The Ice Comes +1

Last night it got very cold. Couple that with some rain, and you get evil ice. I could see it on all the trees when I woke up. It was even worse when I went outside for a drive. The funny thing was that Momoko's school did not close nor open late. Poor Momoko.

I was busy with meetings all day today at work. There was a small window for me to grab some lunch. I opted for Roy Rogers, mainly because I love putting their BBQ sauce on my fries. I had to rush through their drive though to get my lunch to go.

When I got home, I felt double crossed. The little packets of BBQ sauce they hand out in the drive through are not the same sauce they have inside the restaurant. What a waste. At least I was not hungry after lunch.

Email Replies +1

Little Kat has sent his history teacher a number of emails since our last parent teacher conference with him. And what do you know? The teacher is actaully replying to the emails. Now Little Kat just needs to take that feedback and make his grades rise up.

This morning I woke up for work around the normal time. Kit Kat was still sleeping. I guess this is one of her late days. I was surprised that Little Kat was still home. His bus comes very early in the morning. A text from Momoko later confirmed that Little Kat stayed home sick.

Too bad Little Kat could not make it to tomorrow. He has a half day at school for some reason on Wednesday. In other news, I am getting back into the exercise routine. Got to do something after overeating during the superbowl.

Superbowl Food +1

Momoko had decided we would eat finger food for the Superbowl. I was surprised that I got a 12-inch sub right before the game. How would I make room for all the finger food to come? Luckily I skipped lunch that day. That gave me a fighting chance.

First came the chicken taquitos. I only grabbed a few. They tasted delicious with sour cream. I would have thought chicken would not be as good as beef. But they were tasty. Then came the jalapeno poppers. Momoko really likes them. This batch was way too spicy for anyone's taste though.

Kit Kat cooked the best for last - the chimichangas. These were filled with beef. They were mini, so I grabbed a bunch of them. I was so full after all this feasting. I skipped breakfast and had a tiny lunch the next day.

I watched the game for the commercials. Little Kat was depressed that the Seahawks blew the Broncos out of the water. Not sure why Little Kat was cheering for Denver. It is not his team. I could care less who won. It would have been more exciting had the score been closer at any time during the game.

Work Travel

A manager at work wanted me to go into the customer site this week. My team lead had already worked out a schedule where I covered last week. I already paid my dues. So one day I called this manager up and said I had already started working from home. The next day I said I could not go in. I had no excuse for today.

I got up early. The traffic was a bit heavy. I still made it to work before 8am. I was surprised that a lot of the team had already shown up at the customer's site. Guess they wanted an early day. The manager who pestered me bought some bagels. I spread some cream cheese on it and discovered my bagel was a sweet flavored one.

There was an emergency early in the morning. Me and a couple guys got together and did a short term fix. Then a couple of the guys and me went off to a break room and talked about a longer term fix. We had a good time there because we are all senior programmers. By the time we were done, we had three cool options to pitch.

Unfortunately I sat next to the pesky manager most of the day. I did have a smile on my face as some higher level managers had him do their grunt work. At least I spent the day working on fun technical problems. Plus I sat next to a woman on my team who is chatty in a good way. She is very pregnant, and said the pregnancy causes her to sneeze a lot. Random.

No Communication

Today Momoko and I had parent teacher conferences with Little Kat's teachers. I was there to see only one teacher in particular. Last time we met, I told the dude that Little Kat sent him email. He got the email. He just did not reply back. I figured the teacher got the message to respond to Little Kat's emails.

Imagine my shock when Little Kat said the teacher was still not responding to his emails. Little Kat gave me printouts of some of those emails. I brought a copy to our meeting today. I told the teacher that this was not acceptable.

I might have gone on for a minute or two about the failure. The guy deserved it for giving Little Kat a bad grade when the he would not respond to multiple email requests for help from Little Kat. I told the teacher this was his last chance to reform or he gets reported to the principal.

Business has taught me that everyone reports to someone higher in the chain of command. If someone is not doing right by you, then you must alert their boss. It is the best way to get service and satisfaction.

Keep Going +1

I had a busy day yesterday. Even though it was a day off from work, a lot of activities were scheduled up. We finally installed our new pantry. Moving the food out of the old pantry and into the new was not too hard. But securing the new pantry to the wall was taxing. I had to climb high with a laffer to get above the new tall pantry. Then we had to find some brackets to secure to the wall.

At the end of the night, I figured I better do some exercise as I had a busy week ahead of me at work. Got on the treadmill and planned ot do 15 minutes as usual on the higher setting. I was reading an interesting chapter from the latest book I have on my Kindle. The chapter was a long one. Before I knew it, I had run for 27 minutes on the treadmill. Woo hoo.

Slackers Gonna Slack +1

Earlier this week, Kit Kat had been assigned to make an appointment with her doctor. On that day she slept in as usual. Before I knew it, she had left for the movies with her boyfriend. She came back late. I asked her if she made the docotor's appointment. Nope. Fail.

Yesterday Momoko gave Little Kat a list of six items to complete. Turns out he slacked off, disassembling an old PC. By nightfall, none of the items were complete. What the heck is going on here. Two out of two children are slacking hard.

The kids have been living with me in my house for 10 years. How can such kids be slackers after being under my watch for so long. There is nobody else to blame. Time to dig deep and figure out how to correct this mess. Luckily tonight is family meeting night...