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Hump day Grump
Pal is in Phoenix for job interviews. Good for him! Only he left before dawn Monday morning & will not be back until Sunday evening since he got a ride w/ one of my 17 yr old cousins on his spring break trip. Pal only has interviews lined up for yesterday & today, so the lucky guy gets to go skiing over the weekend ( Read more... ) -
The kiddo's first trip to Urgent Care
Yesterday I walked up to the playground at Micha's school and saw him sitting on the ground next to/under the swing. His back was to me, but it didn't look happy. A teacher got to him before I did and yep, he had fallen off of the swing, landed on his back, and was crying his little heart out. So I picked him up and started to try to comfort him, ( Read more... ) -
12th Night...
went great! I had lots of fun as stage manager, but apparently this is odd, since I kept getting asked if my sister had guilted me into it. Go figure. Our parents and sister came, which was really nice of them. Everyone remembered (most of) their lines, nothing came crashing down, and nobody from the play going on next door turned up with a gun ( Read more... ) -
Weird Sisters' 12th Night
I'm stage managing for an all female production of Shakespeare's 12th Night this Friday and Saturday. Put on by the Weird Sisters Women's Theater Collective, at the Austin Playhouse, Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm. $5-$20 donation. It's prolly the funniest version of this play I've seen done. Everyone should come! -
Cool things about Lego Land:
Even small kids can participate in most rides/activities. A big bonus for us, none of the kids with our family were over 40" tall ( Read more... ) -
Rats, again. And again.
Any good advice on how to keep the rats from eating their way into my house? It was kinda' interesting the first time, but now it is just getting ridiculous. The vermin aren't even afraid of me anymore. We've caught five now, but this week one jumped across the game room and scared me half to death. Yikes. This time I actually could see the hole ( Read more... ) -
Rats!
Roof rats have decided that my house is the discotec of the northwest side. Sheesh. They are throwing a party in my attic daily now. The exterminators come out and it's like a club raid. It'll be nice and quiet for a few days, and then they chew through whatever sheet metal barrier got put up and fire up the rodent all-star band. Like the little ( Read more... ) -
And the free ride to preschool ends...
Heard yesterday that my boss has canceled my preschool reimbursement ( Read more... ) -
Solar Idea Update
Dude! So yesterday I emailed the better of my solar ideas to the Austin Green Choice Program, and they actually emailed me back ( Read more... ) -
Solar Ideas
Here are my latest couple of ideas for increased solar power in Austin ( Read more... )