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What’s the most klutzy thing you’ve ever done?
Submitted by Jecka.

I think every injury I’ve ever had was due to my own klutziness, but here is the best:

Have you seen “Mary Poppins”?  I have, tons of times; it was on “Disney Sunday” or whatever that show was over and over as I was a kid, so I’ve head the damn thing over and over.  Anyway I’ve seen That movie a ton, and when I was younger (under 8 I think) I’d seen it enough times to make me believe that the whole Umbrella thing was a workable plan for flight.

One blustery and windy day I took a big umbrella and with a weary look over my shoulder at the poor grounded people; ( who wouldn’t be flying that afternoon) I opened up the umbrella and felt the wind pull me.  It Pulled me right off my feet , and in a moment of joyous flight, right onto my knees.   Right onto my knees on a broken bottle.  In fact, in a moment of cosmic kismet right onto the thick upturned bottom of a glass bottle, waiting hungrily for young knees.

Initially it didn’t even hurt, or bleed.  I looked down into the innards of my knee and saw the off-white goo inside.  Then it bled.  It bled like crazy and so I cried.  I cried and yelled and got hustled off to the hospital.

It sucked.

I still have a scar, but at least I got to fly for a little… like Mary Poppins.  D’Oh.

We fell asleep watching Episode I and I woke up to Episode 4…  We are such geeks.  NiteGirl and I were watching the whole Episode 1 – Episode 6 marathon on Cinemax.

We broke it off during Jedi, or more exactly TheSpawn did.   I went upstairs and had a nice shower, i-pod playing my “picks” play list in the background.  It was just a great shower, I wasn’t thinking about work or money or anything, just getting clean and singing along with my i-pod.

Hmm, just confessed to singing in the shower, ah well.  I sing quietly to myself all day, badly too.

I’ve been surfing the web and hitting political news sites and blogs since I got out of the shower.  I made lunch and coffee for all of us (well, tea for TheSpawn)  TheSpawn and I had breakfast around 9AM (French Toast Sticks and Tea)

It has been a nice lazy Saturday.

Like 007Ben I’ve found it very warm this AM.  When I stepped out of my bedroom it was seriously warm in my living room area and I had to turn on fans to cool the area.  Kodos was perched up in the bedroom areas looking down and meowing at me all morning while I got ready for work, I ended up leaving without giving him a snack today which is bound to make him extra friendly when the rest of my family got up.

I was so spaced this morning, I took a shower that seemed to take forever, but was only about 7 minutes.  Just getting my shoes on was a long chore.  Oh well.

I like the warm, it is a nice change from the cold cold cold morning’s we have had.

I was so overwhelmed by my work today.  I handled 50% of the total measurable work volume today and I really felt it (considering there are three of us).  Not to mention the face-to-face work and the ongoing work, I’m really stressing the lack of another head on the team.

The actual work is easy, but as time stretches on I can see things getting out of hand.

That’s life in the tech industry I guess.

NiteGirl took her first driving lessons this weekend, (30 mins total) with some practice around the neighborhood and a local high school parking lot.  She did really well, and only made me scared for my life once.  That must be better than I did my first day out.

I did TheSpawn’s makeup yesterday (cheetah) it turned out okay, but I’ll revise it tomorrow.  I also supplied her with a bloody kitten as a prop, which went over gangbusters at the Halloween party.  TheSpawn won 6 contests including Best [loudest] Scream, Scariest Costume and Best Costume.  She was so proud!

I was pretty proud too, she got those lungs from me and my family!  She’ll have a great “Mom Voice” when she grows up.

That reminds me of a quick story I wrote on my private blog a couple years ago.

There were these ROTC kids messing around by a dumpster a fair distance from my friends and I as we waited for the bus.  They were getting louder and rowdier and eventually I got tired of their noise and obvious misbehavior (ROTC KIDS!!)  so I puffed up and gave them a big Authoritative “HEY!” and they scattered like confetti in the proverbial hurricane.

My Friends couldn’t believe the volume and depth of the voice that came from me; they had checked themselves when they heard it.  Funny Stuff.

A similar thing happened at a Basketball game; I was yelling “Brick” and “Psyche” during layups and free throws.  It was a blast.