FuzzyUnicorn's Randomation Blog

We come home from dinner last night, and as we come around the corner just before my house, we see a ton of cops in the street stopping traffic. The cop stops us, and I'm sitting there wondering if there was an accident in front of our house. I look over at the house, and see an orange truck in my driveway. Then I realize the truck is at a 45 degree angle, with it's wheels against my bedroom wall. There is a tow truck yanking on the orange truck, trying to dislodge it from what's left of my A/C unit.

I lean my head out the window and tell the officer in the middle of the street, "Ummm..... that's my house!" He says, "Oh good, we've been trying to figure out how to get a hold of you."

I pull in front of the house across the street and talk to the officer. Somehow the guy pulled a 90 degree turn in front of the house, went through my chain-link fence, across the driveway, over the A/C, and up into the bedroom wall. They're not sure if he was drunk yet! He went to the hospital before the cops got there, so they didn't have a chance to question him.

They did get all of his info, and said that his insurance should cover everything. If not, we do have homeowners insurance, but I'm sure they'll raise the rates if we have to use it.

What's left of our A/C. And it's the middle of August in Arizona.

Amber's side of the bed. A nice 6 inch window to the outside!

My side. Not quite as big, but still some good size cracks, and at least one broken stud.

And the craziest thing: a few weeks ago, a storm ripped one of my trees out of the ground, and threw it across the driveway. If I hadn't cut it up and moved it, it would probably have stopped the dude, or at least slowed him enough to keep him from hitting the house.

My loyal readers may have noticed a little change on some of my pages. I've decided to implement Google AdSense to make the boys some college money. Well, maybe not. But maybe enough for the down payment on a used minivan. Or lunch at McD's. Actually Google won't even give me any money until I've earned at least $100, so it may be a while before I get anything.

The AdSense rules are kind of funny. I'm not allowed to ask you to click my ads. I can't have arrows pointing at the ads. I can't do anything that would draw attention to the ads and cause you to actually click them. So whatever you do, don't click on the ads. But do click on the firefox button, or go there directly and download it. Help make the web a safer place. I should see if Ubuntu has a referral program too. It's easy enough to use even AM can do it.

F.U.

We knew having two boys we would be visiting the emergency room sometime. Last thursday was the first time for Ez. He and his buddies JJ and Joey were having a playdate at the house. I was at work. My cell phone rings, and it's Am. Ever since the shaken kitty incident, every time she calls I expect her to call freaking out saying someone's going to the emergency room. This time it happened. She was actually calmer than I would expect, but still pretty shaken up. She said JJ and Joey had "ripped" Ez's ear, and Lara was going to take them to the emergency room in cottonwood to get stitched.

I called my boss and told him I had to go, and he said don't bother closing, just lock the door and go. So driving to cottonwood, the whole time I'm thinking "how could they 'rip' his ear? Were the wrestling and pulling on it?"

I get to the emergency room, and there's no parking. Apparently everyone's getting hurt tonight. Once i get in, Am leads me into the nurse's station, where Ez is sitting very calmly. He says "I got some blood on my ear, but the doctor's gonna make it better" He takes off the washcloth and icecube, and I see it's not "ripped" along the seam like I expected, it's "cut" right in the middle through the cartilage. It looks like he was in a knife fight.

From what we could piece together in his story, JJ pushed him over, and he fell and hit his ear against the changing table. He must have hit it just right against the corner, because it was a really smooth clean cut.

After waiting 2 hours in the waiting room, we finally got sent back to the doctor. She was pretty cute, in her mid to late 20's. Ez really liked her. He said "You gonna make me all better?" "You're a very nice doctor, I like you" He kept flirting with her the whole time. He didn't cry once, I couldn't believe how big he was.

She decided he didn't need any stitches, they would just use Dermabond, which is fancy doctor-talk for superglue. She used an entire pen/tube of glue on it, I guess she really didn't want it coming apart.

It's now a week later, and the glue has come off and his ear is splitting a little. Am wanted to go back to the doctor, but I said why don't we just put some more glue on there. She said no way, absolutely not. Then when I got home, she said "why don't we just glue it ourselves?" I reminded her that I had suggested that only a few hours earlier, and she had nearly bit my head off. But now her friend's sister who used to work in a doctor's office suggested it, and it was ok. So we're going to get some glue today, lets see if she actually lets me do it.

I've been meaning to post on here for a while, but I'm just too damn lazy. Ez got some funny toys for christmas I wanted to post about. Sebs is getting huge, I think he'll pass his brother by the time he's 1. Work is going crazy. I set up a blog for Am, though she has yet to post in it. Click the link at the top of the page to see if she ever does.

Dave gave me his old laptop, and after some soldering and re-wiring, I got it working again. Then I imediately formatted and installed Ubuntu. Took me a couple of days to get all the hardware working, but it's good now. Then I found out that you couldn't adjust the shared video memory without the windows tool that comes with it. Stupid Insyde bios. Never buy a computer that doesn't have an Award bios. even Phoenix and AMI are better than this Insyde one though. The ONLY think it lets you change is the boot order. So I had to use the recovery disk to install XP again, just to adjust the video memory. Unfortunately the recovery disk only has the option to wipe all partitions from the hard drive and restore their disk image. No nice "install XP to selected partition" option. And I couldn't get the video utility off of the disk because everything is in an unknown archive format. So I wiped Ubuntu, restored xp, changed the video ram to Max, and then reinstalled Ubuntu. I decided to keep the XP partition, and just resize it to the smallest I could get it, so that if there were any other utilities that only work in windows, I wouldn't lose my Ubuntu again.

Wow, this was just going to be a teaser post about all of the things I haven't posted. But you get me onto the subject of computers, and I just can't stop talking. Ok, I guess this is enough for now.

He's finally here!!! Sebastian Osiris Fox was born on Jan 26th 2006 at 11:49pm. He weighed 8lbs 14oz, and was 21" long. It was a long tiring labor. Amber decided to try incucing by taking 2oz of castor oil mixed with orange juice. But one sip and she threw up. Luckily that started her contractions. Neither of us could get back to sleep after that.

It took 21.5 hours of irregular contactions for this kid to come out. The contractions never did get regular. The midwife had to break Am's water to help speed things up. My mom, her mom, and my brother Kevin's girlfriend Tina were all there to help out. Kevin stayed in the computer room with Ezra the whole time.

I'm sure everyone wants to see pics of the new little guy, so we put some up on his brother's site. http://www.just2ez.com/sebastian/ Let us know what you think of our new little pudge-ball.