Year: 2007

11:15 pm-Yet another “last thing before bed” post. Seems to be the best way to go with busy days. OK-slept in a bit today as well. Dentist-Matt had to have his spacer put back in and we scheduled appointments. On to play date. Work-in late, out early-worked on the Big Project following page. Hang out to pick up kids, shop, dinner, bath, bed. Read paper, computing, dinner. And here we are. Time to sleep.

11:09 pm-Another good night post. Kids go to play date all day tomorrow. Recap: slept in a bit. Breakfast, a classmate of Colin’s came over for the morning. Painted garages, rode bikes and skated, up for racquetball, lunch. Matt took a nap. More skating, painting, dinner and a movie. To bed-Matt woke up but I put him back in bed. Dinner, kid’s laundry. Not much else.

12:01 am-Late-basically a good night post. Past 2 days: hang out Saturday morning, over to San Juan for a president’s day thing at the Mission. Lunch at Ruby’s, walk around-asked and received OK to blow a Tibetan Temple Trumpet. It was cool-Matt did it too. Goodwills-picked up a Perfect Circle CD. Put my name in at the yoga studio for doing Tai Chi-she asked if I had a following-not yet. You get one by giving classes that blow away anyone with the correct and proper use of personal power. Slow and deadly at a distance-I really need to work on it a lot deeper than I usually do. No matter-onward. I know I have ability-“I can do this”. Public recognition is a tough thing-too soon, put to death for not getting to the right thing in time; too late, put to death for trying to get it out when there none left. Whatever, I’ll do it when the time is in fullness, no idea when-I have to decide what I’m going to do.
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Anyways, back home-not much-tired, get food for the kids, painted the models, they had a good time. Skated outside a bit. Dinner, sleep, dinner, tv, bed.

Today-Erika’s getting ready. Kids need to go to church, Colin didn’t. Taped, edited and burned 4 cd’s. Took Barbara WP to the beach. Back to get $$$, home. Finish models. Erika left in the middle of modelmaking, but it worked-no kids underfoot. She forgot meds & $$$-came back. Models look fine, Matt made a garage. Ate lunch, watched movies, ate dinner, watched a bit more, the clothes, brush teeth, pick book routine. Out in good time. Tidy up. And that’s it.

11:24 pm-In bed-finish this, close up shop, to sleep. The day: took kids to school, got ready to go on the Kindy walk-got overruled because of my bad hip. Fixed net access for a staffer, fixed overloaded email accounts too. Work-more Big Project-finished one page, on to another. Journey, website job, timecard bits. Lunch, tea, listening to KC.

Home, kids got presents from Aunt Holly-called her. Dinner, to bed. Our dinner, cleaning up Project Gutenberg ’03-my disk is bad. Got CD from job prospect. Las Vegas, Numb3rs, end of Logan’s Run. That’s it. I hope I can get time to work on music. Erika’s going up to Sacramento Sunday-Thursday.

2:01 pm-About to go to lunch, again. More leftovers. Quiet day-icons, starting back on the Big Project. Need to work on the website project. Picked up my accounting entries.

5:16 pm-Packing up for home. More Big Project stuff done. That’s about it. Accounting is done-need to start on taxes-waiting for 1099’s, etc. Not much else-set up a Deskjet 720c I got on Freecycle. Tea, listened to KC live from ’82. Home to make fried chicken strips.

11:43 pm-In bed, finishing up web dev bit, on to making time card for other job. Meds, printer cart, fry chicken for kids-made my stomach ache-good but ouch. Kids to bed, wash, dinner, CSI, Shark, Daily Show.

Page 23, Sentence 5: “Of the last talks in Moscow there is still another which remains in my memory during which G. said several things which, again, became intelligible only subsequently.” In Search of the Miraculous

2:03 pm-About to go to lunch-leftovers from last night. Normal day-icons, rework screen again, kids to school. St. Valentine’s day-Erika is picking up her own candy, I’m getting the flowers…Need to get cards too. Listening to KC. Trying to improve my touch typing. I suck at it.

4:10 pm-Tea time-more touch typing, boy, if you could see what this looks like before I edit it… Listening to Tool. Uneventful lunch. Shot a rack of pool-they were talking about a tournament but nothing yet. Tea is ready and poured. My shoulder’s better…

I’m thinking about making “Dark Clouds…” part of an album, which means concentrating on it and seeing if I can come up with lyrics and hope my vocals are up to it. There are some distractions in my life-family, work, and a major arising in the past 2 days. I’d really like to do it-like I said, “I want to record music, write, paint, and do something with spirituality that I haven’t figured out yet. I have ideas and equipment, but no time.”

9:59 pm-In bed, watching TV. Whoopee. The past day-Erika meeting didn’t happen, forgot about Sealight, busted for a thing. Work, icons, animations, screen bit, meeting, home, kids to bed, NCIS, the Unit, surfage, Fripp’s diary. I stretched at the meeting and heard a “pop” when I lowered my arm-ouch. It still hurts.

Reading an interesting set of blog postings from the Power of Narrative. His premise is that out foreign policy now is simply a continuation of historical trends, not a break from them. Interesting. It’s a series called “Dominion Over the World”. Look for it. Getting backlogged on U.S. News & World Report. OK to read as long as you keep an eye open for the bias. Have 2 Ouspensky books on the dock. Time to sleep.

12:11 pm-At work-finishing up a page rework project, on to an icon animation. A hard-to-get-up Monday-Erika would’ve slept until 10 if I hadn’t got her up. Kids to school-a bit late. On to work. The usual coffee, web. The YouTube upload on Friday didn’t, and I ended up having to use the non-Flash one. But it’s there and below. Not much else-listening to David Sylvian and Fripp.

9:14 pm-Sunday-Matt went to a bowling birthday party, Colin and I went to church, then to give Valentine’s cards at a local retirement home. Lunch, then basketball, racquetball and workout. Dinner, kids to bed. In bed, watching Mythbusters, some western drama on TBN-blecch.

11:04 pm-In bed, Erika’s watching Sex in the City, now Iron Chef. Yesterday-more Flash & icons, finished up the movie, started to upload to YouTube-I don’t think it made it. Kids to bed, not much else-Colin had achy feet.

Today-Tai Chi, Hometown Buffet, Erika got a bank account, kids haircut, ice cream, bookstore, Erika shopped, we played racquetball and worked out and reconned the path back to the trail from last week. Pizza, kids to bed, hang out.

12:33 pm-Got a bit before Acrobat finishes. Erika took the kids, tidied up, put away clean clothes. Last night-finished up tracking on Dark Clouds and Thunder! Hooray. The guitar part didn’t work, so I put in a little buzzy bass thing with the mando. Today I’m picking out random found sounds. Next-putting it into the movie, uploading and publicizing. Working on the Flash thing, icons. Acrobat is done.

1:59 pm-Time for lunch-yow! Quick running day. Erika took the kids to school-cleaned up a bit. Rework graphics redo from yesterday. Start on the HTML for the website. Anna Nicole Smith died-an ENN exclusive. Listening to KC.

5:12 pm-Time to go home-Flash stuff and frustration this afternoon. Lunch, tea, more KC. Not much else.

5:27 pm-Work day here is done-go home and work some more. The Day: Kids to school, Colin didn’t want to, but then warmed up to it. Play with Kindys. To work-the Big Project and a little Flash. Lunch. Tea. Diddling with myspace-I finally have some friends! Whoopee. Web project. Listened to Adrian Belew and the Residents.

4:55 pm-Almost time to go home-crappy day.

8:59 pm-In bed, waiting for dinner. What a day. Matt to school, Colin stayed home. Started working, they’re having this thing downstairs. Erika comes and gets a credit card. I go out to the thing with the guys, we get in line for burgers, we need a ticket so I go to get one that are all gone, then all the people in the thing get in the front of the line. My guys bail, then I do. Irritating. Erika and Colin came for lunch. Colin falls asleep at home, I have to go get Matt. More Big Project-change of priority, Flash thing. Home, kids in bed, forgot my storage unit. NCIS, the Unit.

11:59 pm-Finishing up the website design stuff for tonight-dinner, the Unit (again), some PBS thing-Colin was awake and crawled in with us. After he fell asleep I put him in his bed and he woke up and started crying. Erika got him back to sleep.

1:09 pm-Back to work-earlyish meeting, Erika took the kids to school. Working on the Big Project. Not much else-listening to Music for Films.

4:56 pm-Almost time to go home-more Big Project, trial icon, time entry. Whoopee. Lunch, tea. Listening to Rush. Reading Tertium Organum, burned an archive CD. My life is SO exciting. I should turn into a recording artiste-no ca$h in that, unless you’re on top. Fripp and Courtney Love are so right-if you’re signed to a big label, you’re an indentured servant, with no rights to your music-that’s why DGM is so important. I found some old indie MP3’s and an abandonware website.

9:17 pm-In bed, working on the web stuff. MASH, sounds, Supernanny. Dinner, kids to bed, Erika meeting.

11:56 pm-In bed, working on the 2nd job of web stuff. Daily Show, Colbert, docu about a Nat’l Geographic photographer, dinner. Erika was at the meeting late.

8:06 pm-Sunday-church, lunch, play a bit, Erika shopped, neighbor stopped by, cleaned the fishtank and the kitchen. Cooked dinner, Erika cleaned bathrooms. Sitting in bed, don’t really want to do work, watching Criminal Minds.

11:23 pm-Sitting in bed, time for bed. Dinner, clean kitchen, TV, computing. Early meeting tomorrow. Colin had a temp for awhile.