January 31, 2004 Saturday
Lexie and I were singing in the front seat of her car on our way here to Comanche. Kevin expressed his displeasure, "your singing is hurting my ears!" Madeline had a hard night. Finally we sucked remorselessly with...
January 30, 2004 Friday
We're travelling to Comanche this evening in order to meet my mother on her way home from Abilene tomorrow. If I can't get to Chris or Debbie's connection then I'm going to miss my first day of posting. I'll...
January 29, 2004 Thursday
I had one of those business meetings tonight. Both banks filling the Alzafar Shrine hall. Dinner and a speaker. Former head of Disney University. "Excellence" "World Class Service" those kind of words. His made up word for the presentation...
January 28, 2004 Wednesday
"When you come in my room you will tell me some more Luke tomorrow." (Say this in your best three-year-old jedi-mind-trick voice.) I asked Kevin if he wanted to hear more about Bilbo tonight. "No. I want a...
...repetition is normal for kids. And Kevin, in particular, comes by it naturally. Variety is the spice of life, but comfort food is that stuff you've had lots of times.
January 27, 2004 Tuesday
As an officer of the bank I'm required to give them my complete financial picture on an annual basis. The net worth section wasn't too hard to come up with, but cash flow for the last two years will...
January 26, 2004 Monday
Lexie insisted that I take Madeline to the doctor today. I got her in at 9:15. The doctor said it was just general cold stuff and that we couldn't do anything but live with it. He said we should...
January 25, 2004 Sunday
When I related the story to Lexie later, I led off with the statement, "I was the token fascist for the class this morning."
January 24, 2004 Saturday
I spent a good while today getting the music together for tomorrow. The gal who coordinates music at church is in the hospital...
... the Oracle book arrived today.
We were so happy here. How the times have changed. I wonder where all of these people are now. Oh wait. I'm the guy laughing . . ....
January 23, 2004 Friday
Lexie woke up about the time she wakes me up to get the kids ready. This was about 5:40. She usually wakes up at 5:00. No freshly cooked breakfast this morning. Even I ended up about 30 minutes late...
January 22, 2004 Thursday
I like to write in shorthand. I cut myself off before I say something controversial. I hint at connections and conclusions. I wear my heart well inside my jacket....
Then, out of center field, she asked, "Have you started a blog?"
January 21, 2004 Wednesday
When I was growing up we just didn't eat out that much. There was every Sunday lunch at Monterrey House for mexican food. And occasional burgers, but never fries. Frozen pizzas were much more common than pizza out, and...
January 20, 2004 Tuesday
Who knew they sold hummus in so many flavors? Cucumber dill, spicy three pepper (red and green bell and jalape񯩬 pesto, roasted garlic, and roasted eggplant were all available. Well, I figured I'd go for the pesto. Meant to...
I couldn't figure out why I was so hungry so early this morning. Then I realized that I had eaten breakfast with Lex at six instead of my usual 6:50 or so. All these sugarbuster diets say that carbo-loading...
We're going to do my yearly review in early February. My boss has asked me to respond to several sections of the review, so I figured, if I was going to be writing, I might as well post it.
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January 19, 2004 Monday
Happy MLK day! As I mentioned yesterday, my wife has put us on the South Beach Diet. It's similar to Atkins but only gets real anti-carb in the strictest phase. The author recommends not exceeding two weeks on the...
January 18, 2004 Sunday
My sniffles aren't any better today, and I've got a headache. Not a good time to stare at the computer screen. Maybe tomorrow will work better. It's one of those good holidays where the daycare is open. Oh,...
January 17, 2004 Saturday
The skies were blue the temperature about 73 degrees and the rest of the family was napping. A good time for a round of disc golf. During the mist and rain we've had over the past few days I...
January 16, 2004 Friday
Sara Hickman's Newborn album was playing in Madeline's room tonight. There's at least a couple songs on there which refer to babies as angels. People are wont to do this. I was singing along as I went to check...
Wrote this little something today to make the life of a network admin a little easier. The desire was to restrict all tellers from receiving external email. They had determined that the way to do this was to...
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The opening pages of
Mythology describe two myths. I'm sure it says something pithy after that, but I was distracted by the pretty pictures.
January 15, 2004 Thursday
The first couple of books by Greg Bear that I read were Blood Music and Moving Mars. Actually, I listened to these books, as I did later with Queen of Angels and Darwin's Radio. I got through print versions...
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The preacher told me last night at the usual Wednesday night dinner that he'd found my descriptions of the Sunday School class on the Power Struggle comments section. Apparently he frequently checks his referrer pages and so when manasclerk...
January 14, 2004 Wednesday
Kevin says things like this. He means "what do you call what I am doing?" Its funny and charming. Example: He got a Magna Doodle for Christmas. He drew some vague shape on it and Lexie told him that...
Its just a letter to myself. Like all those rehearsed speeches in the bathroom late at night when I was a teenager.
I just noticed in the mirror that my tie was a little long today....
Kevin got a Lion King cartridge and book for his Leap Pad for Christmas, so this week I rented the videocassette to kind of fill out the story for him. At the end of the movie is a violent...
January 13, 2004 Tuesday
[Kevin]'s just clicked on a number of things lately that had been elusive a month or two ago.
We read a counting book tonight. He counted everything correctly.
There's something a little hopeful and despairing about knowing that I've got a place I can log on to and be faced with a blank textarea. Without a prompt. Well, it does say "Post" at the top there. Reminds...
Tuesday. I started Smiley's People on cassette this morning. I'm not sure why I keep returning to Le Carre. I mean just about every novel ends with the mission accomplished but the reader unhappy. Nihilism. That's the ticket. But...
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