Boys Day Out

Heather was in the hospital today for a baclofen trial, so I got to take a vacation day and spend the day with the boys. It wasn't an emergency, they were just testing the dosage of a new medicine that should help her a lot. (By the way, that link is from the UK. Before you ask for government run health care, read the usual wait to get financing approved for something like this over there. Besides, more people need food in order to live and be healthy than people need doctor visits. It never made sense to me why people would demand government pay for doctors for everyone but not food for everyone.)

Here they are, dressed and excited to go. Zachary is intelligent like me and knows to close his eyes when the painful blinding light flashes.


First task, shopping for Momma. First stop, Radio Shack!


Next stop, Target, to look at new video games to buy Momma for Christmas. (It's our twisted tradition for me to pretend I'm getting presents for her that she hates, but I like, and vice versa. It's our twelfth Christmas together happily married, so that tradition can't be all bad.)


Next stop, my office for my Weight Watchers meeting. Here is Michael next to my desk.


I reached my first 10% weight loss goal! Here's me with the keychain they give you.


Mom and Dad, remember when I took apart all those electronic devices as a kid?


Sometimes I actually put them back together now! Sometimes.


Actually, the trip to Radio Shack was for supplies to fix Charla's laptop, which is my service gift to her this year. New environmental standards for lead make things like power jacks fail much more quickly, in case you were wondering. It's not your imagination that they don't make things like they used to. Here is me putting some lead back on there where it belongs. If lead was bad for the environment, God wouldn't have put it there in the first place, right?