Archive for August, 2006
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
My Children are Possessed
That kids adopt the general sleep cycle of their parents is probably no surprise. Following that trend, our kids have never seen a midnight they don’t like, nor a dawn that they do. So this year, with both of them going to school all day and needing to get up at 7, promised to be [...]
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Technical Gripe
There’s some kind of security whole in the driver for the Intel wireless card in my laptop. No big deal, these things happen. But the update to fix it is 50 MB! What kind of a monster driver am I downloading? It’s probably a 500kb driver and 49.50MB of crap I don’t want.
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
1st Grade Meme
My daughter had to fill out a few questions for her 1st grade teacher. And I thought it might make an interesting meme. I am good at: listening, debugging, sleeping. I need help with: overcoming sloth. This year, I would like to learn: more .net and more patience. I could use some GTD skills too. [...]
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Credit where Credit is Due
Yesterday I screwed up at work a little. Just a little, but the systems screwed up a whole bunch to compliment me. It’s the week before school and it wasn’t a good time to lock some users out for 5 hours. We got 50 website requests for help, at least an order of magnitude more [...]
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Progress
part one-I wasn’t much of a belt man in a my yoot, but it turns out they’re pretty useful for holding up pants. And you can put stuff on it. The last belt I had for quite a few years, and I wore it daily. In addition to be fairly tattered from time, I had [...]
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
Recital of Pain
Jane had her 2nd ballet recital last night. At her first recital she was in the 4th or 5th group to perform. So, naturally, she was the 4th or 5th *last* group to perform this time around, which put her at the 25th group to perform. I burst with pride when she performed, and it [...]
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
Singing
Some songs need to be sung along with to be enjoyed. One such song is “A Little Respect” by Erasure. I wish I would have realized this somewhere other than on the bus, though.