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Not much posting going on here, as you may have noticed. The problem is that the biggest thing going on in my life right now is of a personal nature and there's no way in hell I'm going to post about it! Even though there are other things going on, they all end up taking a backseat in my mind to this other thing, and so I don't get around to posting about them. That's totally on me. Sorry.

So... Some things that have been happening...

Last week we had parent/teacher conferences for the kids. They are doing pretty good. They had a couple of lowish grades that are as much the fault of the parents as they are their own, if not more. Other than that, they're doing ok.

Let me take a moment to note here that I believe in a special and super-secret circle of hell for parents of apparently perfect children. You know who you are.

Brian and I went motorcycle riding with B, M, and the boys on Sunday. That was several hours of fun. I'm still a bit sore! I took Staci's dirtbike with me so one of the boys could ride it for a while and see if he liked it. Turns out he did, so they bought it and took it home with them!

We went shopping the other night and one of our first stops was Murdoch's to get some cat food. When we got up to the checkout there were two teenage girls working the register and they asked us if we had two kids outside in a green car. Obviously this conversation couldn't go anywhere good, but we reluctantly told them that we did. It turns out that a customer complained about two unattended kids in a green car flipping them off in the parking lot. OI-VEY! I didn't look at Staci, but I'm sure she was as many shades of red as I was. Needless to say, the kids are in hot water with Mom & Dad right now!

Since we've been back from alumni weekend I've been gathering classmate emails. L is determined that I help her with contacting people for our 20th reunion. I realize that it's 5 years away, but I thought it would be a good idea to start getting my shit together now instead of later. So far I have emails for about 15 out of 54 classmates. After I hear back from a couple more MySpace people about their addresses I'll be sending the list around to the people I do have to see if they can fill in some blanks for me. Then I'll have to figure out how to track down the missing persons!

When I got home from work on Monday, I went to feed the fish like I usually do and noticed that the filter was just disgusting. So I changed it, even though the water was still crystal clear. Well, I don't know what I did, but the water started getting pretty cloudy. By Tuesday (yesterday) it was a solid cloud and the goldfish were all staying at the surface so they could breath! I took out about 1/2 the water and put clean water in, but it didn't really help. So last night, after the kids went to bed, Staci and I set about fixing the fish tank. We drained most of the water and then carried the tank to the sink to rinse it out good. We also threw away the filter that I had just put in and cleaned the uber-disgusting plastic part of the filter system. Staci got the stuff all put back in the tank and we refilled it with water, then put the fish back in. Well, by the time we went to bed the sucker fish and 3 goldfish were dead. This morning 2 more goldfish were dead. :-( All I wanted to do was change the disgusting filter!

In other, much much happier news, I ordered a new computer! A desktop. *GASP* It shipped yesterday, so there's a chance that I'll have it by the weekend. I'M SO EXCITED! I got a Dell XPS, loaded enough to play the newest of new games. Unreal Tournament 3 in particular. So, what happened is this; the guy I used to play UT with at work (we haven't played for about 6 months now) sent me this game trailer, and the next day I ordered the computer! LOL

And, of course, we've been watching DVDs. But I'll leave that for another post.