that I saved for last Monday because Friday is bad. #
• This must be what 1984 feels like. I can’t do anything or go anywhere unfollowed or unaccosted. Baby sleeping, trying to sneak a shower… #
• And Valerie’s dislike of kiwi watermelon Kool-Aid will make things interesting, since 2/3 of time it’s that so baby can safely have it. #
• The kids don’t realize they really need to let me DO stuff so we can still be living here in a month. #
• That feels better. Apparently it helped to rant at Sadie about shadowing me mercilessly, so I got a good shower. Alone. And baby yet sleeps! #
• @judis217 I’ve been going around singing “love your hair… underthings… tumbling…” after watching the 3 parts 3 times. #
• @judis217 Apparently in the window behind him when he’s “blogging” are pans hanging in shape of Serenity. Nice touch. #
• Sadie needs to learn to enunciate clearly to “I want my butt wiped” isn’t a plea for her flashlight, which when last seen was powerless. #
• Setting them up drawing is good. Getting sucked into “draw a bee, draw a house…” defeats the purpose. #
• So now they are fighting, because they only have about 40 or so markers, crayons, pencils and pens, and even a stray piece of chalk to share #
• Worse: “I need help drawing a ______.” A what? A bat? A data? Had to give with “I can’t understand you.” At least kites I could distinguish. #
• Generic Cheerios were perfect food for Allergy Boy. Name brand bought without 2nd though b/c generic out? Has corn as 2nd biggest ingred. #
• @michellis7 You mean I shouldn’t be doing that? Oops… #
• @Shurakai Guess I should be careful, or they might turn out funny. #
• @Shurakai If you haven’t, you should check out the look Deb caught on Sadie’s face in the 1st picture I posted. #

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• @Ithildyn http://tinyurl.com/5tnfr7 #
• Impressive sounding hail. Was, anyway. Now it’s impressive thunder. #
• Wonder what good songs came out in 1962… #
• Lots of good 1962 songs to start humming. Moon River. Venus in Blue Jeans. Liberty Valance. Sherry. You Don’t Know Me. You Belong to Me… #
• @PeoriaPundit Probably! Once “started humming a song from 1962…” started earworming me, I had to go look. Some surprised me. #
• @ericasadun Indeed, 1974 was the 2nd year I was really “into music” and things really picked up then, for a while, always with exceptions. #
• Wondering if @michellis7 is a casualty of Twitter maintenance or if she stopped following me so it dropped me from seeing her… #
• Sleep is good. Sadie woke me for good at 7:00. Henry was up for good about 7:40. Why watch a video when they can play here in my office? #
• 100% humidity. Big surprise there. #
• So it’s going to be like that today, eh? “Which room did you throw up in” was confusing question because 2 rooms were involved. #
• And Val wakes up demanding attention right in the middle of getting Sadie taken care of and into the shower. #
• @phillymac @MikeG1 My brother tells me once you’ve had 3 you don’t even notice the 4th. I’m dubious. #
• Of course, we had them so close together, it’s like a snake digesting a pig. In a couple years or so it’s going to seem brilliant. #
• Price to make fun of Althouse being stupid while not registering it’s too quiet: several each bleach wipes & paper towels, soapy bath for 2. #
• The baby apparently needs to learn what is an is not paint. #
• @pixxiespaz Birthday party at Michael’s Saturday, 1 PM, if I heard the message right before Henry erased the machine after it fell on floor. #
• @pixxiespaz Party is for Tristan, whose b’day is Monday. Mike’s b’day is actually Saturday though. #
• Was about to go see why so quiet, but now I hear crying. That’s, um… better? #
• @cootiehog Oops. Time for unlimited plan or being selective about whose tweets go mobile. #
• The dorks couldn’t let the baby stay asleep. #
• Intrigued that baby left office quietly to go play & didn’t bother me when he woke. I should go offer lunch before they know they need it. #
• Val having conceptual problem with taking turns. #
• Just finished lunch. That ought to make me enthusiastic for supper in a couple hours. #

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• Getting to sleep by 10:30 would work better if not followed by waking at 2, then getting broken mostly non-sleep from 5:30 to 8. #
• Time to find some functional in here somewhere. #
• @pixxiespaz And I thought books were expensive when I was in college! OTOH there was no option but the monolithic school bookstore. #
• @pixxiespaz $60 was probably the most I ever paid for a book, new, but that was 1982 - 1987. Call it $123 in today’s money. #
• Youthful defenestration imagined. #
• Valerie seems to have been set off by my having given her Kool-Aid when she asked for it. She’s made of sensitive. #
• Hey, the waitstaff of Chez Ellis gets a few minutes off! What’s up with that? #
• I hate to see what these kids will eat when they’re teenagers. The baby ate almost 2 slices of toast, bunch of rice, bunch of green beans. #
• The girls ate about 5 eggs, half slice or so toast, bunch of green beans, lots of ketchup. #
• Val thought cold green beans were about the Best Thing Ever. Good beans, from my father’s garden. #
• Sadie cracked me up by using 4 pillows, including a giant Nemo pillow, to make a “comfy chair” at her computer. #
• @poliblogger I understand it’s a vital part of good road construction, though, so whatcha gonna do. :> #
• Hate when I coin a word and the domain is taken *and* it’s in Urban Dictionary already. #
• That didn’t last long. #
• Looking at parse_url and trying to figure out how to protect Sadie’s computer from the baby turning it off and on repeatedly. #
• Wishing I had some chili paste. #
• Ginger, too. The ginger in the fridge can’t possibly still be good. Had an idea for a recipe last night. #
• Pictured something akin to Chinese green beans, with slivers of pork, served in flour tortillas with some rice. #
• I could fake it, but forgot I wanted to make tortillas. Way too late to start that. Oh well. #
• @margilowry Even after the blood has dried? #
• Severe thunderstorm watch, eh? Missed that. Radar looks like armies of doom marching inexorably eastward. #
• Example in php.net gives parse_url with 2nd param to get specific element, but it errors that it doesn’t DO 2 parameters, only 1. Odd. #
• Ah. Version 4.x need not apply. #
• Well, off to the kitchen. Maybe I can direct the beasties away from me, into the living room. #
• Had to turn on lights to see in kitchen at all. Thunder audible tho radar shows not that close yet. #
• Oh holy crap. Tornado warning that covers us. Like, almost bullseye as much as these things get. #
• Shutting down computers. Blackberry & TV should do me. #
• Not pleased that T-Mobile’s service went down completely for the duration of “at least I can X on Blackberry” emergency. #

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• @MikeG1 That’s a lot better than when the kids do it, since you’re not being literal. #
• Sadie: The Girl Who Cried Bug. “There’s a bug, a bug!” “Where”" Right there.” That’s not a bug!” #
• Playing with PHP to see if I can do something useful. #
• Weird to be cold. #
• I dreamed PHP. How odd, considering I didn’t delve into it *that* much. #
• What I need in PHP is not referring URL to parse, but intended URL that generated, or would generate, error page. #
• @poliblogger Happy birthday! #
• Well that was interesting. Apparently the files in the WP theme prevent the PHP from working normally. #
• Perhaps a custom 404 page? Hmmm… #
• Ah, medical bureaucracy. #
• Need to stop obsessing about this stuff long enough to go get hair cut and see Dark Knight. #
• String variables that are inherently arrays of characters. That’s cool. #
• Decided my hair can grow for another week and the movie won’t be gone from theaters any time soon. #
• Had the tastiest fried egg sandwich ever and am now ravenous, like it turned on my appetite. #
• And why does that character array thing not work in actual practice? #
• Ah, bet I know why. One-way behavior. #
• @jefferyharrell Beats me! Sounds kind of like that yearbook thing you get when you’re a high school senior. #
• The . seems like a strange character to use for concatenation. Or instead of * or % for that matter. #
• @PatrickRuffini Holy crap, that is amazing! Just what someone needed to do. #
• @PatrickRuffini But if he chooses Romney, he’s dead to me. End of the line. #
• I should setup a Linux box. #
• Done being nap surface for baby. #
• It’s going to be fun taking the baby swimming for the first time ever in a couple weeks. #
• The kids may have decided they hate the blue Kool-Aid (raspberry lemonade, that is), but I am happy to help them drink it. #
• Apparently this DVD can’t be copied to give us a spare. #
• Poor Simon. But this looks pretty good on my computer. “This food is problematic.” #
• And the hat makes its debut! “People know he’s not afraid of anything.” #
• “What’d y’all order a dead guy for?” #
• Ben Edlund lived maybe 3 miles from where I grew up, in the next town over. Closer to contemporary in school with my brother, though. #
• OK, enough torturing myself with Firefly and maybe I can do a little more before supper. #

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Rock drummers are like athletes, in terms of stamina and exertion.

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• @Shurakai Gotta be better than Katie Cult was in the role, no? #
• Never knew “marrow” was a name for squash. #
• Trying to figure out how zucchini can be one of the highest veggies in salicylates, while other summer squashes are moderate or so. #
• And a squash I never heard of that’s an entirely different species but sometimes called “summer squash” can be about as low as it gets. #
• @robmay Did your wife learn anything fun about isotopes the other day? #
• Finished last night’s post about squash and salicylates and cashews (oh my). #
• @sMoRTy71 I felt that way when I wore a suit to a couple of interviews. #
• It seems that Fail Whale is caring real hard this morning. #
• I have the AC off, but Sadie is convinced the door to the office must be closed. #
• @smallbiztrends BBB was probably the most obnoxious telemarketer I ever dealt with & they have an “offer you can’t refuse” air to them. #
• I wish Fail Whale would stop caring me so hard. #
• @abigvictory Only if it’s a whale of a failure? #
• Amused with former big client of former business. Put their web hosting under their control over a year ago. #
• They just got overdue notice they hadn’t paid… last Sept. Asked me if that was indeed their web host & they should pay it. #
• Trying to figure out how I can both justify and juggle funds for a haircut and Dark Knight tomorrow. #
• Funny that Twitter went along fine for a while, then Amazon blew up dramatically and Twitter is toast again afterward. #
• @Ithildyn Amazon got good at farming servers so went into business hosting other stuff. Ultimate robust kinda thing. Includes parts of this. #
• @Ithildyn So that was shorthand for their hosting, not their retailing, though one recent fail took them down too. #
• Off to do this morning’s errands quick then make supper. #

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Here is one list, in a format I find relatively pleasing. Here is another list in a format I find harder to follow, but which may be more complete, and gives numerical ranges (I’d have bolded those section headers to make it easier to follow.)

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Found this list interesting in my travels.

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