I can be such a slug.

My birthday came and went. I am now another year closer to 30. Nothing special happened or was given to me. I did go out and buy a slew of books.

Audrey is growing well. Her 6 month appointment was Friday. She's 14lbs 8oz. I can't remember anything else right now, but she is growing correctly on her curve. The 10th percentile curve... While waiting for her appointment, she did discover that toes are good for sucking. She's so much more flexible than Mikey was.

Mikey's adjusting to Kindergarten well. Most days he comes home without his green box. Last Wednesday he lost all 3 of his boxes. Jerry sent him to his room, only to come out for dinner. Then on Friday what does he do? Keeps his green box. At least now he isn't lying when we ask him if he kept his green box. Yesterday he told Jerry that he "needed to do better." Today he told me that he wasn't listening, so he lost his green box.

[What's this green box thing? Well, all the kids have 3 boxes. Green, yellow, and red. If they don't listen or misbehave, they lose a box. Losing all 3 boxes results in a note sent home. If they keep their green box, they get a piece of paper that says "I kept my green box!" When he gets a certain number of them, he can turn them in for a prize.]

Homework has been sent home with him for the past 2 nights. I think it's just for kids who are having trouble recognizing their letters. [What?! What happened to my kid who spells out signs?] Jerry forgot to do the letter A with him last night, so before I left for work we did the A and B sheets.

Hopefully he'll have an easier time with "c". Judging by how well Jerry handled getting Mikey to concentrate on his homework, I may need to pick the child up from school so that I can work on it with him.

The FFXI Expansion "Chains of Promathia" was supposed to be released today. When we went to EB to pick up my preorder, we were told no dice. The warehouse had flooded due to Hurricane Ivan and they had no idea when CoP would be shipped out. There's much discussion on the Allakhazam boards. Someone has suggested that this is SE's way of controlling distribution, so that fewer people are trying to get into the new areas at the same time. Last Tuesday the servers were down the whole day for emergency maintenance. That was the day of the JP CoP release and the EU release of FFXI.

On the being productive front, last weekend I got Jez to 19 and all her subjob items. Saturday I got THF to 30. Sunday I unlocked RNG and BST, and later went on to start the quests for PLD and DRG. Last night I started the DRK quest. Killing 100 mobs with a sword that has a delay of 666 is tedious, to say the least. And who knew that counting to 5 could be so difficult? I was marking down every 5, but I kept losing track at 3.

I hope I killed enough. When I get home tonight I'll be making the treck out to finish the quest.

I haven't been doing much cross-stitch. Between the books I bought and the frigid temperatures in the data center, I've been leaving that stuff in my bag. I've read a whole bunch of books, and maybe I'll list them all...If I can remember many of them.

Break is over, time to rejoin the rest of the crew.