Hello It's Monday--Where's my Straightjacket?!

This is why I don't take vacation. This is why I don't leave the boys unattended for more than a day. This morning has been

INSANE

From a call on my cell from a New York client letting me know the Web App is being funky again, to getting into the office to find the co-worker is now in the hospital, there's no paper in the printer, the sales database is down, getting voice mail when I call the Engineer to get his ass outta bed to come help me...to...

We'll okay, so it's not ALL their fault, but misery loves company--if I gotta suffer a Monday morning, so do they! :P

So there.

Harrumph.

McCloud rides off into the Sunset...

R.I.P. Dennis Weaver

Good for Chocolate, Good for You!

(02-27) 13:44 PST CHICAGO, (AP) --

Leave it to the Dutch to help demonstrate the health benefits of chocolate. A study of older men in The Netherlands, known for its luscious chocolate, indicated those who ate the equivalent of one-third of a chocolate bar every day had lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of death.

Full article found here

It was only a matter of time

For My Sister's 40th Birthday...

She is the first to bemoan the lack of pictures we have of her as an infant. My dad was shooting mostly slide film back then and we don't even have a projector any more. She will say "I know I was a black-market baby."

And so, back in November, my Mother asked me if I had anything special planned to fete my sister's 40th birthday.

"Yes," I said, "I'm going to give her a bill of sale as a black-market baby."

There was a protracted silence on the other end and then "Oh you are horrible!" (pause)"You know your sister's going to love it.

After months of hemming and hawing, and waiting until nearly the very last minute (I climb on the plane Thursday morning) I have the document written. I'll print it out on parchment paper, give it ribbon and a wax seal. Clip a picture of her when she was but a few days old to it, and stick it in a shadow box frame.

An image to show you the old, Colonial style font I choose can be found here in my scrapbook.

The text of the document is below the LJ cut:
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hee hee....

I'm sooooooooooooo goin to hell for this one :)