Daily posting-3/31/2006

Here we go again. The week has flown by. Erika’s dad is in the hospital. We have NO MONEY. Please give-generously. Thanks. This is bad. Not much happening-working, school.

And here’s the week: movie at work, visited my parents, art thing in Pasadena, watched Monster’s Inc., church, The Witness, Charo Chicken, rainy, no money. Blew this off until Friday, took the day off so Erika could do her thing, went on the walk at school.

Not much this week-increasing my online activism, HUGE marches against HR 4437. This isn’t the way to solve undocumented immigration. We can’t say “close the borders” and “we need cheap labor” at the same time.A strike and riots in France. The Chief of Staff quit-it’s about time the White House got new people in-ha-and this isn’t it.

Some downloads:commonSense database, scratch, Easy Mobile Programming, gConvert Icon editor, Jabber 2.0, RIFE, ruby on rails, sinedots, Lens pro, Eye candy-I needed to do a glass button effect…

2006/3/30

Getting my red sports car fixed. They’ve changed the tools around. Get a tux and it had writing on it-the kids put more. Take it back to the person. Try to get into some house-get in and chat. There’s a rocket test-we watch it and it comes to ground nearby with lots of sparks-we get under a roof. I go back and get my computer up again. in some parking lot and decide to go to the mini gym that’s there. Chat with the chick running it.

2006/3/29

On some road, want to turn, a whole line of bikers going the other way-guy says don’t go that way. Went straight. Down some hill and around to a store, looked around.

2006/3/26

Driving to US with E. We’re going up Shaker and I tell her where to go and get lost by Euclid, we go down some hill and there’s an odd rock shaped species of bird/mammal. We drive around to the entrance and go in. Class of ’41 is there. We walk in, play in a play area, look at the trophy room, E wants to check email and a nice chick says OK, we chat and her and E kvell.

2006/3/24

in the office, getting a router replacement-screwing around to get it installed.
In LB, a yard sale. Tom T has an expensive synth cube for $100, I check it out.

Daily posting-3/23/2006

I blew this off last week. Busy. No time. My laptop died. Working 3 jobs, kids, school, church, that’s about it. And I just noticed that last week was the 10th anniversary of my first post! Yay! Go me! A lot of things have happened since then, and there’s a 2½ year gap.

The last 2 weeks-nothing much-watched Harry Potter, church, lunch with Tracy & family at Hof’s Hut, saw their new house, Ikea, work, Erika was sick last week, ate at Chili’s, parent’s meeting at school, speedcleaned the house, edited the SeaLight, interesting revelation in the shower, kids ate at work, there was a health fair at work, my laptop died (got replaced yesterday), had a so-so mexican dinner, went skating with the boys while Erika shopped, played racquetball too, church, had dinner with friends, and work, sleep, school, play with kids, Spring Equinox, tried to give blood-still no, as long as they don’t have a test for mad cow.

Milosevic died-looks like self-administered OD. A lot of people turned out for the funeral. The world baseball classic came and went-whoopee. A huge cricket event->400 runs in a day match. Found another case of mad cow in the US-Colbert said a funny about it. South Park lost Isaac Hayes because of the Tom Cruise closet ep-and they promptly skewered $cientology even more. Ouch. That wacky Pat Robertson is at it again-this time saying Islam isn’t peaceful & extremists are Satanic. Whatever-no one’s listening anymore. Puffy McMoonface and Chimpy are getting tough questions now-Chimpy called on Helen Thomas! first time in three years. Dude. Jessica Simpson snubbed the White House. Hee. And Saddam gave a big speech at his trial-it is such a joke now.

Downloads: Music Notepad, Tidy, jSynthLib, IBM Ajax Toolkit Framework

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2006/3/20

Some rural buildings, walking around. A big storm is coming-snow-have to get away-too late-some kid is climbing where he shouldn’t be and falls to his death. I tell the cop that I saw the whole thing.

Daily posting-3/9/2006

It’s Thursday again, I don’t know how I feel today-a little tired. Odd feeling. Sorta disconnected. I’ve been listening to Junky by W.S. Burroughs in the car-he’s reading it. It’s pretty cool, but I think it’s affecting my psyche a bit. I’m also listening to Democracy Now. It’s bad, bad, bad. Civil rights are going away, everywhere, if they aren’t gone already.

We went to DeBenneville Pines over the weekend. I took off Friday, we had lunch at Ruby’s and drove up just after noon. It rained on the way up-we saw 5 accidents-one big one close to home, and the rest on snowy roads-we actually witnessed one of them. I have no problems driving in the snow, they made us put chains on. It stopped snowing, and the snow was gone by mid-Saturday. The kids sledded anyways. Saw a lot of people, drank some, played with the kids. I got to read some of Steiner’s The Spirit of the Waldorf School. We drove home and went to the spa. The week has been pretty quiet. My routine is changing a bit-I play with the kids at school, poke my head in the school office, say bye to Matt in line, go to work, work, come home, put the kids to bed and work until it’s time to eat, eat, work until it’s time to go to sleep, sleep. Erika rearranged the bedroom. The boys got kids’ roller skates-now I have to get mine out of storage…I’m starting on a third job. Pascal/btrieve maintenance programming. I’m still getting my legs under me on it. I’m on a bit of a prog kick right now-listening to Hawkwind now, Utopia, Allan Holdsworth, Gentle Giant and Primus too. The boys like it too-we call it boy music. I’m also picking up a bunch of free Dead concert MP3’s from Internet Archive. I really love their “Anthem of the Sun” era material.

I didn’t write up any topical stuff-the Oscars were this week-we didn’t watch. Stewart seemed to do a good job. My wife was watching Project Runway, which just ended, but I don’t care. Britney’s pregnant again. whoopee. U.S. is leaving Abu Graib-there’s enough other places to torture people now… The Dubai port deal got abandoned too. But the Supremes stopped the ban on military recruiting at college campuses. That’s two wins, one loss. Augustine volcano in Alaska is building up a lava dome. And the usual death, disaster, crime, war in the news. whoopee.

I picked up Free Pascal, and a copy of Turbo Pascal 7.0 for the job I’m doing, also the Zend Framework and TransMac to try to find my copy of Turbo Pascal. I think I need Borland Pascal, though.

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Daily posting-3/2/2006

Here I am again, plus another week. Not much going-the usual. We’re going to DeBenneville Pines Camp for a UUCLB! church retreat this weekend-the kids are psyched-they packed their backpacks last week…

The recap: went to dinner at B.J.s with the Pembertons. Erika went to a stamp show, went to Alta Laguna park for a church picnic, got to fly my deca a little, ate at Texas BBQ Pit after-YUM!!! church Sunday, meeting afterwards, didn’t sleep well and was tired Monday, it rained, Erika got the car tuned up for the drive to camp, worked on computers at Journey school. I’m the computer guy there now.

Here’s a quickie week in review-I don’t know if I have the energy for more…Executions have stopped in CA. The CA Supreme Court ruled that a medical professional needs to verify that the process isn’t cruel and unusual punishment. And no anesthesiologists are willing to participate in an execution. Something about the oath they take saying “FIRST DO NO HARM”. A Dubai co financed by the emirate wants to buy a UK firm that runs several shipping ports. This has touched off a bit of light and heat for BushCo. Apparently the public and Congress doesn’t like an Arab run co knowing how port security operates. And it was approved over objections from law enforcement. Oops. South Dakota legislators have passed a law banning abortion, and the gov. is going to sign it. And immediately after that, Planned Parenthood is going to file a lawsuit, a judge will issue an injunction, and the thing will wind its way up the federal courts. I have no idea if this will end up on the Supremes’ desk, probably, the problem here is whether Robscalito will want to get into overturning the Roe precedent in such a sharp manner. I think not. Ohno won the 500M race, leading the whole way. He was happy, he skated well. A bunch of inmates took over a prison in Afghanistan, and BushCo visited. We’ve had riots here in LA jails recently too. TIA is alive under another name. Scary. Especially with the domestic spying stuff. Six months after Katrina, it’s still a mess there. The conclusion-don’t rely on the Feds for anything after a disaster. And a video briefing surfaced pre Katrina showing that BushCo was warned. Which means Bush lied when he said no one could’ve predicted it. Enough already. I agree with the assertion that in a more normal system, a vote of no confidence would’ve occurred, and BushCo would be out. <sigh> And now I just heard that the Patriot act passed. Dude. Get these guys out of here! 10 No votes. That’s just wrong. Shame on everyone who voted for this, especially the Democrats.

I finally got around to burning some of the CD’s I have backlogged. It meant getting a ton of conversion software: dbPowerAmp, 4Musics WMA to WAV Converter, lame, razorlame, oggDropXPd, MPC utilities, Xilisoft MP3 WAV Converter.

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