A little programming note for the non programmers out there

You can be the best at what you do. You can write the coolest application on the planet. But if you comment out (tell the compiler to ignore) the only line of code that produces output (in my recent discovery - the line of code that sends the email) your application FAILS.

GB - A Clairification

As established, I have the coolest. grandmother. evar.

There has been some confusion, however, surrounding her nickname for the grandkids...and since mine was first, i win.

One day we were in her dining room while Jen was pregnant with Avery and the topic of "What to Call Grandma" came up...we decided that Great Grandma just wasnt fitting for the water-skiing, internet having before it was cool (yea when modems were 1200 bits per second...1.2 k people and she DIDNT have AOL like the rest of the internet community -she had an independent connection that used Netscape 1.0 as the browser....on her apple...), golf playing (duh), traveling etc wonder woman that is my grandmother...

so...she said "Well, just call me Bob"

And i said "Bob's close but not quite right"

She said "Grandma Bob"

Done. Her nickname for the great-grandkids would be Grandma Bob - or GB.

Some people are confused because her nickname for regular folk is Betty, so they Ass-u-me that GB=Grandma Betty.

They are incorrect.

GB=Grandma Bob.

this post was dum

so i deleted it.

Blee and Blo

Avery has this imagination....its nuts...we play with pretend animals in the car - her feet play with each other...but sometimes they don't share and need to stop being fresh...

One of her favorite things is to change the names of the characters in her books when we read before bedtime...it started with the Clifford books - "Emily Elizabeth will be Blee and Clifford will be Blo"

So through the entire book, the reader is required to substitute Blee and Blo for Emily Elizabeth and Clifford...which is pretty strait forward because "Emily Elizabeth" only appears on the first page of the book - so all you have to remember is Clifford=Blo...

Well...its expanded...to the Curious George books...and let me tell you - "The Man in the Yellow Hat" is in those books just as much as "George" and SHE remembers more than I do..and corrects me every time i mess up..."No dad, The Man In The Yellow Hat is BLEE"

She's even gone so far as to DISCUSS what they are doing in the picture using their substituted names...

I love it.

Makin Coffee

Ok - So - I have a problem. Well 2 problems, but the second wouldnt be a problem without the first - so ima lump em in to 1.

I am addicted to coffee

I am OUT of ground coffee

I have a bag of whole bean that i purchased by accident

I do not have a coffee grinder.

it's 11:41, i'm not done working yet and i get up in 5 hours.

I HAVE a rolling pin

I HAVE 2 paper plates

I NOW HAVE ground coffee.

I hope it doesnt suck.

NORA TOOK 5 UNASSISTED STEPS LAST NIGHT

That is all.

Workin Like a Dog

You want an update? I'll give you an update. I'm working. There. There's your update.

Here's some more.

1. As established on amy's blog I can no longer afford to feed my kids because of the wildlife eating me out of house and home.
2. Because of 1 i have been working 7:30-4:30..coming home and doing my best to give Jen a break from 5-8, relaxing from 8-10 and working from 10-12 (or later) then getting up again at 4:45 to be at work at 7:30 for the past 2 weeks.
3. Apparantly the state of Maine is unaware that it's summer - because its 65 degrees and wont stop raining.
4. I have no idea why i am making a list
5. My sister told me the most disturbing story about how she was driving and saw a dead chipmunk with his "chipmunk buddy" poking at him trying to get him to wake up and then BEFORE THE STORY WAS FINISHED - "Oh - an injured woodpecker in the road is trying to fly but it cant" - and she's all about "Nature" where she lives - maybe you should stop killing the nature Amy.
6. Nora took 5 unassisted steps last night.
7. Nora took 5 unassisted steps last night.
8. Nora took 5 unassisted steps last night.