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Jack had a field day today so despite it being his day off, I got him off to school and headed back in time to grab a coffee and a breakfast burrito. (Crap, I just realized it had chorizo and it's Friday in Lent. Thank God for Rosary App!)
As I drove upon the grounds (whoa really pretentious, huh?) I ran into my lovely wife headed to feed our long legged dependents at the stable and then she would be off to Physical Therapy. (Craig, do you ever get sick of seeing her?) But I Digress.
That gave me a good hour and half to do something I want to do. Of course there were painters still in the house and I was awaiting the Audio Visions guys to continue working on the lights and now trouble fix Jack's room.
The reason jack has been so despondent was his wifi had crashed in his room so he was without Xbox connectivity and very slow loading web pages. I called the technician early this morning explaining the emergency.
I told Eric, the lead tech that if they did not get his Cat 5 and wifi operative by 4:30 today we would be forced to talk to the child all weekend. I just am not up to it. Come on, conversing with your teenage son, no way.
So after that call was made I walked into our kitchen family room area and the voices started.
The dishes were screaming, "Clean me and put me away!" The jackets were yelling, "Hang me up, hang me up!". Everywhere I looked there were voices trying desperately to get my attention. I told them all to shut up, which kind of took Conrad our painter off guard a bit.
Then I did the most logical thing. I went to go check on Antonio. He was fixing several of the 328 sprinklers on the property. (Just a guess Butch. Butch and Deb will be visiting next week and he is liable to count them.) After a brief discussion with him about easier ways to pick up pruning trimmings (He smiled) we talked about fixing up our wood chipper. I didn't even know we had a wood chipper. I suggested that he and Dennis see if it works and finish chopping off Dennis hand. Just kidding, we could use the chopper to grind up the stack of vines we trimmed.
I was reading last night that if I take the recently cut vines and soak them in water for a while and then distill the water it makes a grape wood grain alcohol. Way cool. I could become a Coto Moonshiner.
I see a whole new reality TV show. I'll get a set of cut too short shorts for Devin and Jerene, a muscle car for Dennis (wait, he has one already), I could learn to ride my Harley and loose a few teeth (could do that by having my next door neighbor, Teemu Selanne, Anaheim Duck Hockey Player, take me out for a practice or two) then we could make a TV show.
Speaking of reading, I eventually decided that I should get back to the house and do something to contribute to the moving process. Last week Dennis and I were proud to have emptied 15 boxes of books for the office.
We were high fivin and doing victory dances. (Yeah, Dennis and I doing victory dances. It looked as scary as it sounded.) As we celebrated, The Terminator of Fun entered the room. Devin asked "What are you guys so happy about?" I knew she was prepared to find fun and stamp it out, but I had her this time.
I proudly declared, "Dear, we have finished the multitude of book boxes for the office." But I forgot she had decades of experience smelling out fun and knowing exactly how to dismember it. She coyly replied, "Come here dear." I followed her into the kitchen great room area where she pointed to 18 more boxes of books.
It was at that moment I asked myself, "Self, with all these books shouldn't I be smarter?" So this morning I did what any red blooded lazy male would do, I moved the boxes to a closet where we will never see them again.
Give Me a K
You have heard me speak of Karma in the blog. Devin recently found the quaintest little corner for one of our Budha's.
We wrapped up the night by attending Happy Hour at the Coto De Caza club, hosted by Mike and Linda Ameel. We enjoyed fine dining at the club for the first time in 5 years since we joined. It was a splendid night. Thank you Mike and Linda.
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