Just the Goin'

Since the list making has been happening at my house lately with the preparations for the trip down to Disneyland with my in-laws, I thought I'd run a few things by you. Yes, I'm going to Disneyland with the in-laws. No, I'm not crazy. Why yes, I am staying in the same room with them for the first four nights. I do know that there will be horrible snoring from my father-in-law. I have plans for that. Some of them are legal.

Anyway, all has been pretty well. We're all getting over our horrible colds, with all the juicy mucus and lovely coughs. The ear infection for me, sore throats for myself and my wife, now big T's got himself the cough and had a fever this past weekend. So yeah, health is improving in time for the trip.

He had a field trip, his first real field trip, to the Oakland Zoo today. It rained on them a bit but I guess he was pretty dry. I dropped him off this morning since he had to be there at 8 instead of the usual 9:50. In a stroke of genius, they scheduled the Kindergarten field trip on the same day as the 5th graders are leaving for their week long camp. So as the little 5-year-olds are being led to their classroom with a promise of a wonderful trip to the zoo, they are passing lots of suitcases and sleeping bags surrounded by worrying parents. Now, T knows that suitcases are for packing for long trips as he's done this before. And I just pulled down our luggage this past weekend and he's been trying to get a head start on his packing since Sunday. So he's seeing other peoples luggage and I could see the worry starting to form, as his minds probably wondering just how long this trip to the zoo will be. But I took him into his class and gave him a hug and said good-bye and he ran out to play so I figured all was well. I got into work and had to fix someone's computer problem, because I'm the only one who knows how to make laptops connect to LCD projectors, and a call came in that I couldn't get. I didn't recognize the number and thought nothing of it until my wife called to say that she just talked to the boy and his teacher and poor little T was freaking out. He was crying and said he didn't want to leave because he forgot to give me a hug, but my wife, the Supermom gave him a great pep talk and he was OK enough to go on the trip. I don't know how it went yet as he got home about an hour ago, but my mom said he fell asleep on the 5 minute drive from his school to her house. So I'll find out later. But my little guy is growing up and branching out. Maybe the next field trip, I'll chaparone.

I've ordered my functioning contacts and they should be arriving shortly, which will be great as I'd love to have them for the trip instead of switching glasses all the time. This presents another problem, however, as I only have sunglasses that are prescriptionized. I went into Sunglass Hut yesterday and discovered that the sunglasses that I currently own, you know, those ones with the interchangable lenses? Well, those sunglasses, probably because they're Oakley's, those lenses for those shades? $80. For the black iridium polarized lenses. $80. I asked how much for the whole set including the plastic frames. $160. So this means that the people of the Sunglass Hut feel that the lenses and the frames are both worth the same amount of cash. This is incredible to me. So I'm looking for a more economical pair of shades for the trip. I'm hopeful but not very optomisitic.

I'm listening to the new album by Sara Watkins, it's awesome. Not much to do with anything else, but I thought I'd mention it.

T-ball is still going well, I see a couple kids who someday when they go pro will look back on this time with me as their coach and think, "He was awesome. I'm in the big leagues because of him." And then they'll give me money. Which by then I won't need as much because I have big plans to hit the lotto. I'm putting a lot of eggs into the 'Win the Lotto' basket.

I found a couple games for the old Gamecube system I'd forgotten I had. I never had a Gamecube, but I did work for a period of my life at Best Buy, and that job afforded certain perks, like the ability to get free samples of games that you would otherwise only get by pre-ordering games. So I found out that I have Zelda Ocarina of Time with Master something or other and a Star Wars demo disc with the full original Atari arcade game. Remember that one, where you stood there and did the Death Star trench run over and over with the spectacular linear graphics? Well I have it and went out and got myself a controller so I could play them and the Star Wars game is as fun as ever. I did learn that in order to save games I need a Gamecube memory card, so anyone out there with one of those you don't want anymore, send it on over. We'll be pals forever. Or if you prefer we can be palz 4eva!

I guess that's enough for now, though I'm almost completed with another site team-will.org. And one my brother designed for a construction company in Petaluma buckhornconstruction.net. And I'm still working on the districts new site, which is taking a lot longer that I'd like because you can't do simple things like find and replace, nope, I've got to go through all 300 plus pages, and 1000 plus documents and fix things one at a time. Very tedious.

Also Kooni, the cat is almost fully an outside cat now, which is very exciting. And the onions from my uncle appear to be growing well, if they end up coming out tasty, be prepared for a great barbecue this summer.

Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.