BrainStream: What a pain-in-the-ass morning. I'm

What a pain-in-the-ass morning. I'm working at home this week since most of ZOT Group staff is off at ApacheCon 2000 Europe. I asked Kirky to stay home so she could give marching orders to the guy we've hired to finish painting out kitchen for us. We've quickly realized over the past year of owning a house that it's much easier to pay someone to do the job right the first time then to do it poorly ourselves and have to pay someone to fix it.

This guy was originally scheduled to come a few weeks ago. It would have been done if it wasn't for him "penciling me in" and waiting for a confirmation. He didn't think to call me and see what's up - he just erased me out of his book. That particular day, Kirky waited at home for 3 hours and ended up taking the day off.

So she rescheduled it to this morning and waited. In between waiting, we lost my cell phone. Kirky did a phenomenal job cleaning the living room and kitchen while I was being a slug all weekend and somehow we lost my cell phone. I looked everywhere, blaming her for moving it since I had remembered turning it off early in the morning when the batteries went dead. Sure enough after an hour of "The Blame Game" she found it in the front seat of the car- where I had left it while running errands yesterday.

It's now 2hrs 20min since the time Kirky had written down that this guy was going to come. She called him at his office with no response, left a message and finally left for work an hour ago.

We're just not having any luck here.....

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BrainStream: I am addicted to Harry

I am addicted to Harry Potter. Which is quite surprising considering I hadn't read or listened to any of the books until the last week in September. Kirky had just gotten back from visiting her parents who let her borrow the first two books ("Sorcerer's Stone" and "Chamber of Secrets") on tape. So I begrudgingly listened to them so I could get caught up to where she was and we could both listen to them on the way to our vacation on Cape Cod.

Wow.

I was hooked. I had already like SciFi/Fantasy books but this one was different. I can't articulate my interest in these books but suffice it to say we spent a day walking through Provincetown on vacation looking for the next 2 books on tape ("Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Goblet of Fire") and purchased them as well. I am eagerly awaiting the fifth book and the movie planned to be released next year. I'm even working on a Halloween costume to become Rubeous Hagrid the Hogswart Gameskeeper. (Yes, I may be a little old for trick-or-treating but when you live in a town like Salem, MA....the entire month of October is Halloween and everyone participates.)

You'll see snippets here and there about new movie casting announcements or bits of gossip for the book. I'm so tired of the lack of fansites out there that I'm tempted to make one myself.

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