Let’s see:

• Spent two hours at the muffler and brake place. With my kids.
• Learned that I have what appears to be a cracked radiator. Didn’t get it repaired since I’m broke.
• Bought shoes.
• Returned shoes that were too small. Bought other shoes.
• Mailed boxes at the post office.
• Paid bills.
• Just about melted when my kids acted up at bedtime one night.
• Gained a better appreciation for “stay-at-home” anyones.
• Ran and walked and biked.
• Realizing that doing a constant stream of dishes, housework, laundry, yard maintenance, and answering a constant stream of “why?” “when?” “why not?” “where?” questions from a three year old is enough to make anyone drink or just flip out.
• Mowed the grass.
• Dealt with my insurance company (“You need to dial this 800 number” “I just DID that’s how I got you” “I’ll connect you now”)
• Watched in amazement as my little girl learned how to walk.
• Considered myself rather lucky, after all.
• Decided there is no glory in keeping a house straight.
• Caught my runaway dogs.
• Decided Symantec is crap and is screwing up my computer. Hopefully I can find a replacement.
• Drank a lot of coffee.
• Went back to the brake place for two and a half hours the next day, when my brakes (surprise) didn’t work right. They admitted they fucked up and gave me back my $100 that I spent the day before. Oh, but in the meantime I needed $260 more for a different thing (the original problem they didn’t fix). Lemme tell you it’s a lot of fun entertaining a baby and a hyper three year old at a brake place.
• While at the brake place I read (sorta) a Glamour magazine that had the 20 things guys want about sex in it. I don’t know which guys they talked to…
• Spent way too much time installing and configuring Mcafee Viruscan. Was it really just ten years ago that all the computer folks were proclaiming the benefits of “plug and play” and all that crap? If I see the BSOD one more time this whole rig is going in the trash.
• Ate Ben and Jerry’s.