Psychotomy

So, Des’ latest trick is climbing. Well, not really. His latest trick is climbing onto the table or my desk.

A few weeks ago, Kiir looked out from the kitchen at lunch, and he was sitting on the dining room table clacking the glasses from dinner together (because, frankly, I didn’t worry about picking them up since they’re on the table). He’s done that twice now. He does that by way of climbing on surface A, getting onto my dining room chair, then up to the table.

He also likes to climb onto my desk. There’s a pair of boxes keeping him out of the corner with all the power cables (and the server). When he works at them long enough, he can push the top one back a bit so that there’s a ledge. Then he uses the ledge, the sofa and the armchair to get into the chair, and from there onto the desk. Where he proceeds to toss things off and push around the speakers and monitor a bunch.

Occasionally I’ll look up and he’ll have moved the ottoman to push himself up onto the glider rocking chair, and he’s just hanging out smiley and happy and proud :)

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So, on the train Tuesday, there was a loud popping. And one of the windows spiderwebbed in a nifty “look, gunshot!” pattern

OK, not so nifty. It was the window in front of me, so that was a little rattling… Conductor came through at the next stop to inspect it and decide if it was dangerous (did someone SHOOT the effing train?) or not (something just hit the window) . The decision was a rock. Apparently there’s a bunch of “kids” who like to stand by one of the overpasses and throw rocks at the train as it passes.

Seriously? That’s a hell of an arm! wtf are kids in laurel wasting time vandalizing the MARC commuter rail when they could be PITCHING MLB fer christ sake? I mean, shit, the spiderweb was symmetrical and wel defined. That means there was little, if any, sidereal motion during impact. Which tells us that the projectile hit fast, such that all of it’s momentum could be transferred near instantly into the window. Because while I’m not riding the bullet train or anything, it still moves at a nice clip.

Now, I can’t say about their accuracy, bc I don’t know if they picked a number and said “hey, huhuhh, can you hit hte 6th window?” (and, really, I doubt it, b/c the only way this is interesting is if someone is making book and you’d still need an observer either on the train or at the next station, to report back whether, in fact, it was the 6th or the 9th window that was whacked), so maybe they pitch worse than Wild Thing …

Of course, it’s always possible someone was shooting at us. And it WAS PG county, I think, so it’s not entirely out of the question. In which case, I’m glad we weren’t on the other track. Because then it probably would have hit my window, and it might have gotten through :o

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It’s been pointed out to me that, as a daily blogger, I suck. (to be fair, I’m doing a lousy job of 2x/wk on my crypto blog, and the kitchen site hasn’t seen much outside of alchohol in months, and not much beer lately either ; so, I suck at timeliness and updatiness, in general)

Lotta stuff going on lately, real busy all around. Gonna try to post more often, again. Also thinking of changing the blog name. Because lets face it. Daily it ain’t. Griping, even, not so much. More like “occasional bitchiness with a side of depression fueled rage” and the occasional “melancholy, chance of pissiness”

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So, since last week, my shoulder has been twinging real bad. To the point that I almost went to see the doc. But I decided I didn’t really want to hear her tell me it was a symptom of me catching The Diabetes :o

I decided I should try cutting back on my soda, b/c I’ve heard that caffeine might have a negative effect on bone density or something. and aspartame, let’s be honest, is like powdered death.

Replaced most of my soda at the office with two liters of water. And by the time I got home, my shoulder didn’t hurt anymore :o So, I’m thinking that maybe my shoulder has a relation to when i’m severely dehydrated. Like, when the headaches don’t get my attention, my body starts playing voodoo doll with me …

So I’m trying to build the habit of drinking a liter a day. *sigh*

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So, I’ve got http://attriel.psychotomy.net/crypt/ but since i got distracted it fell into disuse. And I’m thinking about reviving it, probably kickbooting it and starting it over.

I’ve also been thinking of expanding it beyond just crypto, so I can have a few other topics that I can toss up when I don’t feel like doing a big crypto breakdown (the current lull happened because of the freakin’ length of doing a DES encryption ; in the future, I think I’d break it up …)

That said, I’m thinking of flipping that blog to one of the hosting sites. Either wordpress.com, because I’m used to WP here, or google’s blog thing (blogspot/blogger). Big downer — the name I wanted is taken. Which certainly gives some power to the concept of setting it up myself (and on both sites, the blog that takes my preferred name is totally devoid ; default when you make a new blog). So either way I need a new url if i want to use it there. The benefit of moving, however, is two fold –

1) if i decide I don’t want to keep up the server anymore, I’ll have to move everything anyway.
2) Both have a default bar at the top of the screen for “go to next random blog”, which would allow for more visibility

Staying local …

1. From what I can tell, I think i get much better command over how the layout is built. Not that I do that much with my layouts, but the option
2. I get the name I want …

In general, I think I’m talking myself back around to local, just for the control I’d have. So that’ll end up waiting until I finish the server rebuild, I think.

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I love the addams family. The episode where Morticia and Gomez (and the rest of the family) are all concerned about Pugsley starting to display strange tendencies. “Think of it. Our son, walking around in … in … in a BOY SCOUT UNIFORM!”

I saw him playing with a bat the other day!
That’s not so bad
No, a BASEBALL bat
*gasp*

And the thing is … I can totally see this being us and Des in a few years. Except for the part where “*sigh* He’s playing with .. . with … a p-u-p-p-y!” :o

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OK, so, I ride Metro (mass transit) every morning for work. And every day, there’s always some moron who walks up to the pay turnstile, STOPS, and spends 5 minutes rooting through their bags b/c it has JUST occurred to them that they need the pass to get on.

Now, these people are foolish. But I’ll admit, occasionally I’ve come up to the stile and suddenly remembered I needed to take out my card. and if it’s not in my shirt pocket where I keep it these days, I STEP ASIDE to let other people through whilst I look.

But the real morons are the ones at the other end. In DC you pass your card to get on, and then to get off. Because it’s set up with variable fares depending on how much of the system you traversed. Different from most places, I’ll grant. But the daily commuters who get off, walk up to the exit stile, AND STOP TO DIG THROUGH THEIR BAGS TO FIND THEIR PASS??? WTF? Hello? You do this every day! what, you figured “oh, the last 4 years were a fluke. Today they’ll have changed the system so I don’t need to scan out” ??? WTF? Sure, you put it in your pocket, you need to get it back out. But WHY did you put it back in your billfold, put that in your purse, and then bury your purse at the bottom of your gymbag??? WTF?

This has been brought to you by the fact that it has been pointed out that i named the site”daily gripes” and usually talk about K or Des and do very little bitching lately. This was, obviously, pointed out by the one person who reads this site :o

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So, babe (and kiir) got back tuesday evening. We stopped for dinner and groceries and get home …

I put him in the living room whilst I bring in the groceries … and he’s grabbed an XBox remote and booted the box. I find him at the gate looking at me, alternately trying to pass over the tv remote or chewing on it. “Dammit, daddy, I know i need this one for playing, too, but I can’t make it work right!”

I guess he’s not a big fan of HGTV and Raymond, which were probably on tv the entire week they were gone. After putting away the groceries and taking K out, I played Catan with Des, so he could get some gaming in. He seemed to appreciate it :)

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so, my depression is getting worse again i think.

which is too bad, since we’re getting less winter and more sun lately. which means it’s NOT just ‘winter blues’. Not that my psych talks to me. Gonna need to look up a new one of those. I may even have to go so far as to *shudder* go to therapy rather than just getting meds. Of course, since i don’t think I’d necessarily be reasonable with “tell me how you feel”, and I don’t think it’s real effective that way :/

But since mine has quit talking to me, just hands out a 3mo scrip. I’m not even sure he heard the part where I told him we had a baby. And frankly he seems to not be 100% on what meds I’m on. Which is funny, since he’s got the file in front of him and can read the damned list of what i’ve been on. last time, though, he asked if I was still taking the welbutrin. Which I haven’t taken in over a year.

Balances with the fact that his billing department handed me a month overdue bill last time i was there. they never bothered to mail me a copy. when i asked the desk, she insisted it was billing, she just sits at the desk. when i called billing, they insisted that it wasn’t their fault that i didn’t get it. OF course, the bill was because the insurance company told them i didn’t have coverage. This was the company in November. For an appt in sep 06. Gee, i’m on my 4th since then, you THINK it might be different? when i pointed that out, they weren’t sure they could get the old information, but they’d try (hello? HIPAA requires you to have that information still)

THAT company has now denied the claim, because THEY have rules on promptness of billing. And 18months later, apparently, didn’t fall within those limits. Haven’t received a new bill yet, but then I don’t have another appt for two more months nearly.

So yeah, maybe I need a new doc. One where I don’t get depressed dealing with them :o And I’m almost positive I need new meds. Bleah.

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So, the other day I was thinking, and that always leads to bad things. Honestly. That’s bad.

And it came to me … Jiminy Cricket is really kindofa Christ figure.

Seriously. He decends, tells Pinnochio how to live and be good. When he’s ignored, P falls from grace, reverting to the habits and life (and body) of an animal. Then he calls for Jiminy, accepts salvation, and is restored.

And speaking of, this morning one of the folks at the office was putting peeps up on their cubicle … a discussion ensued about getting some popsicle sticks to crucify them. Which led to using sprinkles for a crown of thorns. Then there was discussion about a jewish family inviting over a friend’s family to introduce their children to easter in a “non scary manner” … which, frankly, as we discussed it … what part of easter is there for jews? the crucifying of someone?

(actually, there’s passover there somewhere, but it’s not technically easter, then)

it was a big day for crucifictions, honestly. and they reminded me of the cricket thing. I shouldn’t be allowed to stop and think :o

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