Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
by Terry
Well after almost two years of growing out my hair the time had come to donate it. Locks of Love will take almost any hair to help provide hairpieces to children that are balding because of medical treatments. All my life I have had short hair. Three inches long was I think the longest I had ever let it grow. To tell the truth I had the same hair cut for well over thirty years. When I heard about the Locks of Love program I toyed with the idea of growing it out to donate. Two years later and several tormented moments of me with the clippers in my hand debating shaving it all off some child will be able to go out in public and not feel awkward. Hair is a funny thing, it is interesting that people who have no hair feel embarrassed while males with long hair sometimes feel looked down upon. I know that towards the end of this experiment I began to get looks from people that gave me the feeling they were putting me automatically into a stereotype of the long haired hippie. Am I going to do it again? You bet, it is such a small sacrifice that I can make to help these children. Having grown out my hair and felt the eyes upon me I think I can now relate to them and have a bit more empathy for their situation in public circles.
Monday, August 18th, 2008
by Terry
I have heard the expression “shitload” an awful lot. I myself have used it many time but exactly how much is a shit load? Well that tomb of universal knowledge known as Wikipedia could not answer that one for me. So I turned to the next best thing… The Urban Dictionary. Here is what I found.
The base unit for fecal “loads”. Not a whole lot, but will still take a large amount of time to do or be really hard to carry
IE: That’s a buttload (aka shitpot) of comics.
The other fecal loads follow suit as such:
buttload x10 = assload x10 = crapload x10 = shitload x10 = fuckload.
Metric units are traditionally less, and between the said unit and the one before it.
IE: dude, that’s not a shitload. that’s barely even an assload. its like, a metric assload.
Other variations will end with the mythical “Fuckton” . I am not sure of the actual measurement but I believe it to be fuckload x10.
IE: I used to have a shitload of paperwork to do but now under the new management I have an Imperial Fuckton. To make up for it I am going to take a shitpot of post-it notes and staples home with me.
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
by Terry
- You never know what riches you will find amidst the grass. I had a neighbor once that found a car in his backyard after mowing. I found a car once, but it was a hot wheel.
- Take your revenge on that long long “The Leaves of Grass” poem. Honestly how many pages can you write about grass. Makes me feel good to mow that stuff down.
- You can sing to the grass as you butcher it “it aint easy being green”
Monday, August 4th, 2008
by Terry
OK so this is what happens when I get bored on a Sunday morning. The direct comment from Noah was “your weird dad, where is my omelet?” So ya that worked out well for me. At least Carrie giggled.
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
by Terry
We just started to give Noah access to the television this summer. I realize that I have been lax in monitoring what he watches. I have locked him out of most channels except history and cartoon ones. Given today’s TV standards I should still monitor more than that. This morning I was hit with the TV influence upside the head. I was getting some coffee when he blasted me with this bit of wisdom. He asked if he could have breakfast and I told him that I would make it after I finished pouring my coffee. To that he responded - “You have to act now because operators are standing by.” What more could do but to make him some waffles.
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
by Terry
Noah: Can I put my teddy bear shirt on the cat?
Me: What cat? We have 2 Isis and Emily.
Noah: Emily.
Me: Emily has claws and although you probably could put it on her you would end up bloody.
Noah: So when are we getting her claws taken out, I can wait.
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
by Terry
Browsing the Twitter today I came across a wonderful quote that brightened up my day.
“
dcurtisj Why did I never before realize that Batman is, in fact, still living in his parents’ basement? 02:15 PM April 02, 2008“
The truth has been told, spread the word about the dead beat bat.
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
by Terry
After making the lego post a few days ago I got thinking about what I could do to make life easier for him when playing with all those legos. After and little thought I came up with smaller bins. Instead of one huge bin I bought 2 smaller bins that are quite shallow. He is currently on vacation with my parents but when he gets back I am sure he is going to like the change.
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
by Terry
I have been working on this for a few weeks for a local Coven. It is all set and ready to go. They are filling it with new content and should be all done with that by the end of the week. I am rather proud since it is my second wordpress installation. I had been using Joomla and before that Mambo. What a difference WordPress is amazing. Why on earth did I not think to try it out before now. Drum roll and all that jazz, I present to you “The Coven of the Raven Website”
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
by Terry
My son has a very extensive lego collection. We keep his lego collection in 2 huge rubbermaid tubs. I also keep in my living room a small table for him to play with them on. Every time he dumps out the large bins to search for a part it takes a few hours of us prodding him to clean them up. Today was the dawning of a new era!! Searching for a door by pawing though them not wanting to dump them out he says to me, “Dad can you dump this out so I can find a door for my house?”. Ok this seems harmless at first but you should know that the rule of the house is if you dump it out you clean it up. This phrase I have repeated many times trying to get him to clean them up. He gets points for that one but he still had to clean it all up.
