I'm having immoral thoughts.
For example, is it immoral to put Snuggle brand fabric softener in a Downy brand fabric softener ball?
If you don't know what a Downy ball is, then click on this link:
http://www.downy.com/en_US/products/downyball.jsp
I have a confession to make. I've been doing it -- putting Snuggle brand fabric softener in my Downy Ball. I feel so immoral and cheap, but I just can't help myself.
My puppy poops in the house. I'm trying to teach her to poop outside, but I think it's hard for a small dog to poop. Well, I just read on a web-site they don't have full control of their sphincter until they're about 4 months old. Pepper's not there yet.
Well, I need to consider other moral issues, like can you put Pepsi in a Coke glass? Things like this keep me busy day in and day out.
Maybe I'll go eat some Japanese food for lunch today. Now, that's a segway if I ever wrote one.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
Long, Long, Time
Well, I stopped blogging in May because I left my job at Key Bank and didn't want to blog again until I got another job.
I'm happy to say I started a new job as a Senior Systems Development Specialist at a new company last week.
The problem with Key Bank is I was a bad fit. You see, they only have about 20 minutes of work to do each day. I wanted to be busy all day. That was a bad match up.
I found it difficult to try to look busy for 7:40 hours per day when you have nothing to do. I felt like I was in the USAF again -- doing nothing all day long.
Actually, I left Key in April, but I worked for Amici for about a month as a 1099 consultant. Amici didn't renew my contract because Xerox was in the process of buying them out.
As far as everyone at Amici -- I mean Xerox -- goes, nothing's changed. It's the same place. Well, Xerox instantiated a drug testing policy. I know of one guy in particular who was a tremendous worker who had to leave. Druggie!
I had a great summer, though. I love being unemployed. It's like a big vacation.
My last week at Amici, Barb came down with Mono. She's still suffering from it. That was in late-May.
I became a house-husband -- cooking (very little, I might add), cleaning (some), laundry (lots and lots and lots), etc. I just made sure I kept Barb in bottled water and Kellogg's brand Pop Tarts.
I also did a lot of work around the house (and am still doing it). For one, I replaced our broken garbage disposal. I've been organizing and cleaning the basement, I'm replacing the broken glass in the garage door, I've painted a few things, etc.
We had a new sidewalk poured in the front of our house. That's our responsibility. The Village of Scotia, NY is good about that. They let us take care of all of the public-works maintenance at our own expense.
I'm having the driveway sealed today. It needs to be done. What more can I say?
We now have a LOT of pets.
First off, Ben decided he absolutely had to have a snake -- a corn snake to be specific. Now, you might think a CORN snake eats corn, but they don't. They don't look like corn, smell like corn, feel like corn, or taste like corn. As far as I can tell, they don't even sound like corn.
Ben joined some Internet forums and became an instant Corn Snake expert. He knows their habits, living conditions, diet, common medical issues, etc. Ben even got Bekah all excited about the snake.
Yeah. I bought him one at Petsmart. It's up stairs in Ben's room doing whatever corn snakes do best.
We have to feed the snake very small frozen mice called "pinkies". They're called "pinkies" because they're all pink with no fur. They're $9.99 for only six (6) at Petsmart.
I decided that would not work, and since Bekah was all excited about getting more pets -- especially mice -- we got some.
Buying mice at Petsmart is a major pain in the neck. First, they often don't have any. Second, they ONLY carry one sex per store. They have all female and all male stores. I had to call all the Petsmarts in the area and travel miles and miles and miles, but I got one male and two female mice.
We're on our second set of babies now. I still have eight (8) living babies from the first set. I chose all solid-colored mice for this set. They're okay. One mom is still pregnant, but I have about 10 pinkie-fuzzies (the next level up from pinkies is fuzzies) in a cage right now.
We have an African Albino Frog. I bought it from our local Scotia Fish Store -- "Something's Fishy" in July. Bekah loved it for a few hours, but you can't hold an African Albino Frog in your hands and pet it.
It started out at about an inch long. It's now about 3 inches long. The pet store owner dude told me, "Don't put the frog in with any other fish."
I thought it was to protect the frog. WRONG! It's to protect the fish. These frogs are like Oscars. They'll eat ANYTHING they can fit in their mouths. This frog is supposed to keep growing and growing and growing and growing.
He's fun though. I put 8 feeder guppies in with him on Friday. Two are left. I need to buy more tomorrow.
We have a Betta fish, a gold fish, two silver mollies, a white Cory catfish, and two Placastamuses.
You already know we have a cat that's about 25 pounds named Tuffy, right? Well, he's not very loving really. Tuffy eats, poops and pees, sleeps, and begs for cold cuts when we open the fridge. That's it.
We finally broke down and got her a dog. Her name is Pepper and she's half miniature pinscher and half chihuahua. She was 2.8 pounds at the vet's office a couple of weeks ago. I'd say she's topped 3 pounds by now.
Other than the fact she's still not house broken, I really like this dog.
Barb drove Brittany and Bekah up to Chicago earlier this month. I don't know when they're going to return, but it's just me, the boys, and the pets here at the house.
Brittany starts school at Moody Bible Institute today. Bekah must be home by September 6th to start school, so I expect them by then. Barb is visiting with her sister and parents who all live very near Chicago. Bekah's been playing hard with her cousin, Sarah, who is the same age as Bekah.
In my new job, I get to work from home most of the time. I'll be developing software for the business. I'm sure I'm going to really enjoy working in this new position, and I'll be learning some very marketable skills as well.
I promise to write more soon.
I'm happy to say I started a new job as a Senior Systems Development Specialist at a new company last week.
The problem with Key Bank is I was a bad fit. You see, they only have about 20 minutes of work to do each day. I wanted to be busy all day. That was a bad match up.
I found it difficult to try to look busy for 7:40 hours per day when you have nothing to do. I felt like I was in the USAF again -- doing nothing all day long.
Actually, I left Key in April, but I worked for Amici for about a month as a 1099 consultant. Amici didn't renew my contract because Xerox was in the process of buying them out.
As far as everyone at Amici -- I mean Xerox -- goes, nothing's changed. It's the same place. Well, Xerox instantiated a drug testing policy. I know of one guy in particular who was a tremendous worker who had to leave. Druggie!
I had a great summer, though. I love being unemployed. It's like a big vacation.
My last week at Amici, Barb came down with Mono. She's still suffering from it. That was in late-May.
I became a house-husband -- cooking (very little, I might add), cleaning (some), laundry (lots and lots and lots), etc. I just made sure I kept Barb in bottled water and Kellogg's brand Pop Tarts.
I also did a lot of work around the house (and am still doing it). For one, I replaced our broken garbage disposal. I've been organizing and cleaning the basement, I'm replacing the broken glass in the garage door, I've painted a few things, etc.
We had a new sidewalk poured in the front of our house. That's our responsibility. The Village of Scotia, NY is good about that. They let us take care of all of the public-works maintenance at our own expense.
I'm having the driveway sealed today. It needs to be done. What more can I say?
We now have a LOT of pets.
First off, Ben decided he absolutely had to have a snake -- a corn snake to be specific. Now, you might think a CORN snake eats corn, but they don't. They don't look like corn, smell like corn, feel like corn, or taste like corn. As far as I can tell, they don't even sound like corn.
Ben joined some Internet forums and became an instant Corn Snake expert. He knows their habits, living conditions, diet, common medical issues, etc. Ben even got Bekah all excited about the snake.
Yeah. I bought him one at Petsmart. It's up stairs in Ben's room doing whatever corn snakes do best.
We have to feed the snake very small frozen mice called "pinkies". They're called "pinkies" because they're all pink with no fur. They're $9.99 for only six (6) at Petsmart.
I decided that would not work, and since Bekah was all excited about getting more pets -- especially mice -- we got some.
Buying mice at Petsmart is a major pain in the neck. First, they often don't have any. Second, they ONLY carry one sex per store. They have all female and all male stores. I had to call all the Petsmarts in the area and travel miles and miles and miles, but I got one male and two female mice.
We're on our second set of babies now. I still have eight (8) living babies from the first set. I chose all solid-colored mice for this set. They're okay. One mom is still pregnant, but I have about 10 pinkie-fuzzies (the next level up from pinkies is fuzzies) in a cage right now.
We have an African Albino Frog. I bought it from our local Scotia Fish Store -- "Something's Fishy" in July. Bekah loved it for a few hours, but you can't hold an African Albino Frog in your hands and pet it.
It started out at about an inch long. It's now about 3 inches long. The pet store owner dude told me, "Don't put the frog in with any other fish."
I thought it was to protect the frog. WRONG! It's to protect the fish. These frogs are like Oscars. They'll eat ANYTHING they can fit in their mouths. This frog is supposed to keep growing and growing and growing and growing.
He's fun though. I put 8 feeder guppies in with him on Friday. Two are left. I need to buy more tomorrow.
We have a Betta fish, a gold fish, two silver mollies, a white Cory catfish, and two Placastamuses.
You already know we have a cat that's about 25 pounds named Tuffy, right? Well, he's not very loving really. Tuffy eats, poops and pees, sleeps, and begs for cold cuts when we open the fridge. That's it.
We finally broke down and got her a dog. Her name is Pepper and she's half miniature pinscher and half chihuahua. She was 2.8 pounds at the vet's office a couple of weeks ago. I'd say she's topped 3 pounds by now.
Other than the fact she's still not house broken, I really like this dog.
Barb drove Brittany and Bekah up to Chicago earlier this month. I don't know when they're going to return, but it's just me, the boys, and the pets here at the house.
Brittany starts school at Moody Bible Institute today. Bekah must be home by September 6th to start school, so I expect them by then. Barb is visiting with her sister and parents who all live very near Chicago. Bekah's been playing hard with her cousin, Sarah, who is the same age as Bekah.
In my new job, I get to work from home most of the time. I'll be developing software for the business. I'm sure I'm going to really enjoy working in this new position, and I'll be learning some very marketable skills as well.
I promise to write more soon.
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