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6.23.2011
6.11.2011
House Update
No news this week as we have to wait on the sellers to get back from vacation...
They should be back in town now but the bank doesn't work on the weekend so we are stuck waiting until next week.
Hopefully we hear more news next week.
They should be back in town now but the bank doesn't work on the weekend so we are stuck waiting until next week.
Hopefully we hear more news next week.
5.26.2011
Boston Tidbits
Round-a-bouts are quite funny and interesting.
People are willing to ram the car in front of them before letting you in.
Driving past Harvard made me slightly smarter and when I ran over one of the graduating class, I got 50 bonus points plus an honorary degree because I eliminated one snobbish little prick.
People in the Financial District think that because they have a nice suit that a stupid redneck in his sister in law's car won't just splatter their ass across the street.
Boston has a great science museum which is much better than the Fernbank and Tellus in Georgia. In fact, it is closer to the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
Not that I'm a big sweet tea drinker but the shit they call sweet tea isn't even close. They shouldn't even put it on the menu.
Texas Roadhouse sucks no matter what state you are in.
On the flight, I kept wondering when the guy was going to turn around and tell Lucas to stop kicking his chair or say something rude to me. Before I had a kid, I'm pretty sure I'd said something.
We went on a whale watching tour and all I saw was the inside of the bathroom. I did manage however to wallpaper the bathroom in vomit before I left so I felt accomplished. Next time I will take some nausea medicine. I'm pretty sure I threw up less after drinking a bottle of tequila.
5.21.2011
I thought I had something profound to say...
I guess it was just indigestion.
But anyway, I think there are 3 phases to understanding something.
Starting from the point of complete non-understanding from which you just have a negative understanding of what is going on about the concept you are trying to understand. In fact, people around you are losing I.Q. points whenever you look at them...
1. I think I have a rough clue about what is going on but don't ask me anything more complicated than what you just showed me.
2. I have a good grasp of the concept/process and one deviation from the normal won't send me in to a crying fit.
3. I know this well enough to explain it to other people stuck at zero and can actually predict where it might fail or make improvements on it.
4. You are Albert Einstein and just made the idea out of duct tape and bailing wire.
In fact, I believe one of the best tests of understanding is trying to explain it to my wife or Lucas.Sometimes it is easier to explain it to my two year old (Lucas) than wife but I digress.
But anyway, I think there are 3 phases to understanding something.
Starting from the point of complete non-understanding from which you just have a negative understanding of what is going on about the concept you are trying to understand. In fact, people around you are losing I.Q. points whenever you look at them...
1. I think I have a rough clue about what is going on but don't ask me anything more complicated than what you just showed me.
2. I have a good grasp of the concept/process and one deviation from the normal won't send me in to a crying fit.
3. I know this well enough to explain it to other people stuck at zero and can actually predict where it might fail or make improvements on it.
4. You are Albert Einstein and just made the idea out of duct tape and bailing wire.
In fact, I believe one of the best tests of understanding is trying to explain it to my wife or Lucas.
4.30.2011
Selling non-vital organs for more money
This will fuel more drug and booze binges with hookers. Charlie Sheen style. Adonis DNA and Tiger's Blood and what have you.
Or maybe I need more money for a down payment...
Or maybe I need more money for a down payment...
4.27.2011
What does one do when they've had enough?
When the going gets tough, the tough get going?
I'm not sure at what point I decided enough was enough. It was time to shit or get off the pot. Most of the time one lives in a free house because they don't have the means to move or they are too lazy. I am neither. I thought that maybe time would fix things. It didn't. It gets worse. There is no reconciliation to be had. No - hey you were wrong, I was wrong, we yelled a lot and its over.
Every argument ends up in this form. You need to do this because you are my son. There is no reasoning or nothing to make my life easier. Over half the time she doesn't believe me when I tell her, you have to call because they (they being insurance company, government, Cobb EMC, Bank of America, etc) won't just talk to me and give me all of your information. That was why I had the power of attorney drawn up that you refused to sign.
Most of the time it is like someone dumps a bunch of blocks in your lap and asks you to build a to scale replica of the Eiffel Tower.
At this point, I'm just willing to accept the theory that I was lab grown and had no mother.
I'm not sure at what point I decided enough was enough. It was time to shit or get off the pot. Most of the time one lives in a free house because they don't have the means to move or they are too lazy. I am neither. I thought that maybe time would fix things. It didn't. It gets worse. There is no reconciliation to be had. No - hey you were wrong, I was wrong, we yelled a lot and its over.
Every argument ends up in this form. You need to do this because you are my son. There is no reasoning or nothing to make my life easier. Over half the time she doesn't believe me when I tell her, you have to call because they (they being insurance company, government, Cobb EMC, Bank of America, etc) won't just talk to me and give me all of your information. That was why I had the power of attorney drawn up that you refused to sign.
Most of the time it is like someone dumps a bunch of blocks in your lap and asks you to build a to scale replica of the Eiffel Tower.
At this point, I'm just willing to accept the theory that I was lab grown and had no mother.
12.24.2010
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