Just got back from teh italian.... very nice, just not much of it...

Went to babysit for my friend, but when I got there I found out the people she needed to go see weren't home, so we chatted for a couple hours instead while playing with the baby. OMG is he growing up! Eight months already, I'm not sure where the time went. He's got six teeth, even.

Having had my baby fix for a while, I'm now home and debating if I want to go to bed ridiculously early or if I want to soak in the tub first. Still have a headache hovering, not liking it in the least.

Just got back from playing basketball with friends. All sweaty now.

Woke up to be greeted by a 14 point list of new things the Red Cross wants added to the project when it is due Saturday. Bass Turds. I need to study for finals. Spent all day installing the stuff I need and implementing the changes.

Got

Working on the mail server at work...

Woke up at 8AM... I feel like such a slacker. Oh well, pray for HK and the girls - I've got two hours of chores to catch up on!!!!!

Put everything out for a garage sale

Still waiting for Miss HK to get around so we can start our shopping trek today... and then I get to do all the things posted in the TGIF thread.

Got up, fed the cats and fish, cleaned up, Baz turned up, nipped to the PC shop, now ready for some gamin' with Da Bro.

Took my pool water to be tested and found out what I suspected. Too much phosphate in the water ( from recent grass fertilizer ) . Now it will take a product to get rid of and probably three days to clear. Oh well , live and learn.

Enjoyed a full night's sleep for a change. Got up at 5 am.Went back to sleep. Got up at 8 am. Worked on critical stuff that should have been done yesterday (slacker). Discovered cat had dumped one of Marcus's rooting projects into my laser printer. Had tantrum. Been useless since. Rest of critical stuff might have to wait since printer is dead.

Woke up. *grumbles*

Watched Kill Bill I and it not finished so will have to wait for Kill Bill II on DVD!! Grr!!

I did......uh......uh........oh yeah, NOTHING. Did take some pics today of the wife's jungle on the front porch and the roses in the back.

Opera loadin from 8-5. I kinda like that I didn't have time to be assigned as head electrician for the week (I'm already otherwise booked) because the guy who is in charge knows I know more than him, so I could choose the easy stuff and slack all day.

Also, I'm now eating some reheated macaroni and cheese before running out the door again. Woo-freakin-hoo. I was going to grill a steak, but there's not enough time.

Hung one of two doors... you know, I'm not sure if my particular skill set applies to things like this.

Played lots of BF1942 with Baz, had Chinkie dinner and a few Jacks and coke.

Redid all the USB 2.0 for MoneyPit 2, 5 hard drives (460 gig on board) and a Sony DVD Burner happily whirring away in harmony. Cleaned out roof downspout, darn trees! Went to Dad's and got a free haircut.

Serviced the transmission in the truck today - and followed the directions this time. My previous thought on servicing the tranny was only a fluid and filter change. According to All-Data, adjusting the bands in part of it as well. So that is done now.

However, we had this brilliant idea to install a drain plug in the pan. Unfortunately, we drilled the hole in the wrong place and had to repair the pan and drill a new hole for the drain plug. Discovered that the 'patch' in the pan is leaking when I got home.

Backed into the fence at the Auto Hobby Shop... fortunately, no damage to the truck, and very minimal to the fence. (I'll say it for you - "Dumb-ass...")

Installed a stereo in my Mom's car.

I'm wiped.

Ran a spotlight for the arena football game, during which I rediscovered how damn silly arena football is. Giggled like a loon pretty much the entire time I was there.

Then went to the birthday party, where I re-found some former good friends, and am not sure how to feel about how things went with my ex (who I haven't been in the same room with in about five years). It was weird at best.

Now wishing it wasn't 3:30am, or that I didn't have to be at work at 8am, doesn't really matter, as long as only one of those things was true.

Woke up, went out for brunch, did some shopping, went to the gym, went out for dinner, hung out a friend's place, brushing teeth right now.

Sorting out house issue and sent an email to someone.....stroking Harvey...

Woke up at 6:20AM... now this is better. Trying to decide what to do as we have a 50-50 chance of T-storms all day. (No weed killer til Tuesday now! )

I woke up, isn't that enough?

Installed Coat-bar in close and tile-to-carpet molding in living room... next hang new door in bathroom.

So far - nada.

Almost finish tidying up.....still pondering as what to do with those VHS tapes....

And made an important decision....

Oooh, what kind of important decision??

Today I woke up, turned off the alarm clock, went back to sleep until 11 am, got out of bed, ate a bluberry scone, waiting to get on with the rest of the day...

Woke up. Ate breakfest. Now posting.

Found two ticks crawling on me after going out and takeing pictures!!!!!! I am not sure I like this country living.



Took a nap and thats about it!

Went to work on 90 minutes' sleep. Managed to get myself assigned to the organizational aspects of the day rather than the climbing around in the air with great chance of falling aspects. Also only had to work 8 hours instead of the expected 10-12, which really didn't suck in the least.

Turned down work for tomorrow to try to catch up on some sleep and laundry, and also to give myself a weekend.

Where as I go to sleep on 90 minutes work

Up and out the door at 08:15, brekkie at MaccyD's, then to the Rock for some crackin' racing. Home for more gaming and a KFC.

Ditto

Studied for finals.

Came grudgingly to the conclusion that I'm too tired to sleep, since I failed at taking a nap all evening and am now nothing like tired enough to go to bed (even though my eyes burn and feel like they're set so deep they're actually behind me).

Bah.

Woken up in a dark morning, look out and decide to go back to sleep.....(It raining down....)

Then force to get up and attempt to restart the day.....

Got up, cooked brekkie (full English for a change), caught up with 3 days worth of e-mail, went to recycling centre with lots of bottles, paper, plastic and stuff, posted a couple of items here, off to see Kill bill 2 in a couple of hours......

LOL- I ran into the EXACT same problem with my 700R4 in the Blazer when I put a B&M drainplug in.

Luckily, my weld-fu mastery cobbled a fluidtight repair together.

not much of ANYthing this weekend-- except got the waterbed's new mattress installed and finally to the right temperature <not too warm, not too cold>. OH FRABJUOUS DAY!! SOOOOO much more comfy. I might just have to go to the chiro's now and see if I can get my back to work properly again after 6 months of sleeping on the couch <we were gonna buy a full bedroom set but decided to wait till after we buy a house.... and I got fed up enough with the couch that I threw $150 at the problem and replaced the old waterbed mattress.....>

Saturday-
Rained. went exploring some fire roads with a friend from the Jeep club. Proceeded to get my XJ stuck to the headlights in a deceptively small pit. Apparently, it was just large enough to fit an XJ in, and just deep enough to hang said XJ on front and rear bumpers. Trusty el-cheapo Harbor Freight winch pulled me right out, though.

Sunday-
Rained. Took the kid wheeling around a future subdivision's clearcut area. Washed the Jeep, bought a 120GB HDD to Ghost the wife's box to so I can upgrade it to W2K, then had to explain why I had to buy the drive to her, 5 times, only to have her still insist that even though she's only using 15 GB of the 60GB in her machine, she absolutely NEEDS the extra 120GB. All while I'm trying to juggle 700MB of free space on my machine- and I'm the IT professional! She doesn't even game <nor do I, due to space constrictions>.....

Today- raining. Trying to get as much steel cut for my bumper project as I can, in hopes that it doesn't rain tomorrow.

Oh yeah- Sunday, addendum: my son started talking to a cypress knee <driftwood> I pulled out of the State Park when I was 8 years old. Apparently it's name is Mr. Castle, and it's talking back.

Visions of sveral Stephen King books and Discovery channel Halloween-season specials as I hear one side of the conversation......

Sort had a lazy morning before starting on the Open University Assisgnment then a friend of mine pop round and sent a cracking Email to them (Open University) to sort themselves out! Talked about it with friend then had a relaxing afternoon until I decide that I had seen all those films that they dishes out during Bank Holiday before....

Log onto the Internet....

Not one darn thing!

No, wait...I made some microwave popcorn and ate it while reading a book.

I love the weekend.

Took boys to school

had a headache and took a nap. Woke up cranky


spent 3 hours trying to get Dreamweaver to ftp stuff.

Was amazed by a post on another site, labelled as an important announcement of new technology, that there are updates to Ad-Aware, and that if you download and install them it'll work better.

Some people should not be allowed to own computers.

Found out I got a B+ on my last Japanese civ. paper that I wrote the day before it was due. It sounds weird, but I wish procrastinating would bite me in the ass once, so maybe I would stop doing it.

*teehee* I used to do that, too!!

Just go with it.

But perhaps you could've gotten an A if you started sooner, just so you'd have more time to edit, etc.

I might have done better, but it's not enough incentive for me to start any earlier.

Where is this update I want it !!!!!

Went to work... found out my department was under budget by $38k for the month (15%) but that I'm still 23% up year to date versus 2003. Goofed off for the remainder of the day... too many things to do.

The guy who posted it hadn't updated it in over a year... I don't think there are any new ones, at least there weren't the last time I checked.

The rest of today:
Made dinner, got the mail, watched the news. Considering soaking in the tub tonight. In all, a good day before I dive back into work.

Saw a classic bumper sticker. Liberals : the greatest threat to america. Of course it was on the back of Jimmy door and not the bumper. I wasnt suprised when she didnt stop and pull over for the emergency vechile.