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Friday, October 16, 2009 Family

I have totally been AWOL from this site, and it’s ALL THE STORM’S FAULT.

Comcast has broken my heart, dropping the connection every ten minutes, or whenever I need to upload video for momversation.com, or do work for a client, or just check my flipping email. We have had no cable, no internet access, and no reason to live, now that all the Pop Tarts have been eaten.

For the last two days I’ve been hiding out at a friend’s house to use the wifi, and am constantly realizing that this file is on my other computer, or this laptop isn’t robust enough to handle the kind of graphic work I need to do. Hell of a week to be editing five hours of video, I’ll tell ya that for free.

Will have the kids on my off weekend so my eldest can go to a travel team baseball tournament in Manteca, which is Native American for Really, Really Fucking Far to Drive for a Game When There’s No Snack Shack to Keep the Kids Happy. So, we’ll be hanging around together, looking at the fence I don’t want to fix anymore, the dresser drawers that keep falling out and flipping over because the tracks are all messed up, and the toilet that came off the Reject pile at the Kohler factory and got installed in my bathroom by the previous owner for free. She still paid too much. It’s impossible to find a flapper assembly that will fit the preposterous angle of the valve in that thing. I’ve gone through two sets already and finally just put the ceramic lid on top of the seat and hope the kids don’t try to use it anyway. Especially as I turned off the water and they don’t really twig to the fact that the silence following the turn of the handle means that NOTHING FLUSHED, and that it is all still in there, in about three tablespoons of water. Mommy doesn’t like happening upon that shizzle hours later, mmkay Pumpkins?

I’ll pick up my shovel again soon, after I get service back in my own house, and if I make it back from Manteca alive. Must pack snacks and drinks.

Ooh! Speaking of drinks…

Toodles!