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Thoughts on the Day

  • It’s a sad state of affairs when you go to work before the doughnut shops are open.
    • In related news, I’m out of decent coffee at the house.
    • No, I’m not going to cut into my end-of-the-world stocks.  This is a mess-up in grocery shopping, not the apocalypse.
  • Being organized and efficient only helps if you use correct information.  If you use incorrect information, being efficient and organized just means that you dig a hole that much quicker.
  • Schadenfreude – The feeling you get when someone complains about having to do the really crappy thing that you told them they would have to do, but they discounted your advice and planned to do something else.
  • Why must kindergarten teachers be so bloody cheerful on a Saturday morning?
  • Today at the latest kindergarten preparatory meeting, we were told that Boo’s new school does not use the traditional methods for grouping children for learning.
    • Apparently they’ve taken the prudent step of not roping the children into set study groups for each subject for the entire year, and try to tailor who works on what with whom based on everyone’s needs.
    • When I was in kindergarten, we were all grouped together and organized by height and viciousness.
    • It was a simple system, and worked for most kids, but heaven help you if you were short or easy-going.
  • If we have one more orientation meeting for kindergarten, we will have officially done more planning for Boo’s move to a new school than I did for most of my deployments.
  • I found the reason that the bathtub has been draining so slowly and the washing machine has been making those picturesque waterfalls in the basement.
    • I won’t go into the gory details, but let’s just say that I’ve seen field mice without that much heft.
  • Nap – A word used by another member of the family to describe what they want you to do while they use a power saw and a nail gun in the next room.
  • Irish Woman and I are so romantic.
    • I asked her if she wanted jewelry, flowers, or chocolate covered fruit for Valentines.
    • She asked if I wanted alcohol, ammunition, or a new knife.
    • She completes me.
by daddybear71 on February 9, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on February 9, 2013

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  1. Lazy Bike Commuter's avatar

    Lazy Bike Commuter

     /  February 9, 2013

    On our first Valentine’s Day after we had started dating, my wife told me that I was not to buy her candy or flowers. I could buy them any other time, but not on Valentine’s Day.

    So I got her a knife, since she had been wanting a good pocket knife.

    She really liked it, though for some reason it made all of her coworkers think I was gay.

    Silly coworkers. Knives aren’t gay.

    Then when we went on our honeymoon, I bought her a sharper knife. Maybe I should go knife shopping…

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  2. AuricTech's avatar

    AuricTech

     /  February 10, 2013

    Irish Woman and I are so romantic.

    I asked her if she wanted jewelry, flowers, or chocolate covered fruit for Valentines.
    She asked if I wanted alcohol, ammunition, or a new knife.
    She completes me.

    I assume that both of you answered “yes!” 😉

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    • daddybear71's avatar

      daddybear71

       /  February 10, 2013

      I told her that we didn’t really ‘need’ any alcohol at the moment, and ammunition was to rare and expensive right now for her to spend her time searching the country for .45, .223, or .22. So I told her that a knife would be just fine.

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  3. Old NFO's avatar

    Old NFO

     /  February 10, 2013

    Yep, BIG difference between kid planning and deployment planning… Deployment- You’re a big boy, go handle it and don’t screw up… And come back in one piece.

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