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When the Kids Fight: Flames on the Side of My Face

These are my kids: Bongo, Lulabelle, and the Baby. They are talented, smart, funny (they get that from me), good-looking (they get that from their mother), and all-around awesome.

When people see them they think they’re like this all the time.

I love my kids!

Usually, they get along exceptionally well, but now that it’s summer they’ve been spending a lot more time with each other. This means that by the time I come home from work they’ve pretty much driven each other (and their mother) crazy. That’s when the fighting starts.

I don’t know if it’s the whining or the screaming part of the fighting—no wait, it’s totally the screaming—however, when the fighting starts something terrible happens to me.

I get so angry that I lose the ability to formulate coherent sentences. I feel like Madeline Kahn in this scene from Clue.

I love my kids. Let me say it again, I love my kids! However, the fighting and screaming, have to go. My sanity depends on it.

All images are from my flickr, unless otherwise noted.

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On Consultants and Dread Pirates

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Chances are you’ve either worked with a contractor, hired a contractor, or been a contractor yourself. Whenever I think about contractor/client relations I am reminded of Rob Reiner’s the Princess Bride.

From unknown Tumblr site via Google Image Search

Each day for three years, the Dread Pirate Roberts would say the same thing to the only victim he had ever spared (and let work for him). “Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.”

I’ve heard almost the exact same exchange verbatim aimed at a contractor. Some clients are better than others and it’s hard to tell the employees from the contractors. More often than not, however, life resembles a Dilbert cartoon.

Dilbert from 4/14/06.

What’s the worst thing anyone has said to you or that’s ever happened to you as a contractor? Sound off in the comments below.

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Scanned Classics

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I was going through my iPhoto archive today when this gem fromt he Lulabelle collection turned up.

One of the best ideas we ever had as parents was to start scanning our children’s artwork—at least, the ones worth saving (they’re not all classics). We haven’t been super consistent with it, but I’m so glad we saved this one!

All images are from my flickr, unless otherwise noted.