Be all you can't be

In the window there is a screen to keep the bugs from flying into the house.

On the ceiling there is very little.

On the wall that is to my left there is exactly zero pieces of art hung.

In another room, there is a chair. In this one, also.

I am wearing a digital wrist watch.

I am also wearing socks and sneakers, among all of the rest of the regular summer apparel.

The last time I weighed myself I weighed two pounds more than what I am most comfortable with as my weight. If I eat correctly today, I will lose those two pounds.

If I eat incorrectly today, I will likely stay at the weight that I am at.

I mowed the lawn of my property two days ago.

I saw the third Transformers movie yesterday.

I applied for three jobs this morning.

My house currently has a 65% humidity level and a 25C temperature level.

I started the dishwasher a few moments before starting this post, it is the only appliance currently operating in my home.

I am currently listening to Grooveshark and the song currently playing is called 'Hot for Teacher' by Van Halen.

I will be changing the cat litter soon after submitting this post.

It has been raining today, though at the moment it is not raining. It will rain some more today.

Tomorrow and through the weekend will have the dates of August 26,27 and 28.

I do not believe I have ever met a leprechaun.

I also am fairly certain I have not knowingly ever met a werewolf.

I have not ever jumped off of a building greater than one storey.

I have not been in a canoe in many years. I was in a rowboat this summer.

There is a good chance I will open up and consume a can of Coca-Cola this afternoon.

I do not drink diet drinks, I am quite confident that aspartame is poisonous.

My kids do not want take the school bus this year after having taken it for the first time last year. We have the option here to drive them before school starts where a school-daycare program will watch them. I sent an email to the transportation group of the school board today to let them know the kids won't take the bus.

Driving them is a little bit inconvenient, but walking them to the bus stop is also.

The song now playing on Grooveshark is called 'Paranoimia' by 'The Art of Noise'.

This post is taking a considerable amount of time for me to compose as I do not know how to end it.

If I get a job soon, I am thinking of taking my large severance package and buying dividend stocks making use of the TFSA to give us some cashflow. The TFSA is a tax-free savings account, so the dividends that come to me would be tax free.

We also have registered retirement savings plans that when we contribute, lowers our taxable income, thus lowering the amount of income tax we have to pay, but that money will only help us out when we retire. Why not do some investing that will help now? Why not keep adding to these TFSA stocks that pay dividends so that eventually it becomes a meaningful extra source of family revenue?

We did the bulk of the kids school supply shopping last week. Why on earth would a grade four teacher ask for 24 pencils and a grade 1 teacher ask for 20 pencils? I do not remember the early grades that well, but I'm pretty sure I went through grades 5 and 6 with perhaps a total of two or three pencils.

Now the Grooveshark song being played is called 'It's a Mistake' by 'Men at Work'.

The duration of the composition of this post is getting even longer now that I have taken the two photos below, copied them to my netbook, reduced their size to increase upload speed and then posted them.

My netbook is on the dining room table and to my right is this hutch which holds our fancy dishes:


Upon closer inspection we see a pencil on a ledge of the hutch:


Perhaps this is why the kids need so many pencils, they get placed on surfaces where they aren't meant to be and then left there.

We are moving away from a DSL internet connection to a cable one, the installer is coming on Monday. Our DSL connection has been sporadically intermittent. We are hoping that the new connection will be more stable.

Now the Grooveshark song that is playing is 'The Hand that Feeds' by 'Nine Inch Nails'.

A difference between the DSL and the cable connection is that the DSL connection had unlimited bandwidth while the cable has a limit. Another difference is that the speed of the DSL maxed out a just under 5MBps but the cable speed we will be paying for is supposed to have a max of 8MBps. Once we have the new connection we'll be able to evaluate the speed.

The camera I used to take the photos above is a Canon Powershot A630. The lens cover was broken by V-8. Conveniently, a few years ago my son recived an HP Photosmart E327 that allowed me to take this photo of the Canan Powershot with the broken lens cover.

Note that the underlying surface is a placemat. I originally took the photo with just the table surface beneath, but because the table surface is shiny it reflected too much.

The grooveshark playing now is called 'Something in your Mouth' by 'Nickelback'.

I just scratched my left temple for only the very briefest of moments. I believe this is a good indicator that this post should finish.

I had a tomato and lettuce sandwich for lunch with a small amount of apple-sauce. The apple-sauce was not consumed as part of the sandwich, but rather, as a supplement to the sandwich.

I accumulated the clothes for a load of laundry, put them in the washer, started the washer after having added the appropriate amount of laundry detergent, then once done, placed most of the clothes into the dryer, hanging to dry a few items that do not go in the dryer, and once that was done I folded the laundry and while doing so sorted it by family member. What remains is to bring the folded clothes to the bedrooms of the family members and in some cases put them away (V-8, C-Ling and me) and for the other two (G-bot and wife) they are to put their own away.

The grooveshark song now playing is called 'Superunknown' by 'Soundgarden'.

We have paid already for snow removal this winter. A snow removal truck will come for every snowfall and clear our driveway by 6:30AM and by 4:30PM so that we have a cleared driveway when we leave and come back. This proved invaluable last winter when we did it as we had lots of snow and the time it would have taken me to shovel would have prevented me from doing other things, like sleep.