It's Steel Grey

Happy Sukkot. Today and yesterday are Jewish high holy days, so I'm not at work.

Yesterday, we packed the kids off to their respective schools, and had a leisurely breakfast at Panera.

Once that was complete, we went to Lowe's and bought some paint and supplies. Short story shorter, the computer room is now baby blue. I mean steel grey. Or some sort of pale blue grey combination. While I might not have picked the color by myself, it does go well with the first of our soon to be several Ikea bookcases (dark brown stain, and bigger than the one shown).

RCP was appalled that I had never painted a room before. It turns out that I'm not very good at it; I don't use enough paint and I'm too scared of screwing up.

Today, E and I went to lunch, then picked up S from school, and are hanging out around the house. I did put up some new shelves in the garage.

Completed Book: Getting Things Done

Title: Getting Things Done
Author: David Allen
Date Finished: 10/13/05

I came across this book based on the popular list at del.icio.us. All the geeks seem to be into the GTD philosophy for managing stuff. Basically, you keep a bunch of lists.

Let's see if I can get my life organized using these techniques...

Since my webserver is down until further notice, I guess I'll put my completed books here until I can update the official list.

Herbaceutical

The word of the day is Herbaceutical.

Oh wait, that's not a word, that's a stupid Avon commercial.

Giant Pregnant Spiders

RCP just killed a giant spider.

She was mostly blind in bed, and she saw a spider running across the room on the other side. That means it is big.

So, she grabs a tissue to get it. It noticed her and ran the other way, but she got it. Then she looked at the tissue, and it was swarming with tiny spiders. Then the mommy spider ran away.

She quickly grabbed it and flushed it.

It was crazy and frightening.

Arts and Wine

Today was the first annual Gilroy Arts and Wine Festival, at Christmas Hill Park. It was quite small, especially compared to the Sunnyvale and Mountain View equivalents that we have attended in the past. But, in general, that's a good thing.

There were maybe 6 local wineries present, and Coast Range Brewery, the local beer maker.
Of course, there was the obligatory peddlers, but maybe 15 booths. There was a crafts area for the kids, which was a hit with S and E. Live music. An art gallery, which I didn't get to see.

the kids enjoyed playing on the swings and stuff that are a part of the park.

blah blah blah

We Won the War

By the way, E has been broken of the pacifyer habit.

A couple weeks ago, he didn't ask for it one night, so we didn't give it. He made it through the night.

The next night, he remembered, but we didn't give in.

Hooray!

Another Trip to the Hospital

It appears that Thursday afternoon, E backflipped off of the couch at my mom's and hit his head or neck. This appears to have torn either his larynx or esophogus. That night, he wasn't talking or moving around much, so something was clearly wrong with him.

R took him the emergency room on Thursday night. The CT showed air where there shouldn't be. Our pediatrician had him transfered to Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Gatos. They got to ride in an ambulance in the middle of the night. Apparantly, ambulances are not all they're cracked up to be. Maybe that's because the driver didn't turn on the siren.

At the new hospital in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, they ran some tests and kept him for observation. On Friday afternoon, he woke from a nap much more like himself, and has been pretty normal ever since.

He came home this afternoon. The tear appears to have sealed up without need for surgery. He's on antibiotics, since tests showed an infection.

We just took his temperature at bedtime, and its pretty high for him. I hope that isn't a bad sign. We'll continue to monitor the situation.

A couple cute pix of E in the hospital are buried in my phone pix...