five years you've been here.
five years of giving your sister what-for, five years of smiles and laughter. five years of i-don't-know-what-i-would-have-done-differently, because you are my baby, my image, my sweet annie. . .
my life would be a wreck without you.
i love you, anna. happy birthday.
life here is still good.
it's been four years TODAY that i joined the rank and file of the lowest scum-of-the-earth known as CAR SALESMEN. still selling toyotas-mazdas-nissans-subarus-buicks-pontiacs-GMCtrucks in my spare time (all 50 hours a week. . .ack). keeping my options open. don't know if i will or can go back to full-fledged geekdom (i am so far behind the curve now, i don't think my old print shop could hire me to do the graphic design). happy anniversary indeed!
anyway, life is good, carrie and the girlz are great. they grow like weeds, the girls do. annie is four-years-eleven-months old now. moira is ten-years-nine-months. time flies.
must spend more time with them.
speaking of that, i'm off to see my girlz again.
ciao for now.
happy high explosives day (that'd be july 4).
conservatives in the united states congress took up a motion yesterday to amend the constitution to ban flag burning.
but there's a twist. they are trying to get support from house liberals by telling them it'll reduce global warming.
seems like yesterday you were a ringbearer (translation: three-year-old stud in a tuxedo) in our wedding. today you are poised to kiss this popsicle stand called high school goodbye.
time flies.
be mindful of it. waste not a moment of it. squeeze every last drop out of it. but most of all. . .
enjoy it.
congratulations, ryan.
Tue May 24, 1:52 PM ET (AP)
TUPELO, Miss. - A conservative Christian group has ended its boycott of the Walt Disney Co., launched nine years ago in response to what leaders perceived as the erosion of the company's squeaky-clean image.
"There are so many other issues we need to move on to and deal with that are taking our time and energy," American Family Association president Tim Wildmon wrote in a letter published Monday on the group's Web site. "If you're going to call for a boycott of a company - if something has become that serious - you need to have all your resources behind it."
The boycott had a limited impact. Disney has reported higher earnings, citing increased attendance at its theme parks and strong performance from its film studio and ABC television network.
The Tupelo-based Christian group has protested Disney's extension of benefits to domestic partners of gay employees, promotion of gay-related events at its theme parks and violent and sex-filled content of movies made by its Miramax subsidiary.
The group blamed longtime Disney chief executive Michael Eisner, and said some of the problems had been resolved by Eisner's upcoming retirement and the company's break with Miramax founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein.
Wildmon said the announcement is not an endorsement of Disney, just an end to the boycott "as a ministry agenda item."
i have to question the wisdom of issuing, to security guards who work at
target stores, badges with bullseyes on them which they wear over their
heart.
four-year-olds. aaaaaaaargh.
little anna was taking a bath yesterday, and she managed to flood the bathroom, the upstairs landing, and soak the carpet in her room and her sister's room.
just as i was walking in the door home from work.
carrie and i spent the next two hours frantically ripping up the hardwood floor, pulling carpets and carpet pads, wet-dry vacuuming the water up from the bathroom, soaking water up with every damn towel in the house.
i just laid that hardwood down. six hours' work ripped up in half an hour.
my legs hurt.
the guys from servicemaster came the next day to install dehumidifiers and "air movers" (industrial-strength fans) which are running 24/7.
let me give you a warning. if you ever have water soak your house, be prepared to listen to the din of the loudest jet plane cabin for three days.
happy bloody mother's day.
you've been gone ten years. time flies.
we all miss you.
moira asks about you a lot more these days.
i wish you were still here. heck, you are still here as long as we think of you.
watch over us.
pray for us.
we love you.
happy birthday, dad.
we just got back from disneyland. hoo boy. what an adventure, traveling with a ten-year-old and a four-year-old.
six years ago, we took our ten-year-old (who was then four years old) to disneyland. she was scared out of her mind of most of the big rides, but she got a little thrill from the big thunder mountain railway. so i thought our four-year-old would enjoy it too.
think again.
after we got off the train, my four-year-old was pale as a ghost and shaking like a leaf. i thought she was going to pass out or throw up. fortunately she didn't.
she did enjoy (loose construction of the word) the haunted mansion, though.
my ten-year-old did finally get on splash mountain, the matterhorn, indiana jones adventure, and she rode the big thunder again. had a ball.
my four-year-old's favorite rides?
dumbo and small world. should have guessed.
It's a world of laughter
A world of tears
It's a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all
There is just one moon
And one golden sun
And a smile means
Friendship to every one
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small, small world
a colleague of mine is starting a new business venture. . .buying, refining, processing for energy, and selling the leftovers of the leftover cow shit.
i smell something here, and it is not a rat. or a cow.
i smell money. the color of money is brown.
moooooove over tom cruise. show me the cow manure.
remember texas pacific group? the organization which is trying to buy pge?
remember texas pacific group?
remember texas pacific group? the organization which bought convergent?
remember texas pacific group, who mismanaged it into oblivion, closing all the offices and leaving jobless scores of people across the country?
what'll happen to pge if tpg buys it?
only history will tell.
joke of the day
Happy Saint Patrick's Day
