The Homeless Library and Asperger

I went to our local Library or as I like to call, Club homeless people. The library has no good books and it is full of homeless people trying to get on to surf the web. Techi homeless people, what has our world become. I looked up 10 different books on aspergers syndrome and the reference said that they were all check in but they were not. Our Library in Concord is the main branch and they have the crappiest selection of books and movies. We suspect that our son JD has Aspergers Syndrome. It is kindof a very light form of autism. Einstien had it and Bill Gates has it. So the disease is manageable. The syndrome makes you kindof focus on certain things, to the exclusion of everything else, thus you become an expert at that one thing. Bill Gates, business, and einstien, physics. JD can't stop thinking about computers, electronics, cell technology, but he doesn't know much applicable knowledge, mainly just theory. I always thought he had some sort of autism by the way he would interact with people. You would be talking to him and having a conversation, but it was like he wasn't there. He didn't understand anything you said to him. One of the sydromes symptoms is that they cannot understand metaphor or sarcasm. JD definitely cannot understand these. If you say"go break a leg". He literally thinks that you want him to break his leg. If you say that your strength is like a bear. He thinks that you are like related to a bear or you are a bear. We have to completely change our parenting style. We thought that he was just disrespectful, arrogant, and lazy. He in actuality, cannot help it. He would always say that he didn't understand why he was in trouble for certain things, and I thought he was just playing dumb. He really didn't know why he was in trouble. According to his mind, he was just strolling along minding his own business, being perfect, when a big ogre, Me, came along and started to punish him for no reason. Well any way, its nice to have finally figured out what to do.

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I made the worst grade ever on my test on saturday. I was using a stop watch from the net to keep track of my time and I was going to go back over my answers when I clicked over to the countdown and it said, 3 minutes remaining. It had actually only been like 1 hour and 6 minutes. I had set the clock for 2 and half hours. I guess the stupid thing was counting down twice as fast. So I got a freakin 54 on the test. Its not the end of the world but it does nearly rule out an A which severely sucks. Damned timer!!! Also took the dog to his training apointment. The lady that does the class is alot like a very hyper dog herself. I don't think that she could have found a job that better suits her personality. She was like a whirling dervish being electrocuted. I thought she was a pretty great person. We walked the dogs around the store like crazy people. The dogs name is milk shake. I know, its disgusting naming a dog after a food. I call him shakes after the drunken clown in the movie Shakes the Clown. It has bobcat goldwait as a drunken clown. The movie is horrendous! Shakes is a very clutsy dog. He is going to be a huge dog too. He is very lazy and lays around alot but he jumps up on stuff. I just give a good old knee when he jumps up on me and he goes flyin'!! Claudia came home from grandmas on sunday. She was at her comedic best. She would run into the kitchen and look at us and say something at random, like kitty fight run go!!!! then she would scream and tear through the house like a crazy person. Then she come back and make weird faces at us and sing a really loud song then run off again. It wasn't really obnoxious it was just hilarious. Maybe it was annoying but I am sucker. Hmmmm... don't care. I saw a really great ampeg bass amp in the pawn shop and I thought about it and almost got it. It would have seriously improved my bass rig. I went back to check it out the next day but it was gone. Ho-hum...The still have some big peaveys. Pawn shopping has really gone down hill in charlotte. I used to find great band stuff all the time, but now, I can't find a decent bass amp. All I have is a 75 watt peavy basic 112. It isn't quite powerful enough. I need at least 150 watts. I have a 100 watt fender with a new 15 in it but I don't like the way it rattles so I don't use it except for practice. It is also just bare particle board. I saved it from a pawn shop. It was in horrendous shape when I got it. The person that had it before had shreded the covering somehow and then tried to spray some sort of rubber over the bare spots. It was pretty bad.

The worst interview ever

Well it is most definitely official, I had the worst interview of my life. The interviewer seemed unprepared and she spoke in a very choppy and unclear manner. She threw me way off of my comfort zone. She made it sound like my education wasn't very important and experience was key. She asked me if I knew how to read brokerage statements. I asked her what specifically I would be doing with them. She wasn't sure. I said that know all about mutual funds and I run and read reports here all the time. I am used to reading the horrible OMNI system and Power image system, so I should have not problem reading a brokerage statement. I have never seen a brokerage statement. There are two people that get to see the statements. The people that make them and the person that the report is for and maybe the garbage man when it gets thrown away. They don't send over the report for Ralph to check out in the completely unrelated department. I told her that I am an expert at excel. Which is true. I told her that I can use my experience here and at school to do whatever they need done. The interview was like 12 min long. I wanted off the phone in 2 minutes. It was so unnerving. I have got to hone my BSing skills.

Brian said he would send me an email when we could hang out. It'll be really good to see him again. I miss my old friends. Its so busy being a dad.

I am taking the dog to its training session on saturday and I am taking another exam. On sunday I have to do nothin much I think. I am sure that I will be doing some chore.

Ralph And THe New Haircut, Pumpin' Up the Old Ego!

I got a new haircut and put in the old contacts. Now people want to talk to me. I am so interesting now. It must have been because I looked like the jaundiced fifth Beatle there for a while. Well not anymore! I am stylin'! 2 months from now, back to beatle boy! Maybe a gnarly goatee too. I have job interview for the sr. business analyst position here at work. Fiddy G's! or Fifty Gs. They usually don't bother calling you unless they have you in mind for the job. That job will hopefully be more fun. Well, back to throwing coal into the furnace. I am a cog in a big wheel. Repeat. ad nauseum. I am a worker bee destined to die of exhaustion. Repeat. ad nauseum.

Lovin' life and eatin' chikin!

We had chicken from bojangles yesterday. That was really good. We played the Bible trivial pursuit game. The questions were so obscure. My Bible knowledge was greatly challenged. 2 out of 8 questions right! I consider that a passing score! School is still going well. One problem though, I asked a question online to the teacher and it has been almost a week and he has not answered it. I think he maybe ignoring me. Paranoid schyzo. I visited Brian Gryders website and I still think he is funny. Everybody else just thinks he's a jerk, but I think its funny. Maybe he's a funny jerk, but so am I, so maybe thats why I think he's so funny.

I guess we will be fasting from the TV and other electronical gadgets for 40 days pretty soon. By fasting I mean giving it up, not that we used to eat TVs and now we are stopping. It will be hard not catching House and thats it, thats all I watch on TV. I guess I'll miss watching movies. I maybe watch a movie a week. I am such a couch potato. I'll also sit through American Idol. Yes I am one of the 1.6 million viewers that watch the show. : ( I just like Simon. He is such a jack ass. He makes the show worth watching.

I got three new CDs. I wanted the Tom Waits CD orphans but I couldn't find it used and 30 bucks was too much. I got Good monsters by Jars of Clay, Building Rise by 429, and a Tom Petty CD. Olga and I got our hair done at the mall and then shopped for CDs. We also ate at steak and shake. We had the steak and the shake. Duh ha ha. That was on Saturday.

Oh well blogging was great fun but I have to go before IT catches me having fun and throughs me into the eternal flames of unemployment hell.

Fun Fun, all day long everday, Forever....

I finished up my front yard fence with a really great redneck country gate. It sucks really bad. Its really flimsy. Everything else looks pretty good. The super bowl was alot of fun. I really liked the commercial where the pigeons were killing people and the one where all of the animals were screaming oh and the one where the guy was going to run over richard simmons. : ) We went to a Methodist church on sunday for boy scout sunday for JD. It was truly strange. Everything was scripted. We got an agenda and then we had to follow it all the way to the end. I can see why church turns people of so bad. The methodists are boring and regimented, the baptists are angry biggots, and the Pentecostals believe that women must where skirts, babble unintelligibly, and excersize God like powers. Hmmm... Which should I choose. ack! Organized christianity is sick and getting sicker. I think that it is better to strike it out on your own and stick to the principles that the Bible lays out and stay away from crazy folks from the local primitve united family freewill blessed friends baptist methodist penecostal church. Jesus is great. Its all those people that mess it all up. I still haven't started a band or joined one. I can't seem to find anybody. So I'll wait for the right time. All of the kids are doing well. Isabella is crawling, Claudia is drawing on furniture, Go Cheap Salvation army furniture, JD is a brave cub scout, another boy got indignant with my wife and JD said that he was going to break the kids nose if ever did that again, Go child on child violence to protect their mother! Angel is dating a boy, and we think they'll get married. She's only 16 but they are ridiculous together. You know that when someone is that cutesy wootsy with someone then there is only one thing to do, get married. Yiiiickkk!! I was late to work today and I had to make up the time. I hate that. The boss said that the bonus is the lowest that she has ever seen. The company said that this was one of our best years ever. So it is a no brainer to reduce the bonus?