Blog of Doom

We got a new router/DSL modem yesterday. Our current DSL modem was in the process of dying a slow, painful death, so Ash and I decided to go looking for a new one. I took a look at the SBC web site, since we use SBC DSL service. I figured I would make sure that [...]

Today we were going home from a little shopping trip. We bought some school supplies for Morgan. He’s going to school in a few weeks. We also got him an Airport Extreme card for his Mac Mini (I know I sometimes call it a miniMac). We got it because we wanted to move his computer [...]

Ash was recently telling me about her visit to her doctor on Friday. I took off work early to watch Morgan while she went to the doctor. After waiting for an hour or so to see her doctor (she was running behind because of a problem with a previous patient), she got some new prescriptions [...]

We finally broke down and got him a computer of his own. I was tired of being kicked off my iBook all the time so he could go look at construction cranes, or as Morgan likes to call them, tartuta cwanes. Plus, he’s getting his crap and food and drinks and stuff all over it. [...]

Morgan recently started calling me Michael.
If I’m making him popcorn and leave, when the microwave beeper goes off, he calls out, “Miiichael!”, and points at the microwave. If he wants me to open a door for him or come over and look at something, if calling Daddy doesn’t work, he uses Michael.
He learned my name [...]

Today we got Ash’s new DVD drive in the mail. She bought Sims 2 last weekend and was excited about the fun she was going to have playing it. Unfortunately she was to be disappointed. It comes on a DVD, not a CD, and her Quicksilver Power Mac G4 desktop computer only has a CD [...]

I was just amused at myself today, thinking about some of the things I’ve set up for security on this blog. For example, I have a new plugin on Wordpress (my blogging software) called Bad Behavior. I just installed it this morning. You can see it in the Statistics section of the sidebar. It is [...]

I have a bag from Rhino-Skin, which I use to hold my PDA and Cell Phone, plus business cards and a pen. Ash started calling it my Purse, which of course I absolutely will not stand for. I insisted that she call it a Man-Purse. Not only that, she must call it a Man-Purse with [...]

Ash sent me a quote about persistence by Calvin Coolidge. I like it. I’ve seen it before and I can’t help thinking it’s probably true. I’ve seen a lot of people who succeeded because they didn’t give up. Their quote when asked about the secret of their success? “Never give up on your dream.” Persistence [...]

This was a day that truly sucked. This morning I was driving to work. Stopped in the lane next to me was a white van filled with some adults with various mental disabilities. I think they were heading to a job under those work programs for the handicapped. One of them was rocking back and [...]