To blogger RightGirl, who is 32 today. I love the headless puppy.
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Happy Birthday
To friend and former colleague Renee LeBlanc.
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Happy Birthday
To former blogger Paul Jané, wherever he may be now.
Henry says that is not allowed. But then, neither is anything else. Besides holding him so he can fall asleep no put me down no pick me up no put me down hey shiny thing ah relaxing yay let me go play now hey you’re in the kitchen cool…
I’ve spent much of the night not asleep, and ended up perusing some old material here and there. I wondered whether I would get different results on some of the quiz thingies. Here are some of them. In the first case, how the results are presented changed, no more secondary element included.
Your Dominant Thinking Style: Visioning |
 You are very insightful and tend to make decisions based on your insights. You focus on how things should be – even if you haven’t worked out the details. An idealist, thinking of the future helps you guide your path. |
You Are a Hunter Soul |
 You are driven and ambitious – totally self motivated to succeed Actively working to achieve what you want, you are skillful in many areas. You are a natural predator with strong instincts … and more than a little demanding. You are creative, energetic, and an extremely powerful force. An outdoors person, you like animals and relate to them better than people. Souls you are most compatible with: Seeker Soul and Peacemaker Soul |
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The text of that result:
“You are a health conscious person, both your health and the health of others. You know all about the health benefits and dangers of the world around you.”
Entirely unrelated to quizzes, this post strikes me as a demarcation where things really went to hell with the old client. That month was an insane volume of work – afraid to do the invoice levels – in no small part because one file version in Windows was off, and vendor support was less than stellar. It was the beginning of the “must upgrade for real” sequence, flowing right into a second large month in which a lesser server died and required I move files and shares still living on it. A Pentium 200, that was, in 2006. Having already run up over $18,000 in time for March and April, I was skittish about spending too much time in too short a period to set up the new servers I finally got them to order later that year.
I’d forgotten it was May 2006 when I did my AS/400 magic. I thought that was before the Juris mess. But I digress.
Maybe I’ll get sleepy eventually.
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Bailout Poll
John Hawkins did a flash poll, in which I participated, on the bailout. Interesting results, more skewed than I had expected. The last question, though, looks like people answered based not on where they stood, but what they thought public perception must be.
Related to that, it is heartening to see that Barney Frank’s role in the crisis, and its roots in the Carter administration, ballooning from tinkering in the Clinton administration, close ties to Frank, Kerry, Obama and others, and connection to the likes of 9/11 scoundrel Jamie Gorelick are becoming widely known.
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Happy Birthday
To my nephew Dan, who is 20 today. Time flies!
Time flies! It was four years ago today that Sadie arrived reluctantly among us. She was sooo much younger a year ago. It’s amazing.
Happy birthday Sadie Rose!
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Happy Birthday
To Kelly.
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Happy Birthday
To blogger Contagion.
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Happy Birthday
To former blogger spouse Mrs. Smash.
Tomorrow is Sadie’s birthday. A couple of cousins have birthdays near now as well. It’s Sunday.
This means cake at my grandmother’s, where we are going for dinner, except we are supposed to be there at 11:00, which means I already need to have drank all my coffee and showered and started trying to herd kids, because it takes hours. Though we’ve gotten better. Key is probably to make sure diaper bag is ready and clothes are selected now, not later.
Tomorrow we will have cake here.
Then Saturday there’s a cookout and pumpkin picking party at my brother’s, oriented to the kids. It was originally at 2 PM, but there will be a bonfire, so 3:30. After the bullshit with people with firepits all around us, making us sick with smoke all summer! How ironic is it to be invited to a party of the same variety?
Anyway, we’re in a conundrum, because that throws the thing late enough to mess with the evening. I’m thinking to eat and get pumpkins and pretty much leave so the time is reasonable, but that relies on kids not freaking because they know there’s more. Also need to figure out what to bring for food to share, and how to cover the gas.
Ugh, time to start gulping coffee. You’d think almost an hour into being up I’d have had my first cup. And a shower, or I am not going anywhere, no matter what day it is.
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Happy Birthday
To apparently former blogger Victor of Publius.
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“I Cutest”
Good picture for this exchange today.
Me: “You’re the cutest!”
Valerie: “I cutest!”
Well, it’s the morning after the emergency room run. He actually looked worse in the end than the pictures showed, and was engulfed in places not pictured.
By 10 PM it had subsided significantly but still looked bad. That was time for a new dose of Benadryl, then he participated in some book reading and hell raising before getting in bed with Deb.
He slept like a rock until 8:30, when we both got up, well ahead of his sisters.
No more hives.
Okay, not exactly no sign, since looking closely in some of the worst areas it’s like there are ghostly scars, redder skin than it should be. Presumably that will fade.
Not only did we not wake him for a 4 AM dose of Benadryl, but also I haven’t bothered with one this morning. If there seems to be the slightest reason, I won’t hesitate.
We probably won’t even worry about filling the prescription, since that was due to be given at 6 PM today only if he still had hives.
All that’s left, besides avoiding eggs, is calling the doctor Monday to arrange allergy testing. That, and I’m curious whether anyone on my side has ever had egg allergies. I know about some allergies or sensitivities to milk, clams, garlic and onions, raw tomato, but can’t remember eggs… or maybe I am thinking my older brother had that problem. Hmmm… Anyone?
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Happy Birthday
To blogger Bruce of No Looking Backwards.
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Happy Birthday
To blogger Maeve, who is 42 today.
Your Issue Profile: 24% Obama, 76% McCain |
 When it gets down to it, you tend to best match John McCain. But he’s not the perfect candidate for you, and you may not be sold on him yet. Obama shares a good number of your views too, so you might want to give him a second look. |
| You are a Social Liberal (86% permissive) and an… Economic Conservative (83% permissive) You are best described as a: Libertarian
Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid |
Via Leslie
I had to take Henry to the ER this evening. As far as we can tell, he is allergic to eggs. He ate far and away his largest serving of eggs so far, scrambled, at noon. He was reacting full-blown about the time Deb got home. We gave him Benadryl, and it no more than slowed it some this time. This is what he looked like after we got home:
This is extreme, but yeah, we aren’t kidding about the sensitivities and allergies. Morton Hospital was awesome. I drove him over there and we got right in. They gave him prednisone, and we have to give him Benadryl every six hours until it subsides and another dose of prednisone if needed about 6 PM tomorrow. We are to call the doctor Monday and arrange allergy testing, now that he’s over a year old. It took no time, and he mostly had fun and charmed people. As I type this, it’s finally starting to recede a bit.
Update:
Um… recede in places. His belly is massively worse.