I took the day off work and took the boat and the whole fam damily to the lake. My boat is finally running. The last time we tried this about three weeks ago we ended up floating close to the put-in with no running engine. This time the boat worked flawlessly. It helps to run the boat at lest once every two years.
Atticus and Adrienne and especially Lolo loved the water. We went to Lake James where the water is clear and cool and the scenery is amazing. All three of the hellions took a nap as we drove around. The drone of the motor put them right to sleep. Atticus fought it but he finally snoozed. We found a cove that was completely undeveloped and anchored and swam for at least an hour and a half.
Poor Lolo got very chaffed where the strap from her lifejacked went between her legs. You would think that someone would design those straps better so that wouldn't happen.
A fun time was had by all and we need to do it again very soon.
8/06/2007
8/04/2007
Youngerns Update
Our routine:
Lolo normally wakes at 5:30 to 6:30 and the twins normally wake up at 6:30.
The wife gets up with them feeds them breakfast and lets me sleep.
I take Lolo to church camp at 9:00.
The wife takes twins walking and they usually take a nap.
The wife feeds twins lunch.
I pick up Lolo at church camp at 1:00 and bring her home.
1:30 all children take a nap
4:00 to 5:00 children wake up from nap
5:30 to 6:00 the wife prepares dinner for children and husband
6:00 to 7:00 husband arrives
6:45 bath time for twins
7:00 sleep time for twins
8:15 to 8:30 Lolo bath, brush teeth, dry hair, pee pee, put on pull-up, put on pajamas, Dad reads book (right now A to Z is her favorite)
8:31 Mommy sings a song (usually Jesus Loves Me i think (much to my dismay))
8:32 Lolo asks mommy "I'm going to sneeze a yittle but and cough a yittle bit. Will that wake up Adrienned and Attikissy?"
Lolo normally wakes at 5:30 to 6:30 and the twins normally wake up at 6:30.
The wife gets up with them feeds them breakfast and lets me sleep.
I take Lolo to church camp at 9:00.
The wife takes twins walking and they usually take a nap.
The wife feeds twins lunch.
I pick up Lolo at church camp at 1:00 and bring her home.
1:30 all children take a nap
4:00 to 5:00 children wake up from nap
5:30 to 6:00 the wife prepares dinner for children and husband
6:00 to 7:00 husband arrives
6:45 bath time for twins
7:00 sleep time for twins
8:15 to 8:30 Lolo bath, brush teeth, dry hair, pee pee, put on pull-up, put on pajamas, Dad reads book (right now A to Z is her favorite)
8:31 Mommy sings a song (usually Jesus Loves Me i think (much to my dismay))
8:32 Lolo asks mommy "I'm going to sneeze a yittle but and cough a yittle bit. Will that wake up Adrienned and Attikissy?"
8/03/2007
Christianity Explained
I can't claim this as my own... I gleaned it from a response to a YouTube video but it pretty much sums it up.
Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Makes perfect sense.
Or maybe I like this because I just drank 3 beers.
Who knows.
Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Makes perfect sense.
Or maybe I like this because I just drank 3 beers.
Who knows.
7/19/2007
7/11/2007
Atticus walks
Atticus has finally started to walk more than crawl. He still has major attitude and always complains and cries when he doesn't get what he wants.
He hit Lolo in the head yesterday with the handle of a short broom made for kids. London really cried on that one.
London has been staying up nights after we put her to bed. She will get back up out of bed and turn on her light and play in her room. She might do this for another hour (her bedtime is 8:30) and then get up at about 5:30 in the morning.
London has been taking swimming lessons and is doing very well. She is at the eel level at the YMCA which is the same class she has been in for about four sessions now. She is still too small to progress on to another more advanced class.
The wife's bloodwork came back from her physical. Her LDL, HDL, overall cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure are all fantastic. Even though she is overweight she is extremely healthy when you look at those numbers- much more so than me.
Adrienne has been sick. We thought she had an ear infection and the wife took her to the Urgent Care this weekend. They dianosed her with an ear infection and gave her a prescrip for Amoxicillin. After two days of taking that she broke out in little bumps all over her torso and back. That took antoher trip to the doctor to be told that her ear infection was cleared up. The doctor seemed to think that she did not have an ear infection at all because it would take longer than two days for Amoxicillin to clear up the ear infection. He surmised that is must have been some sort of viral infection that went away and that the bumps were an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin.
I wrote my first check against the promissory note that I took to buy 1/2 of the business I am running.
Still not getting enough sleep or exercise.
Working too much.
Someone has to cover the costs of raising this family!!!
He hit Lolo in the head yesterday with the handle of a short broom made for kids. London really cried on that one.
London has been staying up nights after we put her to bed. She will get back up out of bed and turn on her light and play in her room. She might do this for another hour (her bedtime is 8:30) and then get up at about 5:30 in the morning.
London has been taking swimming lessons and is doing very well. She is at the eel level at the YMCA which is the same class she has been in for about four sessions now. She is still too small to progress on to another more advanced class.
The wife's bloodwork came back from her physical. Her LDL, HDL, overall cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure are all fantastic. Even though she is overweight she is extremely healthy when you look at those numbers- much more so than me.
Adrienne has been sick. We thought she had an ear infection and the wife took her to the Urgent Care this weekend. They dianosed her with an ear infection and gave her a prescrip for Amoxicillin. After two days of taking that she broke out in little bumps all over her torso and back. That took antoher trip to the doctor to be told that her ear infection was cleared up. The doctor seemed to think that she did not have an ear infection at all because it would take longer than two days for Amoxicillin to clear up the ear infection. He surmised that is must have been some sort of viral infection that went away and that the bumps were an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin.
I wrote my first check against the promissory note that I took to buy 1/2 of the business I am running.
Still not getting enough sleep or exercise.
Working too much.
Someone has to cover the costs of raising this family!!!
6/29/2007
Yummy Red
I just finished the last sip of a 1997 Viansa Augusto Barbara. I got the bottle when I joined the Viansa wine club after my honeymoon back in 2000. From what I have red, 10 years is a little too old for this wine but I absolutely loved it! It leaves me wanting more. I have several more bottles left from that time when I had disposable income to spend on wine. When they are gone I guess I will have to start cooking meth to support my wine habit.
6/19/2007
The boy is falling behind
Atticus still will not walk. He might take one or two steps only when he is close enough to jump on you. Adreinne is walking just about everywhere now.
Lolo can recognize many different letters and traces them with her finger. She is curious about letters and the sounds that they make. Like ball begins with "buh" and turtle begins with "tuh". And she can look at all the numbers and tell me what they are. She is on a roll. I am concerned that her new school won't keep her on that roll.
For the summer she is attending a church school program at Trinity United Church of Christ. Today was he first day and she seemed to like it. Dammit I can't get away from these churches!!!
Lolo can recognize many different letters and traces them with her finger. She is curious about letters and the sounds that they make. Like ball begins with "buh" and turtle begins with "tuh". And she can look at all the numbers and tell me what they are. She is on a roll. I am concerned that her new school won't keep her on that roll.
For the summer she is attending a church school program at Trinity United Church of Christ. Today was he first day and she seemed to like it. Dammit I can't get away from these churches!!!
6/16/2007
Southern Fried Everything
People in the area where I live deep fry everything. I have tasted foods that should never be fried much less deep fried like pickles, cake, twinkies, and now the next big thing to eat here is deepfried yeast rolls. I would rather eat the ass-end out of a skunk with rigormortis.
The only thing I really like deep fried is a whole turkey. You can peel off the skin and eat the nongreasy breast that has had all the delicious juices locked in by the deep frying process and it picks up a hint of the peanut oil flavor. Other than that, nothing else should be deep fried.
People in the area where I live have no clue what real lettuce is. Lettuce to them is iceberg lettuce. Iceberg lettuce sucks. It is like eating nutritionless crunchy water. Give me spinach, romaine or baby greens any day.
People here only eat white bread which I consider to be a nutritionless and tasteless white fluff. Go to a grocery store and there are maybe two different types of whole grain bread and about twenty different brands and types of white bread.
Gee. I wonder why seven out of ten people in the South are overweight. Maybe it has something to do with the garbage that they put into their bodies.
The only thing I really like deep fried is a whole turkey. You can peel off the skin and eat the nongreasy breast that has had all the delicious juices locked in by the deep frying process and it picks up a hint of the peanut oil flavor. Other than that, nothing else should be deep fried.
People in the area where I live have no clue what real lettuce is. Lettuce to them is iceberg lettuce. Iceberg lettuce sucks. It is like eating nutritionless crunchy water. Give me spinach, romaine or baby greens any day.
People here only eat white bread which I consider to be a nutritionless and tasteless white fluff. Go to a grocery store and there are maybe two different types of whole grain bread and about twenty different brands and types of white bread.
Gee. I wonder why seven out of ten people in the South are overweight. Maybe it has something to do with the garbage that they put into their bodies.
6/13/2007
Deal is done - sleepless times ahead
I have just closed on the deal to buy half of the company that I am running. It is a shitload of money and I have ten years to pay it off. I am still concerned about our finanical situation. We spend more than I make, and I make a lot for this part of the country. The wife doesn't seem to worry about this at all which is one of the rubs in our marriage.
Call me a tightwad but it drives me insane that I continually walk through the house and turn off the lights. My parents were pretty frugal- and they raised me to be that way. I think the wife's parents are somewhat frugal as well but that frugality certainly didn't rub off on her. I don't know. I do know that it drives me crazy that she won't take the time to try to save and conserve. Well at least she does recycle and yes there are many many other things that she does to my approval it is just this one thing that drives me batty.
I have replaced all the lightbulbs in the house with compact fluorescent because she is constantly leaving lights on. Even though these use substantially less electricity it still doesn't make sense to leave them on when you exit a room.
She has a hard time remembering to do other things like lock doors when she leaves. Today our next door neighbor had someone walk into their house through an unlocked door and steal some computer equipment. I hope this will motivate the wife to lock the doors when she leaves the house.
I have decided to have another ablation surgery to try to cure this recurring atrial fibrillation that is causing a lot of problems in my trying to live a normal life. I am currently taking 150 mg of propafenone (Rhythmol) three times a day and I despise taking medication. I was considering going to the Cleveland Clinic to have the ablation done by Dr. Andrea Natale but I can't even get in there for a consult until the end of August and then the ablation probably wouldn't be done for six or more months. I have already met all my deductibles this year on our health insurance so I have decided to have it done by Dr. Fitzgerald at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem by the end of August when my deductibles go back up.
That is another thing that drives me crazy about the wife. If she even senses that there is a sniffly or runny nose or any other very minor ailment or low grade fever with any one of our children she gives them Tylenol or Motrin (Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen). My philosophy is totally different. I have heard the doctors say that there is no need for Tylenol or Motrin unless a child has a fever of 101 or over. I just don't like giving medicine just to give medicine. What effect does frequent doese this have on a child's liver and kidneys? The wife doesn't give more than is recommended or give more frequently than is recommended on the bottle but it just seems that the kids are taking tylenol or motrin daily three weeks out of the month.
Okay, my bitch session is over for the evening.
Call me a tightwad but it drives me insane that I continually walk through the house and turn off the lights. My parents were pretty frugal- and they raised me to be that way. I think the wife's parents are somewhat frugal as well but that frugality certainly didn't rub off on her. I don't know. I do know that it drives me crazy that she won't take the time to try to save and conserve. Well at least she does recycle and yes there are many many other things that she does to my approval it is just this one thing that drives me batty.
I have replaced all the lightbulbs in the house with compact fluorescent because she is constantly leaving lights on. Even though these use substantially less electricity it still doesn't make sense to leave them on when you exit a room.
She has a hard time remembering to do other things like lock doors when she leaves. Today our next door neighbor had someone walk into their house through an unlocked door and steal some computer equipment. I hope this will motivate the wife to lock the doors when she leaves the house.
I have decided to have another ablation surgery to try to cure this recurring atrial fibrillation that is causing a lot of problems in my trying to live a normal life. I am currently taking 150 mg of propafenone (Rhythmol) three times a day and I despise taking medication. I was considering going to the Cleveland Clinic to have the ablation done by Dr. Andrea Natale but I can't even get in there for a consult until the end of August and then the ablation probably wouldn't be done for six or more months. I have already met all my deductibles this year on our health insurance so I have decided to have it done by Dr. Fitzgerald at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem by the end of August when my deductibles go back up.
That is another thing that drives me crazy about the wife. If she even senses that there is a sniffly or runny nose or any other very minor ailment or low grade fever with any one of our children she gives them Tylenol or Motrin (Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen). My philosophy is totally different. I have heard the doctors say that there is no need for Tylenol or Motrin unless a child has a fever of 101 or over. I just don't like giving medicine just to give medicine. What effect does frequent doese this have on a child's liver and kidneys? The wife doesn't give more than is recommended or give more frequently than is recommended on the bottle but it just seems that the kids are taking tylenol or motrin daily three weeks out of the month.
Okay, my bitch session is over for the evening.
6/04/2007
Sickness Descends Upon the Family
Adrienne and Atticus both are sick with ear infections. Neither are sleeping very well. Atticus was up frequently last night and has already been up at least three times crying tonight as of this writing at 11:00. He can't breathe through his nose and he is so dependent on his pacifier that when he can't breathe through his nose and has to breathe through his mouth he can't suck on teh pacifier and gets really pissed off that he doesn't have that comfort.
Adrienne has a skinned nose and an ear infection. She fell twice- once on the tennis courts and once in the sunroom. Both times she landed on her face- the second time there was plenty of blood.
I am getting some sort of funk in my head and sinuses with a cough and Tamara doesn't feel so great either. At least Lolo feels fine.
Adrienne has a skinned nose and an ear infection. She fell twice- once on the tennis courts and once in the sunroom. Both times she landed on her face- the second time there was plenty of blood.
I am getting some sort of funk in my head and sinuses with a cough and Tamara doesn't feel so great either. At least Lolo feels fine.
6/02/2007
Twins are a Tub of Fun
Adrienne and Atticus absolutely love playing in the water.
They both say Kih Kih for Kitty and Arienne says Bah for ball. Atticus somewhat understands no. When we tell him NO (which is about every two minutes) he shakes his head from side to side in the NO fashion.
I had them out on the tennis court (in our backyard) today and Adrienne was on London's little tricycle and she got off balance and took a header on to the hard court surface. As we say in the south "She skunt up her nose." In the space of about 30 minutes she managed to his her head three times. The other times were a direct fall while walking on the patio and she was playing with Atticus (he was in the doors of the gas grill... real safe huh) and she shut the grill door on her head.
5/29/2007
Twins turn One
We had a rather fun party this past Saturday afternoon to celebrate the twins first year out of the womb. My sister flew down from Indianapolis and both of my brothers and their families showed up as well as both sets of grandparents and many friends.
Adrienne is walking. She is not walking exclusively but she will stand up and waddle over to something if it convenient. She can walk across the room if she wants to but she will mostly still crawl if she wants to get there quickly.
Atticus is taking steps but definitely not walking.
They had their year checkup at the doctor and did very well with the three shots. We waited for what seemed to be an eternity for the doctor to show up and then for the nurse to return with the shots. All this was happening during their morning nap time so they were very tired and grouchy.
After I got home from work and we ate I put out the new water slide that mom got for the kids. Lolo absolutely loved it. She would sqeal with excitement every time she slid down the slide. Of course the twins had to get in on the action so they crawled over and up to the top of the hill as well getting completely dirty with leaves, bark, mulch and mud. On top of this they both were soaked from head to toe.
We filled up a large pan with warm water and gave them all three baths. I had to change the water once it became so dirty from all the mess all over them.
Since they are a year old we tried to put them to sleep without a bottle. It was no problem for Adrienne, she went straight to sleep without any fuss. Of course Atticus screamed continuously for about 45 minutes so we gave in and gave him a bottle of milk and he went right to sleep.
Adrienne is walking. She is not walking exclusively but she will stand up and waddle over to something if it convenient. She can walk across the room if she wants to but she will mostly still crawl if she wants to get there quickly.
Atticus is taking steps but definitely not walking.
They had their year checkup at the doctor and did very well with the three shots. We waited for what seemed to be an eternity for the doctor to show up and then for the nurse to return with the shots. All this was happening during their morning nap time so they were very tired and grouchy.
After I got home from work and we ate I put out the new water slide that mom got for the kids. Lolo absolutely loved it. She would sqeal with excitement every time she slid down the slide. Of course the twins had to get in on the action so they crawled over and up to the top of the hill as well getting completely dirty with leaves, bark, mulch and mud. On top of this they both were soaked from head to toe.
We filled up a large pan with warm water and gave them all three baths. I had to change the water once it became so dirty from all the mess all over them.
Since they are a year old we tried to put them to sleep without a bottle. It was no problem for Adrienne, she went straight to sleep without any fuss. Of course Atticus screamed continuously for about 45 minutes so we gave in and gave him a bottle of milk and he went right to sleep.
5/18/2007
Adrienne Takes Steps
Adrienne took a few steps yesterday. She is standing very regularly on her own accord without holding on to anything. She took several steps to get to the sofa, to a toy, and to her little lawnmower on the tennis court last night.
Atticus really doesn't want to walk yet. That is fine with us.
As our friend with 7 year old twins told me.....
Push them down!!!
Atticus really doesn't want to walk yet. That is fine with us.
As our friend with 7 year old twins told me.....
Push them down!!!
5/07/2007
Atticus wants to walk
Atticus is standing on his own unsupported fairly regularly when it is convenient for him. He actually took one step today when Mom and Dad were here. I actually didn't see it but he took one step and I think he really didn't realize it.
Beautiful day today- sunny and breezy. I hung out with Lolo, Adrienne and Atticus on the tennis courts. We took all three of them to Sams club to buy diapers and potting soil.
Lolo was a flower girl in Kristy's wedding last night. She was so damn cute that everyone kept talking about her. She did fine walking down the ailse purposefully dropping rose petals one by one and blocking out the ring bearer when he tried to stay beside her.
I was sitting down at the very front so I could keep her occupied during the ceremony since Tamara was a bridesmaid. The first thing she said to me was that she needed to go pee pee. I told her that she was going to have to hold it.
When it came time to walk back down the aisle out of the church she took one look at all the people looking at her and ran back to Tamara. She ended up walking out with Tamara. She was the hit of the wedding.
Beautiful day today- sunny and breezy. I hung out with Lolo, Adrienne and Atticus on the tennis courts. We took all three of them to Sams club to buy diapers and potting soil.
Lolo was a flower girl in Kristy's wedding last night. She was so damn cute that everyone kept talking about her. She did fine walking down the ailse purposefully dropping rose petals one by one and blocking out the ring bearer when he tried to stay beside her.
I was sitting down at the very front so I could keep her occupied during the ceremony since Tamara was a bridesmaid. The first thing she said to me was that she needed to go pee pee. I told her that she was going to have to hold it.
When it came time to walk back down the aisle out of the church she took one look at all the people looking at her and ran back to Tamara. She ended up walking out with Tamara. She was the hit of the wedding.
4/29/2007
Atticus Steps
Atticus took about two steps unaided yesterday. It was to no big fanfare. He just needed to get around my knee. He let go of the sofa and stepped one, two and then put his hand back on the sofa as if it were no big deal. He did this a couple of more times yesterday for Tamara and for Marty. I would not say he is walking now because he still has not repeated that feat as of today.
Just another milestone.
Adrienne has been sick with vomiting and diarrhea. We have been giving her pediatric electrolyte formula and suppositories that are supposed to settle her stomach.
Just another milestone.
Adrienne has been sick with vomiting and diarrhea. We have been giving her pediatric electrolyte formula and suppositories that are supposed to settle her stomach.
4/19/2007
Trip From Hell
Sometimes the best laid plans just don’t work out… especially if it involves air travel….and most especially if that air travel is in
He never made it through security. The airport was so jammed with delayed and stranded travelers that he ended up driving from
So I sat at the gate and waited. The flight arriving from
So we landed in
Twenty minutes later we were still sitting on the tarmac waiting for the gate. I got on the phone and called American Airways who informed me that the flight to
So I ran off the plane. I ran through the terminal, I ran to the shuttle train to get to the D gate from our A gate. I ran off the shuttle to the gate but I already knew that I had missed the flight.
The nice woman at the gate booked me on the 7:00 flight to
So to
Off the plane in
I didn’t sleep too much and got up about 8:00 am and enjoyed the excellent breakfast buffet at the Radisson. I tried not to stuff myself with foods that cause premature death.
I got back to the airport and boarded my flight without any incident. The two and a half hours to
I met Robert at the hotel and immediately got some food at one of the restaurants in the Hotel. It was kind of like an upscale Asian Stir Fry. I had a grilled ostrich filled that was really good. Internet access was $10 per day and you had to take your laptop to the geek wannabes and they changed the TCP/IP settings in your computer so you could get access so I just used Robert’s computer since he had already been through that exercise.
I failed to print out the one file that I needed to take to the show that outlaid the specification of all the fabric that I was wanting to source in
First we met Karen Facusse with Rio Lindo in
The hotel where we stayed called Gran Tikal Futura is a large hotel with a very open and spacious lobby that is 10 stories high all enclosed from the elements. The elevators ascend inside this large space. The Hotel is attached to two malls and the exposition center where the show took place. The expo center was smaller than most of the ones I have been to in the
Robert and I walked across the elevated walkway past the beggars and candy vendors to go to a steakhouse called La Estancia. I had steak in wine sauce and it was pretty damn good. That blew my red meat for the week.
The next day we hit the show again and talked with a company that can make our knit wrists for us in
We boarded the ATR dual turboprop plane for the uneventful one hour flight in a steambath to
Robert breezed through immigration without incident. When I handed my passport to the young immigration official, he looked closely at my expiration date and said “no… tres meses.” He called over his supervisor who took me aside and started to explain something to me in Spanish. I began to piece it together when Robert walked within sight and I called him over to help translate. In retrospect, this was a very large mistake.
The immigration supervisor began to explain to Robert that
Then I look over at one of the two baggage claim carousels and see a total of three pieces of luggage that came off the plane. Twenty minutes later after all passengers from the small plane had gotten through immigration and the carousel had been stopped we realized that all the passengers baggage did not make the flight with us from
So we wait in line again. While waiting in line I recognized someone. It was Russ Pierce. He was on the flight with me. He had set up our first production control software and pretty much raped us for about $40,000. Regardless, I am still very cordial to him when I see him (I had also run into him on a flight to
Robert filled out all the paperwork for tracking the lost luggage and the lady who was helping trace the bags called her supervisor to come talk to me about my situation. While we were waiting to fill out the paperwork Robert’s wife Sara called and robert explained what was going on. She then called Taca to find out what was happening. Sara called Robert back and told him that the representative she talked to at Taca informed her that the immigration supervisor was going to let me in the country but then Robert “yelled’ at him and pissed him off so he retaliated by enforcing the law.
Robert’s take on the situation is that he did not yell at the immigration supervisor but that the immigration supervisor was trying to extort some money from me in the form of a bribe and since we did not offer any money, he enforced the law. I believe this could be true however Robert certainly did not help the situation with the tone of voice and the attitude he gave the immigration supervisor. I believe that if Robert had been nice and cordial to the immigration supervisor I would have been allowed into the country even though I was four days past the official deadline.
When Sara told Robert this, he certainly yelled at her. Robert has this problem. He leads me to believe that thinks everyone but him is an idiot and that they need to be controlled. That is how he runs his factory. But it really fucks thing up in situations like this. I really needed to be able to speak Spanish during this situation.
The Taca supervisor soon arrived. He was a very young man by the name of David who spoke very good English. I explained to him my situation and how I was going to miss my meetings the next day and how I felt that Taca Airlines was responsible because they did not check my passport expiration date.
So he told me that he would arrange for me to stay in a hotel and that Taca would pay for it. He said that he was very busy at the check in and would try to get a “monitor” from immigration so I could leave the airport. Apparently this monitor was to shadow me so I would not skip out and flee without my passport.
Robert took the paperwork for reclaiming the bags and left the airport with his wife Sara at about 7:30. He gave me his cell phone to use. Robert and Sara went home where Robert dropped off Sara, got some gas, got some food and returned to the airport.
In the meantime our bags had been rerouted through
Taca paid for the taxi to take my monitor and me to the Banana Inn. The monitor’s name was Roberto and he was a fresh-faced young kid who spoke pretty broken English. Robert followed us to the hotel which is in the Zona Americana in La Lima, only a five minute drive from the airport. By the time we got to the Banana Inn it was about 9:45. I got settled into the room and Robert and I talked business. I gave him the $200 thermostats and samples that were sent with me. Robert took off and I had to call him back once to give him machine parts. I stayed up and watched some stupid movie about this dude named Blade who hunted and killed vampires. I think Blade was Wesley Snipes.
The Banana Inn did have wireless internet for free!
I stayed up until about 1:00 am so I really didn’t get much sleep. We went back to the airport at 5:15 so I could try to catch the American flight back to the US of A. Roberto escorted me back via Taca paid Taxi to the airport where I waited in another line to try to get my ticket changed. After paying the $110 fee they changed my flight and gave me a boarding pass on the 7:00 am American flight to
After checking my bags, my escort Roberto handed over my passport and walked me to the area where you go upstairs to pay $33 for the privilege of leaving
I informed him that it was Taca’s fault that I had to leave the country early and that they were paying for all my expenses during my brief stay in
That is how it works in
Maybe I should look on the bright side of things. I guess Roberto could have taken me somewhere and said that I wasn’t going anywhere until I coughed up the money. I could have had to go back to
3/09/2007
Toofy
Atticus got his first tooth on March 6. We took him and Adrienne to the doctor for their 9 month checkup and I noticed it coming in on his upper gum. Yesterday he got another tooth on his upper gum. He is going to be one goody looking kid. To buck teeth and no teeth on his lower jaw. Adrienne has had her two lower teeth for quite a while now.
The kids can continued to be sick, sick, sick. London has bronchitis and an ear infection along with painful earaches. Atticus has a very deep yucky sounding cough and Adrienne has an ear infection.
At least Adrienne is always happy. She is such a happy baby. Then there is her brother- always pissed off. He crawls around and cries constantly.
These three kids are taking so many damn antibiotics that pretty soon all bacteria will be resistant to all the antibiotics. I can't count the number of Omnicef and amoxicillin prescriptions we have gone through.
London absolutely hates some of her medicine and we have to constantly threaten her with going back to the hospital to get her to take it. It is a dirty tactic but it works, by Mars. London has been absent from the Montessori school for over a week now. She missed her VCUG because she was sick and now it is rescheduled for March 15.
The wife has been going insane with all three at home all day long. Yesterday she was upstairs and had left Adrienne by herself downstairs and the next thing she knew Adrienne was crawling down the upstairs hall. She had climbed up the staircase in the kitchen by herself and had made it successfully without incident. At 9 months old if she slipped and fell it could have killed her. I am to blame for a lot of the problem because I have not installed the gates at the bottom of the stairs. We jam a chair up against the bottom of the staircase but obviously Adrienne has figured out how to get around the chair.
I am having so many PVC's (premature ventricular complexes) that can't drink. I really miss my daily glass of wine and I miss microbrews too.
The kids can continued to be sick, sick, sick. London has bronchitis and an ear infection along with painful earaches. Atticus has a very deep yucky sounding cough and Adrienne has an ear infection.
At least Adrienne is always happy. She is such a happy baby. Then there is her brother- always pissed off. He crawls around and cries constantly.
These three kids are taking so many damn antibiotics that pretty soon all bacteria will be resistant to all the antibiotics. I can't count the number of Omnicef and amoxicillin prescriptions we have gone through.
London absolutely hates some of her medicine and we have to constantly threaten her with going back to the hospital to get her to take it. It is a dirty tactic but it works, by Mars. London has been absent from the Montessori school for over a week now. She missed her VCUG because she was sick and now it is rescheduled for March 15.
The wife has been going insane with all three at home all day long. Yesterday she was upstairs and had left Adrienne by herself downstairs and the next thing she knew Adrienne was crawling down the upstairs hall. She had climbed up the staircase in the kitchen by herself and had made it successfully without incident. At 9 months old if she slipped and fell it could have killed her. I am to blame for a lot of the problem because I have not installed the gates at the bottom of the stairs. We jam a chair up against the bottom of the staircase but obviously Adrienne has figured out how to get around the chair.
I am having so many PVC's (premature ventricular complexes) that can't drink. I really miss my daily glass of wine and I miss microbrews too.
3/08/2007
Racked out in Reno
This is what I wrote on my Crackberry when laying in the emergency room in Reno.
Laying in St. Marys hospital in Reno with an IV in my left arm hooked up to an EKG and I am pissed off about being here. I went into Atrial Fibrillation between the time we took off from Dallas and when we got lost in the rental van. That jackass Brad took us about 40 miles out of the way before we figuted out that we were going the wrong way.
I started feeling like shit in the van and was being uncharachterstically quiet so the guys wondered what was wrong with me.
So it turned out to be a good thing that we had to go back through Reno to get to the house North of lake Tahoe.
Jim dialed the GPS on his phone and took us Direcctly to the hospital.
The cute chick who saw me first told me that I didn't sound like I was a resident of Reno. Dammit! I try hard not to sound like a hick but it obviously doesn't work.
My blood pressure was too high and my pulse was 112. I waited to be abmitted while the guys went to get some food.
When I was filling out the paperwork to admit me I all of the sudden went back into sinus Rhythm. This was confirmed when the got me in a bed and hooked me up to the EKG.
So here I lie in sinus rhythm with an irregular beat every 20 seconds or so waiting. At least I have already talked to the doctor. She told me that they were going to call my cardiologist at Baptist.
If I had to guess, I would suspect that there is not anything they can do unless I go back into AFib and stay there
Laying in St. Marys hospital in Reno with an IV in my left arm hooked up to an EKG and I am pissed off about being here. I went into Atrial Fibrillation between the time we took off from Dallas and when we got lost in the rental van. That jackass Brad took us about 40 miles out of the way before we figuted out that we were going the wrong way.
I started feeling like shit in the van and was being uncharachterstically quiet so the guys wondered what was wrong with me.
So it turned out to be a good thing that we had to go back through Reno to get to the house North of lake Tahoe.
Jim dialed the GPS on his phone and took us Direcctly to the hospital.
The cute chick who saw me first told me that I didn't sound like I was a resident of Reno. Dammit! I try hard not to sound like a hick but it obviously doesn't work.
My blood pressure was too high and my pulse was 112. I waited to be abmitted while the guys went to get some food.
When I was filling out the paperwork to admit me I all of the sudden went back into sinus Rhythm. This was confirmed when the got me in a bed and hooked me up to the EKG.
So here I lie in sinus rhythm with an irregular beat every 20 seconds or so waiting. At least I have already talked to the doctor. She told me that they were going to call my cardiologist at Baptist.
If I had to guess, I would suspect that there is not anything they can do unless I go back into AFib and stay there
2/19/2007
Wanna hear some more about twins?
Atticus still doesn't have any teeth. He is dying to eat solids and wants to feed himself. Adrienne will constantly go to Atticus and take away from him any object with which he is playing. He gets so pissed off and cries.
Atticus has some sort of eczema on his left let and face.
Adrienne has learned that it is fun to spit out her food by blowing a big breath of air through pursed lips. The green peas fly everywhere.
Last night both the wife and I were out of the room and left the twins in their room very briefly ( bad idea). I cam back into the room in less than a minute to find both of them in the bathroom splashing gleefully in the unflushed toilet. Adrienne had a wad of urine soaked toilet paper in her mouth and Atticus was elbow deep in piss as the water sloshed and swirled from their stirring hands. Unfortunately there were no turds in the toilet.
You can't turn your back on those little fuckers for a second... they are always up to no good. Mostly Adrienne sits back and watches as Atticus bumbles his way through whatever he is doing. He always ends up crawling and crying. Something is always pissing him off.
Yesterday Atticus pulled up on the open door of the dishwasher and pulled out all the dirty utensils and deposited them on the floor with as much clanging and noise as he could make.
Trying to change both of the hellions diapers is a lesson in frustration and futility. They wriggle and squirm and try to roll over on the stomach. They really hate lying on their backs for any more than two seconds without some sort of distraction. Atticus always ends up screaming while twisting like an alligator rolling on the bottom of the swamp drowning its prey.
Then if changing the diapers isn't bad enough you have to put on their clothes of pajamas. Maybe a shot of liquor for me and one for the twins will help to make dressing and diaper changing easier.
Atticus crapped his pants five times today.
Way back when, Adrienne was so easy to put to sleep... just lay her in the crib and she sucked her thumb and went to sleep. Atticus was such a peckerhead to try to get to sleep. I would rock him to sleep and he would be fast asleep. Put him in his crib and he starts crying. Rock to sleep, put in crib, and cry. Sometimes I repeated this little game five or six times before the little crumbmuncher would go to sleep.
Now it is the other way around. Adrienne is the little crapnapper to put to sleep. Rock her to sleep and put her down and she cries. The difference is that the wife and I don't give a shit anymore and we just let her cry until she goes to sleep.
Atticus goes to sleep easily now. Give that little fucker a bottle and he is out. Throw him in the crib and he is good for the night. He just started sleeping through the night about a week ago.
We had both cribs in one room and the two little assmonsters slept in the same room. Every (and I mean every) night the male infant (Colonel Stinky as I like to call him) woke up about 1:00 to 2:00 am and started crying. If you let him cry he would wake up Adrienne and she would start crying. If you let her cry she would wake up Lolo and then Bill Clinton would become ethical.
So, the wife was getting up with him and rocking him back to sleep every night. Sometimes it took five minutes sometimes it took two hours. This went on for about 8 months. I felt pretty bad for the wife cuz she would not wake me up unless they both were screaming. So I slept through most all nights. She was a walking pissed off sleep deprived angry person for a long time.
I finally put the Pack n Play in another room and we put Lance Corporal Stinky in that contraption and let him cry when he woke up. His crying didn't wake up any of the other offspring so it was heaven!!!! We couldn't hear him crying from our bed and we purposely did not put a monitor in his room. He had learned to wake up during the night and get a bottle even when there was nothing wrong with him.
Now he has learned that he is supposed to sleep through the night- or at least we think so because we don't hear him crying.
By the way, Adrienne, being the angel she is, has always slept through the night since a very early age.
Going to Tahoe on Wednesday to celebrate a bachelor party. The last one of my friends is getting married. I keep asking him what the hell he is going to do when his wife finds out he is gay. He is such a fuckchop.
Atticus has some sort of eczema on his left let and face.
Adrienne has learned that it is fun to spit out her food by blowing a big breath of air through pursed lips. The green peas fly everywhere.
Last night both the wife and I were out of the room and left the twins in their room very briefly ( bad idea). I cam back into the room in less than a minute to find both of them in the bathroom splashing gleefully in the unflushed toilet. Adrienne had a wad of urine soaked toilet paper in her mouth and Atticus was elbow deep in piss as the water sloshed and swirled from their stirring hands. Unfortunately there were no turds in the toilet.
You can't turn your back on those little fuckers for a second... they are always up to no good. Mostly Adrienne sits back and watches as Atticus bumbles his way through whatever he is doing. He always ends up crawling and crying. Something is always pissing him off.
Yesterday Atticus pulled up on the open door of the dishwasher and pulled out all the dirty utensils and deposited them on the floor with as much clanging and noise as he could make.
Trying to change both of the hellions diapers is a lesson in frustration and futility. They wriggle and squirm and try to roll over on the stomach. They really hate lying on their backs for any more than two seconds without some sort of distraction. Atticus always ends up screaming while twisting like an alligator rolling on the bottom of the swamp drowning its prey.
Then if changing the diapers isn't bad enough you have to put on their clothes of pajamas. Maybe a shot of liquor for me and one for the twins will help to make dressing and diaper changing easier.
Atticus crapped his pants five times today.
Way back when, Adrienne was so easy to put to sleep... just lay her in the crib and she sucked her thumb and went to sleep. Atticus was such a peckerhead to try to get to sleep. I would rock him to sleep and he would be fast asleep. Put him in his crib and he starts crying. Rock to sleep, put in crib, and cry. Sometimes I repeated this little game five or six times before the little crumbmuncher would go to sleep.
Now it is the other way around. Adrienne is the little crapnapper to put to sleep. Rock her to sleep and put her down and she cries. The difference is that the wife and I don't give a shit anymore and we just let her cry until she goes to sleep.
Atticus goes to sleep easily now. Give that little fucker a bottle and he is out. Throw him in the crib and he is good for the night. He just started sleeping through the night about a week ago.
We had both cribs in one room and the two little assmonsters slept in the same room. Every (and I mean every) night the male infant (Colonel Stinky as I like to call him) woke up about 1:00 to 2:00 am and started crying. If you let him cry he would wake up Adrienne and she would start crying. If you let her cry she would wake up Lolo and then Bill Clinton would become ethical.
So, the wife was getting up with him and rocking him back to sleep every night. Sometimes it took five minutes sometimes it took two hours. This went on for about 8 months. I felt pretty bad for the wife cuz she would not wake me up unless they both were screaming. So I slept through most all nights. She was a walking pissed off sleep deprived angry person for a long time.
I finally put the Pack n Play in another room and we put Lance Corporal Stinky in that contraption and let him cry when he woke up. His crying didn't wake up any of the other offspring so it was heaven!!!! We couldn't hear him crying from our bed and we purposely did not put a monitor in his room. He had learned to wake up during the night and get a bottle even when there was nothing wrong with him.
Now he has learned that he is supposed to sleep through the night- or at least we think so because we don't hear him crying.
By the way, Adrienne, being the angel she is, has always slept through the night since a very early age.
Going to Tahoe on Wednesday to celebrate a bachelor party. The last one of my friends is getting married. I keep asking him what the hell he is going to do when his wife finds out he is gay. He is such a fuckchop.
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