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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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5:11 pm - Siiiingin' in the rain!
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A cold front of gays... I like it... :]
current mood:  giggly
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| Sunday, April 19th, 2009
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3:46 pm - [This subject removed due to inapropriate content]
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So I finally decided to hook our 400 CD player up to the stereo system so it could do more than collect dust. One of the first things I had to do though is pull out all of the CDs and look for inappropriate content. We've already made a concious decision that we're not going to limit Gwendolyn to "children's" music, but I really don't need Trent Reznor & Snoop Dogg helping with her vocabulary development.
Some of the CDs were rather easy (Johann Sebastian Bach... in... The Matrix... out...), some were judgement calls (Jack Johnson... folksy guitar... but he does sing that he was "fucking high"... it's only once, but he enunciates his f-bomb a lot clearer than Marilyn Manson does... in for now?), and still others were of the category "I can't remember if this is ok or not" so they're sitting in a pile waiting to be reviewed. Also in that pile are CDs that don't indicate anywhere on them who the artist is or what the album is... they're just pretty...
It's interesting now that I've hooked it up again there are songs that I haven't heard in a long time and I go, "Oh wow! I forgot that one!" Also because it's the CD player instead of the mp3 player and I'd either have to cross the room or find the remote to change the song I let a lot more songs play through. I'm having a few instances where I haven't heard a song in a while simply because I don't care for the first few bars and automatically skip it. Now that I'm listening all the way through I remember why I liked it in the first place. It's kinda nice to have less control every once in a while. :]
(Also just discovered that one of the Apopthygma Berserk CDs has a scratch... bugger!)
This has also prompted me to once again pick up my "convert all my CDs to mp3s" project. The one good thing about the project is that, unlike most other projects that I start and then forget for a long time, I'm not falling further behind as time goes by. It's just that the 100 or so CDs that haven't been converted sit there for months unplayed.
(Gwendolyn is stacking blocks suspiciously close to the CD player... must keep eye on her... :] )
Ok, enough being a neglectful posting parent... I must get back to playing with Gwendolyn and protecting her from the mighty f-bombs of Snoop Dogg, the Satan Worship producing guitar riffs of Ozzy, and the general soul destruction of the techno *untzuntzuntzuntz*.
current mood:  busy
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| Monday, March 23rd, 2009
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4:16 pm - Playing Cookie
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Our babysitter called in sick today so I'm home playing hookey... which is kinda good as Gwendolyn had a rough night with teething which meant that we the parents had a rough night as well.
Gwendolyn's asleep (and has been for 2 1/2 hours now) so I had a chance to get both her lunch and dinner together. I gotta say it's been rather fun cooking for her. :] I've always kinda enjoyed messing around in the kitchen, but now I have a purpose for it. I get to play "what can I create that's nutritious and tasty for my microfrog?" Well, that and "I wonder what else new and exciting I can get her to eat?"
So far she's only turned up her nose at a couple of things, most famously her own birthday cake. She also doesn't like the hummus at a really good Persian restaurant we go to, but the raw onions and radishes are fine, as is pretty much any other hummus. She liked playing with the Angel Hair pasta I made last night for her more than eating it. I think that it was pretty much a texture issue though. Oh, and the first attempts at lettuce and raw carrots were both a bit disasterous. Even though she has molars now I don't think she really knows what to do with them so foods that need to be ground end up just piling up in her mouth until we're afraid she's going to choke. I might try a small dose of lettuce again soon to gauge the waters though.
For dinner tonight she's having black beans & rice, a grilled caprese salad (I'm throwing it in aluminium foil and putting it on the grill for a few minutes to melt/adhere the mozzarella to the tomatoes and make the tomatoes a bit softer), and perhaps some raisins or blackberries if she's still hungry...
The odd thing about feeding her so far is that we (well, mainly Crystal) have had to almost apologise to other people for the way we're doing it. So far we've had her on a mainly junk-free vegetarian diet. On the meat side she's had a touch of turkey at Thanksgiving and a bite or two of chicken at another time. Junk wise I think she's had a bit of a bite of oreo and a couple bites of someone else's birthday cake.
When this comes up the reaction from other people normally includes a bit of "you're ruining your child's fun", a bit of unstated "I know you're judging me for what I give my kid", and a bit of "you guys are weirdos".
I'll freely admit to the third part, but that has nothing to do with our food choices. :]
Really there are 4 reasons for feeding her the way we do.
1) Her current health -- Better food = Better health and development.
2) Her future food choices -- What I ate as a child is in large part what I crave as an adult. When I was growing we really didn't have sweets except for an occasional treat, but we ate a lot of red meat and pork. I don't have the unfortunate sweet tooth that a lot of other people have. I do crave things like bacon and steak and more bacon.
3) To help us eat healthier -- The more healthy food we serve Gwendolyn the more it will force us to eat healthy. This will be especially true once she starts eating dinner with us. We're not going to cook two separate dinners so if she's having black beans & rice we'll have black beans and rice.
4) We change her diapers -- Vegetables going through the digestive process are gross enough. I don't want to deal with hot dogs. :-P
Well, the little one is rustling... so I'd better rustle her up some grits quesadilla for lunch.
current mood:  accomplished
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| Friday, March 20th, 2009
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2:19 pm - Free as in Beer
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Go get you some NIN if you wish... well, that and Jane's Addiction & Street Sweeper.
I love how Trent keeps thumbing his nose at the RIAA and their silly lawsuits.
Now, go download!
current mood: busy
current music: NIN - The Day the World Went Away (1999)
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| Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
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3:35 pm - The later years...
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| Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
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9:35 am - I'll have a double espresso
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| Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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11:50 am - IM Fun
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(11:03:42 AM) me: You've decided that you want to listen to Jamie Cullum today
(11:09:24 AM) marc: Walk left
(11:15:46 AM) me:
You have entered the datacenter. There are many servers here whirring and buzzing. There are several machines much larger than a refrigerator, behemoths from another era, that sit idle, their lights no longer flashing. A backup server clicks along requesting tape after tape to be loaded in the drives of the robot.
You see: A console, a backup tape, a set of screwdrivers, and 50' of Cat-5e cable
Exits are: North, South, and West
(11:17:07 AM) marc: use screwdrivers on backup server
(11:21:03 AM) me:
*POP* *WHIZZ* *BANG* The backup server suffers a quick, albeit exciting, death. Smoke begins pouring out of the back of the server and moments later the Halon warning siren begins wailing. You'd better get out before the doors seal and the Halon fire suppression system goes off.
--- HALON WARNING ACTIVATED ---
You see: A console, a backup tape, and 50' of Cat-5e cable
Exits are: North, South, and West
(11:27:16 AM) marc: Pork Chop Sandwiches!
(11:28:08 AM) me:
You see no Pork Chop Sandwiches! here.
--- HALON WARNING ACTIVATED ---
You see: A console, a backup tape, and 50' of Cat-5e cable
Exits are: North, South, and West
(11:29:23 AM) marc: grab cat-5e cable, exit north
(11:31:40 AM) me:
You have entered the wiring closet. It is small, cramped, and dark. You are likely to be eaten by a patch panel.
--- HALON WARNING ACTIVATED ---
You see: A mess
Exits are: South
(11:33:57 AM) marc: ( :P Carl is a very silly man, I like it. )
(11:34:14 AM) marc: run south!
(11:34:23 AM) marc: South like the wind!
(11:35:09 AM) me:
You have entered the datacenter. There are many servers here whirring and buzzing. There are several machines much larger than a refrigerator, behemoths from another era, that sit idle, their lights no longer flashing. A backup server is on fire.
--- HALON WARNING ACTIVATED ---
You see: A console, and a backup tape
Exits are: North, South, and West
(11:36:20 AM) marc: run south, south like the wind!
(11:37:28 AM) marc: bbl, going out on a job. :P
(11:37:34 AM) me: (ok)
(11:40:53 AM) me:
You have entered a rack that is over 40 U's high. A rack like this could hold a wide array of computer related equipment including servers, switches, and routers. This particular rack contains a patch panel though.
YOU HAVE BEEN EATEN!!
Final Score: 8 out of 150
current mood:  silly
current music: John Legend - Save Room
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| Monday, December 1st, 2008
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1:22 pm - That's news to me...
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From here you go on to harder and harder newsstands until you've either subscribed directly to an AP newsfeed or have become a reporter yourself.
"Sure... they're just browsing People today but soon enough they'll be begging you for the latest copy of Investor's Business Daily."
current mood:  cheerful
current music: The sound of fsck working
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| Friday, November 28th, 2008
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10:26 am - Cellphone Cameras FTW
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In honor of McDonalds the act of ingesting, digesting, and excreting the waste products from an object (food or otherwise) shall henceforth be known as "GI Loving".
Examples:
"Man I was GI Loving this burrito yesterday and it loved me back all last night..."
or
"I got nuthin' but Gastrointestinal Love for you baby... carrot! OM NOM NOM NOM!"
The following ad would like to remind you to give some GI Love to two french fries and a chicken nugget.
current mood: silly
current music: All I Say -- Neuroticfish
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| Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
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8:18 am - Oh I'm sorry Mr. Sysadmin... was your workstation unlocked while you were out for a day?
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# User specific aliases and functions
alias ls=/usr/bin/emacs
alias vi=/usr/bin/emacs
alias cat=/usr/bin/emacs
alias ps=/usr/bin/emacs
alias man=/usr/bin/emacs
alias cp=/usr/bin/emacs
alias mv=/usr/bin/emacs
alias vim=/usr/bin/emacs
alias top=/usr/bin/emacs
alias pwd=/usr/bin/emacs
alias ssh=/usr/bin/emacs
alias scp=/usr/bin/emacs
alias wget=/usr/bin/emacs
alias yum=/usr/bin/emacs
alias unalias=/usr/bin/emacs
alias sudo=/usr/bin/emacs
alias su=/usr/bin/emacs
alias exit=/usr/bin/emacs
&
* * * * * wall "Locking my workstation is fun!"
(And, no, I was not the one with the unlocked workstation)
current mood:  devious
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| Monday, October 6th, 2008
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11:15 am - Your tax dollars @ work
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| Friday, October 3rd, 2008
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12:52 pm - Total Money lost by taxpayers just a few minutes back: $1,242,375,537,386.32
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Of course that's if we pay it back in 10 years.
$2,996,254,507,629.49 if we let it fester for 30 years.
But it's alright...
It's charged against our children and their children so we get to pretend that it doesn't exist.
It's good to know that the executive bonus pools will be overflowing this Christmas though...
current mood:  nauseated
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| Sunday, August 24th, 2008
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8:51 pm - Dear Suburbanite Moms
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I would just like to say that, for the record, I do not have a bladder. I took it out and replaced it with a bag of sex toys. Kinky sex toys...
So if you see your son walking towards the public bathroom, with me a few feet behind you can know that I only have one thing on my mind... sex. Kinky sex.
Don't be fooled if, after noticing there is only 1 urinal and 2 dudes I emerge from said bathroom approx 5 seconds after entering. Lots happened in those few seconds. LOTS. Enough lots to fill a hardcore sex tape and then some! And I'm not talking your normal Boy on GIrl, Boy on Boy, or Boy on Boy on Boy on Girl on Girl on Boy on Shemale on Goat on Goat on Pigeon type sex either. I'm talking stuff that would make Ron Jeremy blush.
Of course there's nothing you can do about me having forcefully taken your child's innocence and virginity in those few seconds, but if you stand by the bathroom door and give me the stink eye while I order my burrito (or attempt to order as there was nobody actually working the cash registers) I'm sure I will think twice about re-deflowering your precious child.
Sincerely,
Me
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| Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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11:52 am - This guy needs to be REAL
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(11:35:28 AM) cstrickler@jabber-ch-01/Home: Mmmmmmmeat-n-grease!
(11:36:37 AM) Peter Osuchowski: death on a plate, Carl!
(11:38:18 AM) cstrickler@jabber-ch-01/Home: New "Death on a Plate" Carl with Kung-Fu Action Grip
(11:38:44 AM) Peter Osuchowski: noodle sold seperately?
(11:44:26 AM) cstrickler@jabber-ch-01/Home: Pull his Spatula to hear his 3 Action Phrases:
"Sorry, we're all out of Chop Suey. How 'bout a nice plate of death?"
"Ooh, pain in a light death sauce, my favorite!"
and
"Remember kids, a clean plate is a deadly plate!"
(11:45:17 AM) Peter Osuchowski: lol
current mood: silly
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| Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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10:21 am - Proud moments in parenting...
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(10:17:25 AM) optometrygirl: hehe gwendolyn says hi.....she is trying to desperately type with me
(10:17:29 AM) optometrygirl: fghgljhio
(10:17:34 AM) mmmmb0b: HI GWENDOLYN!
(10:17:52 AM) mmmmb0b: Awww... I got my first IM from my daughter! *sniff*
(10:17:59 AM) optometrygirl: efdEdfxcxydete
(10:18:08 AM) optometrygirl: sz
(10:18:16 AM) optometrygirl: yeaaaaaaaaah
(10:18:29 AM) mmmmb0b: Uhm... :]
(10:18:32 AM) optometrygirl: I'll have to write that in her baby book
(10:18:46 AM) optometrygirl: LOL
(10:18:48 AM) mmmmb0b: I take it that "sz" was here giving me the raspberry...
(10:18:58 AM) optometrygirl: maybe
(10:19:01 AM) optometrygirl: :)
current mood: happy
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| Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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7:50 pm - Oy! What a week!
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I spent this past week in the RHCE rapid track course so I could take the exam on Friday. The class was... well... I'm not 100% sure... seeing as the things that I remember about it were things like, "I'm burning up... no... wait... I'm shivering with cold..." and "If I have another coughing fit like that I swear my lungs are simply going to punch through my chest..."
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My activities for Monday evening after class:
Come home
Stand in hot shower for 1/2 hour
Eat two pieces of dry toast and an apple (slowly... very slowly... so they wouldn't come back up on me)
Stand in hot shower for 20 minutes
Take a handful of pills
Sleep
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Of course Crystal got to share much of the joy because she became a "single parent" for the week (and kinda gained a second "child" to look after). (Side Note: True love is chopping up an apple and bringing it to your husband as he soaks in a tub of scalding water :])
By Thursday I was just trying to survive and getting a little worried as I had absolutely no chance to study outside of class. Kinda hard to do that when all you want to do is sleep. Alls well that ends well I suppose and I ended up passing with flying colors so I'm not too worried :]
I would have liked to have more of a chance to network at the class... but my mind didn't really figure that one out until after I was done with the test. I was able to hand out my card to one person though... so I hope he contacts me... and then I can get the other contacts that way...
Oh, and in other news... now that I'm all certified I'm like too good for any of you guys...
or something...
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| Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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7:32 pm - From the "You know you're a geek when..." files
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So I was walking through Dominicks, our local grocery store, and "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley(1) came over the inhouse music system and the first thing I thought was, "Damnit! I've been Rickrolled by Dominicks! Those bastards!"
In other news I have an earache/infection for the second time in like... 3 months. Ugh! I'm trying a home remedy this time first before seeing the doctor because I'd rather not go to the doctor if I don't have to. I put a few drops of garlic juice (fresh garlic sauteed in olive oil) in the offending ear covered by a cotton ball. Even if it doesn't work I can always just throw a few more ingredients in my ear canal and give the bacteria that is infecting it a proper meal before I kill them with antibiotics.
In other other news...(2)
In other other other news Crystal's mom leaves on Tuesday. Oy! When we were first talking about having her come out I was like, "Hmm... 3 weeks... yeah, that'll be plenty long. By then we'll be settled and I'll be ready for her to go back home." Now we're like, "Doh!" There is so much that we planned on doing that we haven't been able to simply because we're trying to make it through day by day. We will survive, but it'd be nice to have someone for ANOTHER 3 weeks just to do laundry, wash dishes, and do the 100 other little odd jobs she's been doing over the past 3 weeks.
In other other other other news Gwendolyn is one month old tomorrow. Holy Crap!
Ok, I must go now... food calls(3).
(1) As if there were other songs by Rick Astley
(2) Don't say that you didn't see that one coming.
(3) And I'm not talking about what's in my ear
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| Friday, February 15th, 2008
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9:22 pm - Of pictures and meat
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So my first week back to work after Gwendolyn wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. Well, I kinda take that back... I became progressively more exhausted as the week progressed because of (*gasp*) lack of sleep. Work itself wasn't bad though, and nothing blew up... which is very nice to see! I was kinda afraid that I'd come back to a pile of undone work and the whole office ready to kill the Linux side of the house. :] It took me most of the week to get back into the swing of things, but by Friday I was super-doin-things-man (well, maybe I would have been if I hadn't been tipping over but I was super-doin-things-man-for-someone-who-is-tipping-over).
Speaking of work... sometimes the insanity of working at a trading firm still amazes me. By insanity, of course, I mean copious amounts of money being thrown about for little perks that... sometimes aren't so little.
Last Friday night we had our quarterly dinner at a fancy schmancy steak-n-seafood place. For dinner we had crab cakes, spicy calamari (which was tha awesome), shrimp, prosciutto wrapped mozzarella with tomatoes (or as one of the people at the table put it "Cholesterol wrapped in fat!"), and Oysters. No, wait... that was the appetizers... I forgot the spinach salad with warm bacon dressing... and the 20oz bone-in dry aged sirloin... and the lobster in butter sauce... ok... ok... the sirloin was mine and the lobster was "for the table". Oh wait... I forgot the sides... yes yes... the mashed potatoes (excellent), the Lyonnaise potatoes, the Vidalia onion rings, the fresh creamed spinach, and the Lobster Mac 'N' Cheese (which, oddly enough, was rather good... although I don't think Kraft will be coming out with a version any time soon.) Oh and the key lime pie (the weak link in the evening), the cokes, the Guinness, and the cappuccino. (On a side note... the spell check I'm using isn't very good... I spelled cappuccino "cappachino" and it suggested "reproaching" and "preaching"... Google to the rescue!)
They probably wouldn't have liked it if I had gotten the $195 shot of some "after dinner" scotch... but the $80 bottles of wine were flowing all night...
And this happens every quarter. I took home leftovers and made 2 other meals. Holy cow... the buttered lobster was amazing!
Yeah... this past week there was a discussion going on around me in which the 10Gigabit WAN link was being referred to as the "slow link". Even though I understand the discussion was about latency (on the order of a few milliseconds) it's still absurd to hear a 10G WAN link be called "slow".
I don't mean to sound like I'm bragging and all like, "Pfffft! Guess what I get every quarter..." it's just... insane(1)
In completely different news I've decided to start a new journal. So long and thanks for all the fish!
No wait... that's not what I meant...
I have started another journal named ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) paparazziparent for... pictures of Gwendolyn (and more pictures and more pictures(2)). I figure that way I can post up all my paparazziness without feeling bad that I'm overloading those who don't want it with yet another pic of my kid(tm). Also it frees me up to continue posting on this journal the way I have been with all my wit, sarcasm, and even the occasional F-bomb(3) without offending all the people I'd like to share my paparazzi efforts with.
Speaking of paparazzi I got another toy to go with my camera. A FLASH(4)! (Oooh!!) It's been a bit of a learning experience, but already I've gotten some pics that are like "Whoo hoo, yeah for external flash thingie!" It's got way more power than the built in flash and (the nice part) is that it can be angled and adapted for each shot so it can give a "softer more natural" look. Right now I'm ruining more pictures with it than I'm making good pictures... but such is the life of a learning photographer guy person. :] hehe I've found that Gwendolyn will give me 3 or 4 flash shots at a time before getting grumpy and basically being like, "Ok.. that's enough!" So I take a few pics, review the results(5), and then wait for her to settle down before annoying her again. :]
Speaking of annoying and Gwendolyn... our guinea pig for some reason thinks that Gwendolyn crying is equivalent to me whistling at her. I whistle at her when I'm going to feed her a carrot (her absolute favorite food for which she has nearly launched herself out of her aquarium to get at) so Bubbles(6) gets all excited(7). This means that whenever Gwendolyn gets into high gear and is howling like we're sticking knives into her(8) Bubbles goes ape shit(9)... whistling, running about and making litter come flying out of her aquarium onto the floor, scrambling to get at the carrot, whistling some more, etc... which is the exact moment I don't really feel like hearing the shrill whistles of a guinea pig going nuts.
Ok, this update has now taken far too long and I want to get to posting a plethora of pictures of my cutie
(1) Not just run of the mill average insane either! More like "Our prices are so low it's insane" insane!
(2) And stories too! I'm not just about the pictures you know man... I'm a complex fellow!
(3) Fuck! (Don't say you didn't see that one coming)
(4) A Canon 580EX II
(5) AKA I Chimp
(6) AKA Squeaky
(7) As in "Our prices are so low it's insane" excited!
(8) Which we'd never do! Spork maybe, knives never!
(9) As in "Our prices are so low it's insane" ape shit!
current mood:  tired
current music: Papa Roach / Last Resort
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| Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
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12:24 am - Paparazzi Parent
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Ok, so I'm gratuitously posting more pics of my kid... sorry... it's just that this one cracks me up every time I look at it...
Gwendolyn: "Whaddup?"
current mood: tired
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| Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
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4:36 pm - 15 Gosub 5
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contemplative
bouncy
cynical
groggy