Gush, gush. Sometimes it’s hard to describe the emotions you feel as a parent; they change with time, as do the kids who bring them about. But the feelings from this picture will hopefully always be in there, somewhere.
I was agonizing about getting a new computer, so Daphne made some command decisions, she used her employee discount, and got a Dell. She got a Dell Dimension C521 with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Though I don’t think she will admit it, she loves it, it works as a great television in the kitchen, it’s even got a remote control! Plus it gets all those extended basic cable channels we don’t pay for. Hello Dr. Who!
I was agonizing because I wanted to get a computer that I would not have to fight with the hardware to run Linux. Daphne wanted a television in the kitchen. I wanted Linux to play audio files, and a video podcast or two. Daphne wanted a television in the kitchen. I wanted to stand up for my libertarian rights to have no corporate software on my computer. Daphne wanted a television in the kitchen. So Daphne won three votes to two. Zoë just wants to be able to visit Elmo’s web site. To be honest, I’m not giving 余艾蕾 full credit, but this is my post not hers.
Zoë happened to be sick the day the system was going to show up so my Father came over while I tried to get some work done. In came the new Dell, I was going to leave it until the evening but my father wanted to see the TV card working. After the set up, and two or three reboots to get all the security updates installed, Zoë and Papap where happily watching Fox News.
Then came Linux! That will have to be a post for another day, as it’s time to get some work done.
I’m worried about George W. Bush’s marriage. Since New Jersey said homosexual unions can be equal, but separate, Mr. Bush said it he now raises doubts about the institution of marriage.
, or that the rulling raises doubts about the institution of marriage as a whole I think. I asked my wife after we heard the article on NPR about it, and she said she felt our marraige is in no less doubt now then it was before the New Jersey rulling. I think our marriage is strong and harmonious, but it seems Mr. Bush didn’t start questioning every marriage in his courtry until after this court ruling. Trust me Mr. Bush, my love for my wife is going to get no less strong no matter how you manipulate marriage, but I’m worried about yours. I actually think marriage in a religious thing, not a government thing.
This is for Brendan…
10 years. We’ve been married for 10 years. Wow. Thank you so much for such amazing times. We’ve done so much together, and had so much fun. Not just hanging out, geeking out, or going out, but travel, learning about ourselves, and growing as people. Plus, we have this amazing kid who blows both of us away every day, and another one on the way (if he ever decides to come out).
You are my everything. There is no one else I’d rather be with, any time of day or night.
All my love,
Your wife.
I would like to think I could do the following, but I don’t know if I could:
Unlike typical reactions to dastardly shootouts of this kind, the Amish have joined the family members of the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, in their bereavement. Roberts had committed suicide after killing the girls in the one-room school. The community has already announced it is forgiving Roberts for his act. Roberts is survived by his wife and three children.
Quoted from Mourning Amish seek private funeral for girls killed in school shootout on The Earth Times. Evil people claming to be christians often dominate the news, it is reliving to hear that real christians still exist. I hope I can evlove my thinking to be able to forgive such an act.
The kitchen is about done. The counter came in yesterday, when I come home today the sink should be up and the dish washer working again. The down stairs bathroom is about done too, and useable. The last part, and the smallest of the three changes, the upstares bathroom. Demolition started yesterday, led paint flakes flying everywhere. So much so that Zoë spent last night at my parents house, and is likely to do so again.
The best part about tonight, I get to start moving back into the kitchen. I’ll be moving pots and pans out of the living and dining room and into the new cabinets. Just in time too, next week the Cherry Grove Organic Farm pickups start, at least a week earlier then last year. It’s so exciting.
Well, it will be here tomorrow on the fourth of May. We have all been living in a haze of dry wall dust for the past month and I feel we are about to hit the halfway point. I think Daphne, Zoë and I will be eating out for a week or so, but we are going to have a nice new kitchen.
My house is very unbaby-safe, power tools laying around, drywall dust all over the place, nails on laying on the floor, half the power sockets don’t work and many of the ones that do have no covers, no railing on porches, loose boards at entryways, and doors to steps don’t close. When I noticed zen.org was not resolving last Friday I could not help to smile knowing that it had nothing to do with the goings on at my house.
P’s best friend D was over playing today. We were in the dining room, coloring, when the doorbell rang. P is in his “I’LL GET IT” stage (wait til he figures out he can answer the phone!) and ran to the door, with D in close pursuit.
There were two older men there, in woolen scarves and jackets. “This is for the parish…” and handed me a flyer. I, of course, having NO idea what to do with it, said “Oh…um, is this everything?” and as they were moving away, they said yes.
So I look at the pamphlet, with the boys trying to see it.
“Is it from…God?” asked D.
“God?” I said, not knowing what to say. D tried to open the pamphlet in my hand, looking for a special picture.
P, not knowing what/who God is, said “Oh, it’s from Galway.” And D replied “From Galway?”, looking at P like he’s nuts. And then they both walked away.
Apparently God is from Galway.
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