I could tell you about why we took the 17 year old's birthday away but I wont.

Instead Ill bitch about people who use the word still, as in "yes robert I am still an idiot and performing user error."

Morons.

Next...Moles...I have alot of them. Whats up with that?

Moles

Bad rollout last night. Very busy this morning. Lots of machines to touch. Seems I just left work 10 minutes ago.

Ugh

Heres some stuff you 'prolly didnt know.

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Well, I have alot of work planned for today.

Im staying late tonight as well.

I found this, the girls are cute. I recommend S, T, and H. But you might like other letters too.

Merry Lynxmas

MMMM saw that coming. Dont make me angry, you wouldnt like me when Im angry.

Greed:	Very Low
Gluttony:	Low
Wrath:	High
Sloth:	Medium
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	Medium
Pride:	Low

The Seven Deadly Sins Quiz on 4degreez.com

Its going to be a very busy day in my neck of the woods.

Only 2 support people (and our manager) here today. Ontop of that I have to do my self review, and we dont have anyone at the one building so Im sure that sooner or later someone is going to have to run over there.

Work Work Work.

In other news I got a nice USB mem stick for xmas and my one kid got me the sims "makin' magic" so I need to peal back the layers of my sims crack and remake it with that expansion included. Ugh...Painful.

And in other work ive created for myself, someone I know hopefully brought in some karoke CD's I can copy.Gotta do that.

Busy Busy Busy.

Its so nice when the kids dont have school (Last day was yesterday). Because then I can sleep in for an extra 20 minutes and still get to work early. Ahhhhhhh. Helps to not have to drop them off at their schools.

Very gratifying, AND less traffic on the road. Calm. Nice and calm. Unlike the next few days will be for me.

Of course Im going to New Ulm to visit the Mother-In-Law. She is going to drag me and my family out for mid-winter swimming, like she does every year. I hate swimming in MN in December. Ugh. Sure she will take us to some nice warm hotel pool. But still I have to get out and go home in the freezing cold. Im sure Ill catch pnuemonia.

But the good news is, Im very excited to have my last day of work before MY Christmas Vacation. Its like Im ten again waiting to get out of school.

Well, if I can just make it through 2 more days (Including today) I will be off for Christmas. Im pretty excited about it. Its the last day off Ill have all year.

The kids' last day is today. Lucky ducks. Melissa took her present in for her governmentally enforced Christmas party. I tried to lecture her on why its not right to have a Christmas party at school. Let alone making giving gifts there mandatory.

I feel bad for all the poor Jewish, Muslim and Hindu or Buddhist(SP?) Brainerd Students. Forced to participate in a religious holiday that is not their own.

Wrong wrong wrong.

Last Friday...

Melissa: Can I spend the night at my friends house?
Me: Whose?
Melissa: My friend's...
Me: Well yeah, I realize that...Whats the name?
Melissa: Billy.
Me: Billy with a Y? Your little boyfriend?
Melissa: Hes not my boyfriend, just my friend, can I?
Me(Laughing): Where do you come up with this stuff? Stephen, did you hear this Melissa wants to spend the night at her friend Billy's house. A BOY! Ha Ha ha ha...
Melissa: Well why cant I?
Me: Hes a boy, duh...No kid can stay the night at a oppisite sex's house, I dont care if your 9 or 17, Im not gonna let it happen. Youre funny though.

I made up with my wife.

I have too much work to do today.

Gotta go.

XOXOXO

Im such an ass.

Let me give you a little history before I tell you what happened.

My wife has been sick for about 2 weeks to a month now. She doesnt do well sick. Shes crabby, she doesnt do anything around the house (we have a deal where the person who has the day off does the dishes). And she generally has a poor negative outlook while shes sick.

Then her PMS hit on Wednesday. Crank up the bitchitude, the negativity and the woe-is-me-ness a couple more notches.

I had an extremely bad and nasty day yesterday, enough to make me crabby. Which, I guess, is not an acceptable form of behavior in my home...For me. Fine for her for 2 weeks to a month, but 2 hours of me crabby and shes screaming at me.

So yesterday, I screamed back. I told her Im only human. I have emotions too. Sometimes they are not positive, sometimes Im crabby and mean. And when she puts crabbyness and negativity in for at least 2 weeks thats what shes going to get back out.

So then she cried for like 4 hours. Im not really sure because I went to bed at 8 last night. But hell. Why is it good for the goose and not the gander? Thats bullshit. Im tired of her playing the PMS card on me, or the sick card, I goto work when Im sick, I do the dishes when Im sick. I do not woe is me and lay around the house whining. Simply because I hate doctors and if I was to admit to being sick Id have to go see one. Consequently Im never sick(Or I dont admit it to her).

And as far as hormones go. Mine make me want to smash things and fight people. But yet Im not going around smashing things or punching people. Or jumping on every whore in the world. But thats what my hormones would have me do.

Once again, the sexist attitudes of women in general and my wife in particular that its "OK" to be driven by chemical and protein combinations and that its not your fault when you treat people like shit, because your a women and women have the horrible blight of PMS on them...Infuriates me. But thats my emotion and I take responsibility for it. Im not blaming testosterone for me hating it. And I never will.

Human beings have chemicals in them that make them feel things, acting on those feelings and what you do with them is your responsibility and you cant blame your actions on that. Because that would make you not a person. It would make you a meat robot who has no free will and no control over yourself.

Take responsibility. I was an ass to my wife last night, not because of my chemical programming but because Im sick of tired of her behavior and it needs to change. Asking politely does not work. So I revert to being angry. Thats my fault, and I admit it.

She says shes going to doctors on Monday.

I cant wait for the "A Scanner Darkly" movie to come out.

For those of you who dont know A Scanner Darkly is a book by Phillip K Dick, its about an undercover cop whose brain is eaten up by "Substance D", a futuristic drug that causes severe brain damage. He eventually loses his identity because he gets confused between being a Narc and a Doper.

Its one of my favorite books, and the ending is very sad.

And Asa, John Harrington now has your copy of the book.

But yeah I cant wait for it to come out.

Snow, Snow and more snow in my neck of the woods.

Lets see...

Lost is rerun. Im getting sick of that. 2 new episodes to like 4 old ones...It sucks.

I have to install a printer today.

Um...

Snow?

I really had a good post planned for today but I forgot what it was due to horrible nightmares I had all night about a ghost who would rearange my bedroom furniture while I was sleeping. Any idea what thats about?

Im having one of those "I should never have gotten out of bed" mornings.

Go into the bathroom, click, flip on the light, it burns out.

Leave home early to get gas, the ashtray dumps out when I hit the speed bump thingy.

Ugh. I hope thats all my bad luck for the day.

Guess what happened to me on Saturday?

Done guessing?

My PC started on fire! (literally) It was the craziest thing, my power supply must have been pretty full of dust and I was sitting there playing Age of Empires 3 and all of sudden I start getting a wiff of something that smelled like burnt noxima lotion.

WTF?

I started sniffing all over the place...Seems to be coming from my desk...Yes...MMMM theres some smoke...Wheres that coming from? My little heater? no...Doesnt smell like burnt electronics? MMMMMM...My computer is running fine.

MMMMM

So I shut it down and pulled it apart...and there it was my power supply was filled with charcoal. Still smoldering.

I replaced the power supply and everything is working fine again.

It was just really weird.

What a day I had yesterday.

Ill save you most of the details but the worst thing to happen was my one kid accidentally kicked a antique mirror my wife had lying around (It was propped up against the wall in our storage room in the basment.

And he cut the back of his heal off. 5 Stiches. Poor guy is in pain, pain, pain this morning. He has crutches and is not allowed to walk on it for a week.

AT least Ill have a partner for video games for the next week.

I swear some days I wanna murder my wife.

She had to work at 7 this morning. Which of course means she sets the alarm clock for 5:30 and proceeds to hit the snooze button for a full hour before she gets up. I should mention that I have to prompt her to hit the snooze button because the alarm clock doesnt wake her up....Only me.

BTW did I mention that clock was 15 minutes fast. Yeah. Great.

In other news, one of my other favorite passtimes (Can you hear the sarcasm) is tonight. School Christmas program. I have to be there 2 hours before my kid is even on stage.

Im thinking nap in a metal chair tonight at the gymnasium. Wake me up when Melissa is on.

Nothing is better than being woke up at 5:55 by a child screaming with an ear infection (Well, Im no doctor, but complaining of pain in the ear). Melissa was just screaming about her ear...Why she didnt come and wake up my wife or I at that point Im not sure....Maybe sleepiness and pain...But she was just standing in her room balling and screaming.

I left her in bed with my wife when I went to work.


In other news Im really excited about the temp being in positive numbers today. YAY!

The freezing coldness continues around here.

Some bank, yesterday, emailed me the account information for some other Robert Schultz.

Ive been thinking about stealing his identity.

Beware bad online banks.

Bad Bad.

Holy Crap is it freezing cold here...actually worse than freezing cold, -5 this monring! I dont think its usually this cold this early, is it?

In other news I went sledding with the kids and my one coworker and his GF over the weekend...I waxed some tubes and did they ever go fast...

Only 1 collision and it involved My coworker, his girlfriend and a couple of little kids who limped back up the hill after that.

Also I made a whole bunch of cookies on Sunday...Melissa is so cute adding green food coloring and weilding the christmas tree cookie cutters.

And the ChocoChip-Butterscotches I made are so yummy, Im gonna go eat 3 for lunch today.

YUM!

You know what crawls under my skin? The radiothon to "end" child abuse. How obtuse to think you can solve a problem by throwing money at it...No amount of money will ever end child abuse...It will just goto every open hand along the way until the people who NEED the money get 5 cents on every dollar.

Maybe Im just bitter...Let me tell you a story:

I was 12, I had my friends Michael and Mandy Mower over...My mom and dad had just begun fighting. My father beat my mother on a regular basis. So this was really nothing out of the ordinary. I went downstairs to investigate...

I got downstairs and my mother was nowhere to be found.

My father was in the kitchen, across the dining room from the doorway I was standing in. I ask him what was going on...He starting screaming obscenities at me and then picked up some apples from the kitchen and started hurling them at me, major league baseball style. Slat, splat, splat on the doorframe. Thank God he missed.

I went back upstairs, and called the police, heres what I told them.

"Hi, My father beats my mother on a regular basis and they just had a fight, Now I cant find my mother anywhere and Dad is screaming at me when I ask where she is...Also he started throwing apples at me. Im really worried about her."

They tell me someone will be right there.

I told my friends who there that and made them leave via the upstairs bathroom roof.

The cops showed up. Talked to my dad and left. (hey why should they talk to the person who called in the complaint anyway right?)

You can imagine the beating I got following that. I never called the cops again in my life.

Stupid fucking cops. Stupid fucking society. Stupid fucking radiothon to "end" child abuse. Quit bringing me back 18 years to the most miserable time of my life.

Child abuse wont end until people choose to do the right thing and not raise their children in an atmosphere of violence and depravity.

Die Radiothon, DIE!

How to have a bad day by 7:30 AM, a short outline by Robert Schultz:

6:55: Wake up, wake up children.

7:05: Wake up children again, be told by one(who is still lying in bed) that they are up. Yell at them and tell them being in bed precludes being "up" since you are technically "laying down" and not getting ready.

7:10: Get in shower to find your wife used most/all the hot water when she took a shower at 6:30

7:17: Go downstairs to find one kid who has removed his shoelaces and is now just going "slip his shoes on and off". Remind him of the 7 inches of snow on the ground and he needs his shoelaces to keep his shoes on his feet. Additionally remind him that his bus is scheduled to arrive in 8 minutes and he isnt leaving the house without his shoelaces in. Add expletives as you see fit.

7:20 Stop child from leaving the house with his shoelaces laced through 4 of the 20 of the 30 or so lace holes.

7:22 Stop child from leaving the house with 1 shoe laced

7:25 Child goes running for bus with 1.5 of his shoes laced. He missed the bus anyway.

7:26 Lecture child on the need for shoelaces for the 4th time today. Tell child you love him but your not going to make the other kids who you drop off at school, or yourself late because he decided to take his shoelaces out with 8 minutes until the bus arrival.

7:30 Call wife at work and instruct her to call the school and explain that our son wont be in today because he missed the bus and his father is refusing to take him to school to teach him a lesson, and to avoid 3 other people being late for their school and more importantly JOB.

7:35 Unhook coax cable from television meanwhile furthering lecture on not removing shoelaces at inopportune times. Be sure to point out the child's age is well above that when one develops common sense. (hes 12).

7:37 Remove computer power cables so they cannot be used until you get home from work at 5 PM tonight.

7:38 Instruct child he is being punished, He will not be going to school today. It is his fault he missed the bus. Reiterate that this better not happen again. And he is to watch no TV and play with no computers all day.

7:39 leave child crying and take the other children to school.

*** I should also mention that I would have taken him to school too except the damn place is a half hour away so that would put me arriving at work at 8:40 and the other kids at their nearby schools at that same time. And I dont think all 3 of us should make trouble for ourselves because he decided to take OUT HIS DAMN SHOELACES AT THE LAST MINUTE BEFORE THE BUS CAME!!!!

ARRRRRRG !!! GRRRRRRR!!!!! ARGGGGGGGGRRRRRR!