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I have been trying to get this fucking Excel document to merge to columns for 2 hours. This program makes zero sense as far as I can tell. People who get Excel are like androids from the future because it does not make sense to me at all. All of it's crazy formulas and shit. Who the hell thinks that way.... AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!

In other news I am losing my mind because of how dumb people are being about this election. Seriously? You want to vote for the guy who has gone back on every position he has ever held to work with the scummiest gross elements of the republican party to get elected. Who picked a person he obviously knew very little about and only met once be his VP. Sweet baby Va-Jay-Jay this country has gone done lost it's cotton pickin' mind!


PLEASE CLICK THIS. IT'S HILARIOUS

I watched the entire RNC last night and thought it was awful. Mainly without any focus on any issues. Mainly a lot of patriot nonsense and terror reminders. Like I need to be reminded of the Oklahoma City bombing... WHY?! But at the end of McCain's speech when he was done with his little "by the way did you hear I was locked up in Vietnam for a while" speech he was really trying to get the crowd going. He just thought it was really odd sounding. It really made me think of Churchill saying "We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the trenches... etc" with that old timey radio crackle. This is NOT in a good way. It just sounded old.

Holy shit this election season has just done gone on and blown straight up with the craziness.

McCain went on and selected like the most bat-shit crazy chick possible to be his running mate. He descent into total and complete shameless pandering has ended. I mean the guy hasn't said an unscripted word in months and what is coming of his mouth is revolting nonsense. The GOP is out of their fucking minds as usual. Thank goodness that we have The Daily Show to do the job of the mainstream media. Seriously these people are out of their minds.



Whoever made this image is pretty funny, too.


In other news I was in a bike accident all by myself yesterday. The bike and I are alright. Basically hit a pothole I didn't see and got the handlebar ripped out of my hand and down I went. Bruised and a little bloody but I'm ok. Took it easy and didn't ride home yesterday. We went out to dinner with Finn & Kate at Jack the Horse and had a nice mellow evening. Jack the Horse has totally weird service issues. The main course always seems to take forever but it was worth it.

School has started.... oh the suffering.

For those who don't know I am a film believer in the awesomeness of the Something Awful forums. Most people don't get it but thats probably for the best. It's entertained and educated me all the while making me dumber if thats possible. This video is from when G4 did a little segment on Something Awful maybe 2-3 years ago. The interview is absurd and I am not sure if I recall this correctly but that guy may not even be the guy who he says he is. It was unclear what the hell was happening at the time. Good times.

I found that video on Dipity Mashup which is a pretty cool tool to find videos with. I did a search for my own videos!



Pretty cool, eh?

By the way, Jodi's birthday went pretty well. We had a nice meal. She liked all her gifts and stuff. Everyone's a winner

Now what about them politics?

sorry if you hate The Smiths but it's a pretty amazing song from the early days. The band is totally in casual wear and playing in some weird club for people who don't appear to be that into it. A far cry from the days where Morrissey was repeatedly crushed on stage by a mob of fans who just wanted to touch the guy who touch them so bizarrely deeply. In comparison the elder Moz of today dresses to the nines and his band is always slick looking. His jaw is also massive now. Like he's been taking human growth hormone. You probably won't watch the video but its a great song.

Also in the news it's Jodi's birthday today. We're going out to dinner after work to celebrate. By total random chance I made reservations at the same place I took her for our anniversary 6 years ago the the day that we found out that she was pregnant with Ace. Sad to say she couldn't drink that night and she can't drink again tonight. We just crossed the beginning of the 7th month on baby #2. Apparently he's kicking up a storm!

Remind me to tell you about the crazy big rig truck trying to kill the SUV.

Jodi, Ace & I drove out of NYC last week Saturday and it was probably one of the rainiest drives I've done in a long time. Poured rain the entire time we were driving. What should have been a 4-5 hour drive was seven. Basically it sucked. Ace watched a half a season of Scooby Doo and then opted for not doing anything at all the rest of the trip. Hard to believe he was scooby'd out. Once we were within striking distance of the house we stopped and bought some groceries. I should say a fucking boat load of them. We dropped $220+ at the Shaw's Market with a pronounced OUCH. But on the upside got a coupon that gives you ten cents off (for every $50 you spend) a gallon of gas at this other local gas station. So we got a forty cents off per gallon coupon. Prices have dropped to below $4 up here but saving and extra forty per gallon is a big deal. Turned out we could combine the coupons so when we did fill up a few days a go we saved fifty cents a gallon on a full tank. It added up to like $7+ savings. Pretty sweet.

Day one: Did the usual early morning crab hunt. Ace showed his rustiness by being scaredy when I was trying to give him the crabs but soon enough he was warming up to the idea of picking up the terrified crustaceans. The rest of the day was super nice. Sunny. We went boogie boarding several times. I started reading "Soon I Will Be Invincinble" which is a book about superheros. It's kind of a light-hearted book about a super evil genius and him sort of trying to figure out why he's never been a success and how this next plan can't fail. I enjoyed it even if it wasn't super awesome.

Day five: Jodi and Ace went to a local children's museum. It was typical kids museum stuff. Fun experiments and so on. I spent the day trying will myself to read these technical books and so on. Without success. I started reading Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine. DEPRESSING!

Near the end of the first week Guy and his lovely wife Rebecca stopped by on their way to Maine with their cutie son, Ames. Rebecca's folks live up in Maine and since we're on the way up there they asked if they could make us a pitstop. We had a nice little night of chit chat and a nice mellow morning including a trip to the farmers market. Guy finally got me a copy of his film, Nausea 2, in which I play the role of his Manager. I was glad to be able to see it again. I hadn't seen it since it premiered at the Museum of Modern Art a few years ago. I look super young in it. I had a haircut I was fond of as well.... I am weird looking...

Guy and friends left and on Saturday morning and we waited for the next party people to arrive. Basically we had the first week alone and then the second week was all massive family time. My uncle and aunt came along with my cousin Dan, cousin Amanda and her husand, Shoky, who were up from Argentina with their 3 year old son and infant daughter. The house is about to get mad crowded yo! Also arriving on Monday are my brother and his delightful lady friend, Liz. Crazy family times are about to commence!

Day (through the end) Its been a totally weird trip weather wise. We keep waking up to rain and gloom. Then by noon it's sunny and hot the followed by crazy thunderstorms then more sun then some kind of crazy darkness people are calling "Night." We did our usual trip to Hampton Beach, NH. I failed to win at the over-inflated-basketball-into-the-oval-hoop carny game again this year. I did manage to win at the dart game so I didn't leave empty handed. I chose a big old stuffed Kung Fu Panda bear for Ace. He was appropriately pleased. We proceeded to run from arcade to arcade. Eating Blink's Fry Dough on the main drag. My cousin Amanda and her husband and 3 year old were there as well. They headed to the nearest playground and spent tons of time there. We spent a little time there but I wasn't there for the playground I was there for Skeeball and other arcade dumbness. We left full of bad food and good times. Thats what Hampton is all about. Someday maybe I'll catch a 3rd rate band there. They have some kind of killer music venue there. KC and the Sunshine Band were playing for cri'sake!

Went to Portland Maine again this year to catch another Double A Minor League Baseball game. The Portland Seadogs did not disappoint. They crushed the Altoona Curve 11-2 in an amazing game. There was even a grand slam. Take that you shitty Pittsburgh Pirates Double A affiliate! BOOOYAH!

My mom was talking about buying another surfboard for the house. I don't really know why but its something that captured her imagination a few years ago. She bought one maybe a year or so ago and I've used it a few times. Before that there was a board under the house for ages that only visitors to the house used as far as I know. Anyway I was boogie boarding one day and go to talking to some guy in the water who told me that he'd managed to get kick ass deals at the local surf shop. When I told my mom this she started talking about going to check out boards. I'd always been interested in getting a wet suit of some variety. The notion that I could get one on the cheap was really enticing. The water at the beach in New Hampshire is NOT warm. Some people insist that it's freezing. I've never had a real problem with it. In fact I tend to stay in longer than anyone else no matter how cold. But when you're trying to ride a surfboard you get pretty torn up by the wax and you spend a lot of time above the water in the air. Seemed to me like having some kind of cover would be a good idea. So we went I tried to get a used suit. For some reason Amanda's husband was able to go the day before and buy a used wetsuit without a second look. Classically I show up and say "I'm interested in buying a used wetsuit" and get the "I have no idea what the hell you're talking about" routine. The guy insisted they probably didn't have anything then led me over to a rack of wet wetsuits that were old rentals. I tried in vain to get one of them on before realizing that I had the fucking thing on backwards. It was impossible to put on correctly either. I was getting classically depressed when someone suggested a short sleeve/pants model. Once I moved up a size (I am just getting fucking giant) I was able to fit into the NEW wetsuit. Yeah, no deal for me. Ace also got a wetsuit. It's swanker thank mine.

How did I do on that new surfboard you might ask? I sucked. I should take a lesson. We had some amazing surf for once near the end of the trip and I wiped out so many times it was retarded. My reward? I got an earful of water that killed my right ear. Haven't been able to hear of it properly for almost a week now. I RULE!

The trip home was nice and easy. We saved some more gas $ thanks to all the grocery store gas discounts. That is seriously like the best grocery store perk ever. I finally managed to get to the bike shop that was going out of business and pick up some nice clothes before we headed out since it was on the way out of town. We got lost a few times on the way home (Connecticut is so fucking long...) but unlike normal we never panicked and were able to right ourselves pretty quickly. We had the GPS on but only as a guide to where we were. It has a really bad habit of trying to get you on the most populous roads. While usually the most direct they are also the most crowded and prone to mystery slowdowns and so on. One slow down we saw was an actual crash. No deaths but a lot of angry looking people on the side of the road. Sad to be home in every way possible... Like Ace said the day before we left "I am going the miss the beach." Yup.

My brother told me a most awesome story this morning. The backstory: Apparently in February 2008 his friend, Olaf, had his bike stolen. It wasn't a fancy bike. Just an old beat up Trek Mountain Track. Still getting an old bike stolen hurts just as much getting a new one stolen. Usually when a bike gets stolen its gone. You fantasize about seeing your bike again. The guy who stole it riding by, not knowing you're about to smash his thieving face in with a brick. But that never happens. 99.9% of the time you will NEVER see that bike again. Unless you're Olaf. Apparently whoever stole it travels in the same circles as my brother and his friends. Because they saw it again and they knew it was his bike. Not once but twice. The first time my bro saw it he stole the front wheel off the bike hoping that it would delay the thief overnight so Olaf could come and rescue his bike but it was gone when they came back. So thats the end. You get one chance at getting your bike back... or do you?

Then a week ago my brothers other friend saw the bike again outside a bar and called Olaf and recommended he get a bolt cutter. An undisclosed amount of time later...


Bike freedom. Score one for the good guys. My brother said they spotted a guy looking sad with his broken lock later but thats what happens when karma catches up with your bike stealing / stolen bike buying nonsense.

When I was in Wisconsin something similar happened to me while I was working at Rainbow Jersey. We had a few of these really sweet small company Aluminum bikes. We had only one built up on the floor. It was one of a kind and one day while we were cleaning out the basement and being too trusting someone came in a stole it. Just walked in and walked out with the most expensive bike on the floor. About six weeks later I was driving around on my day off and saw a dude riding it and locking it to a rack outside a grocery store. This was before everyone had a cellphone so I had to race to find a pay phone and call my boss. He drove straight over and slapped his own lock on the bike and waited for the guy to come out. Come to think of it the guy didn't even have a lock on the bike. So the guy came out and got super mad at my boss and said he'd bought it from a friend for $200. My boss told him it was a $1300 bike and he was ready to call the cops and the guy sadly walked away with his groceries.

The tales of Bike Justice are few and far between but the sure feel good!

Award Winning Tech GURU, King Lou Fernandez, updates the classic Mac Tip "Work Privacy Tip" include new features in Leopard. Do you like to watch adult entertainment at work but don't want to get caught? Then this tip is for you. Learn the simple steps needed to hide your porn watching by harnessing the power of the Unix based macintosh OS X operating system. On the MacTip tip.

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It will be up soon.... stupid YouTube.

Just got back from Marblehead, MA. I went up there for the 4th to chill with my mom, Joan, my aunt and uncle, brother and his girlfriend and or course Jodi and Ace. Because the 4th fell on a Friday businesses around the world rejoiced because they didn't need to give anyone en extra day off. Because of this I was forced to take Thursday off. Luckily since I had so much extra vacation time I was able to burn a day just for this sort thing. It was very relaxing. We went into the old fishing town part and checked out a local art fair. Mainly we hung around and ate too much. Here are some Pics of that weekend stuff.

The pictures of Team Fernandez @ The Providence Improv Festival are finally up. Keith takes the awesome-ist improv pics. Team Fernandez was officially dead at the end of the Project but we got one more shot at performing when we got into the PIF. It's the 3rd time I've been there. The other two times were with Gunshow. It's a great festival with really amazing shows. We only got do one show this year because the festival has grown so much. Too many shows going on. Everyone showed up on time and we all wore our matching Team Fernandez shirts. Everyone except Sarah. She had hers but left it at the room because she figured no one else would be wearing them. She was wrong. We all gave her a hard time about it. In fact when the host came down to ask if we wanted something special for the introduction Matt asked him to ask the audience if they could tell which member of the team cared the least about Team Fernandez. When he actually said that the audience was totally amped and ready to laugh. Sure enough when we came out the entire place broke out laughing about the fact that everyone had their shirts on except Sarah. She put on her game face and we went at it. We had a pretty awesome show. Probably one of the top three shows for TF. The real amazing thing is that we had like 35 mins to fill and that was about 15 more than we usually got at The Project. It was just a fun and loose show and I'd say we hit it out of the park. Afterwards people were super complimentary about the show. We stuck around for some other shows including the one we were teamed up with. That show was a retelling of the back story behind the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. I admit I thought it would be weird but it was really fucking awesome. Even with the theater temperature at the mega smothering stage they kicked ass. It was great all around. Afterwards we partied a bit. I called it a night at 2am because I had to drive back to NYC bright and early. Ace's birthday party was on Sunday and Jodi was freaking out about it. I made good time back into the city and Ace's party rocked.

I recently re-discovered a radio station I haven't listened to since we moved to Brooklyn. It's Seton Hall Pirate Radio. I especially used to listen to it when I was working (or barely working) on movie sets. Well I found it on our clock radio and I set it as our morning wake up tunes. We used to have NPR on but I found we just lay in bed listening to the news instead of getting up. This morning we woke up to this song.



Fucking HILARIOUS song to wake up to. Jodi was like "You know what's sad? I recognize this song."

Today I got to go to the Apple offices in Midtown Manhattan.

Free note pad with shiny metal pen. Basically I went and listed to their techno people explain podcasts and how amazingly easy they are to make. It was pretty informative.

May least favorite part was the that the techno guy kept saying to report bugs to to this bug report place but the thing is you have to sign up for a developer account to report the bugs. Its free but people just want to report bugs not get emails about apple developer updates and stuff. I'm sure you can opt out of the extra emails but I told them I thought it was dumb to suggest bug reporting without warning that you'll need to stop and sign up to do that. Bug reporting is usually based in the immediate need to tell people that something is bugging you. They add that extra layer to stop that I guess....

Back to podcasts... I doubt we'll be able to get it started because it will really require the professors to care and they definitely don't seem to have the time to care to do anything. Especially not to make reservations for the f'n video equipment.

Check out this ridiculous bio photoshop I did for the Providence Improv Festival. Team Fernandez is attending this year. We've got a really nice time slot. Sadly I can't stay for two nights because we're throwing Ace's birthday party a week early so people will actually be in town. Ace is going to be 5 and the theme is "Knights." I expect man sword related welts.

Greetings true believers! What do I have in store for you? Not the long overdue trip report from my trip to Puerto Rico. Nope.

I do have news of my recording a podcast. I know. AMAZING! How do I stay on the cutting edge of technology? It's simple really. VOLUME!

Anyway, my associate Dan McCoy has a podcast called The Flophouse Podcast. Normally he has two other guest hosts but one of them was away doing something or other so Dan asked me to fill in. It was a fun time. I think if you give it a listen you'll hear the fun seeping out of your headphone and down into your shirt.

Of course I've already bombed most people I know with this whole thing already. It just occurred to me that I also do my own thing, too. Stupid blog. Why can't you be a podcast.... hrumph.

So last Sunday was the final performance of Terry Jinn's improv show "The Project." It started as a way to keep improvising with his friends after his time at the Upright Citizens Brigade had come to an end. The show moved from theater to theater. Changing as it went from a random show to a lottery pick team system to a competition. I joined it as team captain in the 2nd or 3rd round of the competition years. After floundering in the early seasons we finally hit our stride in the last 2-3 seasons. We consistently brought the funny and finished in the top three but never won. Here in the final season we finally won! The final season we really kicked ass. We were still bringing almost no people but other peoples audience were voting for us which is always an amazing feeling. Contest shows are usually loaded with people voting for their friends and political voting by the teams. This always counted against us because I really felt like I was an improv unknown among the players on the other teams (many whom were former UCB players).



The final show was really awesome all around. We performed with Strongers and Primal Bias. Primal Bias was a classic team that came back to fill in a spot that opened when one of the teams from the final season disbanded very early. They kicked ass in a hilarious show. We followed them with a very fun and solid show that was classic Team Fernandez/Gunshow. It was gross and silly and full of call backs. The final performance was Strongers, the team Terry Jinn was on. In my opinion it was a masterpiece show. The show was a crazy meta improv show performed to perfection. I don't think one thing was dropped and it ended with brilliant appropriateness as the show became a baby that pleased with Terry not to kill it and then Terry killed it and them himself to bring final closure to the show. After that, as if it could get any better, there was a final Team Deathmatch. Teams were picked at random and allowed to perform for 10 mins or so. I placed my name in the hat, which was something I really never did before. I was rewarded handsomely. I was picked to be on like the ass kickin'est team ever assembled. We had a hilarious show. The second show was hilarious but for a totally different reason. There were some super beginner improv folks who decided to put their name in the hat and they got put on the 2nd team. One of them was this totally over the top african american gentleman who was probably the gayest person I have seen outside of the Gay Pride Parade. This poor guy basically became comedy kryptonite. He was in almost every scene and sounded like Chris Tucker from The Fifth Element. Except gayer and louder. And best of all he wasn't really listening so it was like an insane over the top nonsense stream. I know, I am mean spirited person. Ryan Sturt was in the 2nd group and probably had the funniest moment in the show but I felt really bad for him for having to endure the madness that was happening around him. I talked to the coach of that beginner improv guy who was so crazy and he didn't see it as terribly as I did. He was like "they did great! It was scary being up there with all the other players." I agree it would be scary to be up there. Thats why it only took me 7 years to get the courage to do it. Sigh...





Since it was our final show I decided to get team t-shirt made and in a gesture of gratitude I had one made for my friend Trent as well. Trent came to almost every single Team Fernandez show (and Gunshow show) since the beginning. His votes helped carry us for seasons and so I got him a t-shirt as well.



It was a great end to a really fun run. Now we're doing ONE last show for the Providence Improv Festival in June. I am looking forward to it!

I can't believe it took me over a month to post this update....

I just finished wasting my time on yet another video game. As you can tell by the title it was Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. And as you can also tell by the title I thought it was a total piece of crap. Now, I really liked the first one, Rainbow Six: Vegas. It was a lot of fun. Story kind of vague but enough to pay attention to and know what was driving the story. This game, Vegas 2, is like the ultimate phoned in piece of shit I have ever played. Somehow they took a fun game and made it edious and repetitive. Zero new in the game. Somehow the AI is dumber. Audio mix ALL over the place. half the time I had no idea what people were saying because of fire too close by, or we were in a helicopter or they appeared to be mumbling about something I assumed was plot related but usually didn't matter since you can't really get lost or proceed past your objective. I really can't say anything good about this game. When it was too hard it was like pretty insanely hard at the normal level. When it was not hard it was just repetitive and annoying.

Possibly the lamest thing was that the fact that your AI soldier guys say like 3-4 things MAX. So if you like hearing "WHO-AA!" or "Anyone keeping score?" or "Tango Down" or some variation you're in for a treat! If not it get really boring fast. Next thing about them is that they get stuck. Like in a puddle of water. Or behind a barrel about 3 feet tall. And when that happens they won't come when you call. The only way to free them is to nudge them out from what they are stuck behind. This happens when there is clear way around the objects they are caught behind. Its some weird glitch. So more than a few times the game comes to a halt and you have to go back and figure out where and what your guys are stuck behind.

Then there were audio glitches where the sound of a machine gun would go on and on and on for no reason until you paused the game. Also if you ran to fast you could see the bad guys generating. So you'd sprint ahead and look into an empty building and then pop suddenly there is a guy there and he is shooting at you.

The only interesting level of the game was in the Vegas neon graveyard. It featured some really cool classic looking vegas icons in the trash heap. Really a nice break from the repetitious casinos random warehouses. It was also the only map where you could shoot all the way across it. But it was over quickly and then ends with you having to shoot a guy in the face or he shoots you in the face. Kind of stupid.

The plot was so random. A jumble of revenge for no reason, random terrorism and some other junk i didn't get. It starts with some early career mission where something goes wrong and some hot headed recruit kills someone. Then suddenly it ends and you get taken to the present. That whole aspect of the game means nothing until like almost the end when you find out that the guy who is doing all the terror is that hot headed recruit. Why? Who the hell knows. He tells you at the end but it doesn't make any sense. Then there was a level where you're in hazmat suits the whole time because there is some chemical weapon or something. Then you get to a door where all these people are being kept. You've been blowing open doors the whole game but for some reason you can't blow this one and there is some screaming and gas or something. So suddenly these hostages you've heard about but haven't seen are all dead and you don't really care. I think thats the whole problem with the game. You don't really care. EVER.

Now I just have to work on unlearning the controls for this waste of time.

Next week is my birthday. I am no excited. I'm going to be 39. Big whoop.

Tomorrow is the last Team Fernandez show. The Project is ending and since the team was formed for The Project I feel its probably time for the team to go. Also everyone else on the team is like insanely talented and really good and already on house team at theaters so they have better things to do. Maybe we'll work on getting to a festival. When I say we I mean me. I like going to fests. What can I say. Tomorrow is going to be a crazy day for the improv for sho'.

So I left work early tonight because I needed to be home to oversee some work being done on our couch. I ran into Jodi in front of the house. She was just stopping by before she went out for drinks with an ex-co-worker. We came into the apartment and found our son passed on his bed. The nanny told us "he was so tired. He said he wanted to sleep." Its not the first time he's napped after school but something about this seemed odd. The nanny also asked us "why is the bathroom so sticky?" Of course we let her know that it wasn't sticky this morning. So my wife decided that our son needed to get up to eat his dinner on time. We was totally out of it. Eyes lolling in the head. Couldn't stay awake. Pupils huge. He was pretty incoherent. We could talk to him but he would make sense for a few moments then lapse into nonsense. Then he barfed. We asked him if he had taken any medicine and he said yes. She led us to the bathroom where we found a 7/8 empty bottle of children's allergy medicine (CVS Benedryl knock off). We had no idea how much he'd taken so Jodi ran to the car and picked Ace up to head to the Emergency Room.

As we were getting ready to head out the upholsterer called to say she was 5 minutes away from the house. Once I was sure Jodi and Ace were on their way to the hospital I went back inside and waited for the upholsterer showed up. We had been waiting ages to get this couch fixed and Jodi and I figured that two panicky parents aren't necessarily a good thing. The woman showed up and I waited until the upholsterer was done before heading out the to hospital myself.

When I got to the hospital I went into the first building I saw. Of course it was the wrong one. I ended up having to go through a total maze including a bridge and elevators. When I got the right building I thought I was looking for the emergency room. Holy shit was I wrong. The emergency room was completely full of the dregs of society. People were everywhere. Mostly it appeared to be people who don't have health care and need to go to the ER for little things. Some in police custody. Nothing seemed to be happening in any direction. Al the people looked bored. I did see a few banged up people but that was the miniority. I did two passes of looking into these curtains and cringing before I finally asked someone. "oh you need Pediatric Emergency. Thats down the hall."

Ace was still out of it when I got to the kiddy ER. His eyes were wild and his balance was way off. He was slightly more coherent but not normal by a long shot. The doctor seemed to think that at any rate he hadn't taken a lethal dose and then went off his shift. The next doctor came in and was a welcome breath of fresh air. He was in a good mood, full of good explanations and was really interactive with Ace. Ace got the whole medical work up. EKG. Heart rate stuff. Etc. Eventually they determined again that he hadn't taken a fatal or damaging dose. Just too much. He would have needed two bottles to be in the danger zone. They made Ace drink about 2-3 ounces of some kind of liquid charcoal. It looked so nasty. Somehow ace managed to choke 95% of it down. I was impressed. Normally you can't sneak anything past those pearly whites. The hilarious thing was that he got so much of it on his face that he looked like he was in the Insane Clown Posse. Hopefully ac doesn't remember that and become a Juggalo later on in life. By the time he'd be ready to be a juggalo they'll be on their 20th year reunion tour!

After about 4 hours we managed to get released. The boy was I'd say almost 90% back to normal and was super chatty and happy. After we got home Ace wolfed down a slice of pizza and a toaster pastry then finally gave into the exhaustion and became a screaming wreck. He was asleep in minutes. We kind of stressed the rest of the night but he was fine. The next morning were really watching to see if he had like brain damage or something but we finally agreed that the doctors would have told us if there were going to be side effects like that.

Jodi was concerned that everyone would think she was a bad mom but when she told people of course everyone had stories along the same lines from their own lives. I myself ate a bottle of sleeping pills at the age of 2-3 and needed my stomach pumped.

Needless to say that since this happened we are always checking up on Ace. I'm a little nervous that some electric event is up next. Thats how it worked with me. You can come to my house and see the nickel that I put put in a socket when I was a kid. I am going to put the plug guards in today.