Nokia phones have similar features. if you can track down a manual for a similar phone, that should work out ok.

Sadly, that won't work for our purposes.

I hate everything, and I really want to be excited about Disney and I have no way to release either emotion, because doing anything other than sit quietly will likely set mac off. AAARRRGGGGHHHHH.

So much stupid negative energy at work and then mac had some nonsense at soccer where "people were looking at me and laughing" and he says the coach called him a baby, which not for the nothing, the coach would not deny to me, so I do not feel great about. Thing is? Jr high is next year and I know I had coaches call me that and worse and running off the field and leaving practice is not gonna fly.

It would be bad parenting to tell my kid to get some balls, right?

It would be bad parenting to tell my kid to get some balls, right?

Depends on the kid, but I know I've told CJ to nut up before.

I'm excited you are going to Disney. Share your squee here. What is the first thing you want to do when you get there?

"Sometimes people are mean and/or unkind. You can let them matter or not. What matters is what you think of you and what you DO."

Yeeeaaahh, not likely to be heard and taken to heart by a tween.

Snow report from West of Most of You: Snowing pretty steadily in Cincinnati, but still warm enough that it's slushy as heck. We are banking on a snow day (kids are not in bed yet.)

Disney

we arrive after 7 on Sunday. we will be checking in, getting some counter food for dinner and going to the rooms.

Monday is MAGIC KINGDOM and a sit down breakfast at Chef Mickey which has a ridiculous breakfast buffet.

Snow report from West of Most of You: Snowing pretty steadily in Cincinnati, but still warm enough that it's slushy as heck. We are banking on a snow day (kids are not in bed yet.)

HOLY CRAP WHITE DEATH

(This is pretty much how the city is reacting. No lie.)

In other stupid IO9 news--there's currently a meltdown because they've moved the natter forum to new software and only the beta testers can start threads. So all the non-beta testers are crying cabal, and I just want to cry how irrelevant the whole thing is...

But possibly because I'm having a massive (early) migraine, and I should probably just go to sleep. Yesterday was good, though! V. little pain.

Plan for tomorrow is to go in for the morning until/unless the roads start looking bad or I get a notice the Y is closing early (hence need to swim before it closes) and work from home the rest. Of course, IT fucked up my vpn and then DIDN'T FIX IT, so while I can do most stuff via ssh, there are some sites off limits to me. Yeah, I should have fought back and followed up, but really? I took it as an opportunity to fuck up their helpdesk stats with an open call. Yes, I am that petty because they totally fucked me over on the initial call by not responding for a fucking week. I shamefacedly admitted this to my officemate (he's in IT, but linux admin, not mac) and he laughed and laughed and cheered me on.

Unfortunately, I still do not have a working vpn....last laugh?

Jr high is next year

Ugh on the rest of it (until DISNEY!!), but also: Damn, Gina! Junior high?!?!

It does seem like mac's figured out how to deal with normal stuff, which is awesome, and he could still work on handling crappy stuff, which everyone has to do.