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This is awesome for several reasons

Took Torin for his first shot today. He wasn't really happy about it, but he only cried for a few seconds afterward. He did sort of glare at Tonya and I for awhile with a pout. It was hard to look at him. It was like he knew we were in on it together. We took him there knowing what was going to happen and we didn't even warn him. Poor little guy.

It has been nice for the last few days. I haven't had the GRE hanging over me. Of course, I worked saturday and last night. I sort of had a day off on Sunday, but I just slept and then went to Walmart and what not.

I have been doing some serious thinking about graduate school. I am wrestling with the idea of going for a master's degree initially instead of going straight for my PhD. If I got into a really good school I would be tempted to go ahead and go straight for the PhD. I finally started getting some emails back from professors which is a good sign. I am also starting to get letters or recommendation out and get requests for transcripts sent out. I am a little concerned about how things are going to work out with the family. No matter what sort of stipend I might end up getting, there are going to be some pretty serious changes in everyone's lifestyle. It is one thing to talk about it but another to actually make those changes.

It is going to be really weird to not work.....

There is really no reason that my office has to sound like a tuberculosis ward every morning. These people need to start getting some more rest or something.

I had a pretty good weekend overall. I worked all day Saturday with Nathaniel. We are almost done with our little remodeling project. All we have left to do on the inside of the house is the trim. It will be nice to have that finished up. Sunday I watched the little one for a few hours while the wife got some much needed rest. Made the big run to Wally World last night. Those hurt, and it is only going to get worse as the boy gets older.

I need to get to it here at the office.

ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

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I like to think that one day.... I might get to sleep this well again. Maybe you have to get to the point that other people feed you and wipe your ass again before you can get this sort of rest. :)

Yep, totally over going through the GRE practice handbook. I now remember why I never enjoyed algebra. Thank god there is some geometry on that thing. I don't even want to talk about the vocabulary words....

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Tommy and Andrew and I agree..... we are simply over it.....

Election day, I guess I know what is going to be on tv tonight. :D Not the regularly scheduled programming, that is for sure. I am going to finish hanging drywall and lay tile tonight. Should be fun stuff. The boy is growing like a weed. It seems like he is a little different every time I come home. I don’t think I will get to see him a whole lot today. I did sneak in a couple of extra hours of sleep last night. I got to see him right before I left for work this morning, but I probably won’t get home until 9:00 or so tonight. Meh, I can always make some time around midnight when he is up eating. I can already tell how easy it would be to really miss out on your kids growing up with work and everything else going on. I am going to try my best to keep that from happening.

I am totally jealous of Dave. He is working Germany this week. No matter what I end up doing, I think that I would like to have a job that involves a fair amount of travelling. I need to work on getting another language under my belt at some point. I can remember all of those people saying Latin was a good choice in high school. What a bunch of crap. I wish I had taken Spanish or German. I know that there is always time for that sort of thing later on. I do much better with some instruction though. Maybe I will look into taking something this spring at the community college. It would be totally worth it.

Back to the grindstone.