Last Friday they informed us that our office was being moved across the hall this week.  We have been trying to sublet our office forever, and the new tennents need to be in before the first of the month.  This is making for an entertaining week (in a masochistic sort of way).

The space we are moving into has minimal power, no network drops, no cubes, etc.  The movers showed up today to take some of the stuff over - like the soda machine, refridgerator, snack machine, water, etc.  They told us that we can expect to work off of card table for the next several weeks — sounds like one of those programmer sweat shops that you here about in India.

We completely tore down the lab, which contains all of the machines we use for daily testing of our product.  I think they ran a network cable through the ceiling to keep us connected after the move.  The same is probably true for the phone system as well.

Did I mention, we are suppose to ship our product this week (at least release to manufacturing).  The other products that we make at our office are also due to be released within the next couple of weeks.

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Submitted by frank at 5/29/2003 10:26:42 AM

James, I am really offended by your Squarebob Spongepants skin. Even though it was originally my idea. And I’d like to get a copy of it.

Maybe I’ll send a donation to those protest groups. We’ll get you and your ilk removed from the internet and return it to its original pristine state — just sports scores, jokes, and porno.

Brenda, Danielle, and Alli met me for lunch today.  We went to China Star on Manchester - not my favorite Chinese food, but it met the critera (kid friendly, buffet, close to work, doesn’t suck).

As we were driving away from the restaurant, we saw a women riding a bike on Manchester with one of those child carriers in back (essentially a trailer for your bike).  To our surprise, she had a small dog strapped in the carrier instead of a child.  It was a pretty funny sight, but…

No wonder the dogs in this country are overwieght.  They don’t get enough exercise.  When I was a kid, the dog ran along side the bike, not strapped to the back of it.

Satanic Cults Suing Scott Peterson

Last night was Danielle’s preschool graduation.  The graduation ceremony began with all of the children marching down the aisle and onto the stage.  The sang a number of cute/funny songs.  Before each child was given their diploma, they announced their name, said where they were from (St. Peters, Ofallon, or Lake St. Louis), and what they wanted to be when they grew up.

• There were 3 to 5 girls that wanted to be moms when they grow up, but only 1 boy that wanted to be a dad.  I guess he had better become Mormon.
• The most popular career choices were policeman, fireman, or nurse.
• One boy wanted to be Batman, one a motorcycle rider, and a couple wanted to be farmers.
• Two girls wanted to be princesses
• No one mentioned wanting to be a computer geek, engineer, or pharmacist.
• No one mentioned that they wanted to run a Meth Lab, but this may have been veiled by the Motorcycle rider or one of the Farmers.
• Of course Danielle wants to be a “horsey rider”.  How much did the Jockey on Funny Cide make for his last two races?

It was Brenda’s weekend to work, so it was just the kids and me.

Saturday morning I took them Ice Skating at US Ice in Chesterfield.  $24 for one adult and 3 kids plus two pairs of unsharpened rental skates is too much.  I think I need to check out the RecPlex.

Saturday afternoon, we shot some baskets.  Brother Joe gave me some good advice.  When teaching a young child to shoot a basketball, tell them to throw the ball over the backboard.  Justin had been struggling to get his shots high enough, but with Joe’s advice, he is now hitting very consistently on a 7.5 ft rim.

Saturday evening, Justin practiced golf in the field behind the house, while the girls found a nice mud puddle to play in.  Justin’s 3 wood can hit a ball VERY far when I am the one swinging the club.  Luckily I didn’t break anything, but I won’t be doing that again.  Before we went inside to get cleaned up, all three kids collected flowers from clovers for Brenda.  I’m not sure how many they got, but the stems, when held together, were about 2 and half inches in diameter.

Sunday morning I took the kids to IHOP for breakfast.  Some woman came up to me and said - “You’ve got your hands full.  They’re cute, but you definately have your hands full.”  I responded that they weren’t too much trouble.  This seemed to arouse their competitive spirit, because the immediately turned up the volume and started bouncing off the walls.

Sunday afternoon I decided to work on the bathroom in the basement.  The kids were being good, so I figured it was safe.  We have finished putting up the drywall, so we are now mudding and tapping.  Each kid wanted to help, so I let them fill in screw holes.

Sunday evening was dinner with the ‘Rents.  Mom and Dad are back from their west coast tour, so everyone was at their house to celebrate mother’s day.  Fighting was at a minimum, which was a nice surprise.  Dinner was pork steaks, au’gratten potatoes, broccoli, something similar to pork-n-beans, and cheesebread.  Dessert was strawberry shortcake.  After dinner, Jeremy wanted to play kickball with Justin, so to compensate for the size/age difference, the adults adjusted the rules.  Justin got to kick first, and he got 153 outs.  Mike also ran defense to prevent Jeremy from getting to the ball…

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Each morning when I get up, I take the dog for a walk.  At least a couple of times a week, the first part of the walk consist of checking out the various trees, bushes, and flowers in the yard; making sure they are healthy and don’t require any special care.

This morning when I got to the new peach tree in the back yard, I paused to see how the peaches were doing [and that the birds weren’t eating the young peaches].  Near the top of tree (all of 7 feet), nearly invisible, I noticed two huge mosquitoes in the thralles of passion.  Although I can not guarantee that either of these two mosquitoes had ever caused harm to me or my family, I was certain that I did not want any more of these creatures sharing my living space.  Murder seemed like the only solution and I had to act quickly.

I could not simply squish them, as the tree would not have supplied enough resistance.  I decided to flick the mosquitoes in an attempt to kill them both (I could not be certain which was the female, otherwise she would have been my primary target).  My flick only made contact with one mosquito, the male I am guessing.  He never disengaged, but reared back with six legs flailing angrily.  I picture his face being a cross between ecstasy and pain.  I got the sudden impression of being in a sadomasochistic insect porn flick.

The two continued there activities, so I knocked them to the ground and squished them.  The question is, what is the net Karma for my activities:

• Good Karma - I may have prevented dozens of humans from getting bitten by mosquitoes, or at least bitten to a lesser degree.
• Bad Karma - I killed two mosquitoes that I could not be certain had ever harmed me or my family, plus I wiped out all of there future off spring.

In retrospect, its probably a Karmatic wash.

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