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    Thursday, July 9th, 2009
    9:01 am
    I'm sorry Madison, your daddy is an idiot.
    Got a call from the daycare this morning, about 15 min after I'd dropped her off. Apparently my brain wasn't QUITE functioning on all gears this morning... I'd remembered to pack her four bottles, I'd remembered to put the nipples and lids on them, I'd even remembered to drop a package of sweet potatoes and a spoon into the bag before I left the house.

    ...

    You'll notice I didn't mention a THING about filling said bottles with formula. I brought four empty bottles to daycare this morning. :p

    Thank god there's a Kroger just down the road... and now I can cross formula off of the grocery list for this weekend, at least.

    Sigh... they were having FAR too much amusement at my expense at the daycare when I showed up with the new container of formula. Ah well...

    >Matt / Net
    Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
    8:37 am
    Sigh...
    How some people make it through the day... I swear. This is a VERBATIM from this morning.

    Guy ahead of me at Hardees rolls down his window. Lady on the other end goes "Thank you for stopping at Hardees, can I take your order?"

    He says, "Yeah, uh... are y'all serving Whoppers yet?"

    There was a pause, followed by "Uh, sir, this is Hardees, not Burger King."

    He replies, "Oh, right, I'm at Hardees! Uh... y'all serving ThickBurgers yet?"

    Another pause, then "Um, sir, no, sorry, we're currently serving breakfast."

    He replies, "Well, what d'ya have with meat in it?"

    I KNOW that the poor woman wanted to reply with "Sir, there's a FRIGGIN menu RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE, JUST READ IT!!" But to her credit, there was simply another pause, followed by "Well, sir, we do have sausage and egg biscuits on sale, buy one get one free."

    He replied, "Oh... I don't like eggs. Could I get two of those buy one get one free thingies, without the eggs?"

    The lady replied, "Well, sir, if you'd like, two sausage biscuits currently are $1.89." (Note, one sausage and egg biscuit costs $2.14, so the buy one get one free would be more expensive)

    He replied, "No, no, give me the buy one get one free thingie, and don't put egg on em."

    She said after a moment, "$2.33, please drive around."

    * * *

    HOW did this person make it into his mid-40s?!? AUGH!!!!

    My head hurts.

    >Matt / Net
    Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
    11:27 am
    OMG the HORROR!!!!
    Heh, went on a trip into the light fantastic today, and started looking through all my really really old files. Here's a few of the gems I found.

    Apparently I thought that a story involving angels coming down from heaven to play professional football was a good story. Never got past chapter two, it looks like...

    I don't remember when, but apparently I started into a play-by-email group that involved Victorian-era Hogwarts. My student was a first-year student right off the streets, could use magic... but couldn't read. He was great with oral commands and loved using the broom to fly... but his scores in anything written were ABYSMAL. Actually wasn't a bad concept... but now I'm horrified to have been even part of a PBeM Harry Potter anything. :D

    Some of this stuff's pretty damn morbid. The HELL was wrong with me back then...

    Anyhoo, sometimes it's fun to look back like that. :D

    >Matt / Net
    Thursday, June 25th, 2009
    7:31 pm
    Wow.
    Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, both in the same day!? Good lord.

    At least Farrah's beyond pain now, and Michael doesn't have to worry about any of his multitude of problems anymore. :(

    My heart goes out to those two families, even though they'll both never see this.

    >Matt
    Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
    11:44 am
    I needed a good laugh.
    Found this online today, and boy did I need a good laugh. Note: 'tis clean, I promise. :)

    Biology Lesson )

    >Matt / Net
    Thursday, June 18th, 2009
    9:57 am
    No, I'm not dead or back in WoW again.
    Yup, I'm still here... life's just being its annoying busy self again. I have started writing again, though, thank GOD... got a new story in the queue at Elfwood for the Herscher Project's latest... er, project.

    ... That's redundant. Ah well. :)

    >Matt / Net
    Thursday, May 28th, 2009
    9:29 am
    Webcomic news, and family photo updates
    Heh. I'm honestly very, very excited to be starting work on a third webcomic again... More and more each day, my writing brain is kicking back into gear.

    GOD it feels good to be creating again. I can feel the gears shifting back into place, I can taste the plots starting to line up again... That writer's block took way too long to go bye-bye.

    Becky, I can't WAIT to see what you come up with. :D :D :D

    And on to family photos!!! Let's see if I remember how to do a LJ cut...


    Aha, thank you prior post editing skills! )

    Yes, she's already spoiled rotten. :)

    >Matt / Net
    Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
    9:52 am
    Back to all my old haunts now
    Ok, I finally remembered my Deviantart password again, so now I'm back to all my old haunts. LJ, Elfwood, DA... just like old times.

    Might even start, I dunno... writing short stories for said sites again. Wouldn't that be different. :D

    >Matt
    Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
    10:30 am
    I'm a woman!
    Apparently, anyway.

    GenderAnalyzer informed me (Here's the link) that there's a 64% chance that my LJ was written by a woman.

    Dunno the qualifications, perhaps I'm just too wordy to be a guy?

    Am I supposed to just grunt, talk about sports and/or bewbs, and post random links to stuff on the internet instead?

    Meh, whatever. :)



    >Net
    Friday, May 15th, 2009
    12:25 pm
    So far, so good...
    GM announced today that they were going to be announcing via FedEx what dealerships were being closed.

    The FedEx came and went... and no letter for us. So so far, we're in the clear.. unless it got lost in the mail, or we're getting a phone call instead.

    *crosses fingers*

    >Matt
    Thursday, May 14th, 2009
    9:00 am
    A present for Daddy
    Madison gave my wife and I a present last night. She went to sleep at 9:30... and woke up at 5:15 this morning (I normally get up on a regular day at 6:00).

    GOD I hope she does this more than just last night.

    >Matt
    Friday, May 8th, 2009
    8:15 am
    Welcome to Madison! :D
    And since I TOTALLY zoned out and forgot to post pics here, you get double the baby goodness! :D

    First, the birth pics.

    Pictures after the cut, since there's a few of em )

    And next, we have her six week pictures. :)  )

    Yes, I are proud papa, does it show? :)

    >Matt / Net
    Thursday, May 7th, 2009
    9:05 am
    Elfwood moderation
    Oh, and if any of you all are still moderators at Elfwood... I have NO idea how I'm supposed to log in anymore, or even if I'm still a moderator there. :)

    Elfwood's gone... weird... since I looked last.  Guess I'll get used to it.

    >Matt
    8:57 am
    Returning to the written world
    Alrighty.  It's now been two, three weeks since I gave up World of Warcraft for good, and I think this time's for GOOD good, unlike most of my prior pathetic attempts.  I've had ZERO urge to reinstall the game, I've stopped checking armory pages constantly to see what new upgrades I could be getting for my gear, and I've even stopped going to the websites of my guilds.

    Writing is returning at a decent pace.  I've managed to write a few scripts for my webcomics, as well as a couple of short stories and the like.  It feels GOOD to create again, I'd forgotten just how much I enjoy watching things come to life on the page before me.  

    And more importantly, I'm actually seeing my daughter grow.  That was the turning point for me, when I one day looked down and she was grinning at me... and I remarked to Donna "Hey look she's smiling at me" and she replied "Yeah, she's been grinning off and on for two weeks..."

    ... and I had NOT noticed because I was too busy working on getting that last little bit from Naxx before Uldaur came out.  That was the last straw, no more MMORPG's for me.  I get too sucked into them... just can't do that anymore.  

    So now I need to really get fully back into writing again.  That's all there is to it. :)

    >Matt
    Monday, August 25th, 2008
    4:45 pm
    hello? Is this thing still on?
    Heh, whaddya know, I remembered my password again.  Just thought I'd post a bit of news here, since some (read, 2 of you) still read my LJ on occasion.

    1) the writer's block of almost 2 years is beginning to crumble.  I've had a few stories finally starting to circulate within my head, and it feels good to be thinking of plotlines, characters, and whatnot again.

    2) I haven't been TOTALLY idle while I've been gone... Child #2 is due sometime in March of next year. :p  We're thinking it's a girl, but it's too early to tell just yet (10 weeks)

    Anyhoo... anyone know anyone that'd be willing to draw a modern-day superhero comic?  I've got one that's languishing that I'd like to get moving again.  :)

    *disappears back into the ether again*

    >Matt / Net
    Monday, July 16th, 2007
    10:11 pm
    Friday, April 20th, 2007
    3:04 pm
    update
    Heh, stubborn ol' goat won't let something as simple as an aneurysm slow her down.  They took her off of the sedation today.

    1) she's awake, and recognizes her name and people around her with no problem.

    2) she thinks she's in a beauty salon and wants to go home. :p

    We're not out of the woods yet, but things are looking very good indeed.

    *dances*

    >Net
    Thursday, April 19th, 2007
    3:03 pm
    how *not* to start a day...
    About 7:30 this morning, my mother in law walked out of the shower, told my father in law that she had a headache, and took a few tylenol and sat down to let the pills kick in.  About a minute later, my father in law tried to wake her... and was unsuccessful.  The EMT was called... they couldn't wake her.

    A quick ambulance ride, followed by a lifeflight ride via chopper to UVA medical hospital, and now she's fighting for her life against a bleeding aneurysm in the brain.  As of right now, she's in ICU and is either getting prepped for surgery or has already had one and is going in for the next.

    Everyone's a wreck, obviously.  Keep her in your prayers, please.

    >Matt/Net

    Edit: Some at least good news.  She made it through the second surgery, the shunt is doing what it needs to drain off and the coil has been placed around the aneurysm, so everything's going well so far.

    Keep your fingers crossed.
    Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
    8:51 am
    Lovely way to start the day
    Nothing wakes you up faster in the morning than blue and red flashing lights in your rearview.  Yep, 50 in a 35... That'll teach me to pay attention to my speed, I guess... At least I've got about 2 months to save up the money to pay it.

    I'm going to hang a yellow manilla folder on the wall, and scribble "The 'I'm an Idiot' Fine" on it, and put $20 a payday into that until the tail end of March.

    Ratta fratta... Ah well... one speeding ticket and I'm 33, can't complain TOO much I guess.

    >Matt
    Sunday, December 17th, 2006
    9:29 pm
    I love winter!
    Welp, after helping take care of both my son and my wife, who came down with the stomach flu at the tail end of last week...

    Guess who's got it now? UUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...


    Good diet plan though, I guess...

    Cy'all in a few days.

    >Matt
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