Tell Me What the Doctor Said

I've completed the 10 days of antibiotics prescribed by my doctor. Yes, thank you. Unfortunately, I still have a wonderful ringing sensation in my ear. It arrived on Monday and has yet to dissipate. If you're curious what it's like, I'll tell you. It's like my left ear went to some super awesome concert and was placed a bit to close to the speaker. And now it can't hear anything but ringing. My right ear, however, wasn't invited to the concert and so is fine. I called the doctor yesterday and the doctor said that this wasn't abnormal when you get ear infections, which was great to hear. She also said that it could last from two to six weeks. this news was not as wonderful for me. I will say it would suck to have this going on for six weeks. I'm no longer hearing in stereo so my depth perception on sounds is horribly off. I also say "What?" a lot now.

In other news, my boy's received an ear infection also. Like father, like son, eh? He doesn't take the pills 3 times a day, he gets the good ol bubble gum flavored liquid amoxicillan. We were wondering what was wrong as he had a fever of 104.5+ last Sunday, and it stayed for a couple days with no other symptoms. Then it left on Wednesday, so he went back to school, which may have been the mistake that brought it back. Because Thursday his fever was back and better than ever. Well, it was back at least. He went in yesterday to the doctor because it had been more than five days, and ear infection was the verdict.

In other news, due to the weather, I've only had two 45 minute practices with my new T-ballers. This is unfortunate as our first game is in three weeks and I haven't been really able to work on anything with them. Which could push back the development back a lot. Which could make this season a lot longer. But we'll see. I've only got 11 kids this year, I had 13 last year. So that's going to make some things easier. Hopefully.

Do You Hear What I Hear

I learned something interesting. Ear infections are only supposed to happen to kids, and once you're older, they no longer appear. However, I seem to be some sort of crazy exception to this crazy rule, as my left ear has become infected. My two little kids are fine. And somehow I've got an ear infection that's caused my ear to lose all sensation and hearing. Which has in turn caused me to have all the volume turned way up as I'm laying on my good ear, and can no longer hear out of my other ear. It all started with just a cough, and now I'm a grown-up with an ear infection. The little pamphlet the doctor gave me was written for parents about their children. She said that this was the only information they had on ear infections, as once you're older, they go away. I don't know how I'm getting them, but I am. I think I'll use my time at home today without the kids to rest and perhaps create a better page for my little web studio site.

We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things

The Casa de Wally has recently received a couple technological improvements over the past weekend. Due to the horrible state of the economy and the $ we're going to be getting back from taxes, and from my wife's place of employment's class action lawsuit payout, we had a bit of extra cash to blow. So we did what any normal person would do to celebrate America's Superhero Wakkabama setting the world free from the depression. I went out on Valentine's night and bought us a Wii. It's quite exciting still at this time. And T really loves it. He's pretty good at the baseball and bowling. His form isn't great, but the results are there. When I returned home, my wife pointed out how I must have looked walking into Best Buy on Valentine's day at 7 pm to buy a video game system. Even the guy that sold it to me asked if I'd need an extra controller. Which is something they're supposed to ask, but still, seemed funny.

So while enjoying the wonder of the Wii on Sunday morning, we were perusing the advertisements in the local news ledger, and my wife noticed a special at Staples where you got an 8 GB iPod Nano, case, screen protectors, splitter, FM transmitter, AC and DC charger for $160 after a ten dollar rebate. She had a $50 off coupon that was supposed to be online only, but after the purchase of our cordless telephones a couple months ago, we now know to just go into the store and do it all there. So she was in the Staples completing this online transaction when the manager came up and asked if she'd rather take it home today. So he proceeded to ring up her purchase in the store. She gave him the online only coupon and through his grandness, he rang up the package for $43 and change. So with the ten dollar rebate, this iPod plus will only cost $33.

So since she needed to add songs to it, I realized that the portable hard drive that I have all the songs on has many, many corrupted folders. So now most of those songs are gone. Unless I can manage to get them off my iPod onto the computer. This is a feat that I know is possible, but I'm hesitant to do it because i don't want to lost all my tunes. Please don't let all my songs be gone. Of course, there's always a chance I can get all these songs from family members.

No Use For a Name

Welcome back palorinos! I have been MIA for a while, I know. Hopefully the lines of communication haven't been permanently severed. I do have plenty of wonderful excuses as to why I've been remiss in putting the words down in the cyberspace, but some of those excuses, er, reasons, are good, the rest of them will be explained with very little detail below.
First off, I would like to mention that I now have almost fully entered into the geekdom that is to much technology as I've purchased my very own little corner of the internet. This is one of the reasons that I've been otherwise occupied on the internets, I had been trying to find a good name. I don't know if I succeeded or not, but I found one that will eliminate the need for confusing tax forms to be filled out. I originally settled upon the url of sterlingfalcon.com. Which is still active, and when I was initially researching the Google results for this name, it was mostly sales of jewelry, which I was cool with, figuring that eventually I would work my way up there and stand apart from these other options. I originally wanted to use a version of my name, however with authors out there writing books that are turned into movies, that became impossible. There are also musicians and realtors who have also stolen versions of my name and even shortcuts like my initials or dwall were unavaiable. All these reasons led me to sterlingfalcon. However, what I discovered once I added the words 'Web Studio' to the end of my little company name, and googled for those results. I discovered that one of the biggest (according to Wikipedia) gay porn producers uses the company name of Falcon Studios. So that causes all searches for Sterling Falcon Web, or Sterling Falcon Web Studio or the like to bring up the world of gay porn. And as that isn't my target audience, and I am using the site for my T-ball teams, I didn't feel that this was the best way to go. So the past couple weeks have been spent in methodical and detailed hunts for ways to have a name that would stand out a bit, and also not result in gay porn appearing towards the top of the results page. And so I settled on wallacewebstudio.com this site still has the image up for Sterling Falcon that I was going to use, but I'll get around to that one someday. This leads us into the other uses that our internet has been getting lately.
As you no doubt recall from studious reading of this fastasmagorical blog, my wife and I had been having issues receiving our certificate which got us three nights in Vegas. We had been planning to use these nights to celebrate our anniversary in Sin City, and called recently to get our accomodations set up. And we were told that the two hotels that this particular time share company used to tempt you to buy are the Wild Wild West Hotel and America's Best Value Inn. Now, without going into many details, these hotels are not 5 star establishments, I don't know if they even have any stars. They do have plenty of drugs and prostitution, which would be great if I wasn't going for my anniversary, but I digress. The stories on TripAdvisor are simply wonderful, if you have some time, check them out. And you must have time if you're reading this. So we're not going to be using them for our Las Vegas hotel stay. We may just purchase our own way down there as tickets on Virgin right now are $225 with taxes. Which is half the price of anyone else.
So along with that one, we're also trying to plan a trip to Disneyland with my in-laws. During this planning we're trying to figure out if they would be willing to be there for the first two days and then kindly leave. So we could have our little family trip also. I don't know if that's going to happen, but we're hopeful!
And next Tuesday I'm going to try to enroll Little E in preschool. She's been asking to go ever since T started Kindergarten. She wants to go and make things in school to bring home and put on the fridge like her big brother. So hopefully I'll be able to get there in time to sign her up for the class and get her a spot. The one thing is she needs to be potty trained, and we're not really pushing that at all right now. Although she does know that once she's going in the big girl potty she gets to go to school and will get her Pony Chonies from grandma. As she spotted some My Little Pony panties in our local Kmart and has been asking for them since. And it's great to hear the lilting rhyme of pony chonies. And if you arrived here after a search for pony chonies, you've come to the wrong place. Type in Falcon Studios!! That'll take you where you need to go.
So anyhoo, that's the quick rundown. I'm hopeful to get going with this again in a steady manner, but we'll see. T-ball practice starts up next week for my newest run with the world of 5-year-old ballplayers. And though I'm looking forward to it and the excitement it should bring, it's still going to be rough for the first few weeks while I try to figure out where everybody stands on the talent level. Ah well, I will leave you with the name of our president as spoken by my Kindergartener. "Wakkabama!"