Random thoughts

1.   Nobody has even tried to answer the logic puzzle, the one that caused Ashlei to punch me in the arm and accuse pretty much everything in the entire universe of being stupid.  But I didn’t just make it up; there is a real answer, and the clues are enough to figure out the answer.   

2.  In the interest of helping you figure out your taxes, I have prepared a full financial report concerning the Sam Woelk BMW Acquisition Fund With Occasional Token Gifts for Poor People:

Beginning balance, Jan 1, 2010:     $0.00

Total Revenue for 2010:       $0.00

Gross Profit for 2010:   -$250.00

Capitalization distribution:  $0.00

Disbursements from Stocks:       $0.00

Cash infusions From Fund Director’s personal bank account to meet negative equity demands:  $250.00

Ending balance:     $0.00

Your tax-deductible giving:  $0.00

See?  Wouldn’t it be nice if you saw a big fat number there at the bottom, something like $5,000.00?  Wouldn’t it be nice to plug that number into your taxes and watch the money you get back just skyrocket, wouldn’t you rather be giving money to a worthy cause than paying for the Federal government to be subsidizing studies on how bumblebees have sex? 

Well, I have dissolved the Sam Woelk BMW Acquisition Fund With Occasional Token Gifts for Poor People due to my bad experience with the actual acquisition of a BMW. 

But lucky for your April 2012 tax filing, I am now formally announcing the: 

Sam Woelk Porsche Acquisition Fund With Occasional Token Gifts for Poor People

Don’t hesitate to give to this worthy benevolent organization with the full knowledge that all donations are completely tax deductible in the likely event that you are not audited by the IRS.

3.  We are back to work, and I am happy.  I am one of those rare people who really enjoys his job.  I wake up, go to work, do my thing, and am at peace.

It doesn’t pay like a lot of professions, but I like it, and I feel so so blessed that this is so.

One thing about my job is that we regularly have rather large breaks.  Our Christmas break was 4 weeks this year, and that’s too much, when you want to go to work.

4.  We are looking for something for Abbey.  As you know, Anna does gymnastics, and she really likes that a lot.  Momma takes her to the gym two or three times a week.  Abbey doesn’t go, and she notices this.  She asks, occasionally, if she can do gymnastics again.  This is a difficult question to answer.  I’d be happy to say yes, except for how obvious it was that she wasn’t good at all last time.  I don’t want her to feel the separation of watching her sister excel, while she flounders.  So I am trying to figure out something else that she might enjoy, because it bothers her a little that Anna has gymnastics, and she just has to take walks with me.

Of course, they both do piano, but she doesn’t enjoy that.  I am pretty sure that she will enjoy it eventually–she loves music–but it hasn’t happened just yet.

So, what else could she do?  I’m not sure, and I’m still trying to figure it out.  I’d be happy for any suggestions.  Nobody told me how complicated parenthood would be.

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