Happy π day (3.14) eve

http://www.vvc.edu/ph/TonerS/mathpi.html

(March 14th is also Einstein's birthday.)

42

I just realized that I have 42 entries in my blog. And I still haven't found the question to life, the universe, and everything. That's okay - I'm still not panicking.

Living a Parable

So, a short summary of my life:

1. Our school district is switching student information systems in less than a month. Part of my job description is to support the whole school staff through the whole process. Part of my job description is to train all of the teachers at my school how to use the system - most importantly, how to take attendance on April 3rd. (It's also a personal goal to train a few other people in just a little more than just attendance to make my life easier in the long run.)


2. The staff meeting where I was planning to introduce everyone to the primary concepts of the new system got cancelled today because of a pep assembly.


3. I had a four day training on the new product about three weeks ago - I have yet to recover from taking four days off.


4. On the last day of that training, I received notice that (thanks to decisions at the district) Apple Computer was shipping almost 100 new computers to my school - to arrive within the next week. I don't have storage space for 100 computers.


5. My son had surgery on a dermoid cyst last Wednesday. All went well, but I missed yet another day of work and he seems to only feel the pain at bedtime. He also learned two tricks this week: crawling and pulling up. These are two really fun tricks for a child with eight fresh stitches over his left eye. He likes to practice these at bedtime too...


6. The bookkeeper is ending the budget cycle next week so that purchases have time to amortize by the end of the fiscal year. Suffice it to say that I still have budget money to spend.


7. Today, I got a call from my wife while I was at work saying that she had thrown up and that she would like me to come home as early as possible.

I think that sums up the primary points - there are other points, but they involve that I still have family life, normal job duties, and stuff going on at church - so on to the parable.

Tonight, my son was having trouble falling asleep and, of course, only I could attempt to comfort him. It was obvious that he didn't want me, he wanted mommy. It was obvious that his eye was bothering him. It was obvious that he wanted to be moving around and not lying down.

I found myself saying, "If you would just slow down and rest here with daddy, you would realize that everything is going to be okay!"

hmm...

What are you trying to imply?

So, I did it. Yesterday I bought an Xbox360. (I'm sure I'll post later about why I bought the core system instead of waiting for a complete system.) Well, you know how stores like to give out special coupons at checkout? At Kmart, my checkout coupon was a 3-month guest membership to Bally.

So, the question is: Does Kmart give these to, say, every tenth customer, did buying the XBox trigger the exercise coupon, or did my cashier look at me and think, "This guy needs to get out more," and push a special button on the register?

Since the cashier wasn't exactly the brightest blue-light in the box, I'm going with option three.

What's in a name...

In college one of my college professors was Dr. Igor Szczyrba (hyperlinked as evidence that there is a poor soul with that last name). He was (obviously) of some Eastern European background. I often made comments to my friends like, "Can I buy another vowel?" and "What kind of last name has eight letters and only one vowel?"

Only later in life (something like five years after the fact), I'm still joking around with my friends about this unfortunate soul's last name - and it hits me: How many vowels are in "McKnight"?

Well, last week I had a meeting with Bruce Caughey, director of communication for the school district. And again, I find myself saying "How do you get 'Coy' from 'Caughey'? There's all these random silent letters!"

Today it hits me that there are a few silent letters in the last name of somebody else I know.

So, do me a favor and call me Row-ger MicKanigit from time to time to remind me how stupid my name is. Thanks!

XBox 360 Issues

1) As I was out shopping for Valentine's Day presents, I found an XBox 360 console at Target - both core and full systems. However, since I was shopping for Melissa, and she knew that, I decided it would not be right to come home with a 360. I haven't seen one since.

2) Melissa keeps asking me why I want a 360. I haven't been playing my XBox enough to warrant the purchase. So, I'm being scolded for not playing enough XBox. hmm....

Are you talking to ME?!?!!

So, this morning, my sweet, dear wife asked me, "So are there any serving utensils that you think we need more than one of?"

Yeah, see, I'm... I'm, well, a guy....

Inner Peace

(In case you hadn't received the email. I laughed out loud at this one. aka - not original)

I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives. By following the simple advice I heard on a Dr. Phil show, I have finally found inner peace. Dr. Phil proclaimed "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started." I looked around my house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished, so, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Bailey's, a bottle of Kahlua, a package of Oreos, the remainder of both Prozac and Valium prescriptions, the rest of the cheesecake, some saltines and a box of chocolates. You have no idea how freaking good I feel.

Try it and if it works for you please pass this on to those you feel are in need of inner peace.

Yeah, she's gonna need extensive counseling...

Last night, my wife and I were playing a game. I made a good play and said "Oh, yes!"

My sweet daughter responded "Wyoming!"

Cool new website

http://www.elevationlife.org/

Nicely done - and I am a critic... There's always room for improvement on a new web site, but hey, I'm in one of the pictures. Who can argue!