August 2011
“You’re not a burden, you’re my mother.”
– The Wife, to her mother. Who is separating from her husband (The Wife’s stepfather) and moving in with us.
More later.
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"I had a really weird dream last night" — The Boy
As we were driving to school this morning, The Boy told me that he had a “really weird dream last night.”
I asked him if he remembered any of it. He said he remembered all of it “because it wasn’t that long” and then took about 10 minutes to tell me what it was, which boiled down to this:
(Imagine the voice and excitement of a 9 year old)
“You know how...
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2011-08-30
My favorite part of Tuesday was sleeping in my bed for the first time since last Wednesday night (We were in Chicago Thursday to Sunday, and I didn’t manage to fall asleep at all on Sunday night).
Which is also why last night’s Favorite Part was “delayed” as I crashed on the bed sometime around 9pm on Monday night.
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2011-08-29
Boxcar is a notification system for iOS, which is also now available for the Mac. you can have all sorts of things send notifications, but the most popular are Twitter posts, replies/mentions, or DMs. I’ve been playing with it recently on my Mac to see if I can use it replace some things I’ve used email for in the past.
You can assign different sounds to different notifications. For...
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Memorable
sblaufuss:
vegkat:
tj:
Saturday at dinner, Beefranck, Lindstifa, Vegkat and I were talking about the April CHSH and how crazy it was with so many people, and how we didn’t get to meet many new people because there were so many people to meet.
Vegkat said, “I wasn’t planning to go, Bridget brought me with her at the last minute. All I remember is someone rubbed her boobs on mine.”
Lindsay:...
AYFKMWTS, Officer?
or: “How to fix the wrong part of the problem”
I drop off The Boy at school every day.
He is now in 3rd grade. He started there in Kindergarten, so this is actually his 4th year (K+1+2 = 3 years).
One of those 3 years, they were renovating the school.
When they renovated, they added a row of parking spaces in front of the school. Why? Because in the mornings, people would park...
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Memorable
Saturday at dinner, Beefranck, Lindstifa, Vegkat and I were talking about the April CHSH and how crazy it was with so many people, and how we didn’t get to meet many new people because there were so many people to meet.
Vegkat said, “I wasn’t planning to go, Bridget brought me with her at the last minute. All I remember is someone rubbed her boobs on mine.”
Lindsay:...
The Boy
(for those just tuning in… The Boy started 3rd grade on Wednesday, and then skipped Friday so we could go to CHSH. He fell asleep in the car around 11pm last night, and I woke him at 8am for school).
A few minutes later he wandered into my room, rubbing his eyes. “I thought we said that I would be too tired to go to school…”
“Nope. You already missed 1 out of 3 days, you...
Home is where the heart is
Today was spent at Casa de Lindstifa, with The Boy watching Family Ties on Netflix and the adults generally being low-key.
Tucker (Lindsay’s puggle, for those who don’t know) is made of pure boundless energy, but even he sensed that today was a quiet day, and spent quite a bit of time curled up next to me on the couch.
Everyone seemed quite content and happy. A nice end to a great...
Just one of the many favorite parts from Saturday
Me: did I see that you are doing a marathon in January in Chicago??!??!
Kris: no no, it’s just a half marathon.
Me: right, but it’s still in January and in Chicago? Do you run in snowshoes?!
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ATTENTION
beefranck:
TJ’S WIFE JUST KISSED ME.
THAT IS ALL.
Really? That’s strange, because she’s usually so reserved…
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everythinginthesky:
“I can’t tell you how many people have told me that they just don’t get “Lost in Translation.” They want to know what it’s about. They complain “nothing happens.” They’ve been trained by movies that tell them where to look and what to feel, in stories that have a beginning, a middle and an end. “Lost in Translation” offers an experience in the exercise of empathy. The...
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All of it
The whole day. That was my favorite part.
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Both of these statements are true — TJ
Me: The best thing about margaritas is salt.
Tracey: You have nice boobs.
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Oh Joe…
“When you tell us it’s wrong to report on gay public figures, you are telling gays not to come out of the closet and journalists not to report the truth. (What you’re telling us as gay journalists is even worse.)
When you insist being gay couldn’t possibly matter less, what you actually insist is that the subject never be brought up in the first place.” — From “Computer press so liberal it...
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We suck as friends and parents, but we're here....
designated replied to your photo: Current Status. I didn’t know you would be here. Now this is my favorite part too.
We are terrible at RSVP’ing… but yes, we have planned to be here all along, even when we found out that The Boy had school...
Favorite Part
lindstifa:
BoyOfTJ: Um. Lindsay?
Me: Yeah buddy?
BoyofTJ: Why do you have so many pictures around your house with cuss words in them?
Me: [DEAD]
Tucker does not approve.
Mostly because he likes to sleep under the bed and has very sensitive ears.
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2011-08-24
The best part of my day was when The Boy told me that he didn’t need me to walk him into school on his first day.
I want to say that it was also the worst part, because I was sad that he didn’t need me to walk him into school on his first day.
I think this is where I say “And so it goes…”
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I am not an expert
dwineman replied to your photo: From now on, when I’m not at my standing desk at… I don’t get this. I thought the whole point of sitting on a ball was that it wants to roll out from under you, so you have to use your muscles to balance. But if the ball is...
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Followup…
shtaroundme replied to your photo: From now on, when I’m not at my standing desk at… Do you have a link to where the base can be found?
Click the image or hit the “source” list for Amazon.com :-)
http://amzn.to/oAQXj
It was a...
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Do I know anyone...
monkeyfrog:
gorillasushi:
near Springfield, IL or St Louis, MO who’d love to host little Jess and myself for a night as we (probably) make our way southwestward in a few weeks?
Anyone? Anyone? I vouch for these two.
We have hosted Mr. Sushi overnight at our house and rate him AAAAA+++ “DID NOT MURDER US IN OUR SLEEP, WOULD INVITE FOR A SLEEPOVER AGAIN.”
He even helped me fix...
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ashamedtosay asked: Hi TJ! One of my staff started doing the standing desk thing at work using a microwave box, anyway, I know there is an ap for standing desk where it logs how long you stood, do you know what it is? I want to encourage him, it seems to be helping his back. If it works, I am definitely getting another staff member one of those balls with a handle to sit on/move about the cabin in.
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SMSes with The Wife
(Scene: The Wife took The Boy and his best friend down to a hobby shop in Huntington WV and spent 5-6 hours with them as they played Yugioh. I stayed home. Because she is awesome and I am not. This is an exchange of SMS messages between us throughout the day… )
Me: Oops. I just woke up! [12:46 PM]
The Wife: Good morning!
Me: thanks! Slept like the dead… although I fell asleep in the...
wifeoftj:
The Boy is dueling kids twice his age in his first Yugioh tournament in Huntington, WV. Go baby, go!
and SOMEMOMMY apparently HIGH FIVED and KISSED her son on the CHEEK when he was the YOUNGEST KID THERE and also, did I mention HAD HIS MOM THERE.
Backoff, Helicopter Mom!
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2011-08-18
The Boy had to come with me to the office today. It would have been better for everyone if I had just worked from home, but The Powers That Be prefer to have me in my office when it’s officially open. So I went into the office and spent most of the time listening for The Boy, to make sure that he wasn’t causing problems or having any. (He wasn’t, but that doesn’t change the...
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Watch“I’m A Nut…”
She sang me this song in college. It was one of the many signs that I knew she was The One.
Also? Favorite Part.
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Gotcha
Tonight at bedtime…
Me: “My favorite part was when I tickled The Boy….”
The Boy: “When did you tickle me today?”
I’ll give you three guesses what happened next…
Hint: about 5 minutes later when his ability to breathe had returned, he said his favorite part was when I stopped tickling him.
See?! Everyone wins!
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Some days, you get to help people
A friend (offline) is going through a divorce… a particularly bad one… tonight, she asked several of us for help. And we were able to at least make some plans how we can help her, and her daughter.
That’s a pretty good day.
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“There is nothing more underrated in this world than taking a great shit.”
– Dad
Last Sunday (a week ago) would have been my Dad’s birthday. I thought about how I would mark the occasion, but as it turned out, I didn’t do anything.
Today this quote came to me… for reasons I won’t go into… and I thought it was as good as any way… a week late, but, well…... 