28. September 2007 by [JP].

He was saying Da! alot today.

We tried to get him to say Ma. He sorta did.

Then he was on the bed crawling up on Tomi, and he attacked her face.

Its adorable when he does that… to someone else.

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28. September 2007 by [JP].

It was simple. Tomi calls me when she wakes up, i go get her, i stop by the mailbox to pick up my check, i deposit said check, i figure out whats wrong with her phone and fix it so she has a phone, she spends time with the baby.

Really simple plan.

Even better would be her getting her truck done today so she stops using the “lack of transportation” excuse to not see her son. And that was perfectly do-able as well.

She calls me, her roomate had to go somewhere, so she was going to get dropped off here by him. I asked her to go to the mailbox and get my check while she was at it so I didnt have to. It would have worked out perfectly for me, because i’m still feeling like shit, so I wouldnt have to do much today except go to the bank and deposit it, so i have the money for rent tomorrow.

The jeep is acting up, so I figured i’d call around and get estimates and stuff. Found a shop who could drop the alternator and rebuild it tomorrow, even by noon if I could drop the truck off tonight before they close.

I left her key, 9 bucks for gas, because as usual her truck was bone dry, and a phone in her truck.

I left a note on the door saying to call me when she got here.

Kid and I were off.

She finally fucking calls 2 hours later. Its 3:40. She has my check. No fucking way am i going to get there in time to get it into the bank by 4. She gives me fucking attitude like its my fault she cant stick to her word.

I tell her to just leave the stuff there and leave.

I rush home, grab the check, and barely make it to the bank by 4. At least rent will be covered on time. But theres no way of getting my jeep to the shop on time today. I dont even think i’ll be able to get it there tomorrow morning early, so who knows when it’ll get finished.

Why am i stupid enough to count on her for anything.

And why should I expect her to want to come see the baby. Two days off in a row, and she could care less about seeing her son.

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28. September 2007 by [JP].

I left him with her for an hour as I went to walmart to buy a few cans of formula, some shirts i needed for work, and some food.

I came home…

And he had a tattoo.

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27. September 2007 by [JP].

Stomach and abdomial pain.
A little bit of dehydration.
BGL of 339.

Nothing a little insulin couldnt fix.

Well. Alot of insulin.

And yet, things arent the same.

She used to be here to help me thru it. SHe knew what to say, what to do.

Its differant trying to do this without her.

The fact that the baby is here crying, and that his needs dont just go away if I cant attend to them as well…

Yeah. I’m glad your stupid trashy new tattoo is more important then seeing your son on your day off.

Dont EVEN play the “i dont have a ride over there” card. All the paperwork for transfering the truck to you is IN the truck, the purple lights are disabled, and all you had to do was get insurance, and make ONE trip to the MVD and you’d walk out of there with plates and a temporary title.

And i’m sure, somehow, its all my fault, as usual.

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25. September 2007 by [JP].

It occurs to me, that all my new colorful cards have www.jpdl.us/contactme.htm at the bottom of them as alternative contact information. Well, up until right now, I totally spaced about that. When I let wordpress take over the domain for my blog, I forgot about that one page, which was actually hosted as www.madrabbitt.com/contactme.htm To make a long story short, whenever anyone actually typed in the contact me page, or was directed there from my email sig or my IM away message, it just brought them to the main page of the blog.

Fine if they wanted to read about my life, not fine if they were needing to get ahold of me…

So yeah

-Create a new subdomain http://blog.jpdl.us

-Point wordpress to the http://blog.jpdl.us subdomain and let it take that over

-Recreate the folder at http://www.jpdl.us rather then just forwarding it to http://www.madrabbitt.com like it used to.

-Redirect browsers from http://www.jpdl.us to http://blog.jpdl.us

-Upload the contact me page back to http://www.jpdl.us

And that should do it. I think.

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25. September 2007 by [JP].

Because Tomi’s link is all by itself on the side.

And on that subject, The guy I sold one of the craigslist USB chargers to left Tomi a comment on her blog.

“scratching head”

I suppose he could have seen my jp@jpdl.us email address, gone to the website, seen the blog, read it, found the link to Tomi’s… etc etc etc.

Weird. (shrug)

Its the attack of the interwebs.

On that subject, Caitlin’s nerdy friends are nerrrrrrrrrrrrrdy.

LOL…

Oh THAT subject now, I forgot to write about last night.

Remind me to do that.

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25. September 2007 by [JP].

Its human nature to want what we can not have. Even if having it may have deadly results.

I want chocolate covered orange marshmellow pumpkins
In copious quantities.

And they’re on sale 3 for a buck.

Why, walgreeens, why?
Why do you do this to me.

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25. September 2007 by [JP].

I swear to god, if XM radio’s collection service calls ONE MORE DAMN TIME…

My account balance is currently POSITIVE $115.61.

Right. As in, i have a credit.

As in, they technically owe me money.

I got my $24 and change bill.

I bought two $30 giftcards from the guy online i buy my giftcards from (btw. i get them at less then face value, usually two $30 cards for $45, if you have XM i’ll tell you where to buy) and applied both the account. First one brought my account to positive 4.61. Second one brought it to positive $34.61

Then my sister gave me a $55 giftcard to cover her radio for 6 months, bringing it to  a positive 89 dollar balance.

The remaining $25 on there has been two credits of $12.50 for my “inconvenience” when the damn collections department called me. At the rate they’re going, i’m not going to have to pay for service for quite a while.

Which is fine with me.

I like my XM radio alot.

Just stop fucking calling me this damn early, you owe me money, not the other way around, ’slice.

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24. September 2007 by [JP].

Well. My orignal plan for today was Tomi taking Zach overnight, me getting stuff I need to get done, done, Then possibly hanging out with a chickie.

Yeah. When do things ever happen the way I want?

Chickie blew me off. No surprise there. Totally used to it.

Tomi did come get him after work. We were both asleep when she got here… at like 4:30 in the afternoon. Apparently, after i gave him his afternoon nap, i took one as well.

I followed her to her house to help her set his stuff up, and left pissed off. For once, it was my own doing, not anything she did at that moment, and I still dont think she has a clue why. I’ll clue her in tomorrow.

Went 4 wheeling for a while. Then was pretty much just wallowing around in self pity trying to figure out what to do. Julie and I went around shopping for a few totally random things, then came back here, and watched CSI for a bit.

Julia called and asked what I was doing, and i said “well, chain smoking unfiltered lucky strikes, watching tv, wallowing in lonelyness and self pity, contemplating making a  move on my equally lonely and self pitied roomate, and thinking about drinking the cheap vodka in the fridge.”

She laughed. Then she was like “wait. how much of that was true?”

Told her to figure it out. She told me to come ride with her tonight. Went to ride with her tonight… Had a patient 4 blocks from Tomi’s house. Just happened to drive by Tomi’s house on the way to the hospital… and her truck wasnt there.

Weird. This was 1am. She has the kid, why wouldnt she be there?

Called her from the hospital. She was waiting for Robert to get out of work…

Without the kid. Kid was sleeping at home under the unwatchful eye of her roomate.

I eventually went and got him. Now instead of sleeping, he’s drooling on my leg watching me type this, and wanting to check his myspace again. Yes. The kid has a myspace. It also has an awesome flash layout, but you cant see it unless you’re his friend.

So yeah. That was my day.

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22. September 2007 by [JP].

Damn. I should have copied my review from Bestbuy.com before I submitted it, because it was well written, and it’ll be a few days before its posted.

Anyhoo. I got a new BT headset… Ironically, my Motorola one gave up and died soon after I bought Tomi a new one yesterday. I got her an LG one thats small, and she can hide it with her hair. But we’re not talking about hers.

I saw one I liked when we were there, a Jabra that slides like the new motorola slidy one… It was 89.99, which was 30 bucks less then the moto one. I was going to order it from Bestbuy.com and pick it up today… Well. It was 69.99 on the website, so hell yeah.

Picked it up, charged it, started playing with it.

And i was reading the manual… and what do you know. It can have TWO active paired phones at once… I’ve NEVER seen that feature, but i’ve bitched about it before… Because I carry two phones (or more)

I have my cricket slider (which is starting to get loose, and i’m probably going to get a treo in its place) and i have my verizon Q for work. Well, since i rarely actually use the phone feature of the Q, i kept the headset i already had paired with the slider when I was driving… and when i was working outside of cricket’s area, manually paired it to the Q.

Now, it can pair with both, and I dont have to deal with changing it out. Also, its got a really nice adjustable hook thing, and it fits in my ear pretty well once i got the adjustment figured out.

Slide the boom down to answer, slide it up to hang up. Pretty spiff and it works pretty well. It also has good reviews for wind noise, so I need to see how that goes.

I usually use my BT on the right ear in the car so it doesnt pick up noise from the door or window, but its nice to know I could swap to the left if I have to.

If anyone’s intrested in more, its a Jabra 5010.

BTW. Blueheadsets.com has it on sale for 59.99 with a free car charger. Wished i had known that yesterday.

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