Tersosity & Verbosity

• FWIW one of my favorite reviewers gave UP 4 stars, one of best of year (vs he thought Wall-E was one of best ever… #
• Deb saw UP, loved it, said bring tissues. Saw Wall-E same night, says hard to compare the two, so different, both good. #
• So I have 3 movies queued to see, no time and little money to do so. Ugh. #
• Kind of late to bed but all should sleep soundly and its night off for me. #
• Glad I’m this sleepy and will get right back to bed. #
• Grand total about 9 hours sleep. Yay! #
• It’s fun to be covered by MassHealth and get a $2500 bill for blood tests “your insurance rejected.” Go communism! #
• @phillymac Poor Sarek. #
• @plumcrzy I always find it interesting that he was that way all along, yet was nothing career-wise, really, before Idol. #
• Doing site backups and setting up some new stuff. #
• Oh, and switching over to #cotc to get all that looked at and tweeted because, hello, it’s already Sunday. #
• And either this or the next CotC will be the official first at the new location, though I intend to migrate a copy of past stuff. #
• Apparently my body has decided it needs a normal amount of sleep and WILL make up for it on weekends AND with unplanned naps. 2+ hours. #
• @dmataconis I think of him as LBJ. Now being followed & built on by Wilson Nixon-Carter. Latter doesn’t make former any better. #
• @listener42 A scene straight out of my house! #
• I didn’t surf myself for CotC this week so I fear it’ll be light, as most entries are spammy or crap or off-topic. Will run out of time. #
• Continuing blog setups while wondering what to serve for supper. Obvious answer: leftover fried rice. Duh. #
• Pork fried rice and grape tomatoes very well received by kids. I’m eating leftover cauliflower. #

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• Sad about having to go to bed. REALLY need to run dishwasher but it ain’t gonna happen. Trying to figure alarm strategy so I wake. #
• 1:40 quiet alarm woke me. Dismissed. Never heard the LOUD 2:10 alarm. Woke 12 minutes before work, which is minimum driving time if ready. #
• Henry wants me to put him to bed NOW so here I go. Val’s already asleep, for that matter. #
• Heh. Just set alarm to play ode to joy tune. When it goes off at 1:42 AM. #
• Don’t expect to be woken by Val crying. Looking for mom, finding she wasn’t here. No idea what woke her but she’s back in her spot. #
• Back to bed! Have a whole other hour of sleep possible, after all. Can’t blow it. #
• Poor kid sitting up absolutely wife awake watching popeye. At least She’s not actively sad. #
• Oh well. At least I won’t sleep through work. Kids are awfully restless. May not bode well for mom when she is home to sleep while I work. #
• At least, presumably she’ll be home… Hasn’t failed me yet. #
• Val still awake. Changed videos for her. She was excited I made coffee. Texted Deb to warn her she has an insomniac looking for her. #
• Note to self: Quantum leakage. #
• @phillymac A cowardly lie in? A lie in king? Can’t hide your lie in eyes? #
• Need to work on CotC today. And a bunch of other crap. Also saw a job last night to apply for, even mostly qualified, 45k, in my town. #
• Wondering what might be better than WordPress for a directory/listing-like site deployed relatively easily not coded from scratch myself. #
• Can’t believe I just drew a hamster with wings and a halo. Almost plausible, except it looks too cat-like. #
• Val has been having a tantrum almost nonstop since she got up. I’ve stopped it a few minutes a few times but then she resumes. Getting old. #
• Well, that’s resolved. Knew she needed to eat. She is hypersensitive to sugar crashes or hunger or whatever. Doesn’t grok her own needs. #
• @ScottAllen I think you have to be female to understand it. #
• @abigvictory Don’t they do that to everyone? In which case, how can it be TMI? #
• Oh right! I just updated resume. then managed to sidetrack before e-mailing it. In fact, fired up e-mail to do so, read, replied, forgot. #
• Resume and enTHUsiastic* e-mail sent regarding tech support job right in Middleboro. * Was thinking of @phillymac as I wrote it. #
• @Shurakai The job listing on web site says 40-70k, vs Craigslist saying 45k. And site has manager job at 80k, but I’m borderline for entry. #
• Have to get past no CS degree, minimal Linux experience, minimal backup/recovery experience. #
• Yet vastly more experience in general than required even for the management job, let alone the support jobs. Under 10 minute commute. #
• Do not pass Go. Go directly to taking Sadie outside. Or she will Just Diiiie. #
• @shartlen “Do these contents make me look fat?” #
• @phillymac Did Twitter change to Facebook while I wasn’t looking? #
• Biking consisted of Val coasting downhill and spilling, sadie pushing hers around and sitting on it. #
• At carver playground #
• Henry loves the tall steep slide, now that he’s awake. #
• Wondering what my best food option may be from here, not sure I want mcdonalds or all the way to middleboro bk. #
• Beginning to hate boy next door being in our yard to play when we get home after 4 hours already sucked from my day. #

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• I’ve been ready to collapse to sleep for 3 hours. Better do so before I become wakeful. Plus there’s only time for 4.5 hours sleep now. #
• Seem to have started sleeping deeply, no apparent reason, so I was almost 1/2 hr late for work. #
• @phillymac Install high wattage bulbs!!!!!!!! #
• How about #fallowfriday, in which everyone tweets less, especially if it means shedding some #memes. #
• This was supposed to be a nicer day, not actively rainy. So much for “you can ride bikes tomorrow” last night. #
• Fell asleep this morning for a while, for kids pummeling me values of sleep. Can barely stay awake still. It almost feels like I’m sick. #
• More coffee probably a good idea. Start early supper. Do some cleaning. Have stuff I wanted to post but need to move a bit for back’s sake. #
• @ScottAllen Mine always comes out younger on those. Red meat is good for you. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. #
• A recipe that calls for turmeric? Never used mine, finally gave it to my sister when she needed. Should get more sometime for completeness. #
• Experimenting with pork in oven with Chinese-inspired rather than barbecue coating, to go with fried rice. Need to use cauliflower so… #
• Was wondering about possibility of frying it to be different. Cruising recipes online to see what the variants are. #
• @marshellis http://bit.ly/Keyif Impressed with recommended book just from a few pages of preview what are boundaries. #
• My exact problem to solve: “she did not experience herself as a free agent. It never occurred to her that she had the freedom to respond,… #
• … to make choices, to limit the ways his behavior affected her. She felt that she was a victim of whatever he did or did not do.” #
• I’ll have to find the actual book. I can gloss over the religious aspects. Wisdom is wisdom. #
• Anyway, back to cleaning the kitchen. Kids thought carpeting the floor with construction paper was a great idea. #

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• @sarahk47 I think of 1/4 acre as a tiny postage stamp of a lot, almost like being in a city on top of your neighbors. #
• @phillymac Unless you’re in the soda business, in which case you’d want to move that pop. #
• Better shower before I fall asleep and miss my appointment. Well, as if kids would allow that much sleep. #
• @robmay Thus ended capitalism? That’s so 2 weeks ago! (Was so amused I put it in CotC after I saw it linked.) #
• Are You Thin Skinned or Thick Skinned? - http://tinyurl.com/qvq9cs - You Are Thin-Skinned #blogthings #
• Right, I brewed more coffee! And need pain killers, since I took none in the last 15 hours. #
• Helps when IDE cable is seated properly. And when you reseat it, it seats properly and doesn’t fail to be apparent in its looseness. #
• Guess it’s my turn to wait for someone being late. #
• Just noticed my mother rd my call this am. Oops. #
• Sadie got a new bike! Red. Helmet is blue. Taking her and Henry outside while Deb takes Val to store for her turn. #
• Didn’t realize concept of pedaling would be hard to teach. She tends to put on brakes. #
• She is having trouble looking ahead and steering too. Had same spill same spot twice. Helmet no help for hands. #
• Ironic to have the helmet bonk Sadie on the head after being taken off of her. On top of her neck being pinched when it was unbuckled. #
• Val got a 16″ bike like Sadie’s, but purple/themed, and she picked an adorable pink helmet with pandas #
• Sadie’s blue helmet has spiders, and would go well with her Spiderman shirt, which is one of her favorites. #
• Ready for bed! Instead need to clear living room enough for pedaling practice. then return to working on kitchen. And put meat in freezer! #
• Got meat for today and yesterday, then Deb cooked yesterday, bought BK today (and a Star Trek glass for me!), so it was moot. #
• We added 3 Klingon ships to our collection, joining the Kelvin, shuttle, and 2 Enterprises. Sadie still wants a guy with a blue shirt. #

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• People setting off loud bright fireworks outside bedroom window as I try to settle in for my 4 hours sleep. Yay. #
• Apparently I am not alone in dismay for loud explosions by my house late at night. Woke£r and heard next door telling at them. #
• That is, *yelling* at them. They have something that makes firecrackers sound like fingers snapping. Sound sleep? Gone. #
• The neighbors keep making me glad I’ll be moving, but bothered I’ll be leaving ,y kids here. And sad I’ll be in same basic area, presumably. #
• @ScottAllen Your “firing” description sounds like me! #
• @CotC http://bit.ly/17vaud #
• Feel like I may be sleepy enough to fall back asleep. Plus the chair is hurting my back so best get out of it. Sad alarm rings in 90 mins. #
• Going to bed. Again. Changing alarms to give extex half hour potentially. #
• That felt like more sleep than it was, but still way too brief. #
• Deb should be home any minute. Logically went to the mountain, given the opportunity. #
• Coffee must be done brewing. Hungry but afraid to eat anything. #
• @chucksimmins Portugal is not Hispanic. #
• @phillymac Crushing what? Spirits? Egos? Hopes and dreams? Orange? #
• @sarahk47 You are Whipping Inflation Now? Cool! Because, you know, we’re really gonna need that soon. #
• Have side of old PC, checking it out, it’s running currently, but power supply is loud. Purged dust. Sure it’s video and prob power too. #
• Ah, it just shut off on me with no provocation. Let’s try that power supply now. Clearly reproduces easily enough to test. #
• Also need to find a serial mouse for Sadie’s machine. #
• When the fuck did we start making power supplies with TWO standard connectors that are USELESS in any machine I own??? #
• Seriously, I can’t even use it. Not unless I spelunk through my odd crap and find a couple of Y connector extensions. Outrageous. #
• Glad I organized all that stuff at one point, had 2 Y connectors, and had them in easy reach. #
• @phillymac I still like the orange part. I think the Waponis were onto something. #
• @Shurakai You say that like it’s a bad thing. Seriously, though, do need to improve that situation. And not by cheap power supply next time. #
• So far so good, except it’s not seeing the 2nd hard drive. #
• @Shurakai Yes, and I need to peruse it again. Ended up more than I was sort of targeting, and IIRC had no sound card. #
• Computer seems fine, but it’s not recognizing the big secondary drive with mass amounts of stuff stored on it. #
• Probably the Y connector has a bad end. #
• Deb made tasty pasta with red sauce and burger for supper. All the frozen chicken was suspect in a freezer burned not thawing right way. #
• Thus change of plans from alfredo. #
• Not the power. Maybe jumpers need reseating or if they’re on cable select need to be made explicit. #

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• @plumcrzy You say that like it’s a bad thing… #
• @phillymac Makes scents to me. #
• Sadie had 4 servings of my dairy-free mashed potatoes. And a lot of ginger soy glazed pork chop (which she kept calling beef, but hey). #
• On another note, how did we produce offspring who are sports loving social butterflies? Henry is dying to play basketball. #
• Bedtime schedule slippage will kill me tomorrow night when I am back to work. #
• Sleep is good. #
• Mmm… Sleep. #
• Now THAT is OCD: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124301100481847767.html #
• The Watercolor Test - http://tinyurl.com/otye8o - You Are Highly Colorful #blogthings #
• Trying to get a handle on what I am getting done today, merging what’s priority/deadline with what dovetails well. #
• I’d be happier if kids weren’t mothing me when I need to tear into this room. #
• Wonder if it’s worth keeping my Ryobi cordless drill with dead battery, trying to replace just that, or getting new one someday. #
• Have the kids engaged in an indoor ballgame. Clever. #
• I think I prefer Deb having earlier hours. Feel like my day starts at 2 and ends at 5 this way. #
• Kids today had their first exposure to freezer pops or whatever you call flavored sugar water frozen in plastic tubes. They are in bath now. #
• Amazed descrip of Ryobi cordless drill says a charge will drive 235 screws. Mine wouldn’t have done that when battery was still good. #
• Looking forward to a fresh (relatively) start. Guess I’m like a Windows 2000 machine that’s on its 6th year of up time. Like reboot already. #
• @CaseySoftware The real fun will be when the new owners of GM & Chrysler have trouble selling new bonds. #
• Finally looked at the actual desk audit notice, and that’s exactly what it is - an attempt to be sure the EIC is valid. #
• Annoying but not end of the world kind of stuff. There’s not a lot they could argue with. #
• Doing so stuff with domain hosting so that’s ready to go. #
• Uh-oh. My old computer is failing to boot, after its usual abrupt power off due to intense graphics processing. #
• Weirdly acts like power supply in part, graphics card/driver in part. Guess it’ll get to try out the new power supply ASAP. #
• @drjjoyner Isn’t that something you herniate, if you’re unfortunate enough? #
• Wonder what I ate or contracted yesterday. #
• Sure don’t feel like cooking for the kids, and hope it’s clear by time I have to work at 3:30 AM. #

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• Trying to figure out if good Scrabble, Parcheesi, Clue, and Battleship are all Deb’s. The last is the only one definite is hers. #
• Even if I weren’t packing anything, I’d need to continue the project of not removing stuff in this tiny room that isn’t mine. #
• It’s rough having the kids come insist it’s time for bed. #
• Sleep is good. And I’ve been pushed out of bed, besides being wakeful of my own accord. #
• @robmay Don’t plan to go back to the other, memorialized so someone would stop looking at it against her better sense, and to help me stop. #
• @robmay And I was having trouble using both for slightly different purposes, so being me but more civil here has to do. #
• @robmay Because if you don’t say what you think or what happened, you don’t think it, it never happened, and some live happily ever after. #
• Well that sucks: http://bit.ly/1kd3R #
• I’m not religious, but having your church burn down? Doh! #
• And no parade as a result: http://tinyurl.com/pnells And the main drag closed! Good thing it’s a holiday. #
• I love the “silent ugh” part: http://bit.ly/16j97C
  FWIW legal name is Middleborough for state. #
• What Type of Transportation Are You? - http://tinyurl.com/qe2w2s - You Are A Car #blogthings #
• #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 5/25/09: http://bizosphere.com/?p=174 #
• @robmay Well, ultimately it IS fantasy/SF in nature. #
• Wondering if and where restrooms are at Pierce St. playground area… #
• @robmay Can you imagine if we really had a clause saying govt couldn’t interfere with commerce? #
• @robmay But that’d be interpreted to mean you could OWN commerce, but regulating it & limiting types you could have would be allowed… #
• @robmay Ah, yes, absolutely! Too inhuman. #
• I haven’t read Atlas again lately because I can’t see the font. But that’s curtailed my reading in general. Glasses. Soon! #
• Sadie is funny, making stroller for 2 into stroller for 3. #
• Mysterious red van on way to playground had some kid waving to us. #
• Henry is so scary and requires constant supervision. #
• The girls could have hung out on the stroller right in our own yard. That’s all they want to do. #
• Who needs a parade when you have a burned church and all it entails to spectate from the town hall lawn. #
• Made it home. Where not next door lay in wait. Letting Henry sleep a bit in stroller so not made for 3. #
• @DomainingCom Domain Masterfully - http://cli.gs/pdc <– win $1,000 #
• A second cousin heard from on our way home. #
• @caltechgirl I always loved creamsicles! #
• Feel like I just blew my whole day entertaining the kids, now have to cook and give baths. Feel ready to drop despite enough sleep. #
• @caltechgirl Red? That’s just wrong. #

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• Suddenly dead tired. Was late with supper, then insisted on everyone bathing and getting clean hair and teeth. Silly kids. #
• Val requires conditioner now, which adds to the excitement. OTOH Sadie is on verge of being fully self-cleaning. #
• @phillymac Perhaps it wandered off with the gander? #
• @phillymac Or preferred the company of two all beef patties? #
• Speaking of which, why name a cow Bessie or Elsie when you can call her Patty? #
• Sigh… Dishes. Then bed. After drugs for the back. Poor Henry crashed on floor by my chair, didn’t quite make it. #
• Yay. Getting audited by the MA DOR. Apparently they hate giving the earned income credit. At least if you have various business income. #
• @Shurakai Shouldn’t be *that* bad. Kind of annoying though. #
• CD drive on computer I gave Sadie won’t open. Yay. Also? Hate to have given it because it’s a treasure trove of old data. #
• For instance, e-mail from 1998/1999, early documentation of the old business, etc. Some of which carried to other machines but… #
• EVERY time I sit down in office, 3 kids invade and hang around me being loud and/or distracting. And they bring toys. Then leave them here. #
• That is, my bedroom. Which needs to be mucked out enough to have a bed. #
• Worse having them here today as I moved stuff into reach they shouldn’t touch. getting at old computers and parts. Coffee gone. Work now. #
• #twitterfilms Tweetless in Seattle #
• #twitterfilms Tweet Free #
• #twitterfilms A Hard Days Tweet #
• #twitterfilms The Endless Twitter, When Harry Met Twitter (poor Sally had no chance), You’ve Got Tweets (but at least there was Tom Hanks). #
• Mucking out my room. #
• Who knew furniture could be a metaphor. #
• #twitterfilms Next Stop Twitterland, Tweet It Like Beckham, Planet of the Tweets, Tweet Story, There’s Something About Twitter #
• #twitterfilms Tweetblade, Tweet Runner, Tweet Monkeys, While You Were Tweeting, The Babytwitter, Beautiful Tweets #
• #twitterfilms Joe Versus the Twitterstream, A Twitter Runs Through It, Tweet Fishing #
• Contemplating with bad intent my 1989, 1990 and 1991 Writer’s Market books that are presumably a bit dated, yet bulky. #
• Love the autofollow by keyword thing. Makes me want to say something like movies TV furniture landscape patio grill food monkey sex toys. #
• Just to see who follows randomly. #
• Wonder if @michellefino will miss the #twitterfilms meme entirely. Seems appropriate for her. #
• #twitterfilms M. Night Twitmalan collection: The Twitter Sense, Retweetable, Tweets, The Tweetage, Tweet in the Water, The Tweetup. #
• You know, if you live on Nantucket, it must give whole new meaning to being told “you da man!” #
• @robmay Sure they do! Just less ubiquitously. I love that word. Ubiquitous. It’s everywhere. #
• #twitterfilms Free Failwhale, Fast Tweets at Ridgemont High, Dazed and Twittered, Romancing the Tweet, Followers of the Tweet #
• It’s adorable of Henry to nap himself on floor by my desk, but now he’s in the way. #
• Just taught Sadie to say “Scooby Doo and Tyler too.” Surely I’m guilty of history abuse. #
• Henry woke up, so the room is free now. And it’s supper time. They want hot dogs. Why do I bother being fancy like ever? #
• I never make potato salad, but wondered a while ago about possibility of doing so egg-free. Seems wrong, no mayo, but hey. #
• #twitterfilms Tweet of a Nation, Twitropolis, The Twitter of Oz, Caddytweet, Follower House, Tweeting Angry Men (or Twelve Angry Tweets?) #
• Wondering if I’ll survive Valerie’s childhood. #
• @Shurakai Maybe puberty will mellow her and she’ll scream less. #
• Wish I’d gotten more done today. Wish I didn’t feel like it was bedtime already after 10 hours sleep last night. Even if half of it was bad. #
• Apparently it’s party time. Can’t breathe, from the smoke coming in the necessarily open windows. #

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• Finding it hard to do some dishes when it’s past bedtime and weird evening. #
• Seems sad to set 2nd alarm for 2 AM. #
• Managed to wake before the alarms, partly because Henry was restless. Somehow got out of there without him waking though. #
• So I had to leave early yesterday & told mgr there were carts to empty by door 6 & stuff staged to go on an additional cart, standard proc. #
• They *failed to notice* most of the stuff I’d had to leave *in the normal location* and actually started releasing drivers before doing so. #
• Not sure what was unclear about “trailers are empty, there’s a cart for each belt and stuff that didn’t fit staged for belt 2, I have to go” #
• Oh well. Guess I’ll have to be specific next time. #
• Glad I got out before 7 this AM anyway. Turns out there were only TWO days I needed to be home early for Deb cover for manager’s vacation. #
• @Shurakai is a dry rube a gullible hick who doesn’t drink? #
• Contemplating giving Sadie my old p200 but sound card in it is sb gold with stereo speaker jacks, not standard. #
• Forgot the old computer I turned over to Sadie had my old copy of Illustrator installed. Kind of tough to use, but still cool for her. #
• Put in a CT4520 and sound works, but not in the couple games available. We’ll see what it does with Magic School Bus. #

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• Poor Henry heard my alarm better than I did. #
• They were sad when I had to leave, clocking out at 7:06. But I left it in good shape, just minutes work left to clear up. #
• Tomorrow we’re really shorthanded and start at 3:15 instead of 3:30. Guessing I’ll cover again for the guy who was out today. #
• I’m SO good at it, they’d replace him with me if he wouldn’t be beyond outraged. Not sure what job they’d assign him to instead. #
• I’m pleased with the complement. It’s cool because there’s logistics involved, holding in your head what is happening & needs to happen. #
• To be efficient, be in the right place at the right time, and not get backed up or overwhelmed. There’s also an accuracy & logic factor. #
• @Shurakai Didn’t realize there was typo and thought you were maligning Hannaford. That’s RIBS, not runs. Heh. Wish I had a grill. #
• Forgot this weekend was Memorial Day. I have Tuesday morning off, which is cool but hope the rest of it runs long to recoup pay. #
• @phillymac Karamu? I never had figured out what they were saying there, nor was I interested enough to look it up. #
• Two kids are up. Impressively late sleep. #
• THIS is too funny: http://bit.ly/OXnbJ #
• Remarkably hard to stay awake today. In fact, didn’t for a while. Useful, that. #
• @FroynLaven Ooh, I don’t usually get retweeted. Followed a link to #WolframAlpha and the #montypython thing came to mind as a question. #
• Fantasy as a literary genre is cool, but I wonder can we handle 4 years of magical thinking here in Realityland. #
• @sarahk47 Besides, “A is A” is much more concise. #
• Darn, had to reject a good workorder because I have the kids *and* don’t carry computer parts. Maybe 2 hrs = 2 days pay at my job. Oh well. #
• Availability matters. #
• Anyway, gotta get ready to get the twerps out of the house as promised. #
• I’ll be mortified to bring kids in this Wendy’s again. And Henry was thirsty to have drank so little punch. #
• Brought kids to west side playground just in time for 3 friendly kids same ages to be arriving. #
• Didn’t get kids back in house before not next door came over to play zealously with them. #

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• Ended up 15 late to my 9 am appt but it was good. Didn’t get out of work until 7:46. Now doc at 11:15. #
• Managed to be slightly early to doctor. Hope he pant running way behind. Waiting room looks positive. #
• Nice to be able to read my screen. Little birdie pointed me to don’t size option. #
• I see they have a sign now astong check with desk if you have been waiting over 20 minutes. Heh. #
• Having trouble staying awake. #
• 126/88 on first pass at blood pressure, lowest yet this time around. Despite nurse being vociferous on sensitive topics. #
• Wondering why doctor’s arm is in a sling. Guess I’ll find out soon enough. #
• They seem to have big fuss with another patient. Still waiting. #
• @Shurakai I believe runs are on sale at hannaford next week. HTH #
• My barbecue beef tastes amazing after a day in the fridge. #
• Getting my own place should help with our excess furniture problem. #
• Kids want to go to playground again. I don’t mind, at same time I’d love to do some other stuff. #
• Sadie dying to go to playground. I just woke from napping Henry & going under myself, and he’s still there amazingly. #
• At pierce playground with kids. At least it isn’t soccer? #
• Leaving playground at last! #

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• @robmay Thinking of you a while ago because was having imagined talk with counselor RE Joe vs the Volcano & mental clarity, thus Meg Ryan. #
• The “brain cloud” thing still amuses me. #
• There’s a lot to be said for the kids wanting to go to bed so badly they drag me along. #
• @Shurakai Excellent movie! Joe Versus the Volcano. Hanks, Ryan as 3 characters, and amusing appearance by Abe Vigoda. #
• We start at 3:30 from now on. If this is what volume will be like, good thing. #
• @danabrit It’s usually not. #
• @phillymac Apogee? Didn’t they used to make computer games? #
• @Shurakai Yep! Hanks is a depressed hypochondriac. Goes to dr who tells him he has a “brain cloud,” limited time to live. Hijinks ensue. #
• Kids have no respect for naps. #
• @jaygarmon That’s only if you forgot to have it as the greatest of all possible breakfasts. Mmm… pizza. #
• There went one of my tooth hole stitches, answering the question of whether they’d fall out themselves and how long it’d take. #
• Kids would love go to playground, and I already fed them lunch. Perhaps I should let my lack of motivation take me in that direction. #
• Though my better half was also threatening such a thing, or the idea of all of us going. So far she is catching up on sleep, hello, day off. #
• Wondering where Val learned to call people “butthead.” #
• Damn, Life was canceled! I mean the show, not mine. #
• @jaycaruso Guess I’m not smart enough to start a separate instance of Firefox if there is reason to do that rather than another tab. #
• Starting to wonder if Deb is OK, but it’s possible, even probable, she got little sleep while I was at work on top of rough night to then. #
• And she’s fine! I’m relieved. Sleep IS good. #
• Just told Sadie being surreptitious means you like maple. #
• #weconnectwednesday Tweeting my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaysolo, seek work, feel free to connect: marshe at elhide.com. #
• @OneFineJay @seanhackbarth Deb got me a bottle of Mt Dew Throwback and it was great. Thought it seemed crisper, taste test may be needed. #
• Need to get ready to go. Maybe I’ll do some CotC tweets first. #
• @phillymac I’d say you’re welcome, but, um… I missed the boat. Maybe next grand. #
• Time to get out the door to post office, maybe library, Stop & Shop. Impressed library is open until 8. #
• Have kids at pierce playground. Happy kids. #

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• Monday night is party night on the 3rd floor, above us. Yay. #
• @phillymac Scary indeed! #
• #tdg Call it 6/9 complete. Living room partial, but did a bedroom, on top of bonus bathroom, plus back to dishpan zero after supper. #
• Count much? #tdg 7/9 done enough. #
• Should look for my old watch. Have to leave work at 7 if we run later, could use that in my pocket to keep eye on time. #
• First some coffee! #
• And 39 degrees? Sheesh! #
• @phillymac At first glance I read that as “I am forgoing WORK this morning” and wondered what walking at lunch had to do with that. #
• Very successful 1st day of getting out of work by about 7:00 while Deb is department manager for the week & working earlier shift. #
• It’s crazy there, but I have no doubt she’ll show them how it’s done. Sad it’s so awkward building her career vs what I need to do. #
• I love morning kid hug time. #
• CotC stuff tweeted. Trying to find some gumption beyond that. No shortage of stuff to do! #
• Need to analyze what I need to do on a larger scale so I can select what to put on a list that might actually fit in a day. #
• Also? Need to decide on supper. Sadie wants homemade fries, but if I make shredded beef I’d serve with rice. Or on rolls I don’t have. Hmm. #
• There’s a whole new class of misspellings, you know, in the form of nonsense words phones make when interpretive text fails unnoticed. #
• “Kids these days! They sure make ‘em like they used to.” #
• Henry made up for being up since 5:30 by napping. I did with him, in part. Val was PROUD that she made that hard, ultimately truncated it. #
• @pixxiespaz That was one of the ones I got cheap at Job Lot when my supply ran out. Not sure the cheap brand is always as good but… #
• Finished living room, moved furniture, folded laundry, organized some stuff. That scratches the surface. Crockpot shredded beef underway. #
• Not sure what I did with furniture will work. Benefit of my moving may be to eliminate our excess furniture for the place problem. #
• Augh. #

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• @listener42 Used to make a whole package of spaghetti just for me, eat it in 3 sittings. Similar other stuff. Can do even better though. #
• Val seems to have decided Sadie’s name is Rory, or something that sounds like it. And she likes the full version of her own name. #
• Oh well. Time to get Henry off my lap and into bed. #
• Spotty t-mobile. Service is goupbh to drive me crazy. #
• #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 5/18/09: http://bizosphere.com/?p=173 #
• @MaddyPumilia You just seem older! #
• @ScottAllen @DuvalRyda Ah, guess I’m not completely addicted yet! #
• Weird waking up with Deb gone… and well after 8 AM, though sleep wasn’t entirely sound so not effectively as long as could be. #
• The Stripping Down Test - http://tinyurl.com/q8q2ke - You Are Observant in Life #blogthings #
• How Do You Think? - http://tinyurl.com/cobabq - You Think Concretely #blogthings (True! I do sometimes feel like there’s concrete in there.) #
• I hate when 3 of 4 answers on a silly quiz all apply. #
• #tdg 1) Table 2) Sweep K 3) Mop K 4) Fridge 5) Dishes 6) Clean L 7) Buy TP&PT Verify Files 9) Start kid PC project #
• What Bathroom Product Are You? - http://tinyurl.com/pfebvx - You Are Shampoo #blogthings #
• @jsbelfiore Nope, it won’t. I’ve thought that since I first wrote about real estate being a dangerous bubble in IIRC 2003. #
• @FroynLaven ROFL! That is awesome! You could probably make a real quiz of “what server are you” if you wanted. #
• I’d intended to use making a quiz as the goal for helping me learn PHP, beyond the tiny bit I picked up modifying stock contact form. #
• #tdg Done 4/9 Plus bonus sweep & mop bathroom. #7 Done via Deb buying the stuff instead. Really just four to go. #
• Kids could probably use food, at least. On hold until floor dries. New mop leaves it even wetter than old. #
• Could start living room purge, at least. #
• Feel like I touched on my inner Acidman, using the phrase “anal rape by judicial decree.” Or perhaps my inner @Velociman at least. #
• Tend kids then either more cleaning or CotC tweets accumulated so far. #

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• Time to go to bed before I fall asleep here and/or kids melt down. I think CotC is over 60 entries for the week. Oops. #
• I seem to have become a bit more capable of sleeping on my days off. Yay for that! #
• @the_night_queen Happy birthday! Yesterday, then? Or today? #
• @GautamGhosh Oops. was in the CotC Twitter account when I replied. Job hunting? I did long ago, but it’s a sore spot. It can be useful IMHO. #
• Caught up CotC, will be breeze to finalize tonight. Need to do a few minutes web work & a bill. Run dishwasher. Computer work. Cleaning. #
• This calls for more coffee! #
• @pixxiespaz I don’t generally use much ginger on chicken. That sounds good! Mine is usually garlic, rosemary, other herbs, salt, pepper. #
• Definitely need to have a different computer as my primary, if it’s this hard to find stuff like, oh, client invoices from last year. #
• This computer was put in service in 2000, not counting it was a total rebuild of late 1999 one that fried. #
• Day went poof to some Henry nap time. Maybe I can salvage. First guess I’ll tie up CotC, pushing 70 entries I believe. #
• Laptop/notebook will be high on my list as I reboot my life. Relatively, as I can manage without but it’s useful & I’m allegedly a tech guy. #
• Don’t think I can get in trouble for mentioning goal of moving from here to my own place in about (or before) 2 months. #
• It’s going to be odd, cooking for one, but be interesting to apply what I’ve learned that I thought would have been helpful when single. #
• I’ll need to tie up medical stuff before then, as no telling when I will have coverage, Romney’s poison legacy penalties notwithstanding. #

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• Really need sleep. Hope I catch up this weekend. #
• @sharone75 Cool! It’s the right kind of area for them, so makes sense. #
• @Pistachio Late December back in ‘63? #
• Remarkably, everyone is still asleep, apparently in their own beds. As opposed to migrating in with their mother, rendering her less so. #
• Looked up renewal of primary hosting vs semiannual ad revenue timing. A week apart in the right order! #
• Pretty picture of my General Gao’s turkey meatballs: http://bit.ly/BO9SO #
• Gearing up to take kids on grandpa visit and/or trip to playground. #
• Trying to stay awake in the meantime! Can’t believe I’m this prone to just dozing off. #
• Good visit with grandparents. #
• @MikeG1 No wonder people are agitating for him to resign. Hadn’t been paying attention to details. #
• Kids got two Enterprises and a Kelvin in their kid meals from BK! Sadie wanted a guy not a ship. Then she wanted Kelvin, not Enterprise. #
• Enterprise zooms. Kelvin says “red alert!” She finds that more appealing. #

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• Well holy crap. 18.7 hours last week and my 2nd or 3rd biggest check here ever. Tomorrow would have to be 5 hrs to match it. #
• Funny to learn management thought I was awesome the other day from the manager who was on vacation, relating what she’d been told. #
• @OneFineJay I believe they did a blog post about it, and there’s a technical/resource issue involved. #
• @OneFineJay Here it is: http://bit.ly/vk3QC #
• Ended up not driving Deb to Boston, and she decided not to use T, just drive herself, do some stuff nearby after appointment. #
• Need to feed kids, clean stuff, get Sadie set with working computer, see about a 2nd/3rd kid computer, fix their desk, etc etc. #
• Setting kids up with computers helps clean out this room, so bonus. Need to work on my other computer, too. And invoice for web work. #
• @jsbelfiore Or at least the schools and their associated teachers. #
• @Shurakai Thoughts on best parts/combo of parts for good machine for Gary? #
• @Shurakai Not really an object, though assumption is something decent circa $500 sans monitor. #
• The guys in Shocking Blue in video of Venus look like kids to me. Not like they’re Light of Doom, but still… I’m apparently old. #
• @Shurakai Whatever you do, don’t combine fast food + sedentary job + beta blockers. #
• Augh. Forgot my blood pressure pills this morning! I might have energy at work tomorrow. Dreadful. #
• Apparently I am in scheming mode. Shades of, say, when I was pondering CotC originally. Much has background processed long term. #
• Driven partly by fear of lack of work forthcoming, partly by needing all the spare $ I can get even if so, partly by curtailed options. #
• Ad potential on most of my sites is tapped & not under my control (per se - I can always direly remove/refuse). Alternatives are required. #
• Apparently cleaning is good for the creative thinking juices. I should remember that. #

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• Sad it’s time for bed. OTOH perhaps better to be stoned asleep than awake. Deb thought the look on my face was disturbing & unprecedented. #
• And the kids clearly need to be asleep. Then they can’t harm each other. #
• BK Happy- er, whatever they call em, meal toys currently are the coolest ever. Sadie got shuttle that says “approaching drop zone.” #
• Henry got Kirk, which is totally appropriate. “Kirk to Enterprise.” Val got Scotty. “I’m giving it all she’s got captain!” Deb bought glass. #
• Spock glass. Very cool. #
• I didn’t bleed to death in my sleep from my tooth socket. Go me! #
• Slept well. Could happily do so much longer. Impressed how well a couple Tylenol dulled the residual tooth pain once I was up. #
• You’d never know I’d had a tooth pulled late testedat afternoon, unless you saw me spit blood just now. Rocked work again and still high … #
• What Element Were You Born Into? - http://tinyurl.com/r9gbv2 - You Were Born into the Metal Element #blogthings #
• @Pistachio What if I’m beyond help? :> #
• Next week’s appointment is at 9 AM instead of 11, since I have a doc appointment, and turns out she has a meeting this makes easier. #
• Trying to figure out what to do next as I get my day underway. Oh wait! How’d it get to be almost 5:00 already? #
• Caught up on CotC tweets. It’s getting much more extensive than it had been, so good thing. #
• Shoot, almost 6:00?! How’d that happen? 2 hours or so to bedtime. Days of stuff to do before then. #
• @Pistachio Heh. Hit close to home, as in a sense that is what I’m working on lately. #
• RT @Lileks It’s not pizza if it doesn’t have meat. It’s a round hot ironed salad. #

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• RT @nytimesscience Nicks Discovered on Space Shuttle Atlantis http://bit.ly/xkGue Me: what a departure from her Fleetwood Mac days. #
• Odd, the spot where I had mole removed has gradually started hurting regularly, even though it’s all healed. #
• Henry finally slept, but kicked me out of bed. #
• Alarm goes off in 3 hours, 53 mins, so gyess I’d better lat down in here and try again. #
• A three hour sleep. Not enough. Now have Gilligan’s Island tune in head. #
• I rock. And on 3 hours sleep. #
• Did some good thinking about goals while I unloaded 2.5 trailers. Still have to collect thoughts more before tomorrow morning, but progress. #
• Think this AM I was affected by what I call the Hypertensive Energy Cycle. Forgot to take pills yesterday. #
• RT @robmay government’s decision to subordinate Chrysler secured creditors to junior creditors is one of the worst decisions in US history #
• @robmay Why yes, yes it is. Huge CotC fodder this week. #
• WTF? Just read about #fixreplies and the change makes zero sense. If I didn’t want to see all, I’d not turn that setting on. #
• @abigvictory They really make a hash of things. #
• Torn over idea of taking kids to bank with me, maybe store, leaving Deb sleeping and in quieter environment. Really didn’t want to, but… #
• I don’t foresee another way they will get out of the house, even for a ride in the car, on what seems to be a super nice day. #
• Kids aren’t going to stand for being left home, so basically off we go. #
• Hey look, a hole in my jaw! #
• @BeantownSports So did you like it? #
• Now if the site of former tooth would stop bleeding, I’d be all set. Deb is on way to get my prescriptions filled. As numbness fades, ouch! #
• Besides vicodin and antibiotics, Deb will bring back BK for kids so I don’t have to worry about it, given my lack of desire/ability to eat. #

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• @FroynLaven This makes me really want to install it on a spare machine. but all the spares are kind of low end. #
• Wish I wouldn’t wake just enough before alarm to make more sleep impossible. At least I got tons my nights off for a change. #
• Another huge day at work, short people and heavy again. The extra $ is good, but it’s odd we don’t reflect the broader economy. #
• Our ad service keeps not telling us about ads that cancel. Just got a buy from one that was already there. Apparently lapsed, returned. #
• @Shurakai Sky of blue, and sea of green… Oh wait, you’re in Ohio. #
• What Taste Are You? - http://tinyurl.com/o9l69r - You Are Salty #blogthings #
• @phillymac “I used to have them just about all the time, but I found a way to get out of it. Let me tell you bout it!” #
• @y2vonne Only if they can snatch a pebble from your palm? #
• @BeantownSports I would, but you’re not. And it’s light years away from that crowded night in the Westgate lobby so long ago. #
• Just sacrificed a couple hours holding/napping inconsolable youngest, whose sister’s had *no idea* how he got hurt. #

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