MPSIMS:
Finally got the friggin’ radio buttons to populate based on database information in the Visual Basic application I’m butcher^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwriting. These things have been taunting me the whole weekend…
I did a little happy dance when they finally worked, but that stays between us, okay?
Not that anyone here knows or missed me, but I got in a big fight with my boss 2 weeks ago and got fired over it. Boo hoo. So now my net access is thru my Dreamcast, which sucks. Nothing like typing with a joystick to piss you off… and I turned 30 on Tuesday, so it’s been a hell of a week. But I missed you guys, it was nice to check in and see that everyone was OK. Weird how you feel like people you’ve never met are you close freinds, ain’t it?
Not that anyone here knows or missed me, but I got in a big fight with my boss 2 weeks ago and got fired over it. Boo hoo. So now my net access is thru my Dreamcast, which sucks. Nothing like typing with a joystick to piss you off… and I turned 30 on Tuesday, so it’s been a hell of a week. But I missed you guys, it was nice to check in and see that everyone was OK. Weird how you feel like people you’ve never met are you close freinds, ain’t it?
I turn thirty on Saturday.
It’s a milestone birthday that I can’t help but reflect back on my life from.
I am absolutely certain I will end up crying.
Guano, Happy belated birthday!! Remember, old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill!
Went to see Three Kings last night and really liked it. Best war movie in years. Totally against the mainstream of whats been churned out by Hollywood in the last decade.
My daughter lost her first tooth this weekend. However, she accidentally swallowed it. The Tooth Fairy still made a visit, however. She also got her first school year cold too, so she’s staying home with me today.
I also found a cool quote to add to my signature line.
Shadowfox
“I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.”
I turned thirty in August. Feels the same.
I saw Three Kings last week. Very cool movie, and a definate tribute to Kelly’s Heroes.
I’m gonna try to see American Beauty today. I’ve heard that the ending is revealed in the “this movie rocked my world” thread; I’m glad I hadn’t checked on that thread lately.
In four days, I’m going to Alberta! Woo hoo! Hiking in the mountains, playing in the snow. I’ll be bakc on Tuesday and I’ll give a report if anybody gives a crap.
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
“Love given when it is inconvenient is the greatest love of all. Kindnesses that are shared at a high cost to oneself are the most dear.”
Don’t know who said it, but I like it.
Saturday night was my friend Laura*'s birthday. I usually go up there Friday or Saturday nights, so there was the usual get-together. I tried baking her a cake, but it fell apart coming out of the pan. Called her and it was okay; someone else had brought a bakery cake. I brought the cake chunks up anyway; they were still edible.
Had steak and potatoes, then we played Trivial Pursuit (men’s team against women), Nuclear Proliferation and Kill Dr. Lucky (both individual efforts). Played to win and lost all three. Oh well.
Another friend, Tina*, was supposed to stop by before work, but she never showed. She’s been living with Laura and Tom* and their four kids for a few weeks now. I’m unclear on how she lost her previous job, or why she had nowhere else to live, but she wasn’t being a life-sucking freeloader. She had been paying a nominal rent, buying her own food, and some of theirs, cleaning up and supervising the kids when she was there, and running errands. However, Sunday morning, we found out that she had started drinking Saturday afternoon and never showed up for her current job (third shift at a gas station). Her boss said on the phone that there would be no second chance, She had been Tina’s friend before she hired her, and she says she can’t afford to show favoritism.
Tom says Tina’s got to go. I’m not sure if that’s going to be the last word. To be honest, I don’t know what I would do in that situation. It doesn’t seem like a back-breaking straw; up till now she’d been an ideal boarder. But I may not know everything about her stay there. Further bulletins as events warrant.
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
I’m going on a blind date this week with one of my friend’s friend. With my luck <font size=1>(or lack thereof)</font> with women, I doubt anything will happen, but we’ll see.
I thought that my truck was a gas-guzzler. But after realizing that I drive 500 miles a week and finding out that my truck is one of the most gas-efficient out of all the trucks on the market, I was wrong. So now, I happy with my truck. 
Love at first sight is like being hit with lightning, it ends too quick and too painful. - Louie
Fun with HTML (tutoral)
Give someone an F.U.
Well, what a surprise. My <strike>reliable</strike> always-cancelling-on-the-last-minute friend just cancelled off the blind date for me.
Excuse me while I give someone’s an F.U.
Love at first sight is like being hit with lightning, it ends too quick and too painful. - Louie
Fun with HTML (tutoral)
Give someone an F.U.
We see the last kids that are bussed in MO, they are in my son’s 2nd grade and up. One is a good friend of my son’s. Another kid, about 8 years old,brought a gun and a pocketful of bullets to impress his friends. Suspended for 1 week. Wonder what it would take for the school system to send him back to the city?
I don’t understand the expression, “He wants to have his cake and eat it,too.”? What would be the point of having a cake (cookie, doughnut) that you couldn’t eat? Why is it considered selfish to want to eat it?
Happy Day! Happy Day! Happy Day!
Here’s the story: (long, but good)
My friend Cindy (who I love like a mother) called me on Friday afternoon sobbing- Not only was it her last day at a job she hated (but she loves the people), her kitty didn’t come home on Thursday night. This cat is the greatest- she follows them around like a puppy- very social and loveable. A real part of the family.
She was just beside herself- she and her husband had searched their woods for 2 hours, no luck. She’s an outdoor cat, but she always stays close to home and comes home at night. Well, they were leaving on vacation on Friday afternoon, so she called to ask me to check every couple of days to see if she showed up- she was sure the cat was dead (just had a feeling). She was inconsolable.
So…I’ve been up there EVERY day since friday for at least an hour- walking through the woods ::shudder::, calling “Hailey! Hailey!”. Nothing. (and as a side note, we have some scary, spooky shit in these woods…I brought a 22 rifle with me)
'Till yesterday. Yesterday a hungry dirty kitty came running up to me!! I don’t know what happened, but she was hungry- not beat up or anything. I fed her and cuddled her, and had the pleasure of calling Cindy to tell her all was well. When she picked up the phone, I sang “The Cat Came Back” (anyone know that song?).
So it is a happy day all around, and the kitty is safe and sound. Animal lovers will appreciate this, I know. She said I went above and beyond the call of friendship by searching so much, but I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Yippie!
Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
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Worst couple of days as Keeper of the Child so far since his birth. He’s got most of his teeth in but there must be some jumbo sized molars in back waiting to bust through is gums for the little guy had a fever last night and could not sleep. He has had only two little cups of yogurt today and has been crab boy. All the rest of his teeth came in with little complaints, but he’s just miserable. I just plopped him off in his crib with a great protest from him.
To top it off, the dog is whining for attention.
I can’t breath due to pregnancy congestion. The sinus tablets I’m taking are not working today 
Today still beats my best day at work ever.
Zette, apparently it is worth it to gnaw through the leather straps somedays.
Off on a camping trip this weekend. Now I just gotta find that damn tent. Haven’t see it since I moved last year.
“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” - Humphrey Bogart
The way I understand it, the expression was originally, “eat your cake and have it too.” Meaning you want it both ways (ie, eat the cake which would dispose of it, and keep it, too).
I’m trying to think of a good example, but I can’t. The expression just means that, when person is in an either/or situation, they want both.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
My son has a throat infection and when I went to the new CVS ( formerly Arbor Drugs) to get his prescription filled, because it was the first time I’d ever had one filled there I was able to use a $25 in store credit for new RX customers. So while waiting for the RX to be filled, I purchased a few necessities The entire trip cost just the RX. I just might go to another CVS and get my prenatal vitamins filled there and do it all over again.
BTW, CVS.COM has one of the better drug websites I’ve run across of telling you what’s what with your drugs.
I’m suppose to go to ceramics tonight, but with a sick cranky, whiney boy, I might bail. But I really wanted to paint my piggy bank.
I just heard on the radio this morning that the Van Douzer Corridor on Hwy 18, between Valley Junction and Lincoln City, is supposed to be on of the biggest locales in Oregon for spotting UFO’s and/or having mysterious things happen to you, like lost time. I dunno, I lived in that area for 20 some-odd years, and traveled that stretch of highway several times a summer going to the beach, and never ever once saw or experienced anything unusual. I think someone was fibbing.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy