Shattered Sun

In the month that I’ve taken a break, Sam has lost a tooth, Zack is trying to lose more. Thanksgiving was a wonderful gathering of 10 friends and lots of yummy yummy food. I had a great time, I tell you! I have been unmercifically busy with work, but it’s paying off. Starting the date of hire with the company, I will be receiving a dollar raise. A dollar isn’t much, but it’s a good raise for three months of work. I’m content with it, anyhow.

I’m grateful that the holidays are over. Or will be anyway. Christmas was also wonderful, with Jayson’s mom being here, plus Rachel, Darren, Joey, Tim, Brad, and my two boys. It was a wonderful Christmas. There are photos and I have implemented a photo album system, but haven’t linked to it. I will. I’m not promising because y’all wouldn’t believe me anyhow. I will give my word that I am returning to internet work. I just needed a break with the holidays being here. The only thing that’s coming up for me in the next few months is Zacky’s birthday in a week and a half.

Anyway, I’m off to fix websites. I have too many people getting too much comment spam. It sucks. And Michael, I’m removing the image thing, because I agree with you. It does suck. And frankly, there has to be a better way.

My baby has finally lost his first tooth. Actually, it happened on Thrusday night while we were eating chinese food. He took a bite on his corn on the cob and found a hard piece. He told me that he was setting it on his napkin because he didn’t want to eat it. Distracted, I said, “OK”. Then he takes another bites and WOWZERS, there’s blood! My sweet OCD child freaks out and goes into a panic. If he wasn’t so serious about it all, I would have laughed uncontrollably. Needless to say, after showing him that what he thought was corn was really his first baby tooth coming out, he wasn’t too happy. He doesn’t want to lose his teeth.

On the plus side, the tooth fairy turned his tooth into a dollar and that made him very happy. Man, that tooth fairy is giving out a lot more money these days!

There are things wrong with having to spend almost $700 on plane tickets between Phoenix and Albuquerque. Of course, there’s something even worse about having to pay $464 per person for the same tickets! Family of four at $464 is not practical. Not that I’m too keen on spending $700 for the whole family either, but still. I wish that I could get Jayson’s mother to come out here for Christmas instead. Maybe I could con her into it if I flew her over here instead. It might be something to think about. I’m not sure if she’ll be up for it, but I’m definitely going to try.

There’s also the issue of carting presents to his mom’s house. And then carting them back home.

Yippee!

My older brother’s first son and my mother’s 4th grandchild is going to be born very, very soon.

I love it when new babies are born. There’s just something exciting about new life.

There’s this prick who keeps spamming my site. Instead of shutting comments off completely, I’ve instituted the lovely graphic security system that you’ve seen elsewhere. It’s simple and doesn’t take a lot of brains to work. I figure that if he’s using a program, he’ll be blocked. If he isn’t, I’m hoping that the IP banning I put in place does the job. If that doesn’t work, I’ve also banned usage of key words that he likes to put in his comments. Either this stuff works or I turn comment moderation on. And I really hate moderating comments.

If anyone has any further suggestions for keeping the losers of the internet at bay, I’m all ears.