Inane Ramblings

I don't have a topic to write about.  I thought I'd just shoot the breeze this time around.

Things at work are a bit incongruous.  Management decided to move to a Go-Daddy managed server.  Having Go-Daddy manage your server is like watching a homeless man attempt to find his pants.  They also decided to hire a contracting firm to design the front-end portion of our website.  Unfortunately, this company is like the K-mart of anything.  It's been 3 weeks and we haven't seen any progress...actually things have gotten worse!  We would have been better off investing in a Nigerian lottery claim.

The baby is growing and getting smarter by the day.  Her grandmother (on my side) does not take the time to visit.  I'll bet if my sister in Florida had a baby (God-forbid), my mother would be taking trips every month.

The little guy (she's a girl, but I call her a guy) gave me the stomach flu last week.  I really thought I was going to die.  I could not sleep, and I couldn't stop puking.  Thankfully, it only lasted a few days.

Christmas is approaching.  My sister in FL decided to spend most of her PTO on her boyfriend, rather than see the babies this Christmas.  I think she wants to play "mom" to her boyfriends kids.  So be it.

We're spending Christmas in the Northern part of the State this year.  I guess I get to host my brother and his dog, while my sister will host my mom and my oldest brother.  My mom is trouble.  It's like she has Tourette's syndrome, but with her colon.  I totally got the better deal this year.

I was invited to spend New Years in Ogden this year.  I won't be going.  I'd love to see my relatives - who I have not seen in a long time... but my Aunt is attending.  She suffers from delusions, and caused a lot of pain for her parents (my wonderful grandparents).  Anything she touches turns to crap...including her marriages, her kids, and her grand-kids  (Some are doing better than others). I definitely don't want to be a part of that!  Unfortunately, this means not sharing my daughter with my relatives for the time being.

I'll be spending New Years with the in-laws.  It's not always an inviting atmosphere.  There is a member of my wife's family that is incredibly unstable, and I do not like being there for this reason.  She's like The Blair Witch Project, minus the project.  I like talking about psychology, and have asked my wife if this person had ever experienced a traumatic event in childhood.  She replied that she had not.  I don't believe it.  According to my Pavlovian analysis, every time a bell rang...she would read a page from The Communist Manifesto.  She's a controlling menace who wants to make everyone's life miserable, and her parents don't have the guts to stop her.

I do love when things get interesting.