B. Hudson

Well today my oldest son decided that whatever trace of common sense he had was something worth ignoring.  The kid did the following things

1. He called a little girl “fat” at school, and hurt her feelings(honestly, bad but not something I’m worried about)
2. We had some cookies that, I bought specifically for my wife (oreo FIEND!), and I had put them up REALLY high.  He climbed up on top of a barstool we have and got himself a package of them.  Mind you, our uber-super-sharp kitchen knives set is in the direct path of this.
3. Forged a note from his teacher saying that “Glenn had already done his homework at skool”.

With #1, I’m not surprised.. He’s kinda turned into a jerk lately.  Relishing in the irritation of others.  I know I did this too, but I’m sure I didn’t go to the extremes he visits when irritating his sister.

With #2, honestly aside from him being a hyperactive kid, I have no real issue with him getting some cookies.  My issue is he climbed up and could have fell down and broken his neck, let alone pulled a case of sharp kitchen knives down with which to impale himself.  I mean really.. eat the cookie but at least don’t do something to try to kill yourself!

#3.. Its terribly funny, but a side note.. it was written.  (wait for it)… IN CRAYON!.  I’m not saying a college educated professional wouldn’t WRITE a note in crayon, I’m just saying that this same person wouldn’ tdo so and still misspell the word “school”.  So this note, was so far from being believable, the only thing he could do to discredit it more was to forge it IN FRONT of us.

I honestly don’t know what to do with the guy.  His only real punishment now is writing his words, and not eating dinner with the rest of us.  I mean nothing really works, and I’ve tried it all.. Positive reinforcement, nope.  Spanking, nope.  Time out, nope.  He doesn’t have a favorite THING to take away, so that isn’t a punishment.  Sit in your room?  nope, he’s fine with that too (not initially, but it looses its affect when he starts dozing off on the bed).  To top things off, his “real” dad is taking him and his sister this weekend.  This promises to be a good weekend for ME as I won’t have to deal with his jerk-ness.  I always miss the guy but its hard to miss someone who delights in causing you more trouble than they should.  Honestly with all the things he’s done in the past and the path he’s on, I don’t know what to do.  Until an epiphany comes through, I can only continue my course and hope for better medication for him that perhaps can level out his wackiness a little.   I’d love to say, his dad will support us and keep the heat on him for the weekend, but I doubt it as much as I doubt George Bush is the second coming of Christ.  So whatever we impose is a lost battle.  He’ll run off and have a grand time and forget ever screwing the pooch this bad.

I know parenting is supposed to be hard, but really the little problems I can handle.  But how do you reach a kid that doesn’t care and has no real idea of how to connect wrongdoing with consequence.  When he can escape punishments by running off to his dad’s or his grandparents.  I feel like I have no way to fix this, and as a guy being unable to fix things frustrates me.  Oh well.. keep on truckin is all I can do..

Ok well I finally got all my stuff together at IUS.  The support departments came along kicking and screaming to finally allow me to get registered, get aid.. etc..

Boom

Wait just a minute, you mean even at a lesser cost than UofL tuition, I get even LESS aid?  Yup.  Well I can’t go there then, period.  I need to have enough aid to cover both tuition and books.

So back to UofL I go!

Well through a crazed attack on student services here, I am now registered in some classes, and attending.  One of them is good for my major (YEAH!) one is just fun(YEAH!).  Books.. Yeah I need books don’t I?  So I swap all my aid over from IUS to UofL, and have that done.. guess what?  When I had to ditch that programming class C# last fall.. I fell below required credit hours for a full year.  So I have to petition to get this money, to prove I’m not some schmuck who wants to just milk the system.  But guess what?  Its week 2 of class, and I have no books.   Those of you who haven’t been to college, week one is mostly bogus anyway, mostly “here’s your syllabus, now go home”.. But week 2 is when the boogie starts to up.  My history class is in FULL tilt boogie now.  Referencing not one, but TWO books.. My Astronomy class, the fun one, meets tonight.. I can only hope the prof didn’t drop 20 problems or a paper on these folks last week having it due tonight.  Either way this is a bad start for ME this semester.

Luckily I have found a benefactor to help me get books till I can get this aid situation sorted out.  Thank GOD!  (no really, I gotta thank Him).

So now I gotta wait on this money, and then GET the books.  More waiting, while my reading assignments pile up higher, and higher.

Wait a minute.. Do I ever READ my books?

hm.. well its a good precaution anyway.. just in case..

There is a certain gift children, especially mine, have for totally missing the point of anything.  I think it is what allows them to BE children.  They lack the constant fear that we all have that ya know what there is something bad that could happen if I do “THIS” or don’t do “THAT”.

Part of this falls under responsibility, and that has a firm nest in maturity, which of course no child should really have.  They SHOULD want to run around like wild animals and have a good time.  I did it.  You did it.  The stuffy person you know in Accounting did it too (although accountants are a breed unto their own).

My Kids (the older 2) who are in school have stopped worrying about actually DOING work in school.  Its more fun to goof around and talk.  (which, duh.. it is)  The real problem here is my boy, is a big brained freak.  He can totally ditch homework for months and get 100’s on all his work.  No worries.  My daughter needs coaching.  And she’s doing the same thing.  Ditching homework/classwork.  Even at this young age, I am just pushed to my limit trying to get them to make the grades they need to make.  I mean is it REALLY imperative they get an A in art?  No.  In anything?  No.  Now if they want to be in the advanced program (my son does), I’d say straight A’s would certainly HELP that appeal to get in.  And my daughter skirts the D average at a low area, or at least she did this past year.  I blogged it, I ‘m sure.  She’s just as smart as the boy, but she doesn’t care enough to do it.  I hate to say that but I really think there is a priority list, and school is close to the bottom.. right above “doing what mom/dad says”.

If you pray, pray for my kids.  Heck, pray for ME!  Cause this year is not starting out too hot, and there is enough stress in life without having to tell a kid to DO the thing called homework, because it is a requirement.

All my world of warcraft blogging will be moved to my blogger blog until I can get a domain for it.  You can see it here

Because my life can never truly follow a series of norms.. I know about a dozen folks that play World Of Warcraft, and all of them.. ALL of them.  Are on separate servers.  I began leveling a Blood Elf Warlock last night, from 1-5 was a breeze, but mentally I was too tired to do anything.. so I do what all elves do when they are dozing off playing wow.. I danced.

Anyway, so now if you’re looking for a squishy little warlock to kill on horde side on Frostmane.. Look for me.  But get me while you can, cause if I get this chick(I never see blood elf chicks.. so I’m avoiding other peoples norms) up to the level Mcgoo is I’ll be flattening folks.. Maybe even raiding!  But probably I’d prefer just killin folk.  With the added advantage that I won’t have to worry about undead folks and their fear resistant Will of the Forsaken.. This may actually be MORE fun than Mcgoo.

Mcgoo is too high up NOT to keep going though.   My idea was to get a crapton of gold, then put ‘goo on another server.  Leaving a lot of that gold with my “army” of alts.  I assume leveling my new lock on a PvP server will prove much more difficult, but honestly.. I don’t care.  I like squaring off against others, my issue will come from a lvl 70 “holy moley” guy stompin on my lvl 10 butt.  THAT would tick me off.  Despite the fact that mcgoo will eventually raid silvermoon city and kill all the blood elves he can find..  I fully intend on going there and stomping ppl, for no other reason than, I think it’d be fun.

Sadistic, I know.. but hey.. alls fair in WoW.  That’s what I say anyway..

I plan on starting a new blog for WoW stuff, since WoW has taken over this blog.. and I’ll model it after some folks I know who already have “kickin” blogs.  You’ll see.. cause I’ll TELL you to see.. hehe

Although I am a fan, I’m not crazy about it all the time. This site does the best review of 5th element possible. Read it.. and enjoy.

LINK

Sometimes even the best of us make mistakes..

Ok I was running around felwood when I was off sick, amid a haze of antibiotics and pain killers, when a guildmate (more appropriately the leader) asked if I’d like to get “run through” .. I dunno now.. scholomance?

Anywho I fell out of my chair and quickly responded affirmatively.  Things were going relatively crappy (that place is nuts), but the experience was good.  Then I had a RL issue occur, kid related.  So I went afk.  Things got much more out of hand than I thought they would and in the end, I got back 16 minutes later.  Well I was back but everyone else was not only gone from the instance, but gone from the game as well.

#1.. I hate it when people do that.  It hasn’t happened often that I’d been screwed in a group, but it has happened, and those ppl got 2 in game days to get some sort of explanation to me.  Otherwise they got /ignored.

#2  I have only 2 times had this occur to me (hey, kids.. they’re a priority, period), and the first time the group sucked majorly anyway, so I apologized to the person I felt was carrying the team besides me and went on and just forgot it.

This time was different, I was in a charity run for experience and some loot.  And I felt crappy for letting someone down who was basically doing something boring (for him) to help others (including me) out.  I felt terrible.  I FEEL terrible.  I sent them all relatively decent amounts of gold as an apology, since I can’t be sure they parted without cursing my name.  I had no demotion in the guild (luckily), but I am still unhappy with what happened.  The leader got the lionshare of the gold I sent, mostly cause he went out of his way to get me in this place, and did all the work (the other team mates there were low like me and couldn’t really deal much in the way of damage).  I know at least one of you guys preaches on the scum of teams that do this kinda crap, and I am sure I’ll get a big negative on the comments for it..  Just tell me, when you preach.. if you’ve done it before, how’d you recover?  and How would you allot for someone to recover if they did it to you?

If the song is right, there is a season, turn turn turn.. and a time, to every purpose.. under heaven.

Tonight will be my night to Mine, a time to fish.. a time to smelt, a time to fish.. a time to cry when I loose the fish…

My goals are simple

1. I want my mining skill upped bad.. I seem to find thorium veins 2-3 a night.. and mithril/truesilver 1/2 a night..
2. My fishing needs to come up, cause in outlands this is a big money maker and mat finder..

1. problem:  fishing is boring.. and you have to REALLY concentrate to do it.. concentrate on 1 dot on the page for 20 seconds.. keep doing that.. thats fishing in Wow, and its a nightmare
2. I have no friggin clue where to fish.. right now I’m standing on the dock at darnassus fishing next to the bank.  My success rate is pretty good, but again.. see problem 1)

1. I need money so this is key, while other skills (fishing and mining) can raise money for me, this is the easiest and least work.
2. I plan to go to STV, cause that place rules for skinners.. and just try to have a fortitude buff or an int buff.. maybe both.. and then, try to kill as many things as possible at once and do a mass skinning

Thats it.. I am doing well and could probably use the rested bonus so I may go running around mining iron till I can’t find anymore and then move along.. I think gold is kinda rare, so thats something I’ll ignore, but then to steel.. then.. Well who knows what comes next, cause I sure don’t.  I’ll be mining like wild and then hearthing back to IF or someplace close with a trainer, and a forge ( I personally love the great forge at ironforge.. really cool lookin)  After I’ve mined all I can handle.. I’ll go off to SW or darn and go fishing.. with a satchel full of baits (I heard this was useful, but dunno..).  Maybe find some white gloves (hehe) and look for an enchanter to embue them with increased fishing skill.  Who knows, but the idea isn’t to MAKE money so much as to set myself up so I CAN make more money later.  I’m not poor by any standard, but until I have 50g more than my flying mount costs.. I won’t be happy.

Luckily at this level almost nothing is BOE, you have to run an instance to get it.. So nothing to blow my money on for THIS character anyway.