A day in the life.

It's been one of those days for me. Due to the emergency patch Microsoft released on Thursday night, we have been working long days to patch all of our servers and systems. We only have a few more to patch, and then the fun starts, waiting for things to break. I started to wonder, why does so many of of Microsoft's patches break after you apply them to your pc. To the right is one of Microsoft's lead programmers Mr. Hairy C. Himp.

The alarm went off at 8, time to get my butt out of bed and get ready for Karate. Why again did I accept Saturday morning classes? Class went pretty uneventful until we started practicing with the Bo Staff (think of a long heavy stick). As I was twirling it in the session, I was feeling pretty good. I just knew I looked like Brue Lee. As I gained in confidence, I twisted the stick into a fighting stance, and drove in for the kill. Unfortunately my head had a different opnion and decided to intercept the path of my backstroke. I think the thud as it struck my melon could be heard from 2 counties over.



After we got home from Karate, it was time to head out to buy the boys some more clothes for winter. One odd thing about children, if you keep feeding them they keep growing. It gets expensive having to continuously buy kids clothes. I tried talking Emma into only feeding the kids once a week. I mean if snakes can do it, so can kids, right? But, I got about as far with that suggestion as a cake goes at a weight watchers convention.


Right before we left to go to the clothing store, Caden comes running into the living room screaming like a banshee, holding his hand. He then stars crying, yelling "ouch, ouch, ouch" and running to Emma. After trying to calm him down, she finds out the problem. Emily had her curling iron on the bathroom counter, and for some reason Caden decided he wanted to grab it. Well, it burned him pretty good. After Emily doctored him up with ice, kisses and a bandaid, we finally left the house.

We then stopped by Goodwill to donate some clothes. Pulling up into the donation line there was a truck sitting in front of us. I pulled up behind the truck, and we waited. While we were waiting, 2 cars pulled up behind us and they started waiting. Finally, someone comes out to take our single bag of clothes, then they walk back into the store. Great, I can't move forward because this truck is sitting there, I can't backup either. The other car is pulled up so close to my rear that he could give me a colonoscopy if he wanted too and not get out from his car. We waited there for 10 minutes untill the truck in front pulled out. I guess it's true, no good deed goes unpunished.

For dinner I made a modified version of Melanies Sloppy Jalopies which were very good! Instead of using baking potatoes, I used Red potatoes and served it on mashed potatoes. We then decided to get into a little bit of Halloween spirit. At Wal-Mart the we had purchased some washable paint and we let the boys loose on Emmas tummy. Since it's not going to be here much longer, we wanted to get something recorded for posterity. We all had a lot of fun with it.

After we put the kids to bed, Emma and I watched a little TV. While flipping through the channels we stopped and watched some CNN. They were talking about the mortgage crisis, crisis on wallstreet, yadda yadda yadda. I have no true clue as to what is going on, I just know it's nice having $2 gas again. Makes you stop and think about how the actual price of gas is decided. Yes, I've taken plenty of economic classes, but it's insane gas can flucuate 100% in the space of a few months. I swear, the price of gas has more mood swings then a 14 year old High School girl.

Now, it's late, I can patch 1 more server now that it's done backing up, and I can finish the rest first thing tomorrow morning. All I know, is I had better get to bed as soon as i'm done, i'm not feeling all that intelligent right now.





UPDATE - I finally finished patching all of the servers and none failed, YAY!!! I really feel like this guy now!