Igster's Inklings

So, apparently this guy felt targeted and sought revenge. Because this cop had ticketed him before, he slipped a “body hair” onto the cops bagel. (pause for vomitting). You can read the full article here or if that doesn’t work  http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20103040369

Gotta love the public, dontcha? Makes me never want to eat out again.

I do not really know the person mentioned in the link. But, it was sent to me by a fellow twitter-er tweeter @mollie_jo.

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Just a quick update.  I’d always seen things in movies or on tv where the character talks about having the breath knocked out of them. I never knew what that felt like until today. I had to go get something out of my car this am. I wasn’t paying attention to the stairs (there are 5) or the distance from top to bottom probably 6 feet total. One second fine, next airborne. Well I’m not sure falling on one’s own ass is technically airborne or not.

Ok, it wasn’t exactly my ass either. It was more like my back just above my waist (hit one step) and just below my shoulder blades (hit another step).

I couldn’t breathe for what was only maybe a few seconds, but it felt a lot longer than that. I got up, calmed down and remembered how to breathe. It hurts like hell. No insurance means no Dr, but if it’s not better tonight I guess I’ll have to self pay at an  ER or urgent care place YAY.

I need to find employment, I also need to get after school care for my kids. I’m not one to just trust my kids to any old “Day Care” facility.  When my daughter was very young, we sent her to a licensed care place in Ohio. She was one of only like 6 babies. They forgot to feed her one day.

We tried a private sitter, that sucked as well. Ive been a stay at home dad fro almost 12 years now.

I know many people would see no issue with leaving her home alone for a few hours after school. We are not those parents. Not saying she wouldn’t be fine, but there’s always that “what if” scenario in the back of your mind.

Because they go to different schools, it’s not practical to pick them up at the same time, even though school ends at the same time for both(Stupid idea that).

So I need to work to pay for after care and I need after care to work. See my dilemma here?

After school is also on the expensive side. Add another problem to the list.

We’re officially NJ residents again. I’m not going to say it was easy. Well easy to leave PA. Didn’t really have to think about that at all. Also we did all the packing and loading. Thanks to my dad and brother, we got the truck unloaded here. My dad was a really big help in that regard. It will probably take 30 years err a year to get everything put away somewhere. We went from 3/4 of a duplex to approximately 1/2 of a duplex. But it’s worth it. We went from a mediocre school in pa to one in the top 30 here.

Now, I need to find a job. It’s not easy given several factors. We have one car and the kids go to different schools. The furthest from here is about a mile one way, the other is slightly closer. It’s really too far for me to walk with my kids. Plus, my wife’s job is about 20 minutes up the parkway. There is public transportation, but due to the layout, she’d have to go to Newark switch trains and go to her job. It’s also a 2 hour train ride to go 20 minutes. Makes no sense. So, drop off the kiddos and take her to work. They get out at 2:50 she gets off work at 6.

So, I need a job where I can start at 9:45ish and get off no later than like 2:30.Or find something that starts at like 8:00 pm and never sleep. I’m thinking there aren’t a lot of jobs like that out there. Even if we had 2 cars, I’d still need to be able to pick the kids up from school. I don’t know of any after school programs around here that would pick them up from school.

Aside from that, this town may yet turn out to be my favorite place to live in NJ. It’s got so much to do, unlike hell err Hazleton was. No driving 20 miles for a book store or decent restaurant. We’re within a few miles of almost any store I could think of needing. We’re also within 10 miles of my sister and mom. No more 5 hour trips to come here, see the family and drive back to PA in the same day (TY for doing that baby).

So, we’re settling in and I’ve sort of got my pc hooked up for now. Just need a desk and place to put it(out of the way).

I’ts been a few weeks since my last entry and I missed it.I’ve also missed my twitter buddies.

We are in the process of packing up to move for a new job. I’m looking at boxes we never unpacked since the last time we moved about 2.5 years ago.

Why do we still have this? What is this? These questions fly fast and furious around here. To be fair, we have condensed quite a bit. However, that still leaves a metric crap ton of stuff to move to the new place (which is smaller than here). We are moving into 1/2 of a duplex, but here, we have 3/4 of the duplex.(See 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag).

What is it that makes us hold onto things? Things we haven’t used or even looked at in years. Yet faithfully almost, we move these things from house to house time after time. I don’t have an explanation for it, we just do.

So I’m weighing do I need it vs do I really want to move it again. So far the garbage pile is winning out in many cases. Now if I didn’t have to move 568788776 books, I’d be happier.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t use the George Carlin line “their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff” See the video

I’m sure by now, most of you heard about the tragedy in Haiti today. Our hearts and prayers go out to them. A friend of mine from Twitter, lives here in PA. He’s a poker guy. He’s also a very cool and nice guy. He’s using his Poker game to make a difference. Click the link to see what I’m talking about. While you’re there, take a minute to check out the rest of his site. You’ll be glad you did.

See this, to see what I mean, or here for great poker info.

It’s been quite the decade. Although, I’m not sure I agree with the decade thing. To me it’s a 10 year period. So, that would be 2000-2010. But, others are saying 1999-2009. I also don’t agree the millennium started in 2000 but rather, 2001. Anyway, it’s not the crux of my post.

Since 1999(since that’s the theme) we’ve had a son (second child).Moved 4 times. From Miamisburg, Oh to Bloomfield, NJ from there to Irving,Tx Irving to Grapevine almost a direct line move from one side of the airport to the other. To a much better apartment and neighborhood.

Grapevine was a great place, great schools, lots to do etc. I was also diagnosed with and beat testicular cancer. Some day that will be a post in itself. I couldn’t have asked for a better medical team. Again, Texas was a good place. God made sure I had the exact people to detect and help get rid of the cancer.

I sometimes regret moving from there. But now it’s a 2 hoour ride to see my family versus 2 days in the car.

My sister had her first kid, my nephew will be three soon. Time really does fly. I love him to death. ON the other hand, I screwed up when it comes to my niece. Even though I wasn’t around;ie out of state for most of her life, I should have done more to be closer to her. I plan on doing that this coming year. I love her and need to make sure she knows it. I also want to be closer to all my siblings and in laws.

I’m also starting a new chapter with the new year. My wife and I will be starting a business. I already own the domain name and have started building the website. We’ll be filling out the various and sundry forms for forming an LLC. Gotta be all legal, right?

I also discovered twitter this year and through it, made a ton of friends. Thank you all for making it a great year, despite all the bullshit.

And a speedy full recovery to Rush Limbaugh.