Month: October 2005

The Green Machine was tied for 4th place and was playing their rival the dreaded White team today! This was their chance to step up and prove that they they don’t belong at the bottom of the league.

Much like the Reds do, they jumped out to a 2-0 lead early in the first quarter but couldn’t hold on. The lack of substitutes really hurt the team. The White Menace just wore them down. Final result 5-3.

There are a couple good action shots of Maggie in the Gallery:

http://www.dishers.com/Gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=2472&g2_navId=xe2f23268

The games were stacked almost one on top of each other. I didn’t get to see M aria play today.

They each have one more game next weekend to round out this seasons soccer schedule.

Monday, Monday, da-da, da.da.da…

After reporting last night I was watching the Walker Texas Ranger mini-movie. I couldn’t record it per see because football got things off schedule. Meaning to record a show you go to the guide, pick a time slot and say ‘record’ and it records that show for the time period.

Well the move was supposed to start at 9pm but it didn’t start until 10pm, because football ran late I guess. So 60 minutes was late, then CSI or some other show was late, THEN the movie. So when I wanted to start recording it, well it wouldn’t let me.

But I knew that as long as I was watching it was recording.

Now at the end of the movie I wanted to save that, but there’s no way to do that. I flipped channels accidentally and *poof* it was gone.

Oh well it will be on again.

Monday morning came, the alarm sounded and I hopped out of bed. Walked downstairs to make the coffee. Something was different.

Hey, I can see my breath.

It’s cold in here. I think we should turn the heat on. So I walked over to the thermostat, 59 degrees in the house nice. But uhm the heat is on. Well the thermostat is on but the heat obviously isn’t.

Nice….

Our furnace is 3 years old? but it is such a lemon.

So I turned it off and back on, and it actually started, at least I thought it did. It’s an oil furnace, so it burns until it heats up, then the blower kicks on. But when that time came, it died…

Crap… Another thing to deal with.

Grandmother is supposed to be here it’s 8:30… 8:35 my cell phone rings, I know what that means 🙂 I inherited my over-sleeping from my mother-in-law.

No biggie though, I can leave and she’ll be here shortly. I fart around with the furnace for another 20 minutes and then give up finally deciding this is best left for the expert that installed it.

I chatted with Molly and explained to her what I expected to be done today. I had done the dishes the night before. I wrote on the white board who would do what. She would pickup the living-room and her room. Michael should do the Kitchen and Vacuum.

Off to take care of Cisco, then to work.

Work was work, Monday is manager meeting day.

After work I arranged to pickup the kids and meet grandmother at gymnastics to pickup Molly.

We then debate what’s for dinner, and decide it’s time for Burger King.

They have this Angus beef burger, mushroom n swiss that’s about as good as any restaurant burger I’ve had. Mighty tasty. And for like $5.49 for a meal it’s a deal, you can’t beat it.

No we’re not talking eat on the cheap, $.99 double cheese burgers here, this is a good burger.

Kid of course wanted toys, and Michael polished off a Whopper.

After that it was home to get ready for bed. (yeah I know stuff them full of fast food late and send them to bed, it’s real healthy, but that’s our lifestyle sometimes with all the things we have going on).

All in all a pretty decent weekend.

Everything got done except for the vacuuming.

So tally for the long weekend:

Injuries: 0
Beatings: 0
Deaths: 0
Bruised ego: 1 (maybe over the headphone/cd player thing)

All good.

Even Maria told me tonight when I tucked her in, it’s not so bad, not bad at all, having me being in charge.

I realized as I dug around on the Internet and found the church that it would be easier to give my mom the GPS than give her directions.

We decided that it was time that Michael start paying attention to life. When he’s out and about he should be paying attention to where he’s going and what’s going on around him. He’s 14 and a half and the last thing I need is a geographically impaired 16 year old when he starts driving.

Mom picked up the kids and I went to take care of the horse.

The rest of the day was again lackadaisical. I worked on some code and watched the Bengals. The first half left me hanging thinking I was watching the same old Bengals, but the second half was exciting.

Around 6pm I did the horse again and then mom dropped the kids off. Molly and Maria played cards and Michael played some more PS2.

We ordered Domino’s. They have this new Steak Fanatic Pizza. So we ordered the special, one of those and a pepperoni. It’s no good. Bad pizza.

Like Cheese Steak pizza only without the cheese steak taste (no peppers or onions). No good. Kinda blah.

9 O’clock rolled around and the girls went down with little fuss.

Michael went to bed at 10 for a change, or at least that was the plan. I asked him to be in bed lights out at 10. To accomplish that I reminded him he should start getting ready at 10-till. At 10 after his light was still on and noise was still coming from his room. (he dilly dallies like Maria). So I put the hammer down.

I’m watching and recording a ‘New Texas Ranger movie’ It’s just as cheesy, but they’ve updated it with better car crashes, some CSI technology, and bullet time effects, and instead of Walker always beating up on rednecks he’s beating up on real orientals this time. Makes for a better kung-fu movie.

Man, Chuck Norris is a bad actor.