Spare Christmas Spirit

I thought I was leaving work early today. Instead I was changing a tire and forking over the moola to replace it.

Still, I wasn't working on spreadsheets and I wasn't stuck on the side of the road.

Merry Christmas!

Irony

there is just something about this sign...

Driving picnic

Tonight we took a driving picnic. (sonic wacky packs w/ chocolate shakes for the boys. A 7-Layer minus two burrito for Lainey).

Our mission was to see Chistmas lights and the fireworks at Firewheel Mall. But the unintentionally neon-lit tree at Sonic was one of the best sights of the night.

A tail of two glasses

I typically wear glasses in only two situations.

1. At work after about 40 hours (this usually occurs by Friday at Big Time Consulting, LLP).

2. Driving long distances at night or towards the sun.

When I wear my glasses in these situations, I find I have left them in the car or at home and do not have them for work. Or they are sitting on my desk when I want them in the car. My prescription and need is not strong enough to have them with me all the time. Usually, I throw my most recent pair in my laptop bag and regulate the old pair to the car.

I actually went all of last year without wearing glasses. They were uncomfortable. It turns out my eyes had gotten stronger and my prescription is now weaker. Time for new glasses! But that also means, I cannot just dump the old pair in the car. And insurance only pairs for frames and lenses every two years.

Enter Zenni Optical. Instead of dropping $150-200 a pair, a decent pair of glasses can be ordered online for $18 after shipping.

So I bought a "real" pair of glasses from the local walli-world eye-mart ($148 for discount frames) and a nerd pair for the car from Zenni.

Walgreens sells socks

OK, I forgot to wear socks to work!

I began Friday morning letting the doc take some of my blood. He likes to keep tabs on my thyroid, you know. Anyway, I knew I was swinging back by my apartment before finally heading to work, so why wear real shoes...

It wasn't until I hit woodall rogers that I realized I was still wearing sandals. Luckily, I have a fear of loosing digits and I always insist on closed-toed sandals. With socks, my feet looked professional enough for casual Friday.

Cub scouts at football

Scout night at SMU Football! We spent Halftime and most of both the 2nd &3rd quarters in line for pizza and pretzels.

By the 4th quarter a pokemon game had broken out.

7 minutes to go. 27 27 tie game and I don't think the boys remember there is a game....

UPDATE:

Tulane wins. The tie was up to 34 with just a few seconds left. The crowd was in the game and the boys were watching now. Tulane scored in their overtime procession and then recovered a SMU fumble to end the game. Dad, who had been relatively quiet stood up and cheered... clapping for the crowd. He could hold in his Tulane support no more.

We listened to LSU on the way home... I checked the score via-Treo from the stadium and LSU was behind. By the time we found the game on Sirius, LSU was ahead. And then they were behind and then they went ahead again with one second left.

While we were looking for the game, we tuned n WWL AM and thought we had the wrong station, until we realized we were listening to the Jindal acceptance speech.

All in all, I think it was pretty good night for Louisiana.

Finger...

my false severed finger is looking nasty.
the yellow-orange goop that looked like a urine sample to begin with is turning darker
and the finger keeps rising to the top.