Pictures later of Mookie in her dress (if she'll let me).

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Just some thoughts.

I hate going to WalMart during the day, because all the senior citizens are there. Yesterday I watched a lady who probably shared a nice piece of fish with Christ himself on the mount as she tottered through the crosswalk. She was clutching her cart for dear life, and I'm positive it was the only thing holding her up. About a third of the way across (a two minute journey, I kid you not), she was almost flattened by another woman in a Cadillac who probably taught female gladiators to drive chariots in ancient Rome. That's entertainment. Like watching the Keystone Kops in slo-mo.

When I get old enough to drive a golf cart, I'm putting wheelie bars on the back.

Mookie's imagination has been fired by the speculative piece about Canada breaking up and parts joining the US, and now the Cambodian zombie story. She's been wandering through the house singing "Invade Canadaaaaaaah, with Zombies from Cambodiaaaaaah." She's such a special child.

It's looking like tomorrow is not going to be a go for the Culpeper rocket launch, due to a really lousy weather forecast. That's a personal decision, I'm sure there will be folks there and some flights will be made. I'm still on for Sunday though, which is supposed to be beautiful.

I may be putting a large "Sears sucks donkey dicks" banner up soon. Next week will tell the tale. Whatever happened to customer service?

Instead of sitting here, I should be cleaning something.

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Driving through Norfolk yesterday:

Me: Look! The sign says they need a bartender. I could do that again.

(driving by and noticing that the place looks a little "rough")

Me: I dunno though, a black belt is probably part of the job qualifications.

Wife: A couple of tattoos and get something on your face pierced, you'd be fine.

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1 Either Mrs. Ted really loves you, or you've got a nice-sized life insurance policy

Posted by: Victor at April 29, 2005 07:45 AM (L3qPK)

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Liz and I are visiting daughter Robyn down south in Norfolk tomorrow to pick up a load of her stuff. She's spending the summer at home, and she'd have to make a half dozen trips in her tiny little car to haul everything.

So we decided to make it a getaway and booked a room in Williamsburg for the night. Robyn has a final tomorrow afternoon, so we'll hit Williamsburg Pottery and have a nice relaxing morning before heading on in. We both needed this.

I have to admit that Liz knows how to get the best deals on rooms too. I'm posting this from the laptop, hooked up to the wireless network offered by the motel.

And now you'll have to excuse me, the hot tub is calling.

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1 Lots o' good eatin' in Williamsburg. The gf and I especially like the peanut soup that's at...one of those restaurants.

Posted by: Victor at April 28, 2005 12:11 PM (L3qPK)

2 King's Arms.
Enjoy your break, Ted!

Posted by: nic at April 28, 2005 04:50 PM (Sx8zO)

3 We used to have a teacher in our elementry school who used to organize the annual 7th grade week long field trip to Williamsburg every year.Our class go treated to an extra three days due to sudden snow.Most of the stuff was shut down.A bunch of rambunctious little bastards like us locked in a hotel for several days?Long story short they told our group not to come back next year.
Anyhow,I have loved Williamsburg ever since.I've been a couple of times since then.I am really hoping to be able to go during Christmas.NYC,Germany and Bergen are also high on the 'spend Christmas there" list.
My fave shop was the riflesmiths shop.The waiting list is so long that if I had ordered one of their flintlocks back then I may have it by now.The leather shop and the printers was pretty cool,too.Watch out for the devil's tail!

Posted by: Russ at April 28, 2005 05:18 PM (ObxzR)

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...let's see...

... feed people... ok, that's "solve world hunger", check...

... broadcast "don't worry be happy" from every satellite... world peace, check...

... that leaves... crap, a whole boatload of new Munuvians to add to my blogroll.

Soon, dammit, I can't do it *all* in one day!

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I had no idea.

I'll dig up a patch of the back meadow after work so I can see the dirt underneath.

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Life has been kicking my ass lately. Yeah, I know that's not news. It happens to everyone, but I offer it up as the lame excuse for the light posting on Rocket Jones, both in quantity and quality.

This morning my XHTML final is due. We were given a set of specs and a bunch of content and turned loose to whup it into a site. It's got image maps (those pretty pictures you click in different areas for links), input forms, lists inside lists, tons of text formatting and anything and everything else the instructor could think of to toss in there. Individually, nothing too difficult. Except that we're doing this all from scratch - no Front Page, no Movable Type or Blogger. Every last bit of code is by hand. Believe me, finish a test like this (10+ hours for me so far, mostly at home in the evenings), and you freakin' know XHTML.

Daniel, I haven't forgotten the meme you tossed to me. I just haven't had a chance to give it any thought. Although when I do come up with something, I'll be able to format it beautifully. Heh.

Ooooooooooooklahoma! - Mookie's school musical - opened last night. She said it went well. Liz and I are going tonight.

Everyone else in the family (wife, kids... not the dogs, so not everyone), has had some sort of drama or minor tragedy happen this week (I'm not trivializing the tragedy aspects, it's minor in that nobody died). I'm rather proud as I watch events unfold and see how everyone keeps their cool and just deals with the crap that life dishes up sometimes. Maintaining composure and doing the right thing doesn't mean you're unfeeling, it just means that you can save the tears or hurt or frustration for later, when it won't be so inconvenient to let it out.

So the weekend is upon us. Things to do are already piling up like cop cars in a Blues Brothers movie, and I'll just take things one at a time and do as many as I can until the critical ones are taken care of or I decide that enough is enough and it's time for a nap.

I'll try to do better, but no promises for the immediate future.

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Lock your doors

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Turn off your phones

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It's time to visit

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Rocket Jones

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Burma Shave!

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1 Billboard blogging! LOL!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at April 21, 2005 10:46 AM (O65Bv)

2 Cool concept. Well done.

Posted by: JohnL at April 21, 2005 02:39 PM (Hs4rn)

3 Um, isn't it supposed to rhyme? [There's one in every bunch, and I'm it ]

Posted by: Susie at April 21, 2005 10:01 PM (I7fob)

4 Smack me upside the head with a limp zuchini! Phones...Jones....Duh! I think I better start taking my medication again....

Posted by: Susie at April 21, 2005 10:14 PM (I7fob)

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It was so warm inside my freezer that Ted Williams was complaining.

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I talked about getting together at a minor league baseball game and got several responses from folks interested in meeting up. Most suggested a Saturday game to make getting around the metro area a bit simpler. Sounds like a plan to me.

So, the official word is: I and the family will be attending Potomac National's games on May 14th and June 25th for sure. They're both Saturday games with fireworks afterwards. We'll probably be seeing other games throughout the season too.

Leave comments or email me at Rocket Jones (one word) at gmail dot com.

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1 ME TOO! ME TOO! I love baseball and I'll have saturdays off from work! YEA!

Posted by: Robyn at April 20, 2005 02:11 PM (/AsC4)

2 Victor and I are in for the 14th for sure!

Posted by: nic at April 20, 2005 07:10 PM (Sx8zO)

3 I should be available for either or even both. I love fireworks. Is it BYOB or pay-$10-per-draft-there?

Posted by: dawn at April 21, 2005 02:08 PM (jFpDX)

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Remember I wrote about "Bad Surprises"? Specifically, when our washing machine conked out and dumped an entire cycle of water onto the basement lake floor.

Oh, the joy continues.

Last night we discovered that when they delivered the new washer, the guys unplugged the freezer in the basement. We hadn't gone into the freezer since and only found it last night. We lost everything.

We called and raised hell. Sears is supposed to call back this morning. I faxed them an itemized list of all the food in the freezer.

Pissed off is an understatement right now. They have one chance to make it right. If they screw this up they'll have lost a lifelong customer.

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Best of luck to him as he guides the Church through difficult times.

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I don't know much about the subject, but the only reason Pujols wasn't picked to be the top Cardinal right away has to be because of his age. Either that, or that bastard Rolen is campaigning behind his back.

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One of the things on our household "to do" list is to replace the dining room light. It's been on the list since the day we moved in fifteen years ago.

It's a nice enough looking light, all smoked glass and brass with those goofy bulbs that are shaped like candle flame, in fact it would be beautiful in a two-story home entryway or foyer where it could hang above everyone and cast it's gentle light upon the scene.

But in our dining room it's misplaced. It hangs too low. It's not centered in the room. It's not centered over the table. And on those occasions when the dining room table has been taken out (like for painting) I crack my skull on it repeatedly. I hate it for physical reasons. My wife hates it for ascetic. She just thinks it's ugly.

There are only two of the eight bulbs currently burning. I discovered a while back that my wife's plan was to let it die a slow lingering death, and when it finally goes dark it will be replaced by something newer, smaller, neater and easier to keep clean.

I joked that she's probably got the same plan for me. She didn't deny it.

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Last time I'll mention this, I promise.

Right now I'm feeling like Rusty's bragging on me, "I am the *Extreme*, Baby. The. Extreme!"

The wireless network is up and running. Yesterday, amongst my other chores, I figured out MAC addressing (even better security) for the laptop, Mookie's PC (she went wireless because her wired connection went wonky) and even for Liz's iPaq!

Yes, I'm feeling rather pleased with myself. And I didn't sit in front of a monitor all day either. Yardwork got done, laundry is almost caught up and I cooked a pretty darned good roast chicken dinner (look for a new recipe in the next day or two). Met Mookie's new boyfriend too. He seems like a nice guy and the dogs like him, which says a lot. Sam has a nitwit detector that's so accurate that it's scary.

At the end of the day I was beat. I fell asleep halfway through Lon Chaney's Indestructable Man, but did see Phantom from 10,000 Leagues first. An excellent Saturday.

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I'm sitting here in the master bedroom, as physically far away as is possible to get from our new wireless router switch and still be in the house, getting used to this new laptop keyboard. Signal strength is good, wireless security is about half implemented (I still have to set specific MAC addressing, 128 bit encryption is in place. Major thanks to Victor, Rich, Stephen, Shank, and GEBIV for steering me to the know-how to do this the right way).

The new router switch has wired ports too. Maybe they all do, but when I saw that I did the happy dance because everything that was connected stays connected.

The other day for Liz's birthday I asked her over lunch what she wanted as a gift, and she kind of freaked when I offered her a choice of laptop of DVD burner.

The laptop solves a couple of problems for the family. Liz's embroidery machine uses input files that she stored on her PC in the living room, which meant she had to run up and down the stairs when doing her sewing. Big pain in the butt, metaphorically and physically, especially when her fibro is flaring up. With this new magic beastie, it sits on the desk next to her sewing table and everything she needs is right at hand.

I've also installed the Sims2 on it. I got it for Christmas, and then we realized that we didn't own a PC with enough horsepower to actually run the darn thing. I piddled around playing God for an hour last night. It looks like it could be fun.

It's going to be a beautiful day, so I'll close for now. There's yardwork and rocket fins to cut and laundry to catch up on (still). If you see me outside you might notice something different about me, a certain extra coolness (if that's even possible), because I have a laptop.

Well, I do when my wife lets me use it.

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