Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Lights R Out.

Our friends at long island power have had my family in the dark for about 7 hours. The house is about 85 degrees right now, and lipa has already missed on 3 etas for resolving the issue. Lipa sucks!! but thanks to blackberry, can still blog :-)

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Summer's Over

In new york, the arrival of humidity is the surest sign that "summer", which started only yesterday, is now officially over. The word summer conjures up positive emotions--end of school, going to the beach, whatever. You never think about the subway platform,  sweating through your work clothes or other real-world summer activity when you think about these positives of summer. I think a new season should be created that starts now, and ends in october--cause today is not what I think about when I think of summer

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Held Hostage

Just need to clear the air...there's been a lot of confusion and i've been getting a lot of questions about long island and domestic hostages based on this recent story.
people want to know if allison and i are also locking people in our basement, etc...
For the record, i am really concerned about this growing trend, and i have never been involved in such craziness....i will do my civic duty out here on long island though, and as i walk around whole foods or nordstrom, will keep my eyes and ears open for others who may have a few people locked in their basements....

there are also some rumors out there that those that were in the basement lost a lot of weight, which out here on the island is central theme to daily life....i would expect the "long island basement diet" to hit stores in time for Hanukkah

Saturday, June 09, 2007

Pacis Suck!

On the surface, seems like a decent idea, stick a pacifier in your kids mouth, and they stop crying and go back to sleep....huge downside though...if the paci falls out, the kids wake up and begin to bawl like paris hilton on her way back to her cell...

The first 2 hours of my day, usually from 330 to 530 i pop the pacifiers back into the mouths of luke and maddie.... gonna have kids? do yourself a favor, stay away from the pacis...

A graphical representation of this is shown below....






Friday, June 08, 2007

The Other Madison Kane



When the twins were born it took 2 days to decide on the twins names, and after locking them in, went to see if could register my daughter's domain name..madisonkane.com....while both madison's are bald, i have yet to find a whole lot of additional similarity

Raccoons - what the f**k!



As if a family of 5 wasn't enough, a family of raccoons decided to call our attic home...i love animals but raccoons? Definitely not....

took about a month to get them out (and no, i never thought i'd have a "trapper" on my personal payroll, and just got the bill for the clean up...$15k! welcome to the world of home ownership
you might be wondering why we didnt have a home inspection prior to purchasing the house, as it would've been obvious to the inspector that there was a family of raccoons in the attic, well, we did...we used a company called tauscher cronacher...you can draw your own conclusions...but i wont be using them again

House stuff..when can i rent again?

So you live in an apartment, and are crammed for space..you spend every weekend wondering when you'll get out of your 1 bedroom and have room for all your stuff...
listen carefully...savor every moment of your cramped existence...i lived in apartments for 15 years and always had the building super on speed dial...when you own a home, you are the super, and if you pretty much don't know jack about taking care of a house, it can be a humbling, humiliating experience....
btw, for some reason our broker never took the virtual tour down of the house we bought...if youre interested you can check it out here...

Randy Moss - Dominated by Giants!