Monthly Archives: April 2004

Baker’s Dozen

Posted on April 12, 2004 | Leave a comment

The idea is to come up with twelve thoughts and one pic to describe your weekend. easter04b

  1. Chocolate.
  2. “Yes Mom, I have the ham”
  3. Lots of stairs (I’m on the third and fourth floors).
  4. “Gary! Watch me Gary!”
  5. Lots of Ordevores and Desserts.
  6. “Why do you have so many remotes?”
  7. ’13 Going on 30′ was really fun.
  8. Lots of Cleaning needed to be done. (Now I need to sort the piles I hid in the closet.)
  9. Four kids and eleven adults at my condo. That might be a new record.
  10. Lots of Coca-Cola
  11. Spilt Milk, down a flight of carpeted stairs and all over the wall.
  12. Chocolate.

From Baker’s Dozen.

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What color is your favorite __________ – Monday Madness

Posted on April 12, 2004 | Leave a comment
  1. Vegetable: Yellow – Corn on the Cob.
  2. Beverage: Coca-Cola colored.
  3. Room: Off-White(?!?)
  4. Outfit: Faded Blue with a burnt red pullover of some sort.
  5. Mood: Bright yellow (like on a Happy Face).
  6. Season: Sunny Season, I guess that’d be green.
  7. Fruit: Orange on the inside. (Cantaloupe, every morning.)
  8. Dessert: Off white – it’s a crisp waffle with vanilla ice-cream, honey and toffee crunch stuff on it. Some chain resturant all over england, but I can’t think of what it’s called…
  9. Pair of shoes: White
  10. Color: Red(?)

From Monday Madness

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Easter

Posted on April 11, 2004 | 1 comment

It was a blast today, I had everyone over for Easter Dinner. Seven households from one to four people in each, fifteen total, four were kids. They were a blast and they liked all my computerized toys and remotes and such.easter04

After we ate, I took the kids down the street by city hall and they went nutty with me taking pictures. What a bunch of hams. Speaking of… we had a really good ham from the Dearborn Meat Company (or something like that).

No incidents, no broken bones, scrapes, fights, etc. Until they were leaving and one of the kids had a cup (with a lid and straw) of milk and dropped it down the stairs. I had splash marks 6 feet up the walls! My ‘little green machine’ wasn’t enough to have it, I dug out the rug shampoo machine I bought a few months back (but never used) and clean the stairs (and the walls) that probably needed it anyways. Can’t complain too much, last time they were over I accidentally rolled Kendall’s head up in the electric window in the car. I still feel pretty bad about that one.

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Let’s Go Shopping!

Posted on April 11, 2004 | 1 comment
  • How often do you go grocery shopping? Once a week, maybe every other but it still requires a quick stop somewhere for the perishables (cantelope, eggs, milk, etc.)
  • What is the last thing you bought for yourself? Some wire and mounting stuff for my speakers, I’m rearranging the living room and want thinks set up differently. Oops, item 4 made me remember this. I forgot I bought the Guide to Mastering Regular Expressions. I’ll actually use this as long as I don’t forget where I put it.
  • What do you like shopping for most often? Electronic Gizmos.
  • Are you an impulse shopper? Sometimes. Usually not for the expensive toys. Impulse on book purchases on offbeat topics that I might never use.
  • What is the last item you purchased? Easter Napkins and an Easter Tablecloth.
    From Sunday Brunch.

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    I say … and you think … ?

    Posted on April 10, 2004 | Leave a comment
    1. Boxing:: Joe Louis
    2. Lewis:: and Clark
    3. Bodyguard:: POTUS
    4. Burnout:: Smoker
    5. Cruising:: Woodward
    6. Easter:: Egg
    7. AA:: Alcoholics Anonymous
    8. Research:: Paper
    9. Redemption:: Hero
    10. Snickers:: Caramel

    From Unconscious Mutterings.

    I had problems with ‘redemption’, I think of a movie when the main character screws up and either fixes it before the end of the movie (or goes back in time and it never happened).

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    Twenty-one Things.

    Posted on April 10, 2004 | Leave a comment

    I’ve seen this one everywhere but never found the original source, but I’ll try it anyways… (Can anyone tell me the original source?)

    1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says: “But our role is to be cautious. We have the welfare of”
    2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first? A coffee table with 5 remotes (DVD, TV, a non-so-Universal, TiVo and one for the lights) and the book I just grabbed.
    3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? Kim Possible, she’s way cool.
    4. WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is: 3:30 PM
    5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time? 4:40 PM
    6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? My Tivo and a (different) computer that runs my CD changers as a jukebox.
    7. When did you last step outside? what were you doing? An hour ago. Checking the (snail) mail. Just a bunch of spam.
    8. Before you came to this website, what did you look at? My E-mail. Sigh, nothing new. Somehow I liked it better before I filtered my spam. It was never empty!
    9. What are you wearing? While t-shirt and boxers (blue-ish plaid).
    10. Did you dream last night? Not that I recall.
    11. When did you last laugh? Today at Target (store), laughing at some teenage girls trying to convince a little girl/sister that she didn’t need both toys. The older girls lost.
    12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? East (the way I’m facing) – is four windows and a bookcase (with photos, CDs, DVDs, college degrees and a shelf for remotes) . South – some photos I took in Praha (Prague) and a mirror (housewarming gift) and a staircase. West – I I don’t really have a wall there, it’s kinda open and eventually you hit the sliding glass door to the balcony/porch. North – a book case and about a bjillion post-it notes of various colors as I was trying to kind of map out a history of technology and implementation.
    13. Seen anything weird lately? A lot of weird web sites dedicated to marshmallow Peeps…
    14. What do you think of this quiz? Pretty good so far…
    15. What is the last film you saw? "Butterfly Effect"! I thought it was excellent. Off to see "13 going on 30" tonite.
    16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first? Cruise tickets for friends and family. FYI, this would be two separate cruises! I might be slightly mean and make it educational – buy them all PowerBooks and digital cameras and make it be a MacMania cruise.
    17. Tell me something about you that I don’t know: I’ve got a birthmark that my mom thought was dirt when I was little and she says she used to scrub it and scrub it..
    18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? Make everyone the same shade of blue and all speak the same language (Esperanto?) with no accent. I’m also thinking about a book I bought (but haven’t read) about an invention that makes all gunpowder on the planet turn inert. Or maybe just turn the top 10% of “bad” people on the planet inert…
    19. Do you like to dance? Yes, when I get enough encouragement.
    20. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? a boy? Nothing that I’m concerned about about at this point.
    21. Would you ever consider living abroad? Yes! Every time I go to another country I mull it around for a while. The one that really sticks is Costa Rica, I couldn’t tell you how often I think “sell it all, pack up and move”.

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    Read a Road Map Day – Blogger Seeds

    Posted on April 9, 2004 | Leave a comment

    How are your map reading skills? My map reading skills are pretty good. I really like finding different ways to go places. I love maps, I always am looking at the nice plastic fold up maps. I bought a really cool map of Manhattan the other day just because it was such an interesting map (I keep meaning to do a little write up of that..)

    From Blogger Seeds.

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    Your Job – Friday Five

    Posted on April 9, 2004 | Leave a comment
    1. What do you do for a living? I’m the Director of Technology for a school district, which means if it plugs in (unless it cooks food or heats/cools the building) it’s the problem of my department.
    2. What do you like most about your job? Getting people excited about using tech in their day. Getting some tool put together for someone to use that makes their life easier.
    3. What do you like least about your job? When I tell someone “I don’t know” and they reword the question a dozen different ways because the seem to thin I don’t. Telling someone the right answer (“I do know”) and them not believing that it is the way to go.
    4. When you have a bad day at work it’s usually because _____… There just isn’t enough time to get everything fixed.
    5. What other career(s) are you interested in? I love seeing the kids at school. I’d love to just do day care but I don’t think that would a good job to help me with my technology habit. Dream job would be to teach kindergarten in the morning and advance computers at the high school in the afternoon or be an astronaut.

    From the Friday Five.

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