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As Mike has so kindly pointed out, fine and whatever are the two most whine-killing words in the English language. That is why I use them so often! (Although, you know … now that the IO isn’t around, I don’t have to use them as much!) When Chelsey & I use them on IM, we even emphasise the tone that most women use when they say those words:

*TONE* Fine, WHATEVER */TONE*

Chelsey totally doesn’t get HTML, but she has at least learned enough to know that the tone marks denote the beginning and the end of the command. What better way is there to teach someone the basic fundamentals of HTML!

If you know a tidy public loo somewhere, please submit it to TheBathroomDiaries.com.

Naomi & I both use Trillian to access AIM, ICQ, MSN & Yahoo at the same time (1 interface, all IMs) So one night we were talking and it was pretty late and … this is how to tell that it’s been a long night. Meant to share that a long time ago, because it was pretty darn funny!

Chelsey was able to get great tickets to see the Cirque du Soleil show, Dralion, when it comes to Houston in January – and she invited me to go! She has a child’s ticket too that I could use to take Jason, but it’s a week night at 9pm … and I can’t decide. But it’s one of those “once in a lifetime” sort of things, right? I should probably take him too, and he is old enough now that I think he would really enjoy it. I just wish it wasn’t so late at night. Maybe I’ll make a special weekend out of it and just take the next day off and that way we can sleep in on Friday!

My Uncle Terry wrote a guest article for the Winona Daily News (Winona, Minnesota) about the Sept. 11th attacks. On April 26, 2000 my cousin was fatally hit by a car when crossing the street in front of their house, and Terry’s perspective on things is of course forever altered. I was brought to tears more than once as I read the article, “Now I can cry”

He said that from watching the reactions of others after Sept. 11th he has learned – grown men can cry.

“I feel as though a great burden has been lifted from my shoulders. To see male rescue workers coming out with depression on their face, to see tears coming down their cheeks brought tears to my eyes. To see David Letterman, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, etc. on national television with the same look and tears has made life easier.

I have the freedom to come out from behind the mask and façade I have felt compelled to stay behind as a male and head of a family. I am now free to make the statement that I miss Tyler everyday, I cry over it on a regular basis, and I hope that those two things never change. If they do, to me it will diminish the father/son relationship that we had.”

Just had to share that…