A Horsefly Saturday…

• Every Saturday Horsefly goes to the movies down in Auburn, out to eat, and then to the mall to buy a Dora the Explorer doll.  Charlie paid me to do this for him yesterday and Kim tagged along.  She thinks it is so sweet that I will do this for such a good friend of mine for his autistic son.  She said she was proud tht Horsefly doesn’t embarrass me.  I told her I was getting paid very well and we were getting a free movie and dinner.  We watched Inception which was an incredible Sci-Fi movie along the lines of The Matrix.  Horsefly usually picks the worst movie in the theater to watch so we lucked out this time.  He laughed and smiled throughout the movie belying the seriousness of the tone of the film.  Kim couldn’t help but smile along at Horsefly’s jubilation.

  Dinner at KFC…

• Afterwards, we went to eat at KFC.  Horsefly gets the same thing every time.  The chicken finger meal with potato wedges and slaw. “Watch him carefully to make sure he doesn’t choke!” Charlie told me before we left.  “This is not helping my diet!” Kim also exclaimed as we sat and ate. “Humor Horsefly and I,” I replied with a smile.  Then it was to the toy store in the mall to buy a Dora the Explorer doll.  Horsefly probably has fifty of  these dolls in his room already with probably 100 bottles of mouthwash and shaving cream on bookshelves.

  I’m too Distracting…

• Kim didn’t stay over last night saying I get up too early and it interrupts her sleep.  I was up at my usual 3:30am despite being off of work today.  I don’t need an alarm clock I have found.  I am up and going not groggy at all when 3:30 rolls around. 

  Calls of Consolation…

• My father never calls me just to talk unlike my mother who calls up to six times a day.  Dad called late last night just to see how I was doing.  “H0w is the Paxil helping with the social anxiety?” he asked. “You seemed to do so well at the birthday party.”  “I am feeling very gregarious these days,” I replied.  Dad told me how much he loved me and that maybe he was wrong about everything – wrong about me.  “Men just need to work for their self esteem, don’t they?” he asked.  “Well, it helps being able to support yourself,” I replied. “It was so demeaning for me to be so dependent on you and mom.”  “I am starting to understand how you felt,” dad told me. “We just thought we were helping you! I didn’t in my wildest dreams think you could work a job regularly.”

  Harry Potter? Where are You?

• You know what’s strange?  As much as I love reading, I have never read the Harry Potter books.  I called mom last night and asked her if she had them.  She had only three in the series.  I drove over to get them when I got my six diet Cokes for today.  I have never seen any of the movies either and plan on renting them and watching them after reading the books.  I know Annabel loved the books and she would never steer me wrong.

  Walk a Mile, Walk a Million…

• Kim and I start a walking regimen today early this morning when it is cool.  She is determined to lose weight and I told her I would walk with her for support.  We are going to try for a mile today taking it easy.  I can easily walk 6 miles or more.  I was telling mom about this on the phone last night and she said she has a “walk in your home” DVD she wants to give to Kim to try for the days we can’t walk outside.  I told mom that was an awesome idea and so nice of her.

  The VelociRaptor Arrives…

• My “VelociRaptor” harddrive arrived yesterday.  I drove down to dad’s pharmacy after work to pick it up.  I had Windows 7 cloned and the drive installed in an hour.  FAST!  It is just blazing fast and made much more of a difference speed wise for my computer than the quad core processor.  Everything is instantaneous with my computer now and it is a pure joy to use.  One of my biggest yearnings about starting back to work and making extra income was to get my aging computer updated as I use it so much.  Now?  Two video cards in SLI (sequential link interface).  That is going to be very expensive, though, and I will have to save a few months for it.  I am lucky I have a motherboard with PCI-express that supports SLI.  Most Dells don’t.