Parenting/Family

I’m Up…Barely

rmiles7721April 4, 2007Parenting/Family

Somehow I have managed to drag myself up and out of bed this morning. The alarm went off about 40 minutes ago so I started coffee and lay back down on the couch until it finished. I just woke back up again. Luckily I set my alarm on the cell phone to wake me up or I would still be snoozing away. I hate going back in having no sleep like that. It makes for a very crappy first day back. I will have to make sure and take a short nap this afternoon when i get home.

Even as a teenager my sleeping habits sucked. Although I would have an occasional day where I would sleep until very late in the day I was normally the first out of bed among my friends. Once I get to sleep I am OK, but if I am awakened for any reason I have the hardest time getting back to sleep for an hour or two, occasionally even longer.

If it weren’t for the fact that I have to go in a little early today I probably could sleep longer for a change. I can barely keep my eyes open this morning, which is one of the reasons I am working on this as an exercise to wake my mind up. Something along those lines anyway.

I haven’t looked outside yet to see if it is still raining or not. It was storming pretty heavily when I was up earlier, but it sounds as if most of it has moved on past. Just checked the weather and we are supposed to have rain (duh) and turn into just a partly cloudy day later. That works for me. It means it won’t be too hot. My plants all need the rain anyway. The flowers and other things are starting to look really nice and this will only help.

Three More Days…

rmiles7721March 21, 2007Blogging, Parenting/Family, Travel

…until vacation. This will be the longest three days I have had since…my last vacation I suppose.

I have a list a mile long of stuff that I have to get done during vacation. By the time I am finished I will be ready to go back to work. I am going to take the second day and do absolutely nothing though. Sleep in, surf the web sitting around in my underwear. The first day is Sunday and since the wife will be here we will probably spend the day working in the yard and basement.

Looks like my brother and his son may be coming as well, as will Tobacco Joe. Don’t know yet if I will have to worry about anyone trying to break left or not. Very cool. I suppose I should email directions to everyone in the next day or so.

1st Annual Beerbecue

rmiles7721March 17, 200720Blogging, Parenting/Family, Travel

I have sent this email to several people already, if you haven’t gotten it either I don’t have your email address or just plain forgot. It’s not personal. If you email or call me after reading this well then maybe it will be personal 🙂

Since I schedule all of my vacations a year in advance it is difficult for me to get together with folks at the various blogmeets, so we are having a big ass barbecue and party on March 31st. We’ll get started at or around 4 PM on that Saturday. There are a few extra beds, and there are hotels and motels in the area. If you are interested in coming, either call me or shoot me an email at rmiles7721 at gmail dot com or rm_blogger at yahoo dot com.

If I know you personally or have met you then you are invited, if not then you are probably invited anyway unless you are some sort of weird stalker in which case we will cut you up and bury you in the back yard with various cats and squirrels and former employees of mine.

The location is at my house in Temple Georgia. Bring your favorite side dish and/or alcohol or bring nothing at all it doesn’t matter. We’ll be doing burgers, dogs, and beer so if there is something in particular that you want that doesn’t fit that list you need to bring it.

The Weekend is Upon Us

rmiles7721March 17, 2007Blogging, Entertainment, Parenting/Family

I actually have managed to get the weekend off for a change. The Boy has to work in the morning, so I will more than likely have to be back up about 6:30 or around then to take him in and then hopefully I can go back to bed for awhile. I am having trouble getting to sleep. Considering that I have been up for about 20 hours now I am surprised. The wife may just end up having to take him in the morning.

Pappilon just ended. That was really good. I will most definitely do as I said earlier and rent it. I would like to see it again at least once. There are some parts that I missed, particularly at the beginning that I want to see.

The Battle of the Blogs is almost over. SWG is only four votes behind the leader, so if you haven’t had the chance to vote for him head on over to Leesa’s Stories and vote. Then hang out for awhile.

Still Awake…

rmiles7721March 17, 2007Entertainment, Parenting/Family

…and I don’t know why. I have been surfing the web aimlessly as I watch Papillon. Steve McQueen kicked serious ass. He’s always been one of my favorite actors and for some reason I have never seen this before. A Damn good movie I must say, with a capital D.

I started watching it shortly after I got home and thought it was almost over. Here it is two hours later and still going. I think I may have to rent it so that I can see the parts that I missed.

I only ended up working until about 10:30 tonight, so I guess it could have been worse. I have about half of my night shift terrified that I am going to fire them now, so hopefully I will get most of my money in the cash register tonight.

Prayer at Rumayla Podcast…

rmiles7721March 6, 20078Entertainment, Parenting/Family

…chapter two is up now. I haven’t had the chance to listen to it yet, most likely as soon as I get home from work tomorrow.

Go visit Charles’ blog if you get the chance and listen to the book.

Up Too Soon…

rmiles7721March 6, 2007Blogging, Parenting/Family

Seems like I just went to bed. Actually I was up about 3 AM and went back to bed about an hour ago. I sure didn’t want to get back out of bed again. Being home most of the day yesterday interrupted my routine. I’ve got three more days before I get a day off but I am ready for it now.

Today will be another fairly long day, as I have a bunch of stuff that should have been done yesterday to do. I still don’t know what kind of organizational changes they will be making over the next few weeks, but I do know it’s coming, so that is pretty stressful. Between that and desperately needing my vacation I just want to stay in bed for a few more hours.

Pete has softball practice tonight at 5:30 so I know that I will manage to get out of there before it is too terribly late, no matter what else I manage to get finished today.

I’m not making too much sense this morning (and it’s a good thing I have spellcheck) so I am going to quit while I am ahead but don’t forget to head over to the Battle of the Blogs today and cast your vote.

The Game Was Fun…

rmiles7721March 5, 2007Parenting/Family

…and the girls kicked ass. 15 to 2. I broke one of our rules since it was the first game of the season, and let Pete go to Pizza Hut with her friends. I was not going to with having to get up so early, but one of the other parents offered to bring her home. She’s a cop, and the wife knows her, so I feel pretty confident about leaving Pete with them.

If it had not been the first game of the season I would have just had to piss Pete off though. School nights her bed time is 9 PM and we are very strict about that. We finally quit making the Boy go to bed at a certain time when he hit about 17, figuring that he was adult enough to make that decision himself. If he can manage to go to school and make good grades after staying up all night, he is more than welcome to. Normally he hits the sack before we do.


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Should be an interesting day

rmiles7721March 5, 2007Parenting/Family, Technology

RePete is still sick. She seems to be getting over whatever bug she has, but is going to have to stay home today. Since it’s my turn, I am keeping her today. The only crappy part is that I am going to have to get her up and drag her into work for at least an hour or so for drawer change and to make sure I am staffed. I’m just crossing my fingers and hoping everyone shows up. It’s going to be bad enough to have her with me without having to be there an extra hour or two trying to cover the shift.

Pete has her first softball game of the year tonight. It’s going to be cold too, so I am sure that will be a blast. The wife has to work late so I will get them all ready and feed them (I occasionally let them eat) and have her ready to walk out the door.

Since I am going to be home today I have a few things I need to work on today. Still having problems with the html and CSS code I was working on over the weekend. It is a custom blog setup, so none of the standard MT stuff is being used in the stylesheet, so for the life of me I can’t figure out what the heck is screwed up. I’m just going to load it all up in my html editor and put each item of the old CSS into a standard MT stylesheet, so that it is portable later on. That’s the only problem with custom stylesheets that use their own terms instead of the ones everyone else is using, you can’t replace it later (or it’s much more difficult) with one of the stock ones from the MT library.

I have all three of my blogs set up using different style sheets, but they are all interchangeable. I can swap out the style sheet for a different look with very minimal changes, even with all of the heavy customization that I have done with this one.

My How Time Flies…

rmiles7721March 3, 2007Parenting/Family

…when you are not doing much of anything at all. The Boy just left for work and it’s time for me to get my rear end into the shower and go to work myself. Hopefully everyone will show up today. Going back on a Saturday after two days off can sometimes be rough, because all the preparation for the weekend has been done by someone else.

I will spend the next few hours cooking, then I have audits and inventories to do, as well as some cleaning. That is supposing of course that everyone shows up for their shifts. If not, I still have to do the same stuff, but I may be several hours behind.

Pete has practice today at noon, but I probably already mentioned that. They should be home by the time I get back here from work, so I may end up spending a little time fooling around before I get back online this afternoon, if at all. It may be tonight or tomorrow before I get another chance.