For Real?

Hey everyone… I just took a T-Mobile survey and I was wondering, is this for real? First I’ve heard of it, but it sure would be nice to get an updated version of the G1. Though I hope they call it the G2 or something else memorable.

Let me know!

reBlog from Blogging Innovation: Blogging Innovation

I found this fascinating quote today:

The right use of humor is a great way to help people tap into their right brains. Indeed, “haha” and “aha” are closely related. Both are the result of surprise or discontinuity. You laugh when your expectations are confronted in a delightful way.Blogging Innovation, Blogging Innovation, Apr 2010

You should read the whole article.

Ok, forget Easter weekend…

Easter weekend was fun… Kids had an egg hunt at my parent’s house… went to church… Oli nearly died laughing during the service, so bad that he had to leave the sanctuary… oy.

The evil one is, well, still evil. She’s s’posed to bring the kids by at 5 or 6 tonight, but she just called to “inform” me that they’re on their way. There goes my plans for the day! Not that I don’t love having the kids here, I DO, but I had a lot planned to do.

Grrr…

Long Easter Weekend…

Oh man, I just made it through a very long Easter weekend. More details coming tomorrow. Right now, I’m too tired.

Revising… slowly.

Well, my world is revising… rather slowly today.

I’ve helped Monika load up one Uhaul of stuff (out of the kindness of my heart), but she’s still not gone. Instead, she’s making ridiculous requests and being a B!t<# (take note of the capital B).

Grr… too slowly for my taste. Maybe it’s just mental, but I need her gone yesterday. Maybe even 3 years ago. M’s been M 5 times since then…

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid me. 7 years wasted. 3 good results though.

The joys of having a sick child…

This post’s title was not meant to be sarcastic. Instead, the title was meant to be a sort of paradox.

No one wants to have a sick child. Ever. They’re cranky, mean, and ill-tempered. But 3 seconds later, they’re sweet, hugging, and adorable. The mood swings are worse, and more sudden, than any man should ever have to endure (just wait for pregnancy though).

But in all seriousness, the joys that come when you get good news are I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E.

Ella had some good news today! Her platelet count is up from 2,000 to 48,000. That means borderline euphoria for me! 50k means she’s out of the danger zone. But alas, the 48k is not likely to stick around. It will drop some, as is the nature of her disease/disorder.

But, she is older, stronger, and she will recover faster than she did last time. I know it, and I will shine the positivity light on it. She’s going to be well… and soon.

Ella

Ella’s got an appointment today at 1. Wish her luck.

She’ll probably have to get a treatment too.

Interesting day…

Well, today was a good one, in many ways. Though it seems I’ll never have a day without it posing some serious challenges.

Today’s challenge came from finding out for sure, with hard evidence (forgive the pun), that M is having yet another relationship. That makes 5 (that I know of) since we’ve been married. Thankfully, Wednesday she moves out and will nevermore be a leech on my generosity, kindness, and pocketbook. Too long… way too long has she been the root of all that is failing in my life. My struggles, my finances, my mental-health. But come Wednesday, I can take the keys from her and bid her adeiu… or as she taught me the first time we met, “żegnaj na zawsze”, or goodbye forever (with oomph!).

Ella went to daycare today, which was a challenge. She can’t do anything really for fear of bruising or bleeding.

And to top it all off, it was a Monday

IMAX

Every person in the USA needs to go see IMAX’s new “Hubble 3D”! It’s unbelievable how the story unfolds. You go from the very beginning, to places that we can not even imagine right now.

The film left me feeling awestruck, and most of all, puny. The universe is so vast, and there is so much more to discover.

Seriously, at such a time when NASA is being challenged, people need to understand. Things that make your everyday life easier, thousands of them, have come from the space program. Unfortunately, we only hear about the sensationalist stories dealing with the Human Space Exploration program. Doubt me? What was the number of the most recent mission flown on Shuttle? Or even easier, what was the name of the most recent Shuttle flown? Don’t know? I’ll give you a hint, it wasn’t Columbia.

The tragedies affect us all. But we must keep them in perspective. You are far more likely to die in a fatal car crash on your way to work tomorrow morning than any single astronaut is flying on a Shuttle mission. But what gets reported?

Ok, that was a bit of a tangent. Sorry.

Seriously, spend the <$10 to go see Hubble 3D. It’s worth every penny.

Trying out MacJournal

Hey there all…

I’m going to try blogging on my desktop in MacJournal. At the very least, I hope that I’ll write something everyday… whether I choose to make it public or not. This is my attempt.

There is so much going on in my life. I feel the need to vent. To release. To get it out there so I can relax and forget about it.
Easier said than done, I’m sure.

But, I’m going to try.
S