Saturday, May 05, 2007

There is Only One Correct Answer

The AP did posed their usual “goofy” questions to Presidential candidates.

Asked what he would most like to have if s/he were stranded on a desert island, Tom Tancredo responded:

“Boat”

Awesome.

(Ed. Note: Not that I’d vote for him in a million years, because I’m pretty sure he has paleolithic social policies, but that is the right answer to that question).

Friday, May 04, 2007

Proof

Observe the following photo:

You know what those things are in that photo?

Yes, they are brown paper bags in a refrigerator, but what do they REPRESENT?

They represent the fact that my wife is the best person ever. And that she loves me.

She left town to go become a member of the Idaho State Bar or something legal and before she left, she made ALL the lunches for the kids for the rest of the week.

I get tear-y just thinking about it.

First, she knows that with having all the kids to deal with in the morning and from the evening before, I won’t have a lot of time to futz around with food which will be eaten in the future. I can only concentrate on present time food. It needs immediacy or it never makes it to my radar. People have to be mewling that they are hungry and whining about it, before I can be bothered. Future food only exists in theory.

Second, I have this thing about making lunches. It’s completely irrational, but I really, really hate making sandwiches and putting it all together.

What’s even MORE irrational about this pet peeve of mine, is that kid lunches are stupid easy, once the sandwich is made. Bag of chips or pretzels, a go-gurt and a couple cookies or something “snack-y” tossed into a paper sack. NO big deal, right? I can’t explain it. It’s irrational, remember?

Third, she made all the lunches for the entire week and labeled them according to kid. ALL the lunches!

Fourth, really, she made them all! How wonderful was that?

Thanks, babe. Can’t wait until you get back!

“Bed’s too big without you.”

Thursday, May 03, 2007

On Weekends I Take Things That Don’t Belong to Me

On Weekends I Take Things That Don’t Belong to Me, originally uploaded by zuhl.

This is my desk at work. I snagged an extra 23” Cinema Display from someone. I’m a bad person, I know.

But look at how pretty it is!

Click on the photo and you’ll go to flickr where there are notes and an explanation of what you see.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

We Do Love Our Dairy Products

Our younger boy Jonah back when he was three. That little voice of his just KILLS me. So cute. Don't you just want to spread him on a piece of toast and have him for breakfast? You can use the extra butter.

Direct QuickTime (plain old glorious MPEG-4) link to the video in case the picture link-thing-y above doesn't work.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Just Call Me Mussolini in the Morning

“Mom has to be out of town for a couple of nights later this week, so you know what that means, don’t you?”

Lucas thinks for a second.

“It means that your fascist reign of terror will grow by the end of the week?”

How well these children of mine know me.

 

Novus

Favorite Entries

If you are new around here, the following entries have been reasonably well received. You might want to peruse these.

• Correspondence
• Help Wanted
• From the Office of Mis-directed Email
• A Word from the Small Person in the House
• RNT Product Review: Chocolate Mix Skittles Left Me Sterile!
• Jon’s Report Card circa… A Long Time Ago
• Dear Gratuitously Naked Conversationalist at the Gym:
• A Peek Inside the Writer’s Guild and Producers’ Negotiations
• We Regret the Error
• Letters from a Homeowner to His General Contractor
• What I Did There
• Hermaphrodite Administrative Assistants and Receptionists Need Not Apply
• Giving Me an IM Account Was Obviously a Huge Mistake
• Official Ransom Note Typography Vista vs. Mac OS X Shootout
• I Need a Real Hobby
• Beat Down
• Big Fat Lies
• True Love
• Now MY Ovaries Hurt
• Don’t Get Her Started
• Disturbing Trend
• Had to do it
• Mooshy stuff
• Ransom Note Typography End User License Agreement “EULA”
• Diva-licious!
• Just so we’re clear
• PETA may have a point

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