Another Lexie shot, this one of Tiki mid jump, or I guess really at the end of a jump.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Friday, January 06, 2006
The muffin man is seated at the table in the laboratory of the utility Research kitchen...
Friday, January 06, 2006
I’m too busy to blog today. Trying to get everything tidied for month/year end still. – Mom is sick, just got off the phone with her, she sounds horrible.
Word(s) of the day: IMMEASURABLE
Lexie log: 18 AA batteries required for all the little devices on her new kitchen. So, final assembly is postponed until this weekend.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Carrie for going and getting me lunch and bringing me coffee all the time- thanks, Mom and Dad, my family, children’s songs, weekends, and life.
I’m too busy to blog today. Trying to get everything tidied for month/year end still. – Mom is sick, just got off the phone with her, she sounds horrible.
Word(s) of the day: IMMEASURABLE
Lexie log: 18 AA batteries required for all the little devices on her new kitchen. So, final assembly is postponed until this weekend.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Carrie for going and getting me lunch and bringing me coffee all the time- thanks, Mom and Dad, my family, children’s songs, weekends, and life.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
...Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica boulevard...
Thursday, January 05, 2006
I’m excited about getting the missing fee ticket report under control. It may be a little unreasonable to set a goal to have worked it entirely by the end of tomorrow, but it’s a fun project. – Just got an entertaining email from Seth detailing his approximately two hour commute to his new job in the bay area. At one point he depicts the array of bay area homeless and tells how he thwarted a solicitation by a bum posing as a nurse to the homeless by asking the man what an ‘ulna’ was. Strange person. – Yesterday Frank super cleaned all the bird feeders and the bird area and cleaned out Lexie’s closet as well as taking off the closet doors. It looked really great when I got home. And it was just in time for her Christmas present. The FedEx truck showed up right as we were heading out to the store. – It finally happened; Thumper got too big for the cat door and got his shoulder/elbow stuck between the inner and outer wall of the house where my Dad created a cat door to the cat run. We were in the other side of the house when all the sudden we heard the most awful crying from the garage. We flew out there and just his head and right arm where poking out. I had to force his shoulder back out. I was freaking out and yelling at Frank to go outside and make him reverse out of there. He calmly told me to move aside and let him come the rest of the way through. I finally listened to him and Thumper squeezed through…Hopefully he won’t try that again.
Word(s) of the day: ULNA
Lexie log: Sometime earlier this week Lexie came up to us, pointed to the clock and said it was 10:00. It just so happened she was right and it just about floored me. It was so cute. It wasn’t until this morning that I realized that 10:00 (am or pm) is the most commonly spoken time in our house. We’re either talking about what time on a weekend we’re planning on doing something (10:00am), or I’m grumbling about how it’s already 10:00pm and I need to go to bed. – Every number she sees right now she calls the number ‘eight’. Show her a two; she’ll call it an eight. – Daddy and I assembly (mostly) her kitchen that Grammy got her. She just loves it. We’ll finish up tonight. – I’m excited about swim this weekend and family obedience training for Thumper.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Grammy and Grandpa, swimming, cranberry juice, laughter, good times, and life.
I’m excited about getting the missing fee ticket report under control. It may be a little unreasonable to set a goal to have worked it entirely by the end of tomorrow, but it’s a fun project. – Just got an entertaining email from Seth detailing his approximately two hour commute to his new job in the bay area. At one point he depicts the array of bay area homeless and tells how he thwarted a solicitation by a bum posing as a nurse to the homeless by asking the man what an ‘ulna’ was. Strange person. – Yesterday Frank super cleaned all the bird feeders and the bird area and cleaned out Lexie’s closet as well as taking off the closet doors. It looked really great when I got home. And it was just in time for her Christmas present. The FedEx truck showed up right as we were heading out to the store. – It finally happened; Thumper got too big for the cat door and got his shoulder/elbow stuck between the inner and outer wall of the house where my Dad created a cat door to the cat run. We were in the other side of the house when all the sudden we heard the most awful crying from the garage. We flew out there and just his head and right arm where poking out. I had to force his shoulder back out. I was freaking out and yelling at Frank to go outside and make him reverse out of there. He calmly told me to move aside and let him come the rest of the way through. I finally listened to him and Thumper squeezed through…Hopefully he won’t try that again.
Word(s) of the day: ULNA
Lexie log: Sometime earlier this week Lexie came up to us, pointed to the clock and said it was 10:00. It just so happened she was right and it just about floored me. It was so cute. It wasn’t until this morning that I realized that 10:00 (am or pm) is the most commonly spoken time in our house. We’re either talking about what time on a weekend we’re planning on doing something (10:00am), or I’m grumbling about how it’s already 10:00pm and I need to go to bed. – Every number she sees right now she calls the number ‘eight’. Show her a two; she’ll call it an eight. – Daddy and I assembly (mostly) her kitchen that Grammy got her. She just loves it. We’ll finish up tonight. – I’m excited about swim this weekend and family obedience training for Thumper.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Grammy and Grandpa, swimming, cranberry juice, laughter, good times, and life.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko-Bop, Shimmy Shimmy Bop...Uh syncopate your last two steps, Now your going to glide...
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Should be calmer today, but I still want to go home for a nap already. It’s too hard for me to gage yet if people will have all their work done for closing on the six, but I did learn not to stress over it. It happens when it happens and some things are just out of a single person’s control, let alone wont’ be hurried by there mere act of stressing over it. –It is nice to come in here with it so quiet and peaceful. A piece of me wishes I could spend more like half my day like this, then the other with all the talking, and visiting. I get a lot more work done per moment in the mornings alone. – Frank spent his birthday GI Joes gift card (well, half of it) on slippers for him, and a pair of Croc shoes for me. Neither of us were satisfied and we’re going to go back later this week and do an exchange.
To do list: Make backup copies of digital pictures and home movies, clean up computer files, clean out Lexie’s closet and hall closet, bird feeders, and rest.
Word(s) of the day: SOUBISE of SOLICITUDE
Lexie log: Last Saturday, the last day of 2005, Lexie and I took Thumper to Petco for a 40lb bag of dog food, about $1.02 per pound, and then headed over to the dog park for an outing. When we left it wasn’t really raining, but I’d forgotten how much it had rained over the past week. On the way there I thought to call and invite Tracy and Lucas. They were home and enthusiastic to come visit. Whew was it muddy. The next thing we get Lexie will definitely be a pair of puddle stompers. I was covered with mud to my knees, and Lexie’s nice white tennis shoes didn’t stand a chance. She stomped in the muddiest of puddles. One dog continually went back to the spot where he appeared to be digging a whole to China, which kept filling with soupish mud water. Thumper kept trying to drink out of the crater, and Lucas and Lexie kept filling it with tennis balls for all the dogs to gleefully try to remove. I was fun. Lucas and Lexie played for a while on the jungle gym and slide, and after watching a couple times, Thumper actually took a turn down the slide of his own free will. I think he was rather disappointed that he couldn’t ‘walk’ down the slide part, so he only went up and down the stairs/ladder, after that. What a climber. – Grammy came over yesterday and played with Lexie all afternoon. Then we listened to Travis Tritt on the computer and watched Lexie dance.
Today I ‘m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, yogurt Cheerios, water, weekends, rocks, highlighters, and rest.
soubise
Should be calmer today, but I still want to go home for a nap already. It’s too hard for me to gage yet if people will have all their work done for closing on the six, but I did learn not to stress over it. It happens when it happens and some things are just out of a single person’s control, let alone wont’ be hurried by there mere act of stressing over it. –It is nice to come in here with it so quiet and peaceful. A piece of me wishes I could spend more like half my day like this, then the other with all the talking, and visiting. I get a lot more work done per moment in the mornings alone. – Frank spent his birthday GI Joes gift card (well, half of it) on slippers for him, and a pair of Croc shoes for me. Neither of us were satisfied and we’re going to go back later this week and do an exchange.
To do list: Make backup copies of digital pictures and home movies, clean up computer files, clean out Lexie’s closet and hall closet, bird feeders, and rest.
Word(s) of the day: SOUBISE of SOLICITUDE
Lexie log: Last Saturday, the last day of 2005, Lexie and I took Thumper to Petco for a 40lb bag of dog food, about $1.02 per pound, and then headed over to the dog park for an outing. When we left it wasn’t really raining, but I’d forgotten how much it had rained over the past week. On the way there I thought to call and invite Tracy and Lucas. They were home and enthusiastic to come visit. Whew was it muddy. The next thing we get Lexie will definitely be a pair of puddle stompers. I was covered with mud to my knees, and Lexie’s nice white tennis shoes didn’t stand a chance. She stomped in the muddiest of puddles. One dog continually went back to the spot where he appeared to be digging a whole to China, which kept filling with soupish mud water. Thumper kept trying to drink out of the crater, and Lucas and Lexie kept filling it with tennis balls for all the dogs to gleefully try to remove. I was fun. Lucas and Lexie played for a while on the jungle gym and slide, and after watching a couple times, Thumper actually took a turn down the slide of his own free will. I think he was rather disappointed that he couldn’t ‘walk’ down the slide part, so he only went up and down the stairs/ladder, after that. What a climber. – Grammy came over yesterday and played with Lexie all afternoon. Then we listened to Travis Tritt on the computer and watched Lexie dance.
Today I ‘m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, yogurt Cheerios, water, weekends, rocks, highlighters, and rest.
soubise
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
I'm comin' out so ya betta get this party started!
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Happy New Year! Eyeball headache from combo sinus pressure (I think) and staring intently at not-so-crisp monitor, non-stop since 6:55am. Time to take a break. So far only one semi-minor repercussion of Seth’s absence. No data shows up on pre-scheduled SQL report and I don’t have a clue what’s causing it to fail or how to get to the report to fix it even if I did. – Oh, and did I mention that I was almost in tears Saturday when I realized that I had been putting in all these extra hours on a week with a Holiday and wouldn’t get overtime pay for the extra hours????? Well, I forgot about that, didn’t I! At least after talking to HR this morning I was not correct assuming that the extra hours would be absorbed into the holiday. I should still get paid for the hours I worked in addition to the holiday eight hours; it’s just that nothing under 48 will be paid time and a half. – Come in to work and the boiler isn’t working, cold, barely 65 degrees. I turn on all three space heaters in the cube and four hours later, it’s 75 degrees in the cube, mine is off, but Linda and Carrie’s are still on. Too hot.
Word(s) of the day: LOVE
Lexie log: First swim lesion of next session next weekend. – We stayed up for New Years this year. Daddy wasn’t feeling well, so he turned in early, but Lexie and I stayed up. We sat on the back porch and watched the countdown and screamed, “Happy New Years!” a few times. Then we heard fireworks out front, I ran through the house with her in my arms, we ran outside and witnessed Joanie’s family’s fireworks display. They had about the biggest fireworks I’ve seen up that close. Lexie loved it, and the next day instead of asking for her birthday (again) she asked for fireworks.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, long weekends, patience, Advil, reading, and a bunch of stuff that my weary mind can’t list out at the moment.
Happy New Year! Eyeball headache from combo sinus pressure (I think) and staring intently at not-so-crisp monitor, non-stop since 6:55am. Time to take a break. So far only one semi-minor repercussion of Seth’s absence. No data shows up on pre-scheduled SQL report and I don’t have a clue what’s causing it to fail or how to get to the report to fix it even if I did. – Oh, and did I mention that I was almost in tears Saturday when I realized that I had been putting in all these extra hours on a week with a Holiday and wouldn’t get overtime pay for the extra hours????? Well, I forgot about that, didn’t I! At least after talking to HR this morning I was not correct assuming that the extra hours would be absorbed into the holiday. I should still get paid for the hours I worked in addition to the holiday eight hours; it’s just that nothing under 48 will be paid time and a half. – Come in to work and the boiler isn’t working, cold, barely 65 degrees. I turn on all three space heaters in the cube and four hours later, it’s 75 degrees in the cube, mine is off, but Linda and Carrie’s are still on. Too hot.
Word(s) of the day: LOVE
Lexie log: First swim lesion of next session next weekend. – We stayed up for New Years this year. Daddy wasn’t feeling well, so he turned in early, but Lexie and I stayed up. We sat on the back porch and watched the countdown and screamed, “Happy New Years!” a few times. Then we heard fireworks out front, I ran through the house with her in my arms, we ran outside and witnessed Joanie’s family’s fireworks display. They had about the biggest fireworks I’ve seen up that close. Lexie loved it, and the next day instead of asking for her birthday (again) she asked for fireworks.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, long weekends, patience, Advil, reading, and a bunch of stuff that my weary mind can’t list out at the moment.
Friday, December 30, 2005
Du na neer neer neer neer neer neer neer....
Friday, December 30, 2005
Interview number six of seven in eight minutes. My favorite candidate is the interviewee from yesterday afternoon. I’m curious to see how next week, and month/year end goes with Seth gone. Won’t be dull. –I’m having a moment of tension. I’m a bit frustrated with the fact that these old charges aren’t being coded and entered. I’m just not going to get worked up about it. – We’re looking for a doghouse for Thumper. It’s been raining so much here, we’ve toyed with the idea of starting working on an Ark. Thumper doesn’t seem to mind racing out in the yard and getting wet, the cats are pretty housebound, however. I must say that I am looking forward to longer days and warmer weather.
Word(s) of the day: VELOUR EMANCIPATION
Lexie log: She refused almost all day to tell her Daddy “Happy Birthday Daddy!” I started trying to get her to say over the phone on break, but she refused. I don’t think she wants to share birthdays with anyone. She still asks me for her birthday at least every other day, and I keep telling her only one per year. Maybe next year I’ll give her mine too.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, three day weekends, pictures, Benadryl, creamer, liberation from negativity, and did I mention weekends?
Interview number six of seven in eight minutes. My favorite candidate is the interviewee from yesterday afternoon. I’m curious to see how next week, and month/year end goes with Seth gone. Won’t be dull. –I’m having a moment of tension. I’m a bit frustrated with the fact that these old charges aren’t being coded and entered. I’m just not going to get worked up about it. – We’re looking for a doghouse for Thumper. It’s been raining so much here, we’ve toyed with the idea of starting working on an Ark. Thumper doesn’t seem to mind racing out in the yard and getting wet, the cats are pretty housebound, however. I must say that I am looking forward to longer days and warmer weather.
Word(s) of the day: VELOUR EMANCIPATION
Lexie log: She refused almost all day to tell her Daddy “Happy Birthday Daddy!” I started trying to get her to say over the phone on break, but she refused. I don’t think she wants to share birthdays with anyone. She still asks me for her birthday at least every other day, and I keep telling her only one per year. Maybe next year I’ll give her mine too.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, three day weekends, pictures, Benadryl, creamer, liberation from negativity, and did I mention weekends?
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
And their kids were hippie chicks all hypocrites, Because fashion is smashin' the true meaning of it
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Yesterday was a blur. After I blogged my morning break, I found out we had two interviews for Network Tech coming in. Admin JB and Seth asked me to join in. I was nervous at first during the first one, but it was much easier than I anticipated. The second one was a lunch interview and I got a wonderful Turkey Cream cheese sammy from Tilly’s. A bit odd to eat while your questioning a total stranger on why they should come work here. I realized that we have become Linux/UNIX dependent around here in the last couple years. Maybe I should learn a little about it? The interviews also re-sparked my interest in programming. We have another interview today at noon, and I’m much anticipating it.
Word(s) of the day: SPLENDIFEROUS
Lexie log: She got another cold, most likely from Christmas gathering at Aunt Patty’s. Unfortunately, that means she probably gave it to Kiara. – Monday night instead of wanting to watch SpongeBob, she actually asked to re-watch home movies. She pointed at the TV and said she wanted to watch the pictures again. I accidentally picked the perfect one. After wandering around the Newport Aquarium with Grandpa and Grammy, it has clips of her on her sit-n-spin, and then a long clip of her and Daddy playing karate fall down on bed to loud music and laughing hysterically. I wasn’t in the room when she started watching this, but suddenly heard two sets of Lexie laughter, one from the video, and one from her watching the video. She was so pleased with it that she dragged us into the bedroom and made us do it again. Her laughter is irresistible.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, awesome job, my animals, and weekends.
Yesterday was a blur. After I blogged my morning break, I found out we had two interviews for Network Tech coming in. Admin JB and Seth asked me to join in. I was nervous at first during the first one, but it was much easier than I anticipated. The second one was a lunch interview and I got a wonderful Turkey Cream cheese sammy from Tilly’s. A bit odd to eat while your questioning a total stranger on why they should come work here. I realized that we have become Linux/UNIX dependent around here in the last couple years. Maybe I should learn a little about it? The interviews also re-sparked my interest in programming. We have another interview today at noon, and I’m much anticipating it.
Word(s) of the day: SPLENDIFEROUS
Lexie log: She got another cold, most likely from Christmas gathering at Aunt Patty’s. Unfortunately, that means she probably gave it to Kiara. – Monday night instead of wanting to watch SpongeBob, she actually asked to re-watch home movies. She pointed at the TV and said she wanted to watch the pictures again. I accidentally picked the perfect one. After wandering around the Newport Aquarium with Grandpa and Grammy, it has clips of her on her sit-n-spin, and then a long clip of her and Daddy playing karate fall down on bed to loud music and laughing hysterically. I wasn’t in the room when she started watching this, but suddenly heard two sets of Lexie laughter, one from the video, and one from her watching the video. She was so pleased with it that she dragged us into the bedroom and made us do it again. Her laughter is irresistible.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, awesome job, my animals, and weekends.
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