Thursday, November 6
An update
After pointing some friends here, I've taken some of their advice, and modified things. I've corrected some of my grammar (I guess my participles were dangling, but I don't usually go commando...), found the reason for a couple of javascript errors that were showing up (I had things ready to work with double quotes, but not with single quotes, and since I'm using single quotes {technically an apostrophe} now and haven't used a double quote yet, I changed it around. Now I just have to make sure I use the " for double quotes in my titles) and I've also made two different stabs at informing people how to read and add comments (Hint! Hint! Mr. D!) I find the errors that IE lists problematic, as they get the line number right, but the character number in the line is always way off. Oh well, another discussion later maybe.
Sparx has been in contact with me. He is extremely worried about the credit card stuff. I told him I wasn't discussing it with him. That was Tuesday. Wednesday, he wants to talk about coming back home. He hates it there (I originally heard it as "I hate you", but he swore he said "I hate it here"), and he wants to talk terms about coming back home^H^H^Here. Calling DCF was a good way to burn some bridges. Especially when this has been the second time that he's called them. The_Rose was pretty shook up by it. It didn't give me great feelings either.
I am truly concerned that Sparx took my shotgun out of my closet and put it into his. He also took some ammo for it. I am not amused, not even an iota. All of the children here have issues of doing stuff with things that are plainly not theirs. I have my issues about that, but then, I was an only child growing up myself. Still, I didn't go around grabbing my father's gun, hiding it from him, or keeping it for my own use. And that's the other thing that scares me. Was Sparx hiding it from me because he thought I might use it on him in a fit of rage and anger? Or keeping it for his own use, in which case, use it on whom? I don't like the consequences of either one of those.
Garfield made my drive him to the recruiter's, so that I could meet him. The_Rose got home from work early enough to go with me. It's not that I have a problem with him enlisting, I am just more than a little fed up with being on his schedule, not mine. And I've just about had it. I wasn't pleased with what he did Monday, and tonight really didn't help me out either. I wanted to be home, cooking dinner for the family. And what was supposed to be a 5 minute thing turned out to be closer to an hour. I can't blame that all on him, The_Rose and I shopped at a nearby Asian grocery afterwords, but more on that later. We ended up bringing home McDonalds. The_Rose's (and mine) biggest concern is that he's doing this out of desperation. He's decided that really doesn't want to do construction, even though he's worked very hard to become a good carpenter. I'm not even real sure that he's going to college at this point, despite having the bills to pay for it now. I understand, he's only 18, and he doesn't know yet what he really wants to do. But this is getting expensive. With us paying for his long distance (even though he has a cell phone that has unlimited nights and weekends with free long distance...) calls to Ohio, helping him get his truck, putting gas into his truck and everything else, we're probably out a couple grand.
The Asian grocery was pretty interesting. We found an ounce of Phillipine saffron for $1.19. Compared to closer to $119 per ounce. Or not. I've found Saffron on the net for $30 per ounce to $60 per ounce. Interesting, that the price of saffron isn't what it used to be. I'm still looking forward to using it in our next rice dish.
And now I need to figure out how I'm going to cook the hamburger that I thawed out for dinner Wednesday night for tonight's supper (since it's past 2:00AM right now...) Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 11/06/2003 02:06:00 AM
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