holiday parental i.t. dept, reporting for duty

the strict marm i remember from my teenaged years is gone and there's a nice old mother living in my house. also it makes me sad that my dad is definitely not a middle-aged guy any more, that he's crossed often into ornery oldish guy years.

-- nuneb

same, also source of free hand-me-down computer components and gadgets

re. kids dressed as lambs on christmas services:

me (simultaneous): my friend kate was dr....
dad (simultaneous): in the paper, a la...

[pause]

dad: can't you be quiet when i'm talking?
me: oka --
mom: he was talking!
me: fine, go ahead, don't make a big deal.
dad: (sarcastic) no, we really all wanna hear about kate. we all wanna hear what you have to say.
me: okay, don't be rude.
dad: alliwasgonnasayisakiddressedasalambfellasleep.
me: cute
mom: you shouldn't interrupt.
dad: he doesn't care what anybody else has to say.
me: omigod, just get over it.
dad: i already am. (big fake smile)
me: all you do when you make a big deal is get people upset like you just got me, now i'm all pissed and i'm gonna storm out.

(i storm out)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302874262.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

road trip!!!

or are they back in NJ for the holidays yet?

okay i am squeeing at a kitten and a boob

um, correct me if i'm wrong, wouldn't this be your uncle?

ian, he is just drunk. thanks, though.

my brother has been sending me camera phone shots of himself on the bus to t0fin0 haha
i am going to send him shots of my (failed but delicious) gingerbread men (nb. not in shape of men. at all. i think sugar cookies will work out better tho.)

i'm having a pretty good christmas without family (have already had one turkey dinner, one fondue dinner, one dinner+pass-out-on-friend's-couch, and tomorrow is big christmas do.) but i miss my family, truly.

Rrob, I wd miss your family, too! What's the youngest doing? Anyway, you had FONDUE! I saw instructions for raclette in catalog yesterday and WHOA HI DERE MOLTEN GOODNESS.

youngest bro is surfing and pretending his kidney issues aren't as bad as they actually are, oh yeah, and going through crazy break-up (they own a house and cars together! i don't even know how that happened) by starting relationship with new girl (she is nice though, i am told)

i'm catching up on eps of the o.c. and degrassi tng

Mom's fam is the crazy drunk oirish side w/rap sheets and drug problems, and they're still pretty fucking squee. some serious bummerz, though, maybe to be detailed later. most involve heavy medical problems and people's ears getting bitten off by town psychos.

speaking of squee: i heart the kittenboob. but that's probably because i love both kittens and boobs and am jealous of the kitten.

-- chaki (chaki.tim...), December 25th, 2006.

wrong; i did.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST DONT CLAL YOUR POPS AN IDIOT HIS COCKFUCKING MADE YOU

-- chaki (chaki.tim...), December 25th, 2006.

wrong; i'm adopted.

buhsides, my dad isn't dumb. he's great and we just annoy the holy living shit out of each other.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/332350438_9eeacb0d1e.jpg
they turned into triangles, squares
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/332350433_2a55889dc7_m.jpg

Likewise - didn't need to tech support but did give a detailed description of how to set up a Twitter account, follow people, how to RT, what the social graph looks like from a graph-theoretical perspective, what hashtags are...Dad was very interested in all this though we both know full well he will never even visit twitter.com.

• reset mom's wifi password since she couldn't remember it and had been running her iPhone on 3G for 10 months.

• the tv's sound system was "hissy" because the actual television's volume was jacked to the top, but the stereo was plugged directly into the cable box. Fixed by turning the volume down.

I'm thankful that neither of my parents has shown any interest in social networking sites.