Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Valentine's Day
Thomas woke up around 3AM absolutely screaming and wanting a sippy cup. Perhaps he was having a nightmare about sippy cups. I got him a drink and changed his diaper and snuggled him back to sleep. He was very snuggly and very sniffly, which probably contributed to my own increasing feeling of malaise over the course of the day. I got up just before 6 and started my own day.
The first part of the day involved a longish time fussing with an ad for Larkware; some of my advertisers ought to be kept at arms-length from HTML. Then we had our family Valentine’s Day, with cards swapped and plenty of chocolate. Lindsey made a wonderful mess treating her share as modeling clay.
Dana and I had a company meeting teleconference to survive, after which we did a bit of homeschooling, which we decided to cut short because the kids are still all low-level sick. Kayla still enjoyed her reading and colored some elephant pictures anyhow.
Much of my day went to fighting evil Windows, which insisted on crashing constantly for several hours. I never did figure out why; eventually it just stopped. Meanwhile the Mac continued cruising along. I understand why some people become Mac bigots.
My working day ended with another conference call to Microsoft to discuss strange and wonderful software. Then I fed the kids a kid-friendly meal of chicken nuggets, sandwiches, and such food. Dana and I had our own dinner later on: apple-cherry pork sausage, mushroom rice pilaf, salad, oven-roasted broccoli. That was about all the energy I had for the evening.