A Mostly Geekless Kind of Day
Posted on April 9, 2006
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Nice pleasant day today. Lots of family stuff and much relaxing. So no real useful tech things today. This is a “me me me” kinda post. 
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Slept in today. Didn’t roll out of bed until 7am (*gasp*). Wife is picking up some extra money by doing some painting, so she headed over to the client’s home (which is empty) to get going on that. That left me home with the youngest and the oldest as our middle spent the night at a friends. I worked a bit (mostly email and paper shuffling), spent some time in the garage doing a little cleanup and then played a bit of WoW and Vanguard. Also did some breakfast stuff and generally got the kids all moving.
Once the wife got home, we lost our middle son again (he went Geocaching with a friend’s family) so we grabbed a neighbor kid and headed south to Elizabeth and the Big R store. Time to inspect the baby ducks, geese and chickens! Fun stuff and the kids always seem to enjoy it.
From there, we headed to rural Franktown where the daughter’s (current) best friend lives. That friend is 4-H and, with her sister, acquired a couple piglets yesterday. Since we were doing the rural thing, we had to go inspect the piglets and then visit with their 3 horses. The parents there are super nice people and very easy to visit with. We stayed a bit longer than planned, but it was a good time. While there we swung by a couple properties that are for sale… Do we like our “big” house on a small’ish lot in town, or do we want 10 acres but with an older smaller home? Things to ponder over the coming year… and things we’ve been pondering for the last decade it seems. Ever since we moved away from Colman, SD (pop. 480).
Got home and the wife and I had a “Date” — aka, we went grocery shopping with no kids! Such simple pleasures. While out, I finally remembered to buy an innertube for the daughter’s bike.
Supper was good. The carnivores all had hamburgers. We had picked up some “Amy’s Kitchen Veggie Burgers” for our vegetarian son. They looked good so I went that route as well. I enjoyed mine very much. He didn’t. Ah well…
After supper we all went for a nice long walk. Well, wife and I walked. 2 rolled on scooters and middle son broke out the rollerblades. We walk a lot now that the weather is warming up. Daddy is concerned about his midsection… *cough*.
After the walk I fixed the daughter’s tire and did a little maintenance on her bike. Got my bike down and did some maintenance on it too. Got middle son’s bike out and tweaked a bit there as well. Well hell, that meant we had to go for a bike ride and try ‘em all out! So we did. And now we’re done. And I’m all exercised out for the day.
Now I’ll publish this self-absorbent little essay and go play a little bit of vanguard or world of warcraft. Cheers!
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“Daddy is concerned about his midsection… *cough*.”
Heh, me too. Between the lack of exercise keeping up with the day-to-day and my mountain dew consumption, I’ve easily put on 15lbs over the past few months. Speaking of mountain dew consumption, what the hell am I doing awake right now!?!
I am definitely going to have to filter for only tech related posts… the tech posts are generally interesting. The other stuff may be of interest to your immediate family, but to others - much less so.
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