Tersosity & Verbosity

• Nothing like being unable to sleep when there are under 4 hours available. #
• How Is Your Inner Child? - http://tinyurl.com/aqnff - Your Inner Child Is Naughty #blogthings #
• The Shape Test - http://tinyurl.com/n6c2zv - You Are Confident #blogthings (This is news to me, at least lately..) #
• ♩ That’s the plan… rule the world… you and me… any day… ♩ #
• Darn, thought I had a great workorder for a day and time I could do and good money, but it’s 4 sites, 4 days, thus bad times,modest money. #

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• Thinking of taking kids camping 1 or more nights July 13-16 while Deb is away. Deb thought that was a cool idea. $ is object, even at… #
• $12/night for state park camp sites. Not really an option that’s free, though, and the more rustic, even lower cost ones aren’t near us. #
• Speaking of kids, they have slept 2 nights in a row in their room without me. Some hysterics last night, but not bad. #
• Ended up picking Deb up at Walmart last night and we all went to Applebee’s in Raynham, which was awesome when new and hasn’t changed. #
• Middleboro apparently has fireworks the 3rd. I’ll have to bring all or no kids, so counting on meeting people like cousins for it. #
• Turns out I have Saturday off for the holiday, so it’ll be a short week. At least 4 days is better than 2! And it ought to be busy. #
• Hope none of the kids actually decide the carnival looks too interesting. Sadie plans to go skydiving someday, so might like rides. #

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• Starting to wonder when my sister will get here. Need notice if I do have to call in for 3:30 shift. #
• @pixxiespaz Don’t think during day is a problem, though that might be kind of cool any given time. She’s taking weekend off. #
• Deb is leaving hospital at 2:00, getting ride home, then doing errands before truly landing here. #

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• Remembered but forgot appointment this AM. That bite out of day doesn’t fit my mental image of all day doing laundry and cleaning. #
• Skipped that stuff yesterday. Getting truck from Brockton ended up 7 hours including visiting people. #
• Kids aren’t even up yet. It’ll be all I can do to get them dropped off so I can be to 10:45 appointment. At least we’ll be home early. #
• But then I also need to swing by Walmart, if only for pullups, which is more time. Oh well. At least I don’t have to take more days off. #
• @samablog As good as it sounds, eh? #

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• T-Mobile service lapses are starting to irritate me. #
• @robmay That was exactly what I said when I saw that link in my morning e-mail. But then, I always though Reich was an idiot. #
• @adriadc You’re not? You sure used to be! #
• Didn’t hear back from Michelle, Mom can’t leave Grandma overnight. She’s asking cousin’s GF to help us out with babysitting. Maybe I will… #
• Check with my sister even before hearing back. Deb will probably be home Friday, so it’s 2 nights. #
• In midst of errands centerred on getting truck home. Kids impatient. #
• @shurakai Bea aid you have to file a whatchavallit’ which makes sense if you figure dor has to take direction not do deciding. #
• Continuing to be dismayed by T-Mobile connec-zzzp no carrier. #

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• That was an adventure. Wasn’t expecting the place she was in to be same building as Children’s Hospital. Comedy of errors over visitation. #
• 99 Restaurant was awesome and kids were as close to perfect as can be expected. They were sports about long ride. #
• Kids didn’t get to see their mother. I wasn’t clear they’d be unable. She wasn’t clear I was bringing them. #
• @Shurakai Well, she’ll just have to move back home then, if you’re supporting her. :> #
• @Shurakai Speaking of your kids, wonder if it’d be beyond possible to have the other daughter stay on couch 2-3 nights so I can go to work. #
• @AttilaGirl http://helpiranelection.com/ #
• Funny, called into work yesterday AM so don’t have to go, woke at what would have been last minute to be there on time, no alarm. #
• Wow, took until just now, but work did call to check on me. Said let them know, regarding later in the week. #
• Remembered this AM on waking that Deb also had asked for a few other items, like shampoo. Oops! Surprised she didn’t mention it after. #
• Firefox has started staying alive as a process on Vista machine, so FF won’t start next time until I end process from task list. #
• Way too much to do. Really need to start. #
• Plan was to be a whirlwind of action: dishes, cleaning, laundry, bureaucracy, still need shopping, arranging babysitting, etc etc… #
• If I can’t get someone to crash here overnight so I can work from 3 - 7 AM or so, what the hell will I do about, say, 8 AM - 5 PM or so? #
• I can so understand the temptation that’d lead a parent to leave the kids alone. Hey, they’re in bed, it’s night! But no. #
• Just had to Google to find out who the f are “Jon and Kate” as I had no clue. #
• Person 1 asked to stay over so I can go to work Wed, thru possibly Fri nights. Next an e-mail, then see what kids are up to, work on house. #
• Important e-mail done. Natives sound restless. #
• @drjjoyner http://twitter.com/drjjoyner/status/2295850742? #

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• Deb is in hospital 1 - 3 days. Have to call work tomorrow, get Tues off, arrange to pick up her truck, ton of other stuff. #
• Deb ought to get to finish the book she’s reading. Not allowed to have her cell phone or her knitting & crochet stuff, but can have book. #
• #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 6/22/09: http://bit.ly/4TNDW #
• @Shurakai That’s ridiculous. Maybe they are basing it on a default age thing rather than facts on the ground or as agreed between you? #
• @Shurakai Since IIRC the default now assumes 4 year college/age of 22. Which still doesn’t mean 3 more years… But emancipation should rule #
• Can I get us all dressed, get package at PO, get to bank 20+ mins away by 3:00? I have an hour, total. Then a run to store follows. #
• In Waltham killing time by going to the 99 seeking cheap and beat, preferably. #
• Have to give kudos to 99 in waltham so far for their great staff and handling allergy questions. #

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• Oddly not ready for bed despite sleepwalking thru the day. #
• Had the craziest dream. Stayed at big old house owned by @Ithildyn but clearly in NH crossed with Weekend Pundit folks, on a lake. #
• Guess I should work on CotC before we go to graduation party on this lovely summer day. Forecasts differ in showing rain through Fri or Sat. #
• @MikeG1 I remember transformers! My Lionel trains wouldn’t run without them. :> #
• Silly kids don’t care that it’s raining during party, they’re playing outside anyway. #

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• I am going to need people to take kids overnight July 13 - 16, 3 nights, while Deb goes on vacation with her boyfriend. #
• It’s actually soon enough I may not be able to get time off, and long enough I can’t possibly justify taking 3 days unpaid. #
• @Shurakai Worried about getting the time off, money aside, after being told how hard it is to get time off in summer & month+ being iffy. #
• Show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click - http://helpiranelection.com/ #
• @pixxiespaz Heh. If only I could! #

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• About as dead on my feet as I’ve ever felt upon getting out of bed in the morning. Must slam down at least 2 coffees. #
• This fits my perception rents have dropped, having eyed them lately in prep for moving sometime: http://bit.ly/1LWfS2 #
• Deb had assumed as foreclosures went crazy that rents would rise in response to people being added to the pool of those who rent. #
• Which made sense, though I wasn’t sure that’d be the case but couldn’t have given a logical reason why. Assumed she was right. #
• Writing documents describing each of the three businesses we claimed on taxes, as required by Massachusetts doing a desk audit. Exciting! #
• I love the part about having to supply a client list. For Deb’s I just pointed them to neatlytangled.etsy.com to see what it is, etc. #

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• Oh well. Need to start getting things done. #

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• @JusteneAdamec Nope, but I couldn’t get firms I worked for to have blogs back when, so I’d expect it to be rare. #
• What Carnival Ride Are You? - http://tinyurl.com/2syxc3 - You Are a Haunted House #blogthings #
• Lunch, red tape for MA DOR audit in which they try avoiding EIC that wipes out much of past tax debt, drag kids to visit grandparents… #
• @MaddyPumilia In which they teach how to rewrite press releases slightly, in an effort to disguise that it’s a press release? :> #
• It’s been over 24 hours. Still waiting for my adjusted @TMobile_USA balance to show online so it can be paid. #

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• Looks like Twitter Tools created AND published a CotC post… Including 2 weeks of tweets. Sigh… #
• #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 6/15/09: http://bit.ly/r4Kvq #
• @chucksimmins ROFL! #
• It’s cute seeing Valerie be old enough to appreciate the song Valleri by the Monkees. #
• Kids didn’t watch avidly end to end, but seemed to like original Escape to Witch Mountain. Sadie asked me to play it again when it ended. #
• Yay! Got rogue T-Mobile bill corrected from 168.53 to 111.27, within $3 of what I’d expect. Someone goofed. Hope it can be paid tomorrow… #
• That one has to be from money I don’t control. Next one maybe I can get out of the part of my pay that doesn’t go to rent. #
• And I went through regular channels, but welcome @TMobile_USA to Twitter. #
• What Mexican Food Are You? - http://tinyurl.com/m6abfs - You Are Chips and Salsa #blogthings #
• What’s Your Gift? - http://tinyurl.com/mwjnvd - Your Gift is Sensitivity #blogthings (Thinking I already took this, with different result.) #
• Like it or not, time to get dressed and drag kids to store. Maybe takeout but don’t think I can justify the $ for that. #
• Better to get something cool to cook after we get home. #
• @dasgrafik Better than being a psyched lone ranger? #
• Chinatown is better, but Hong Kong Taste seems OK and is notably lower in price. Could have fed 4 for $12 w/no leftovers. #

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• Shoot, just remembered it’s Sunday and I haven’t touched CotC yet. #
• @listener42 Awesome enough that I noticed it in places like that, definitely. #
• @phillymac How’s that name thing going? For some reason the other day I though Gregory (Greg) sounded good. #
• @phillymac So she liked Xavier too, eh? Long as it’s not Xavier Charles? The only Y middle I could think of was Yosef, but XYZ FTW. #
• Anyway, can walk through living room now, most of toys I picked up are staying away, need to finish what got swept into kitchen. #
• Which fits great with supper finishing. Fish fillets and potato puffs and maybe some peas.Fish is a good mom not here food. #
• She’s actually going to be home next around 11:30 PM tomorrow. Avoided it today, but will have to run to store with kids tomorrow. #

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• Hate having chest congestion this painful. #
• Apparently the something going around work has stopped being casual about afflicting me. #
• Oh well, off to bed before the children explode. #
• Another exciting 4 hours of sleep starts in a moment! Ooh… #
• So that’s about 19.5 hours for the week, I believe highest since I started here. #
• If it were that every week I could cover my half the rent and everything else I must pay without relying on anything in her name. #
• Well, must pay not counting my first grand a month should go to debt. Have to factor that into any notion of required income. #
• Can’t stay awake! If not for kids, I’d have slept nonstop since 7 AM. Like that’s what one of the cold symptoms is, beyond normal sleepy. #
• @ErikReagan @dasgrafik Thanks! I’d sort of glanced at segments in poking around, but hadn’t put it together. I’ll try that today. #
• Managed to get “marshe” on Facebook. #
• Automatically thought of jaysolo first, as that’s been everything else, but if I’m pointedly collapsing identities… #
• @sharone75 That made me think “Pokemon party.” #
• Expression Engine recognizes that (segment_1) is a valid expression, as it’s supposed to be built in, but treats it as if it’s null, empty. #
• @ernieattorney The hundreds of acres of woods surrounding my house, 1/3 of a mile from the nearest other house. I’ll always miss it. #
• Since I don’t know precisely what segment_1 will contain so I know what to put after ==, I was trying to return the value. #
• Ah! Segments are for the parts after base of URL? That’s no help. #
• And it appears to treat the root as not the domain, but the gyrations that come after. Definitely not gonna do it, unless by negative. #
• That is, if segment_1 is nothing then it’s the home page. Hmmm… #
• Yes! {if segment_1 == “”} will show something only on home page without the …index.php/weblog/… crap that’s for posts & categories. #
• Just watched Stardust with kids. Liked it a lot. Not what I’d planned to do! #

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• My nagging wannabe cold seems to have turned genuinely congestive. Go me! #
• @TWalk Aw come on, you know you want to… please? #
• Been beating my head against old Expression Engine blog trying to figure how to code it to detect is homepage and show link only if there. #
• Time to feed kids, so enough geeking out. Plus it’ll be bedtime soon! 1:30 comes early. Mom unit should be home by 2:30. She’s sleeping. #
• Armed with sleeping pills, at Mike’s, trying to get kid-free catch up sleep to help her feel better so she has less trouble sleeping. #

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• The girls seem to like birch beer. They’ve not to date been soda drinkers, except a little grape, the only other flavor they found okay. #
• Should have been to bed earlier but oh well. Feel truncated by outing, fun as it was. #
• My Mike radar is broken. Used to feel it when he was there. Last time I thought so, he wasn’t, this time the opposite. #
• It was a bit like my speed trap intuition. It WAS trying to tell me but wasn’t gut level and ignored the thoughts. #
• My body appears to be intent on finally dropping below my low to date. For those just joining us, that was 233, down from 308. #
• Today was trying to claim 231 well after getting home from work and pigging out, though some of time it said 233 - 234 instead. #
• Augh #

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• 3 AM doesn’t seem so bad, but then it’s hard to wrap head around leaving house at 2:45 to get there. 2. AM. And change. Yawn. #
• My weight somehow is almost back at my low this morning. Maybe I’ll drop below it sometime. #
• @pixxiespaz Happy birthday! For some reason it made me think of old house in Halifax, as you’re old enough to remember living there. #
• RT @jsbelfiore The theory of economic “green shoots” is lovely until people realize we’ve planted trillions in annuals. #
• @jsbelfiore It’s just such a clever way to put it. #
• About time to think about getting ready, if I am doing the movie and shopping thing with Sadie. Waiting for mom unit to have slept more. #
• Pixar outdid themselves with UP. Sadie loved it and was more than ready for theater. #
• Just before I left, Henry was having an allergic skin reaction to most likely my scrambled burger gravy. Fascinating. #
• Contains bullion, oil, flour, onion, burger, bay leaf, oregano, thyme, red pepper, celery, a couple others. Nothing bad. #
• Sadie’s meal came with apple sauce, which she is using to dip her pizza. Kids are so open minded. #
• Seems kind of silly to serve apple sauce but not have spoons. #

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• Yesterday someone calls me by name. Sadie says “His name is Dad! Remember that.” #
• Couldn’t see screen when I was taking them, but got some amazing pics of kids at beach, and more today at playground. Been too few lately. #
• Really hate the burning neighbors. All of them in waft range. #
• Not that it may be the only reason for sore throat, but doesn’t help. #
• Insomnia rocks! Um… not. #
• 4+ hours every day would start to add up. Better not to get injured in the process though. #
• #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 6/8/09: http://bit.ly/JB6d6 #
• Now there’s a problem: I can’t read the bill I have to call T-Mobile about. Maybe I should call for eye exam while it’s foremost in mind. #
• Total should be about $108, including new Blackberry, not $163. Looks like servuice change on 3/23 actually happened 4/22. And other dates! #
• T-Mobile was clearly very confused. One of the mistakes was $6 charge for web access on canceled line, no other charges for said line. #
• Tried T-Mobile’s online support form, ran out of field characters, didn’t get to point out their odd wrong-date cancellation as aside. #
• @sharone75 Maybe I can wander by tomorrow. I am going to attempt to take Sadie to see Up and/or go grocery shopping. #
• Darn, Wareham is only showing Up in 3D. Looks like Kingston is only 2D. 1st movie in theater for Sadie, why complicate it? And add cost. #
• Kingston WAS 2nd choice, has earlier showing, 12:45, and is otherwise convenient. #

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• It was an awesome day, except for Val’s total breakdown tantrum on waking in car after we got home, made worse by boy next door being there. #
• Need to do some CotC tweets so I’d better do those before I even go take Henry out of tub or I’m sunk. #
• @Shurakai This totally didn’t come to the Blackberry as it should have, so didn’t see it to relay the hi to Nic. #
• @Shurakai You came up though, in comparing experiences. #
• I had fun with kids, everyone loved them and thought they were Cutest Ever, but not much of a visit with friends, like two groups separate. #
• That is, it was me and kids, my friends, and a sort of minimal connection. It WAS nice to have a safe, adult-laden place I could relax some. #
• Usually it’s me and the kids, period. If other adults, strangers, if other places, not kid-friendly or whatever you’d call the distinction. #
• @Pistachio “Just let it shine, within your mind, and show you the colors that are real.” #
• I forgot exactly one thing: bathing suit for me, to put on something for wading, since I own no short. Pants rolled up nicely, I’m so thin. #
• Everyone should sleep tonight! Then massive backlog to do tomorrow. #
• @pixxiespaz Yeah, was afraid it was something like that. #
• Having trouble sleeping. Maybe now that I’ve eaten and unscratched my throat. Looks like I am not alone… #
• Trying bedtime again. Val seems to be having same problem. #
• Augh! Twitter Tools will NOT create a CotC post today! #
• Heh. Looking through old baby pics at AV found Heliumtology and found I was only Google hit for it. #
• What’s Your Gift? - http://tinyurl.com/mwjnvd - Your Gift is Imagination #blogthings #
• Time to round up kids and paychecks, get out the door to bank, maybe store, maybe pay landlord, maybe let them hit playground. Rain coming. #
• One stop down. Funny, I’ve come to think of it as mr and kids and expect to have them with me automatically. #
• It’ll be weird being entirely fee of that, and off as I don’t mind so much except for extent. #
• Free of, not fee of. #
• Being home is so traumatic maybe I should setup a tent at a playground and stay there. But then they’d lose their cups and minds there. #
• Still no sign of Twitter Tools creating a post on the new blog. Assume if I wait long enough it’ll do it a day or 2 after scheduled. #
• Henry wants to climb on me and nap. Val hasn’t had a drink and I apparently have to dismantle the place to find the cup she had earlier. #
• Kids are funny. #

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