Musings of a 4-Year Old

The other day, girl 1 told me that she likes eating her food. "Why is that, sweetie?"

"Because then I can be big JUST LIKE YOU!"

Weef and I have a very firm policy about not telling the girls they can't do something, as in "No no ... you can't get water from the fridge. Mommy or daddy will do that FOR you." We always try to encourage them to "reach for the stars," as it were.

However ...

There are some things in life you just don't want to see your kids "attain." Reaching the lofty goal of "being as big as daddy" is definitely one of them. Maybe the size of mommy, who is between 1/2 to 1/3 the size of daddy ... that's a good goal. Weighing in at roughly the size of a small manatee ... not so desirable.

Mundane Post #4.

I am in charge of releasing a weekly newsletter. It contains varius information from all our departments under the engineering group. It also contains a bunch of crap that I throw in, like "word of the day," "quote of the day," "useless trivia that, if you already know, you probably shouldn't be working here" ... stuff like that.

This week's trivia information: the standard atomic weight of iron is 55.847 g/mol.

See? if you already knew that, you probably ought to be creating the next break-through glow-in-the-dark compound to kick that zinc sulfide's butt.

Mundane Post #3

I really wanted to go to Costa Vida for lunch today. In my opinion, they make THE BEST nachos. Hands down.

So I did. As expected, they are delicious. Cheesy, sweet porky, sour creamy, guacamoly, black beany, and mango salsy. SOOO yummy.

Mundane Post #2

As promised ...

Here's a well-buried English trick: take any word that isn't a noun. Say, "once," for example. Add -ity to the end of it, and now you have a noun.

Used in a sentence: "The onceity of the situation was rather surprising, given the frequency of the combination of events."

Other word of the day: Bendy. ex. "LEDs on a printed circuit board should not be bendy."

Mundane post #1

Today is one of those days where I feel like posting trivial stuff. Like ...

Y'all know those little brown pieces of dried-up toast in Gardetto's snacks? Yah. Those rule.

That is all. For now. Expect more mundanity throughout the day.That's right ... "mundanity."

And I Thought Jr. High Was Bad ...

This is officially stupid. The "reading level" ... not my actual blog.

What is it going to take to achieve a higher reading level? Waxing verbosely eloquent with the implementation of such lexical polemics as to render one unable to read this blog without the use of a thesaurus?

Die, criticsrant. Die.

Rose Colored Glasses and Pump Pleasures

I'm not one to believe that the world is all buttered popcorn and jelly bellies, but when life is this good, you have to step back and recognize the good things that have been afforded you in the relatively recent past.

These are are in chronological order.

1. The "new" job. As my team lead put it a while ago, "You've only been here two months, but you're already old hat." This place just doesn't get old.

2. Adopting the girls. No lie: i teared up when the judge asked me point blank if I "do willingly of my own free will and choice accept these two girls as my own, and take upon [me] the responsibility of their parent." It was all I could to do squeak out an audible "yes" for the court's record, but I did ... after several seconds of lump-in-the-throat inability to speak.

3. Temple sealing. For as great as legally adopting the girls was, it didn't hold a candle to walking out of the temple, knowing that these two beautiful girls are now sealed to us for time and all eternity. That is one amazing concept.

4. New car. Yep. That's right. 2006 Honda Civic. Deep, deep blue. Gorgeous vehicle. Definitely a step up from my raggedy truck. I even went so far as to "trick it out" by putting blue LED lights in the dome and map lights. It's pretty slick.

5. Gas mileage. So, fueleconomy.gov said that the '06 civics could expect to get 36 mph on the highway. It's a rather well-accepted notion that the findings posted on that website are conservative in their estimates, meaning that we *could* expect anywhere between 36-40. I would have been happy with that range.

So far, on the first tank, we drove approximately 326 miles. Just for kicks, I tanked up today at lunch. Had I accepted the initial "click-off" of the pump, I would have pumped around 5.9 gallons. At 326 miles, that equates to approximately 55 mpg. I, however, did not accept the initial click, and proceeded to pump an additional 1.1 gallons ... to the point where the tank was almost spilling over the gas tank cap. 7 gallons at 326 equates to approximately 46.5 mpg.

Life is good. In fact, it's *really* good. I hope all (five) of my readers' lives are as good for them, in whatever aspect.