Wha-HUH?

Seen on the interwebs this morning:

My New Favorite Website

http://ironanvil.com/

I could spend hours just clicking around there.

A Brief Lesson on Internet Etiquette (LOL)

Good idea:

Lolling at someone else's funny.

Joe: Your mom went to college.

Jane: LOL!

Bad idea:

Lolling at your own funny.

Joe. Your mom went to college. LOL!

You may well be lolling at your own lame joke, but telling us so only makes you seem like a self-absorbed nitwit.

Booked

My (makeup-covered) face is now on Facebook. I suspect this will go about how other such ventures have gone in the past, meaning I'll spend way too much time messing around with it for a week or so, and then I'll never log in again. If you'd like to officially be my electronic friend, though, hop on over and ask. If your name rings a bell, I'll probably say yes.

Roughing It

The soon-to-be Master Foxy* is leaving on a jet plane tonight, headed to Utah to defend her thesis. We decided that it would be easier on me and the kids if I just stay at the two-bedroom Foxcave (nee Fobcave 2.0), rather than have them at my one-bedroom Fobcave 3.0 for three days. This means that I will be without a computer for three days, as Foxy is taking her laptop with her. I'm excited at the thought of forcing myself to live in such primitive conditions--I'm quite the martyr. :)

Actually, I'll be honest; I'll surely be checking my email at least once a day, either at my place (which is not that far away) or at one of the handful of libraries where I can use a computer. The big difference will be that after I put the kids to bed I won't have a computer to keep me up blogging, emailing, surfing, or homeworking. Which means I'll actually get some sleep, which will be nice because I haven't slept much in the last week and a half as I've been hustling to get everything done in order to take the second half of this week off. It'll also be nice to spend a few days with my kids and be able to focus on them completely without worrying about school or work or anything else.

And I hope Foxy has a good trip, flying without children for the first time in nearly four years.



*Is anyone else reminded of Hot Rod, who after inheriting the Matrix in Transformers: The Movie (the cartoon one, not the new one), became Rodimus Prime, or is the reference too obscure? Perhaps she should change her name to Foximus Prime?

Reconnected

After a few days without, I have an internet connection again. I'm in my new apartment, which is filled with furniture provided by the landlord, housewares and supplies provided by the thrift stores of Seattle, and all the stuff that FoxyJ and I decided belongs to me, which Tolkien Boy and I managed to fit into Simon and the Fobmobile on Monday night. Foxy, S-Boogie, and Little Dude came over for dinner tonight. The kids are going to come again on Friday and stay until Sunday morning, which for the near future at least will be the weekly routine. I'm excited to spend a couple days with them and happy that my schedule and Foxy permit me to do so. I'm also glad that Foxy will get a couple days off every week, as I know taking care of the kids by herself all day every day is a lot. And by "a lot" I mean a lot.

My goal tonight is to do the dishes, get a few more things unpacked, do my homework, and get in bed at a reasonable time. In order to do that, I need to stop celebrating the reinstatement of my internet connection and get off this chair.

Which I am going to do... right... now.