Mr. Rogers passed away today...that'ssuch a bummer, the world just keeps changing and I keep feeling older everyday...that's depressing...I keep feeling nostalgic which is weird...I'm not old enough to be nostalgic...but anyway, it's sad to lose a truely great person and one of my favorite TV personalities from childhood...I remembering watching Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and seeing how crayons are made and it just being so cool. *sigh*

now that I've posted my interesting stuff for the night while christa was letting the dog out and kinda watching the Robert Blake interview on 20/20, I'm going to bed...

Greasel.com is interesting stuff, especially since you could in theory run a vehicle that gets 49 mpg on free fuel and only have to buy fuel to start it...personally, I'd rather find a way to make biodiesel but I get the feeling I'd be arrested for terrorism in about two seconds...

100 Years of Ford Progress...and Deception is an editorial on Allpar. Interesting stuff...

not much to post tonight, just tired and going to bed, once again life is getting in the way...

Dammit - Blink 182

It's alright / to tell me / what you think / about me
I won't try / to argue / or hold it / against you
I know that / you're leaving / you must have / your reasons
The season / is calling / and your pictures / are falling down

The steps that / I retrace / the sad look / on your face
The timing / and structure / did you hear / he fucked her?
A day late / a buck short / I'm writing / the report
On losing / and failing / when I move / I'm flailing now

And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
Sees through the master plan

But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well I guess this is growing up

Well I guess this is growing up

And maybe / I'll see you / at a movie / sneak preview
You'll show up / and walk by / on the arm / of that guy
And I'll smile / and you'll wave / we'll pretend / it's okay
The charade / it won't last / when he's gone / I won't come back

And it'll happen once again
You'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan

But everybody's gone
And you've been there for too long
To face this on your own
Well I guess this is growing up

Well, I guess this is growing up
Well, I guess this is growing up
Well, I guess this is growing up
Well, I guess this is growing up
Well, I guess this is growing up
Well, I guess this is growing up

I am so far behind in everything, it sucks. Fortunately, I have gained a reprieve from my exam although I now have twice as much work to do. The BMW is causing much consernation...*sigh*...I have way too much to do at work...I'm pretty sure I'll be going to work on Saturday.

I'm so tired....thank god we get to sleep in our bed and everybody's home where they belong...

Now

Well, okay, so I didn't get around to posting or typing until now....Jay was released today at 11 and is doing well, the stairs are a little difficult but otherwise she is doing well. The really fun part was finding out that Christa was struck in the driveway after calling her when they said that she was being released. So I went and got her, shoveled out the sidewalk and part of the driveway, then we went back to hospital. More waiting ensued. After collecting her stuff, we went home and I went out and shoveled. The project cars are still buried but there's a path to the garage.

Now that spring is impeding (I admit it, I'm jumping the gun in ohio but damnit, I hate snow and cold), I need to decide what to do with the Monte Carlo. The cheif priority is sorting out the electrics and the carb is hosed somehow (either the accelerator pump or tuning or it could just be the fact its a two-barrel)

9:27am

Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's Hurt is just, um, weird. What I don't understand is why that would be considered a good idea and by who...

my dad did get the grand marquis...peter and I picked up a BMW 325e today that he bought for 450...it is now sitting in my driveway awaiting spring and wrenching...unfortunately, it does have the BMW Shimmy in the front end and few other issues, the most concerning being the coolant leak and the power seats not working. Everything else is minor, annoying stuff...once it gets screwed back together, it is the $500/500k rally car...while James (peter's brother) doesn't think we'll make it past St. Louis, damnit, it's California or Bust....although I have to admit that running a car 3,000 miles cross country and the racing it means that there is a lot of prep work to do....

Jay is doing well and eating and feeling much, much better...I think she'll be ready to go home tomorrow night if she can stand walking around and sitting up most of the day....I think the doctor's said once she eats three full meals and can walk/sit up, she can go home....

Here's the Friday Five only a day late this time...
1. What is your most prized material possession?

my wedding ring...everything else I own can be replaced or is unimportant...

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?

I don't know off-hand, I have stuff animals from when I was 4 or 5...somewhere...the children have run off with them...oops

3. Are you a packrat?

yes, although I'm trying to change...I'm getting better about keeping useless junk

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house? Or is some clutter necessary to avoid the appearance of a museum?

spic and span but I'm so tired after work, it's not much of priority...or I'd rather spend time with my wife....

5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme? Or is it a mixture of knick-knacks here and there?

theme - lived in, knick-knacks - stuff that's not where it belongs

Another one of my mega-posts written earlier today....she's now back in her room and out of recovery....going back to the hospital in a few minutes as we had to stop at home and grab stuff after getting Ann from school....

12:23pm

Jay is now out of surgery and in recovery...Christa has gone back to sit with her, so she's fully awake. She won't go back to her room for at least two more hours, I think...as she had to held until she woke up and the she has to be in recovery...good news, her appendix was inflamed (the doctor described it as abnormal blood vessel growth which sounds like inflamation to me) and her gall bladder had abnormal fatty desposits (the technical term just flew out of my head). Judging from what the surgeon said this will clear up the persistent pain and on again/off again vomiting...then again all their tests have been inconclusive to this point and it was an exploratory surgery...

10:51am

we're sitting and waiting right now, which seems to be one of the secondary functions of hospitals. Hopefully a verdict will be returned with the hour and it will her gall bladder. If not that, at least an answer as to what's wrong. once again, I'm posting (or at least writing since there's no free internet here) instead of doing work...it would be nice if you could get wireless or even ethernet in the waiting areas...it certainly make me much happier...I just realized I need to get online and find two more psychology articles plus I have all the blasted online assignments for spanish (which isn't due until next fri but it doesn't do me any good since the only time I have to work on it is the weekend.

Excellent, they did take the gall bladder which means more than likely it was her gall bladder...so hopefully after they stitch her and she'll wake up and we'll send her home tomorrow.

quiz-fest courtesy of Kristyland

the how british are you quiz is sadly true....I know enough to understand but don't care enough to bother...


I am 57.5% British, just like
Hugh Grant
Thought you drive a British sports car you are most likely to have a blowout in LA.

Take the Brit Quiz at
www.darrenlondon.tripod.com/britquiz1.htm
Quiz written by Daz

I am so depressed right now...although I don't hate my life...life is good


Pre-Hyptnotized Peter


What Office Space character are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

I just realized that I spelled obvious correctly and incorrectly in the same post...I need to be getting more sleep before posting to this thing...

In other news, Jay is back in the hospital after getting horrendously sick at 11:30pm and ending up in the hospital at 1:30am. They are going to actually do something tomorrow (after two inconclusive tests today)...primarily exploratory surgery and see if there's anything wrong and, while they're in there, remove her appendix...it ain't a cure or a solution, really, but I'm hoping that it's her gall bladder and they nip and snip it and she's cured...however, I've learned that nothing is ever really as simple as it should be...

I am now officially a pimp or a geezer, having taken care of title, plates, and insurance on the 1994 Buick Roadmaster Limited that my dad is apparently replacing with a 1994 Mecury Grand Marquis...no word if he got it yet...

yak, yak, yak

I hate reality TV, just hire some freakin' writers already....even so, I wouldn't be above cashing in on an office space-esque reality TV show with office politics and silly challenges. That would be cool....it would be even better if it was like I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here and I got like, Matt Damon, to mock and make fun of and do mundane office stuff....hehehehe...

How did it take two hours for the Bachlorette to wrap it when it was already painfully obvious what was going to happen? I hate all these fake voyoueristic shows that make it painfully obivious that its all staged for the camera....at least journals are mostly honest and reasonably truthful even if they may omit and/or change details....I can get all my reality TV from the internet....and satisfy my voyoueristic interest without having totally fakeness and shallow people preening for the camera....

Friday Five was done by matt and chip a couple weeks ago and I'm posting it late and before either of them this week...

1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.

because it's cool and I'm kinda of a lemming...also for the self-gratification even if only three people read it...

2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?

Yes and no, friends from work, my wife, personal friends...people who know me well....kinda of an editorial about adam by adam that only makes sense if you know adam, so it's needless to say, it's people that know me...

3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?

I summed it up best above: An editorial about adam by adam that only makes sense if you know adam (although "Journal about nothing" could be in the running)

4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?

nothin' much, consistly posting and moving it back to a real domain, although what that maybe is unknown right now...

5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.

here's the one's I read (or have been reading of late...)
mattopia - see link to the right
chip
kopi
sadukie

and I don't have a fifth.....mine, I suppose, since christa can post, too...

I'm so tired and christa is sick...I have my work for tomorrow done but this week is far from over. I spent three odd hours in a car by myself today for work related reasons. I spent alot of time thinking about how much I missed my wife and how nice it will be when it's saturday morning and all we really have to do or worry about is cuddling....I'm either a hopeless romantic or just clingy....I dunno which...it's getting late and I'm not really making much headway on my paper or reading....I think it's time to go to bed...

Posts written today but not posted until now because they were on my laptop...

5:40 PM

I am now awaiting for pyschology to start, which is somehow completely and totally disinteresting to me...I would much rather be at work checking drawings than be here...unfortunately, I'll get my wish tonight but not until 9:30...which is only slightly tempered by the fact I can do it at home on the dining table. We're supposed to have a meeting a work to discuss what direction to take estimating after a bad year and major restructuring of the division...the first thing we need to fix is deadlines and understanding of what exactly we taking off...even if it's simple shit like what I'm checking. So needless to say now, but my day is ending on a sour note...I can only think of that quote from Office Space because it's so true... "Every day since I've started working is worse than day before, so you are seeing me on the worst day of life every day..."

hey, my day got marginally better...I didn't flag the quiz I took basically cold last wednesday after being sick and finding out that I'd have to ask someone for the notes (which I didn't because I don't know anyone)...4 out of 5 is more than adequate although I had no reason to miss the last one...ah, well, that's life...

psychology has started and I'm now wondering what I'm doing here...

12:00 PM

Here it is lunch and I have more work to do...it seems like that every time I stop to relax for two minutes, I just get further behind. I was actually reasonably productive last night and got homework done in spite of beer, tobacco, and The Simpsons.

Now I'm screwing around and writing a journal post instead of working on The History of Henry IV. It actually isn't too bad to read, I thought it would center so much on English history and obscure historically references (it does have a few) as to be too dense to really suck the reader in. However, it centers on the characters rather than the events and Falstaff is pretty good reading, if you can get over the constant sexual inneudo...

CDs I have been listening to (despite being hopelessly out of date, it seems))

Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
Warped Tour 2002 Compliation
Nirvana - Greatest Hits Collectors Edition (Between You Know You're Right and The Man Who Sold the World, I couldn't pass up this CD...I do wish Lake of Fire was on it, tho...)

I have about a dozen hulks of P166s in various state of disassembly in my garage...I keep mean to paw through them and screw together a linux server but I just didn't get to it this weekend...nor did I accomplish my goal of sleeping until noon and then watching the Daytona 500 on Sunday. I flipped it on at like quarter after 4 and found it was delayed for rain...it blows that they ended up declaring a winner after barely half the race, I would consider that a hollow victory if it happened to me, but, hey, a W is a W...although history will invariably have an asterick as the 2003 Daytona 500 being 1 of 3 Daytonas ended early due to rain...

NASCAR is BACK!!! Bring on Spring! And pox to those who don't appreciate the great american sport...fuck football, fuck basketball, and baseball's golden age is gone (like when ballplayers being paid 2 million dollars a year struck for being underpaid...humpf), the american sport is NASCAR...oh, how I wish it was like it was in the bad old days...with cheating galore, real cars, and horsepower wars...but hey, where else is good old american excess celebrated with such aplomb?

A moment of silence for the heyday of straight 8 Hudsons and other such forgotten beasts...

I didn't get around to posting again last night like I meant to, mostly because we popped in the Banger Sisters and then I ended up drinking two glasses of port and we ended up going up to bed.

I had so much to do today and instead I ended up doing nothing....I spent time with my wife and family and generally relaxed (we did get our taxes done...yea!) but didn't get any of my work done...I'm not sure which was more important, getting my work done or recharging and relaxing....

I saw a blog called Living Can Kill You on the main page just now...which seems silly since life kills you.

I went to work today, it sucked...then I came home, worked on shakespeare and fell asleep in the recliner....christa fell asleep on the couch, too, it was pretty bad...I think everybody should get a nap...

We're watching the Country Bears....I can review it in three words: Rent Something Else...more words...Unless You Have Kids Then Consider It Only If They've Seen Or Own Every Other Freakin' New Release Even Then Plan On Doing Something Else In Another Room

The movie thing is throwing me off, I'm gonna have to post later.

I had some stuff I wanted to type in here and, of course, have promptly forgotten it so I can I remember it at midnight.....nuts...barring brillance, I am left to what actually happened today...

work...fish out of water hilarity and the usual off the wall antics...cursing, dirty jokes, and TMI flying around...although, Matt, Christa can post here....so...just for the record...

"Did Adam get, um, er, ya know....on valetines?" Answer tomorrow...maybe...personally, I'd like to see an e-bitchslap on this one...

My dad dropped me off the Buick Roadmaster as mine indefintely....I'm greatful for the car because it's a great car and didn't want to give back but I wanted a Cherokee....I love those things....or another truck....

Tonight, I've just lazed around and watched TV....went out and got chinese (much to my consernation, I'm so tired of running my ass off)...I did get to my martini, with fablous garlic olives from Messina's Italian Deli in the Erie Street Market....oh, yeah, went to lunch wiht my wife at Messinas....anyway, that's a mostly complete re-cap of my day.....

I am so glad it's thursday...which means it's Martini night but being sick and all I totally wussed out and now I'm sippin' gin and juice on my fly laptop loungin' in my pad...(the comic possiblities seem to be outweighing the mis-use of high quality gin)

It really sucks that my favorite show isn't on....I dunno what happened to Good Morning, Miami but I really miss that show....especially since I dunno what happened after love triangle was revealed..... (oh, man, I am sooo not manly right now) I really what know what's going to happen (or happened, as the case maybe)

The one thing that really chapped me today.....Toyota is entering the Craftsman truck series...what could possibly be more unamerican than that!?!?!?! I can't freakin' believe...I figured that if any japanese automaker would do that, it be Nissan whose french owners would be arrogent enough to fly such a bird to the american market.....that has to be something that I' neverthought I'd see in my lifetime....what a messed up world....
check out Car and Driver & The Car Connection (article in the middle of page...there's a picture)

I didn't have a chance to check out the chicago auto show until today...nothing really cool....the Subaru Forester XT is kinda interesting...but it's too much like a station wagon while trying to be an SUV, in my opinon...

lessee, nothin' much going on as I write...in the hospital with Jay right now while christa drops off hand-outs and notes to her TA class. Talk about a messed up week...first her prof has to leave town for due to mitigating circumstances and then christa has mitigating circumstances...somehow, I think that this class is being cancelled by acts of god or something. You shall not teach this to university students! It will not be known! Or something....maybe there is no fate, just a series of interconected events that lead to one ineviatable end which, judging from the laws of thermodynamics, is uniform distribuation of matter through out the universe...although the big bang theory does have this nasty little asterick where the universe may not stop expanding and is instead rendered as a sub-vacum of absolute nothing without even time, I suppose. If nothing is changes, is there time? I mean time just seems to the unit of change as opposed to some mysterious, uniform force like electricity or magnetism or gravity. No doubt I'll have a more coherent thought (or train of) to add on when I actually post this.

okay, so i didn't actually have a more coherent thought after that today....I'm glad we're home and presumably there's nothing to worry but the whole experience was incrediably frustating considering there was no firm diagnosis and no consult by any doctor other than a surgeon....who's only interest was appendix, appendix, appendix....oh, well....home....home...home...at least it's back to normal...

Well more tests and still no concensus but at least we are home.... I need sleep. They sent us home after eliminating all probable causes. But still wouldn't say it was virual even after all that...Hope all is well and it is just some harmless virual thingie.... They finally said that she seemed to be doing fine other than a little abdominal pain and therefore there was no reason for us to stay. UGHGHGHGHGHGH I hate hospitals.

well, today has just been stressful and long. Jay got admitted last night at 1:30 for observation after showing up in the ER at 6:30 with stomach cramps. Now they've held her all day and there's really been no consensus other than she doesn't need her appendix out now...so I've been at the hospital or home with the other girls while trying to recover and Christa has been at the hospital all day...right now it's the annoying sit and wait, any answer seems better than no answer...especially considering an appendix is a relatively minor thing nowadays...

I'm so cool, too bad I'm a loser
I'm so smart, too bad I can't get anything figured out
I'm so brave, too bad I'm a baby
I'm so fly, that's probably why it
Feels just like I'm falling for the first time

I'm so green, it's really amazing
I'm so clean, too bad I can't get all the dirt off of me.
I'm so sane, it's driving me crazy
It's so strange, I can't believe it
Feels just like I'm falling for the first time

Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost
Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost
What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time?
What if I nursed this infection? Maybe the worst is behind
It feels just like I'm falling for the first time
It feels just like I'm falling for the first time

I'm so chill, no wonder it's freezing
I'm so still, I just can't keep my fingers out of anything
I'm so thrilled to finally be failing
I'm so done, turn me over cause it
Feels just like I'm falling for the first time

Anything plain can be lovely, anything loved can be lost
Maybe I lost my direction, what if our love is the cost?
Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost
Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost
What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time?
What if I nursed this infection? Maybe the worst is behind

Barenaked Ladies - Maroon - Falling for the First Time

ugh, so bored and nothing to do on the web...bother...I need to finish my paper but it's so hard to write when I'm sick.

Annoyance of the day: it's a toss-up, seeing as I have three or four front runners...being bumped from my doctor's appointment because of the weather and having to come back in the afternoon, having sick children, or my wife having to run sick child to the emergancy room...

Highlight of the day: Getting hot tea and a bagel....nothing like that warm, fuzzy feeling

I am sooo sick I could just die right now...I think an army of bacteria have taken up residence in my lungs...the weird part is it just hit me all of a sudden last night at about nine. I felt okay, just a little under the weather, and then bam! I have a killer fever and couldn't get warm....I defintely feel better than last night but I can barely breathe and it just feels like someone is standing on my chest....

yea! I got most of my spanish done....although being hammered is making it really hard to finish my homework...

matt and kim went out with christa and me to hooters...we let him pick ('cuz he was buying to make up for my birthday)...big surprise...but hey, we all had a good time and I really can't complain if the worst that happened was being hammered...

He really is sick..... my pooo baby.... But he will get his spanish done ;) I have to prepare a lecture for class this week... Gotta love Ethics.

I have to bust my ass at homework today....at the very least get my spanish stuff done for this week...and, of course, I feel sicker than a dog right now....ugh

When I say I record, I mean vinyl record....I don't even own a turntable but they were just too damn cool to pass up and my office needs something....

Yeah, so here's my attempt at a journal...hopefully this will last more than 2 posts like last time...so...here's what I did today...

-slept until noon because it's saturday and I never see my wife
-went to the mall and bought two NIN records
-priced out building a wireless network...

oh, yeah, and went to Waffle House....it's just got that campy '70s feel...and the food's good and cheap, too