Filed under: life
Things are going well. I’m up to my ears in great projects, Garrett is in a stretch of being a very happy baby, and we’re simplifying our lives.
We put some items up for sale on craigslist.org, one of which was our Toyota Matrix. We put it up on a Thursday, and had a buyer 48 hours later. We closed the deal yesterday, and now only have one vehicle. We also sold some bikes that were never going to be used, for various reasons. That paid for a tank of gas ($50) and groceries. We still have a webcam and soon a kennel for sale, and I’m already eye-balling a few other things around here that I’d like to see gone.
On Easter Sunday, Garrett got to be around a lot of kids at one of our house church gatherings of all the house churches in our “network.” It was the first time he has been around a lot of kids, and he came away from it with lots of new noises and facial expressions. It was amazing to see him change that rapidly. Aside from gas or being tired, he’s a really happy baby. He will lay on a blanket on the floor of my office from time to time, just making all kinds of happy squeals, gurgles, sputtering, and other noises that don’t have names. He rolls, too. I can see him being a fairly active little jabber-box when he becomes mobile. Here’s a pic of he and I taking a break:
My break from non-essential internet has been going well. We have 2 Macs in our home, a laptop and a eMac. The eMac is the wife’s machine, which she keeps in the bedroom downstairs. I work in my office upstairs, and have an internet filtering program called SafeEyes to keep me productive. So we just set it up so I can’t access places like myspace, facebook, etc. upstairs – I have to have “extra” time to be downstairs and on the computer. The thing is, when I’m down there, I’m usually with the boy, thus little time spent on the net these days. It’s been very gratifying so far
One last rant on taxes for a while:
As I mentioned in one of my last posts, it’s not the price of gas that hurts, it’s the taxes we have to pay. Last month we wrote out several checks that could have paid for various home improvements we are eye-balling.
We would have paid for a product that: People make… people ship… people sell… people install… etc. Instead we give our money earned in Public enterprise to a Private government with zero accountability.
What amuses me is that media and politicians talk sheeple into believing that Big Oil is the enemy, or better yet the so-called “wealthy.” What is cleverly left out is how much Uncle Sam gets for each tank of gas.
Add to that how much Uncle Sam takes out in all of the assorted taxes, and any clear-thinking human being can see that it is not Big Oil that reaps in “windfall profits” (or whatever Billary Obama is calling it these days, it is the obese Uncle Sam.
