Archive for August 15th, 2005

15
Aug

You can tell it’s Monday

Today I come in, do my usual routine of verifying that the backups ran, then I started backing up some images to our NAS for safe keeping, since “someone” recently deleted our external image storage device.

(By the way, it was moi that deleted the drive. But we never backed it up before and now we do, so I guess, in the end, that’s a good thing).

Anyway, I head into the breakroom for a big bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios and a quick browsing of the sports page. I was also chatting with someone about folks in the office that don’t pay attention when they put the coffee pot under the coffee maker, and then coffee spills everywhere. You might not think it would, but it happens all the fucking time.

So I’m talking with this person and go to put my spoon on my napkin, but I hook the bowl and spill about a pint of whole milk all over my shirt and, more importantly, my lap. I try to clean it up with water and paper towels, but it’s not much use.

Now, I’m wearing khakis, so it looks like I’ve pissed myself. I also am conidering how nice I am going to smell later in the day with sour milk all over my crotch.

I sure hope I run out of gas on the way home or lose my wallet today.

15
Aug

Monday blog and haiku entry

This weekend was another HUGE milestone in Lauren’s life.

As I have previously mentioned, we were having some fair to moderate difficulty getting Lauren to embrace the idea of sleeping in a regular bed and not in her crib. We had finally decided that this Sunday would be the day that we’d take the front off of the crib and slowly start making it less appealing.

However, Mee Mee (my wife’s mom) came over Saturday to babysit the urchin and my 9 year old nephew, and she talked the urchin into sleeping in her big bed with the understanding that Mee Mee would sleep with her in her big girl bed.

Well, that never happened and Lauren slept until well after 7:30 yesterday morning.

Later Sunday, with my wife and mother-in-law distracting the urchin, the crib was disassembled, removed, and stored in the closet in the new nursery. In it’s place we put a little tykes table and chairs and brought some tea party crap upstairs, along with her new Mrs. Potatohead.

She probably played in there for four hours yesterday. It was amazing. We went up to check on her once and she was just sitting on the bed, playing with Mrs. P., having a big time and enjoying her room. Can you say toybox full of crap upstairs now anyone?

1,000 thanks to Peggy and her efforts to help get the urchin transitioned to her new bed. It’s possible her parents were more wierded out by the idea than the daughter.

Now, I have received emails about my recent haiku’s, specifically what is the format and what are they specifically.

Dictionary.com defines a haiku as:

A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons. A poem written in this form.

There. I don’t write them about nature, but if you stick with the format, you can’t go wrong.

Here’s one for today about trampolines.

Ah, sweet stretched nylon.
If you don’t break your femur,
we’ll play break the egg.




 

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