date night the beautiful and talented alisa and myself have a date tonight. i'm sitting here bored at the computer waiting for her to come home. she's at work at amd getting an award from some bigwig for making them a pile of money. so i guess that's okay. we're going out for sushi. we'll sit at the sushi bar. we haven't done that since forever. our last date was when we were in germany four weeks ago. it's pretty sad when you have to cross 9 time zones to find a free babysitter. ;->

so now i'm reflecting on what i did today. i played at being a stay at home dad. i hassled one of alisa's good friends at the gym. she was barely pedaling that silly bike and i knew from the sign in sheet that she'd only been in the building for 30 minutes. she was like: did i tell you that i'm 4 months pregnant? i was like: doh!

bennett and i wanted to make a cool paper model of a woodsman's hut. but i couldn't print out the images because somehow i managed to mess up os x on my desktop machine. some google searches later and none of the suggested fixes worked. so i tried re-installing the printer drivers. but some little fingers discovered that big red candy colored button on the front of the computer that makes the thing go "BONG!" when you push it. so the os x disk ended up being unbootable and i spent the rest of nap time re-installing os x. that gave me plenty of time to read the new 3.5 srd which is what i wanted to do during nap time anyway. installation was a breeze. well, a very slow breeze anyway. the painstaking part was restoring all the preferences and data for all of the applications i use. wee! maybe i should do something about that button on the computer.

the power button on the power strip was another one of those big red candy colored buttons. except this one has a light and glows. fortunately, it's out of reach of the aforementioned small fingers. unfortunately, it's in a nice cozy spot where katz likes to sleep. she thought it was great fun to walk on the thing. i guess katz liked to hear people swear. anywho, i taped a small plastic cup over the switch. that didn't work. she could still cycle the power to delta tao's web server. so i got out a power tool. katz doesn't like power tools. and i fastened that power strip to the side of the desk out of reach of katz. problem solved.

my sister took the boys away 90 minutes ago. they're going to the jungle for dinner and the evening's entertainment. my entertainment for the evening hasn't gotten here yet. at least i have plenty of time to set up a blog and do all this typing. think i'll go read some more of the srd.  ¶ 6:43 PM