Archive for October, 2007
Too many words and only one picture
Life in a global workplace:
I have a conference call every morning at 8:00. It’s for the large project I dragged to the finish line in late September and is now implementing about as well as a FEMA rescue in New Orleans.
Anyhoo…
We need to buy 2 printers for this job. We need them to [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2007 under Bad Parenting, Triangle Living.
Comments: 4
Picture Pages
We went to the NC State Fair last weekend. It’s quite a scene, and nothing that northerners like us have any point of reference to. There’s no real state fair in NJ. And, since the NC Fair purports to be one of the nation’s larger fairs, it continues to amaze us. [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2007 under Triangle Living.
Comments: 5
Can anyone spare a glass of water?
What’s good?
It rained this morning. Thank Shmuppie’s Teacher! (I’ll say that in lieu of saying Thank Jeebus from now on).
We’re having ourselves a wee bit of a drought here in NC. It’s to the point that they think we’ll be out of water in a few months. Like, we’ll turn on [...]
Posted: October 24th, 2007 under Bad Parenting, Triangle Living.
Comments: 3
Here you have it…
Only Nightmare actually came out and asked for it, but I know you all else wanted to see it with your own eyes.
Without further ado, I present:
Art Time with Shmuppie:
This is called “Mommy on a rock”
Here’s the picture in its…ahem…naked form. Nice work, no?
Here we have indicators for the assorted body parts.
We’re the [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2007 under Bad Parenting.
Comments: 4
A response to yesterday’s post:
We were somewhat alarmed by the revelation made by Shmuppie that she’d been told to pray for rain at school. We both think it’s utterly and fantastically inappropriate.
However, as I mentioned in a comment, the kid is a retard. So, we have no idea if this actually came from school or if she [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2007 under Bad Parenting, Household things, Triangle Living.
Comments: 4