So I was cleaning my desk and managed to unearth the scanner I’ve had tucked away for far too many months. On a whim I plugged it into my Linux box and… voila! Looking around for a test image to scan, I found this wallet-sized picture…
Now isn’t that just the most adorable kid you’ve ever seen?
(She’s still every bit as naturally photogenic now, most of twelve years later, mind you. The trick now, as it was then, is getting her to stay still long enough to snap her picture…)
In case my immune system is paying attention, I’d like to tell it one quick thing:
It is not at all amusing to keep me up half the night with a sore throat and swollen glands right before my last day of work before a much-anticipated vacation that happens to involve a visit by my dearest beloved.
Granted, I’m most appreciative that the symptoms seem to have gone almost completely away by mid-afternoon, but that doesn’t completely make up for the stress levels caused by worry over the fate of our plans for the weekend.
That will be all. Thank you.
You know you’ve reached a certain critical milestone as a parent when you look your oldest child in the eye… and realize you’re looking them right in the eye, because they’re just as tall as you are.
The boy’s twelve, which means he’s not even done yet! Oh, man.
Still, he’s a good kid, so hopefully I won’t ever face the possibility of trying to punish a kid who’s bigger than I am…
Added to the file labeled, “Product Names We Never Wanted To See,” we find the following image. I walked past this discarded box on the way to work this morning, glanced down, read the text, stopped, stared at the box for a full thirty seconds, walked away, realized that I could not let such a photo-op go by, walked back, snapped a picture with my phone, then hurried to the bus stop.
(Sadly, this is another example of the fact that the Treo 600 takes lousy pictures. I should’ve taken the extra minute or two and just broken out the Canon. Argh.)
You know it’s been a quiet weekend when your most nostable accomplishment is figuring out how to make KDE do timed random wallpaper changes.
Oh, okay, I also got Mute Aunt, my newest Defender in City of Heroes, up to level 12, but I had help doing that.
No TV yet. I need another paycheck first. Le sigh.
Let’s see…
Nevermind that I’ve spent months planning to have a turntable by now so I could do something based around the notion of being 33-1/3 years old today (get it? LP records spin at 33-1/3 RPM? ain’t I clever?), only to not have enough money until now and no card with which to buy said turntable. Oh, no.
Wait, one good thing happened today: I got my new debit card. YAY! So I guess the day hasn’t been a total loss… just a near-total loss.
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