What can one do with a Blog?

Well, you can do as i do and type out nonsense for days at a time, then forget that you have a Blog and NEVER write there..

You can start a usefull Blog something like www.airsoftmissions.com and then promptly find that you are spending time doing other things instead of actually Blogging on a site that can make you money...

You can make a picture Blog, these are some of my favorites! Pictures of various "Fails" or of cute cats doing silly things with even more silly captions..

You can dedicate an entire Blog to Real Estate Photos with our friend the White Lawn Chair in them, awesome site FTW...

Oh the Blogging we could do...

BLAH!

Took a week off and this is what im left with?!

Well here i sit typing on the personal confuser while there are 6 count them 1,2,3,4,5 & 6 kids running around both in and out of the house... In fact just now 2 boys ran in the front door, and asked, "hey, whats a good spot to hide?" to which i replied nothing, sheer silence and a deep stare at them, to which they then hurriedly walked away.. AWESOME!

So how did all this start, well i have 2 kids, thats how it started! :]

Anyway, Its a beautiful Saturday afternoon and i just cant bring myself to do anything worthwhile today. I would love to hammer out the basement and get that off my list of "To-Do's" but for some reason i just cant do it. *sigh....

oh well, off to do something less creative than typing on the computer...... yay me.... :/

whack a Mac!

So as many of you know, i have recently become a "Mac". After years of hating, i gave under the pressure of receiving one after a loved one passed (my mother in law).

Its just so cute, you want to treat it like one of the family. Ours is a 20 in. iMac and its sooooo shiny...

But alas there are issues that, as a life long PC lover, i cannot get over.

Firstly, the whole no software thing is really starting to bug me... I have always used Quicken for my finances, and the only available quicken for the Mac is 2007 and its $70... seriously $70 for an unsupported piece of software thats 3 years old? come ON!

Games are also kind of available for it, but they are typically $10 more than their PC counterparts.. stupid games..

but for some reason i still like the thing, maybe its the fact that its soooo stinking hard to find out how to change simple things.. maybe its just the challenge its self, i dont know, but i do know i love it!

But for now, shes not the only computer in my house, i still have my PC waiting patiently for the day that Windows 7 will be installed on him so that he can trounce the Mac!

Hold on little buddy hold on...

Monday morning blues

So here it is monday already... well actually its 12.25 monday morning, but hey whos keeping track...

So what does this week hold in store for me? Not too sure actually, what i do know is that im going to add an additional hour of helping out at my kids school to my already packed schedule. I know, i know im a glutton for punishment, but hey, its my kids, you know?! I spend 2 hours there a week listening to kids in my sons class read to me aloud and now i will spend 3 hours there a week listening to 2 hours of 5th graders reading and 1 hour of 2nd graders reading to me... WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

oh well, i like it so eat it! :-]

Vacuum of time and space

Well here it is another day and its another day that i feel i have completely wasted...

Why is that?

Sure there are things that i get done, things that i HAVE to get done, but for the most part i feel as though my head is in a box of smoke and i just cant quite see out to get out...

Perhaps its lack of sleep, though i have friends that weigh in on both sides of that one.

Perhaps its lack of a proper diet, well actually, you read Calitron right?

Perhaps, no actually im sure that its because of the lack of coffee flowing through me.

I contend that Coffee acts as a vortex allowing energy to be zapped out of Me in another universe, yes, YES! and someone, in one of my own, alternate universes is using coffee to drain me of MY energy, i will have none of this!!!!

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Stooooooopid lights!!!

So i had read in an article a month or so about how the city of Champaign was going to hire someone to inspect how our stoplights work against the flow of traffic here in town. Now i have no idea if this "study" has begun yet but what i do know is that someone is messin' up the lights BAD on Prospect Ave.... every stupid light is shorter...

I even saw the line of cars getting of the interstate at Prospect backed up almost to I74.... as if there arnt enough accidents on 74.

Christmas traffic beware.

Cruiser Bruiser Blue....

Dear Cruiser Bruiser Blue,

Please relocate your car as it has begun getting dangerous in our car as we pass by every morning.. Thank you,

P.S. If you could also mention to Slug Bug Red to relocate for the afternoon trip home,

Thanks,

Dad

Thought of the day...

I want Mediocrity!

Here it is as defined by merriam-webster.com

1 a : the quality or state of being mediocre b : moderate ability or value
2 : a mediocre person

Seriously people, its a two part argument.

Firstly, if being better than Mediocre is just being Outstanding, then let me rule in my Mediocrity!

I dont so much appreciate the word Mediocre, as it has always reminded me of tapioca, but Mediocrity, now thats a word that inspires! It says "Hey, you over there, you the overachiever, here i am not overachieving and im having a good time not doing what you are doing because i...." well you get the jest of the conversation.

Thats argument #1, it just plain sounds better!

Now on to #2

Look at the actual definition, "Moderate ability or value", Hmmm, kinda sounds humbling doesnt it? Sure there are things that we are all good at in fact there are things that we all may excel at, thats not what im trying to get at here. What i want to say is that i want to be humbled by God, i want not only Him to see it but others around me as well, and i want to be it without thinking about it, without trying to strive to be IT.

Heres something to ponder. Think about how you would answer these questions and then think about how Jesus would...

How do you see yourself?

How do you want others to see you?

Im good with having a "moderate ability or value" are you?

Enter Sandman

OK PEOPLE!

Ive had it.... For the last several weeks my children, my lovely little children, have become absolutly unbearable at bedtime. They just will NOT go to bed at the predetermined time.

Now, perhaps you can help me here, I have set up a bedtime of 8.30 for both of my children. Is it an unreasonable time for them? Realisticly the time is for my daughter who is 7, my son who is 10 actually knows that if he is in his bed reading by 8.30 then im not going to be to bent out of shape about it. Its the Girl... she will sit and sing and sing and sing and just NOT quiet herself... I mean seriously.

Lets take a look at our day, school is out at 2.45 and we get home around 3.15 at the latest. I try and let the kids decompress for between 15 and 30 min. with a snack and something that THEY want to do. After the decompression we begin the homework. Dinner is served around 5-6 and between 6.30 and 7.30 its bath time, and at around 8.00 its chill time in their own rooms till bed at 8.30.

So what are your nightly rituals?

What has worked for you?

What has backfired?

Talk amongst yourselves....

~ Chocotaco

Food and the amazing Calitron...

Ahhhh, so much time has passed since my last visit here.. where to begin?

I did actually quit smoking this year, in April actually. Thats a whole other topic for another day...

Since i managed to kick the sticks to the curb i started gaining MASSIVE amounts of weight (nah, not really but i was creeping up there.). I decided to start actually taking care of myself, eating right watching my caloric intake, and just generally being smart with what im eating.

So far so good, im down quite a bit in a short time and hope that by adding *gasp* exercise i will actually start feeling better about my weight!

SO with that said, stick with me here as i work out my blogitude and figure out a formula that works with my writing style... which if one were to classify it (and i hope no one does), it would be in the "Word Vomit" category...

Till next time, Woof....