Claustraphobic...

Not sure how or why, but here was tonight's dinner conversation...

Oldest: ...I can't believe eBay sold a pair of Brittany's underwear...
Me: What the ?!?!?
Mom: I know...isn't that just disgusting?
Youngest: Yeah, but you couldn't have bought them Mom...they'd have made you claustraphobic...

Yeah, I know. Sometimes you just can't believe they'd survive.

Sickness count...

So, here's the month of Feb totals (some might have gotten the rant email from wife, but here's the details and diseases...all dates approxiamate)

Youngest - started us off Jan 31 with a sinus infection...followed by:
Oldest - flu like symptoms on Feb 3 and 4...followed by:
Middle - more flu like symptoms on Feb 7 with encore on Feb 11 followed by:
Oldest - Strep throat - Feb 14 and 15 followed by
Youngest - arrives home from visiting the relatives with the wife and siblings with (drum roll please...) CHICKEN POX. Now, I realize this has been said before in this blogosphere, but again, HE WAS IMMUNIZED!!!! Followed by:
DAD - Strep throat (only been about 15 years, thanks oldest!!!)

Needless to say, Mom wants to flee. Don't think they make enough Lysol disinfectant to please her. She also feels that it is uncomfortable to be in the same house with us which means all of this will be followed by:

Mom getting sick which will probably cause the rest of us to be killed...

Bawk, Bawk, Bawk...

CHICKEN POX HAVE ARRIVED (now I get it when someone says a pox on your house).

Yep, those inocculations did wonders. The family returned yesterday amid fun hail storms and what to our wondering eyes should appear but a little boy with 8 little blistering postules right here (and here and here and there...man, they're getting everywhere). I think the 8 hour car ride helped them grow.

What does he say about it? Yeah!!!! No school for two whole weeks... (later this week it should sink in that most of his friends won't want to play with him either... )

Home Alone...

My family left me (for the weekend). During this time, I planned on being rather boring. I have a few people I want to hang out with, but for the most part I'll be working. I have a few pet projects for work which I want to play with and I also want to work on the house a bit. However, as always, the best laid plans always get messed up.

I find it extremely amusing that so many people hear what my plans are and immediately think I'm crazy (even more so than normal). It has been ages since I've been able to just sit down and play with something just for fun. To have a whole weekend, it has been almost overwhelming - just where to begin? So, while I won't bore you all with details which will sound like a foreign language, suffice it to say that I did have a good time even with the delays trying to find things where it made more sense to use someone else's work than to build my own.

As for working on the house, due to the delays above, it didn't get as fars as I was hoping, but then things hardly ever go according to plan.

So, while I know people have been paying attention to the stories here, I'm wondering if people are more interested in getting the stories delivered. I've been playing with somethings which will pull the content and deliver to another web page (more for me since I read about 2 dozen sites or more). I've also found a tool called Blogo which will allow you to pick up the stories on your cell phone (if it is web enabled). If you are more interested in getting the stories delivered to you directly upon update, let me know and I'll set that up too.

In the meantime, I'm getting back to my delayed projects (and the relaxation that can only come from working on them in front of the TV...). Ahh, it's good to be alone some times.

Dinner Conversation...

At dinner someone (methinks the middle child) says:

(blah blah blah) hot chickie babe... (aimed squarely at the wife)

To wit the youngest responds: No, no, no. Since she's a woman, she's a "hot chickie hen".

then he points at me and says: And he's a hot chickie rooster

Needless to say we all degenerated into laughter.