That pretty much describes our household at the moment. I'm hoping that it means I get to leave work early today. Yesterday I was supposed to leave work a bit early so as to get 'Nika and The Madster to karate, but through the incompetence of DHL, I ended up leaving work late and the kids missed out on beating on each other. This was probably a good thing because when I finally made it home from work, 'Nika said she had a sore throat. I made her skip church youth group too. By the time I got home from dropping The Madster off at youth group, 'Nika was a bit weepy and looking peaked. We watched a bit of TV together, I gave her some Tylenol, and I sent her off to bed. TOYH came home from the Massage Parlour, and I went off to Book Club. I got to bed at about 1am and have vague recollections of 'Nika coming into our room last night. Turns out she got TOYH up. The poor kid was feverish, sore throated and body ache-ish. No school for you. Unfortunately, this was the day that TOYH was going to do absolutely nothing in preparation for the big test tomorrow. (Remember the NCLEX and all the encouraging notes you are sending her?) Studying is done. It was to be a kick back, run a few errands, take a long bath, clear your mind kind of day. 'Nika being home doesn't completely wreck her plans, but it does alter them. This is why I'm wanting to get home early, good husband, father etc., etc. etc.
On a completely unrelated note, two of my Book Club friends have been talking up Pandora internet radio. Without getting into the details, you simply log on to the site, plug in some artists or songs and the service starts playing songs on the "radio" that some computer algorithm thinks you might like. So far, I'm reserving judgement. I guess the algorithms do work pretty well because Pandora has been playing a bunch of artists that are on my iPod, but were not given to Pandora as my own musical preferences. I should say I was nearly immediately won over with the first song they played for me. I simply entered Tom Waits and Pandora started playing "Chocolate Jesus" one of my all time faves. You can rate the songs that the service plays for you, so maybe that starts to shape the playlist that is generated for you. Anyone else using this? Jen? Francis?
Oh, and the printer is out of toner at home, and it seems like everyone has a project due this week.
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First, a big GOOD LUCK to TOYH on the exams! We all know you're going to do a great job!
Second, sorry Terri for not following up on your response regarding Daniel and walmart. Thanks for sharing. It always cracks me up how adults in positions of semi-authority seem to freak out when confronted with sarcastic teens. How does that ban for a year work? Did they take pictures of Daniel and friends and load them into some face recognition software used by their security cameras? (I'm joking.)
Finally, Scott, I don't know Pandora but it sounds like lastfm.com. I haven't bothered with it because I have so much music on the computer, I frequent some music blogs whose taste is like mine, I hear lots of good new stuff on Georgia State radio, and online I listen to U Minn radio-K and KEXP out of Seattle. I like the idea of Pandora and lastfm since you might get to hear some new stuff that's tailored to your taste. (But just ask Jen: the last thing I need is new stuff to listen to or go buy.)
And another finally: hope you feel better 'Nika.
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