Beth finally got her iPod on Friday. We ordered it early last week and tracked in it from China (with a little help from the FedEx web site). It’s hot pink, has Beth’s name engraved on it, and is everything Beth was hoping for in a portable music player. She totes it around the house like a trophy almost non-stop. No, she hasn’t listened to a whole lot of music on it – but she does carry…
Last week we had a little problem getting Beth ready in the morning. Gaping, bleeding wounds will do that to you. She was feeling playful and decided to hide under her bed after we asked her to get dressed. Unfortunately, she caught her leg on something sharp and we wound up in the ER rather than the rec center (for summer camp).
“Dad, were you angry with me when I cut my leg?”
“No Beth…
It’s something that transcends age and understanding. That much was clear after spending an otherwise trying afternoon at Busch Gardens yesterday. It was the reason we subjected ourselves to the unrelenting heat of a summer afternoon in the concrete jungle of a central Florida theme park. It was the reason we kept trying to get in, even after we discovered that the parking lot and two of the…
As it turns out “pathos” is not a Greek word for disease. I had a delightfully witty opening for this entry, all built on a faulty assumption. Drat!
Any-hoo, this entry must go on.
The scarcity of entries this past week can be blamed on my irrational preoccupation with a project for the office, and a week long training session that I’d tell you about, but I’m worried it might cause another…
First, an introduction… what brought me to this point? I know that’s a loaded question, try and keep your speculation to yourself. A friend of mine was relaying a conversation they had with one of their friends, a friend from another country. They were having a light conversation about the definition of “patriotism” and what it means in this country to be a “patriot.” The second nugget…
Classroom lectures were never my favorite pastime, even for subjects I find interesting. Classroom lectures on the “dry subjects,” (which include but are not limited to: money, accounting, organization policy and procedure, and any presentation which calls for the use of the word “tax” more than 2.5 times in a given session) have the sedative effect of 200 milligrams of Thorazine.
I am a procrastinator. “Whatever is worth doing today will still be worth doing tomorrow,” is my creed.
In this regard, Cheryl is my polar opposite – but you knew this already, or you wouldn’t be reading this right now.
I wait until the last possible opportunity to fill up my tank at the gas station. With a four-cylinder Japanese import, two gallons in the tank is fifty miles of highway…