My lovely daughters are both teenaged, which is to say that they are by now quite convinced that their old man is a tedious fool, hopelessly out of touch with what matters the most in today's world. Well, to qualify that: with what really matters. The usual example for that would be computers, but as I've mentioned before, they have grown up with ( Read more... )

First, the moments of major awesome: I have my first business meetings scheduled for next week. Yep, I'll be meeting with clients as the President of The Exchange to discuss contracts. As papertigers will no doubt report, I wear a suit, to predictable hilarious devastating effect. I am also made of win and awesome with a generous glaze of wootsauce. Woof! ( Read more... )

I don't know exactly if it's a function of my age, or just the peculiar convolutions of my personality, but I've reached a point in my life when creature comforts of a certain variety are extremely welcome. Maybe it's just that my paying position involves being surrounded by dingbats, or my political career drives me to despair for our country and ( Read more... )

Got the word back from the doc on efbq: it's not the flu, which is good news, but it is most likely bronchitis. (He also said I wasn't likely to get it, since she's been contagious for days now. Knocking on wood and leaving the arm-pump and the "Score! ^_^ \/" until later. The universe doesn't like it when I get cocky.) She now has a prescrip for ( Read more... )

Saturday in general was not the best of days...besides Ralph Nader's "exploratory committee" shenanigans, there was the reason I got called away from the debate: Kid-1 decided to play catch with my sister, and ended up catching like the Orioles on one throw. In other words, one front tooth chipped, the other sheared completely in half, and a third ( Read more... )

The show turned out pretty darned good! The cast is rockin' it: Will is unexpectedly funny as Corvino - he has a subtle physical humor that he really needed the larger stage to bring out, so we didn't see it in rehearsal - and cnvarbiter is great as I knew he would be. I even got some laughs in places that I wasn't expecting to (and no, not because I ( Read more... )

Using a whip and a chair, I am bringing my to-do list under control. I have a new GPG key, if'n y'all want it; I got a frame for my (now correct) ordination certificate; and I have recovered my laser pointer, thanks to efbq and much to the delight of the cat, who was going psycho without it (but then again is psycho with it, so no great change there ( Read more... )

Recovering this morning from...something. I do dislike it when you're apparently hung over in the morning and didn't touch a drop the night before. Judging by the delicacy of my head right now, I'd guess "overnight migraine". Should be okay for this afternoon, though.

Following up on this post, we have a list of messages left on Jim Rockford's ( Read more... )

Congrats to crazieabby and her team, the Shockwaves, for winning the Soccer Association of Columbia pre-season tournament for their age bracket! Now that they're playing kids their own age, suddenly, things fall into place...they scored 11 goals and allowed none, and crazieabby chipped in with a goal from her defensive spot, too.

Edited to note that this was last ( Read more... )

There are times - only very occasional ones, but they do happen - where I wish I was a moron and didn't think of the various dilemmas and consequences that can occur from the actions I take and the beliefs that I hold.

The first example grows out of one of today's occupations: the end of year party for crazieabby's soccer team. For the first time in a few ( Read more... )