Late Night

I'm trying to fix this mess of a PC. It is almost midnight and I think I'm almost there. The bad news is all of the programs are missing. Basically all we can do is connect to the web. Somehow I need to get copies of all the junk that was on here. I know it can be done but nothing is ever fast enough or easy enough when it comes to computers. Also I'm wating for some huge file to download and I don't know how much longer it will take 15 min, 60 min. I've got to go to bed for god sake.

Still Under Attack

This PC is still under attack. It may be time for a Mac.
Must go....being attacked by pop-ups....

Under Attack

The CEO downloaded something bad and we are under a severe popup attack! I hate trying to clean this stuff out of the PC because often time it doesn't work.

We're getting back on a plane this week and heading to Beantown. I'm looking forward to it. However, it seems our vacations have been stacked to close to one another this year. It feels like the summer will be over when it hasn't even started.

The Kid is pretty sick. The CEO took her to the ER last night because her little heart was racing and she had an awful cough she couldn't shake. When we were eating dinner she was racing through it, we told her to slow down and she said "I can't because my heart is beating so fast." Come to find out it was true. Poor little kid.

5:00 AM

Kid 2 has been up since 2:30 AM and it is now 5:00 AM. She shows no signs of wanting or needing any sleep. Quite the opposite of what I am feeling. She's sitting behind me in the exersaucer having a ball. The little .....

My whole life revolves around this thing people call sleep. What is it? Why do people do it? When will I get a chance to try it out?

Sleep (AKA: The Great Big Mystery)

Please come to me sleep please. I want to know you. I want to love you. I NEED YOU!!!

Lawn Mower

Picked up the $30 Craig's List lawn mower on Friday. It's just what the doctor ordered. I like to justify my cheapness by hiding behind the three R's (Reduce, Re-use, Recycle) it seems very "Portland." But really I don't need to buy a new lawn mower to mow my tiny little lawn. The motorless push mower I've been using for the past few year would have probably been just fine if I'd bothered to cut the lawn more often.

We just recently got back from LA, our former home. What a mad house. I forgot what it was like to drive in real traffic. There is so much to love and hate about LA. I had a great time when we lived there I did get used to what people hate about it like smog, crime, congestion etc... I mean it didn't even bother us when the LAPD helicopter was spot light was swinging through our yard trying to track down some criminal I presume and we lived in a "safe" neighborhood. Bottom line about the trip: We had a great time and The Kid had a blast her little buddy down there might as well be her soul mate.

Everyone left days ago. Z's blessing went off without a hitch. Unfortunately the weather well everyone was here was pretty lousy. As soon as everyone left the clouds left and the sun came storming out. Oh well.

To all those people in the Northwest who say you don't need air conditioning --- "Bite Me." We have are going on our fourth summer season and so far it is shaping up to be like all the others, pretty hot.

So I tried the free 7 day trial of the new yahoo music service. I thought it would be great they stock over one million songs that you can access without purchase. Here is a word to the wise, one million songs is not enough. I couldn't find many songs I had the desire to listen to.

So it seems The Pistol is very concerned over what social values we subscribing to as a culture. He is specifically concerned about all the reality television.
"What does it say about us?"
I'm not sure it says anything negative about us or not but I'm definitely not at the concerned level yet.

The Pistol and the Madre arrived today. This is the beginning of the visitors. It should be fun and probably somewhat confusing. It is only Tuesday night yet it feels like the weekend is already here. It's going to be interesting to watch the dynamics of this whole weekend.

I've had B&J's ice cream after dinner two nights in a row. It's delicious why wouldn't you eat it every night if given the opportunity?

The web is an awful thing sometimes. I've probably been sitting hear for 20 minutes and I've only written this much because every foolish idea that pops in to my head I do a Google search on. Do I really need to know about Flax?

What!?

"Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart. Blah blah blah blah blah. A total eclipse of the heart."

What the heck is that all about. Why did I wake up with that incomplete sappy old top 40 line playing over and over in my head? The brain is such a strange thing.

The other odd thing about this morning is I just realized that I forgot to shave. I did my normal routine yet left out the shaving part. Why is that? What would make my brain skip what is a daily task. Maybe my body is telling my brain that my face needs a rest. Maybe not.

There are some funny words or phrases I've just thought about. Such as:
"This morning" spoken as "Thismornin"
"Cold Cuts" spoken as "Co-cuts"
It wasn't till I was older that I realized it was "cold cuts." I thought that "co-cuts" meant sliced deli meat.

Delicious

We spent a nice Mother's day out and about yesterday and we capped it off with a nice slushie bubble tea. What's up with bubble tea? Don't get me wrong I do love the stuff but when did it hit the shore's of America and also when did the big name gourmet coffee shops turn into ice cream parlors? Let's be honest Starbucks has become a fancy Dairy Queen. Some of the smoothies are close relatives to the Dairy Queen Blizzard.

Doing it Old School Style.
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