Tersosity & Verbosity

• 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.

• @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.)

Found this list interesting in my travels.

• Starting to feel chilly with the AC on. Guess I’ll at least turn it way low before I crash. #
• Ended up leaving AC on low in office all night. More welcome than ought to be already, but can’t hear baby in here when he wakes… #
• Sadie was only one who made it through the whole night sleeping in here. Henry was a pain. #
• Feels awfully miserable for 79 degrees. Well, and 100% humidity. High is only supposed to be 88 today. #
• Bringing all kids in office would be easier if the screen they watch were hooked to this computer with the DVD drive, #
• Then they could watch cartoons or Baby Einstein or Electric Company without my having to keep clicking YouTube selections. #
• Riddle me this: Circuit breaker trips. Before I can go down cellar to reset it, it resets itself. Nobody else appears to be home. #
• Thought power went out b/c UPS beeps started & AC went off, but ceiling light was on. #
• Since I went down cellar anyway, I found out idiot upstairs has stuff blocking unimpeded access to breaker boxes. #
• Apparently taking over the rest of the cellar and yard wasn’t sufficient. #
• Unless they are self-resetting, it makes me wonder, given our suspicion that power usage went up last fall from being tapped. #
• Apparently there are circuit breakers that reset themselves. I had no idea such existed. #
• @MikeG1 Might be that too, just severe enough to shut off the computer not on a UPS, answering machine, etc. #
• Oh well. I suspect it’s time to feed the little beasties. #
• Brownout, apparently. It seems if I want comp on for kids I have to turn off printer or AC. #
• @Shurakai I assumed you were talking about a spoof religion, not a medical/eye thing. Heh. #
• Just pulled a muscle, I think, catching the baby as he dived off of me for the floor. He’s been trying that for a while. #
• @MikeG1 There’s fair use, and then there’s thumbing your nose. Amazing. #
• Always a good idea to stay and stay and stay in hottest part of day, keeping your host out of the air conditioned part of the house. #
• Okra is one of those rare veggies I’ve never actually had. #
• Good thing about that is I resorted to cooking supper to kill time and it’s essentially done. Including a summer squash. #
• Which doesn’t go with steak burritos, but I couldn’t wait to have Henry try, as it should be OK & is not like anything he’s eaten before. #
• Oh well. Time to do the last of the food prep. And get a drink as I started to about 40 mins ago. #

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• @JasonFalls Great suggestion. I love doing surprise recommendations periodically. #
• 2 kids asleep on office floor. 1 in her bed. Think mom is asleep in bed now too, though she was threatening to sleep in here. Cooler. #
• Even with the AC off, it was dramatically cooler in here than rest of house overnight. Baby and I spent most of night here. #
• Bed, I guess. Somewhere. Crowded in here, but need to stay with the baby. #
• So confused. Woke with baby at 8:30 went back to bed and just woke up again at 6:30. #
• Giving remedial lessons in how to be a coffeemaker. #
• @robmay Weren’t radioisotopes planted by the mice to confuse us? Or was that only the dinosaur bones? #
• Only 75.6 and 100 % so far. But then, it’s still not 8:30 again yet. #
• There are ways in which I still love Expression Engine. #
• Wondering if I will be able to swing a proper shower before I can’t stand myself any more. I mean, even less than sometimes… #
• Just noticed “recently bookmarked” on the bookmarks menu in FF3. Just what I wanted! Even if I couldn’t have told you until I saw it. #
• My mother is probably swinging by with veggies from my brother’s garden today, so I won’t be able to run AC until whenever that is… #
• Since there’s not a chance I’d hear the door. Hope she’s early. #
• Can’t get anything past the baby. #
• typing reply to someone who wants to pay me = tragic need to get up on lap because i am never allowed to work again ever #
• Guess I should see how flooded the bathroom is. #
• Amazingly, not very flooded, probably because the baby likes to flip the drain lever and empty it prematurely. #
• @Shurakai Because you have a kid living there… #
• The inexplicable pinprick itching I get that spreads all over then subsides? Hadn’t really had much of it for a while. Invoked it clearly… #
• By drinking a large glass of strawberry Kool-Aid. The kind that makes the baby itchy etc. b/c of red dye 40 in it. Finished pitcher and… #
• Val didn’t want her whole cup, knowing there’d be kiwi watermelon, so added hers to my glass. Fascinating. #
• Baby asleep, now where was I? Maybe I should call my mother and find out when to expect her. #
• I swear T-Mobile is trying to ensure I don’t hire them again in October after this 2 years is up. #
• Yay! I’ll be able to turn on the AC Real Soon Now. My mother will call late this afternoon before she comes here & I can leave door open. #
• Sadie asked for cool bath. Hope there’s no flooding. Smart kid: 88.4 degrees currently. #
• OK, turn on AC, check Sadie, clean a bit while office becomes haven. #
• Wow, a prompt payment! #
• Heh. Just saw Havelock Ellis cited in a NYT article. He coined narcissist & it’s on how narcissistic we all are anymore. #
• Finally finished that reply to person with computer problem. #
• Still no word from my mother, who is getting up into bad time territory for coming by. #
• Unless the brood has adequately snacked, perhaps I should go make supper now. Maybe get fancy and do fries with that… #
• @Shurakai Ah, but that dude doesn’t make them with rosemary and garlic. #
• Silly kids. Off to cook… #
• Wonder how long it’ll take @Ithildyn to write Dr. Horrible/Iron Man crossover fiction… :> #
• Totally forgot I needed to go to the store. Apparently my mother is going to be a no show, which is as disruptive as dropping in. #
• Anyway, no sugar=no coffee. No coffee=sad me. Plus no sugar=no Kool-Aid. #
• @PeoriaPundit Drunk callers to tech support? Don’t think I ever had one of those! #

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• It’s not even in season and I regularly miss the American Idol newsgroup, thanks to AG self-aggrandizement, which is apparently catching. #
• Looks like I may need something almost as simple as RedirectMatch 301 /blog(.*) /$1
  for my problem. #
• @danabrit Good idea! #
• @danabrit The clutter thing, not so much the Yemeni thing… #
• Man, I wish I could work on this Apache stuff while I can be laughingly described as wakeful. #
• At least I’ve found awesome documentation at askapache.info that’s leaving me more informed than confused. #
• It’s starting to irk me to wake, say, 6:30, spend 1st 2 hrs with a kid on me, rather than sleeping til 8:30 or getting to do stuff then. #
• That used to be my productive time, or my “me” time, either way hard to have when I can’t use my hands. #
• The girls better watch out or they’ll start being rousted at 7:00 to entertain their brother. #
• Even something as lame as building the blogroll for the revised Blogblivion takes hands. Preferably. I swear I’m going to install Dragon. #
• Trouble is, 5.0 is merely very good and that’s what I have. Still, might be worth being able to dictate stuff to edit later. #
• Marginal as GD hosting is, I hate having to purge that so save $3.95/mo we can’t afford. The 5000 MB space is useful. #
• Someone seems to have discovered a blog I don’t use as a comment spam magnet. In keeping with my having become an e-mail spam magnet lately. #
• Won’t they be surprised when I delete that blog as I’ve planned for weeks. #
• Apparently we should only buy kiwi watermelon Kool-Aid from now on as it’s all the girls want, but we get it for allergy boy. #
• @pixxiespaz: that’s basically what happened to my mother when dealer she bought from had closed, tho it was mfg war. #
• Trying to parse crying fit ” I want blue bubba” or “more bahbah” or “blow bubbles” means in context of lkitchen post-snack. #
• Pretty bad when you can’t even determine the *category* your 29 month old’s request falls into. Food? Drink? Toy? Condition? What!? #
• Whatever it is, it keeps compelling her to become a very loud, quivering, lumpy throw rug. #
• My entire funny low fat diet post got “quote of the week” from Dustbury. Must have been OK, as it cracked me up to reread it. #
• Reality Bucket is supposed to be for snark like that, but I couldn’t stop myself. #
• I suppose I should check on the twerps. Turned on the AC before feeding them. Ducked in here for a moment before dragging everyone in. #
• Baby asleep on office floor. Girls temporarily happy. That should give me my next 5 minutes to continue what I was doing a couple hours ago. #
• Do I hear 2 minutes? #
• Heh. Justkill.me is available. #
• @shanselman Yep. Except apparently people who matter don’t say “this guy is such a ninja.” #
• @phillymac At least there are no sheep involved. (Stuck in the middle with ewe…) #
• Thinking if I go clean I may sweat to death but might actually be *allowed* to do it. I’ve had GoDaddy on screen over 2 hrs to no avail. #
• Confused by GoDaddy’s hosting & the fact they give credit for free hosting so maybe ours wasn’t going to expire after all if I did it right. #
• @chucksimmins Intriguing. If you search one with their name in the string, it gives a special result page simply saying pick a dif search. #
• @chucksimmins You could grab nodaddy.me though… #
• If you do a casual search for domains, then go to renewals, pick 4 to renew, next next… the searched names aren’t what should be in cart! #
• Sometimes the sheer cute makes it so worthwhile. #
• Sadie has demanded “show me how to read.” #
• Gotta love having a kid who can be told “words are like puzzles, made up of letters” as a viable explanation of the overriding concept. #
• Renewed 4 domains, 2 of which actually generate money so duh. Nothing coming up the rest of the year is as important, though I’d hate to… #
• lose *geeks.com, where * is massachusetts, southshore, northeast, etc. #

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• @Shurakai I know exactly the feeling! Very creepy. #
• @jaygarmon *Raises hand* It would seem that there are at least two of us. #
• Baby reacts to red 40. It’s red 33 & blue 1 in Equate Tylenol equiv, and mix of reds 33 & 40 in Benadryl equiv. #
• If 33 bothers him, he probably gets too little to trigger it, as it’s not in so much. #
• I love when the baby wastes the first hour+ of my day by “needing” to be on me because, really, he’s going to fall back to sleep. #
• Depending whose forecast, this is supposed to be our 2nd of at least 5 in a row 90+ days here, but even the lower forecast is close to that. #
• 83.8 and 64% at 10:12 AM, and feels worse. #
• 88.4 doesn’t seem so bad after bathing in cool water. Baby also seems happier for it. #
• Kids were all in here anyway, so finally turned on the AC. #
• @margilowry Pork adobo the Philippines type of thing, or more a Mexican thing? #
• Either way, sounds like the kind of thing I’d invent. Then serve over or with rice and just some veggie. #
• Ugh. #
• Wondering if modifying classes.php is going to be appropriate or advisable… #

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• @Ithildyn Happy birthday! #
• entertaining excessively wakeful baby #
• The girls are completely hooked on Underdog. My work here is done. #
• 81.1 and 68%? I’d have guessed higher on one or both. It feels brutal. #
• Hadn’t texted Deb yet today or vice-versa. We simultaneously picked up the phones and did so in that freaky shared brain way we have. #
• @chucksimmins You know what I haven’t seen anywhere since I was a kid? Wally Gator. Perhaps that could be next. #
• So miserably hot I thought of making shredded pork in crockpot so wanted opinion on what she’d like. #
• @sharone75 You should call or get Ry to call my mother b/c she’s never seen grill that style & has questions. #
• Agonizing mildly over option to go to my mother’s for supper, vs the stuff I was about to start cooking. Bad time of day for us to go… #
• Think I’ll start the pork anyway, because worst case it’s better then next day. #
• This day is just magical. In that it’s disappeared. #
• Baby drank some significant amount of lemon-lime Kool-Aid with no overt reaction, in keeping with being OK with blue dye & mild with yellow. #
• Not sure how much he got, as he snuck Sadie’s. He’s napping & I’m trying to keep them quiet enough to make that meaningful. #
• Didn’t start crockpot until 1:00 because a couple hours vanished in there somewhere, so supper will be a close thing. #
• Shredding and saucing and peeling, oh my. #
• @abigvictory No, but it’s probably going to be an exception to the “way too broke to see a movie” thing, the way Iron Man was. #
• @abigvictory When I looked a week or so ago at Rotten Tomatoes it had 100% positive. Ah, now 92 with far more reviews. Cool. #

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• It’s an odd sort of thing to have been right about, since how “happy” should I really be that there WAS a housing bubble and excess lending? #
• It was obvious by 2003 when I started blogging and periodically mentioning it. #
• @chucksimmins Ah, you were thinking I was talking a permalinks change within WP itself. I set the permalinks as needed from the start… #
• @chucksimmins Learned my lesson, because a plugin like this one didn’t work on the blog I tried it on. #
• @chucksimmins My prob is that I need a link to the OLD blog to go to the NEW location of the OLD blog, rather than error page. #
• blogblivion.com/index.php/site/… needs to redirect to blogblivion.com/EEBLOG/index.php/site/… #
• @chucksimmins Well, maybe I’ll load it and see if it takes instructions well. #
• Weird. Far as I can tell, that plugin simply duplicates what already exists in WP’s settings. Broke the blog by causing recursion, anyway. #
• @chucksimmins Oh, not a problem. I thought if it wrote to htaccess it might be adaptable. #
• @Shurakai Are you sure that’s the link you intended? In tweet about web hosting? #
• @Shurakai They’re apparently known for being bad, and I’ve seen them complained about vociferously recently. #
• @Shurakai Not Dream Host. People seem to like Blue Host. I’ve always had luck with Hosting Matters, though some plans from others these days #
• @Shurakai are heftier in specs and/or lower in prices. Your GD hosting is likely to seem worse than most you could select, so… #
• Dishes done. Shame to do them after kids are asleep and I could be *working* but easier, since the kids are asleep. #
• Was going to sit down & plow into stuff, but now inexorably sleepy & lost. #
• Problem all web hosts face is commoditization & steadily lowering prices. #
• Sometime it’s confusing to have 3 mice on the same desk. #
• @michellis7 A fine opportunity to practice for a future career as a diplomat. #
• @andrewbarnett Well, I’m thinking web hosts particularly, with the bandwidth thing. In 1998 I paid $1200 for what’s now under $100 hosting. #
• @chucksimmins That’s what’s required for differentiation. Service, reputation, responsiveness too. For their part, maximum efficiency. #
• It’s not a big bucks, high profit business, but then maybe it wasn’t at $1200 a year either, but I got “how high” service for sure. #
• @michellis7 Diplomat? Your father. Also people who work for the State Department dealing with uppity furriners without provoking Sarajevos. #
• @michellis7 The Sarajevo part was intentionally obscure shorthand for starting a war, as an incident there sparked WW1. #
• @michellis7 But the schools do a great job teaching history, so you’ll cover that at some point, even if you didn’t already. #
• @michellis7 Also, furriners is a funny misspelling of foreigners. Thus, well, what your father diplomatically said. #
• @michellis7 I’m actually known for being diplomatic, and tend to be the nexus, the guy everyone likes, works with well, remembers, etc. #
• @jeffjarvis Happy birthday! #
• @deanesmay Happy birthday! #
• Hey NYT, or you could say “inflation pushes gas & food prices higher.” #
• @arnonel I use Twitter Tools to put tweets on blog. Best in digest format. Comes out weird as singles b/c tweet text=post title & post text. #
• Doh. WordPress inserted the code for stripping index.php from a URL, so even if I redirect old permalinks I have to account for that. #
• Just realized I must need more coffee if I feel this relaxedly vacant. #
• Wow. Henry is soooo allergic to dairy. We did a skin contact experiment with plain organic yogurt on his back. #
• Need to find my direction for the day. At least I have a clear set of errands, as emphasized by the lack of anything I want to eat in house. #
• Isn’t T-Mobile kind of going backwards by raising messaging rates to 20 cents each? #
• Started with paying T-Mobile, so of course their online payment system is down, but I saw the rate announcement. #
• Crackers are on the grocery list. There’s at least 1 kind the baby can eat & they’re handy, #
• I seem to be down at least another pound. Hard to read whether it was on the 7 or all the way to the 6. Conservatively, that’s down 61. #
• @Shurakai I am 99% sure ours is unlimited, and seen no indication otherwise while tweeting & texting Deb at work. #
• It’s also worked out useful that Deb’s phone has web. She can catch up on news during lunch breaks. #
• @Shurakai Cue the obvious cow woman jokes. #
• Well THAT ought to improve our mileage! Not to mention tire life. #
• @sekimori Not grok Firefly? Sheesh. @abigvictory You should really watch the series, too. Then the movie again. #
• Downtown Middleboro was 89 degrees when I passed through there on my way to inflate the tires. Felt it, too. #
• Time to make the donuts. Er… burgers, and maybe fries. #
• @Shurakai She’s not on Twitter. Have you tried phoning in your request? #
• Girls want grilled cheese & tomato soup. Sadie didn’t *see* the cans of soup, yet somehow knew I’d bought it. How do they do that? #
• Sitting for a few with stove off & half constructed sandwiches on counter, waiting to be able to use my kitchen without “help” from kids. #
• @sharone75 You have to go to your list of followees and specify each one you want to go to your phone. #
• @sharone75 Click “device updates” to on. I have it on for 5-6 of you and not for the other way too many. #
• @PeoriaPundit Assuming they don’t also control your domain, they’d have no choice. #
• @neatlytangled Aw, so cute! And Sadie is allowing this? Is she well? #
• Of all things, dude upstairs using charcoal grill out back is filling office with fumes. AFTER the fan’s on exhaust & other fan’s off. #
• Fumes, too, more than “smoke.” As if I am in a closed room where charcoal is being used with suicidal intent. #

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