Uncle Thom - the poet

So, maybe you remember me talking about my friend Thom who I (and Isabella) adore. Last month, he was collecting money for the AIDS walk up in NY and sent a pithy little email to all of us requesting cash. In the email was this little tidbit, I quote:

“I’ll write you a personalized thank-you poem to express my appreciation should it increase my chances of skimming something from your wallet.”

So out comes my handy, dandy VISA and I donated some cash because:

1. It’s the right thing to do
2. Giving to charity is always good for the Karmic balance
3. Having the opportunity to have a friend who shares your sense of humor write a poem about you is an opportunity not to be missed.

Now, realize I fully expected a limerick. Possibly even a haiku. Not the well-versed, work of art(?) that was bestowed. So I give to you, my family and friends, a poem all about me. If I ever need cheering up, I read this poem or watch Nick’s “Hello” video.

A poem - by Thom Geraghty

Well, yes it’s true Hope can never be Pope,

And thankfully she doesn’t smoke the dope,

Doesn’t let her kids cry, doesn’t let them mope,

She’s clean (she uses deodorant soap),

And my, she’s as graceful as an antelope,

when things get rough, she’ll know how to cope,

she never gets to the end of her rope,

Nope that Hope, she’s no dope.

And that’s why I loves her. The end.

Now back to our irregularly, non-scheduled posting

Actually I have not much else to say tonight. Both kids are asleep, and Staples had a sale on some technological tidbits that were must haves for our wired up household. I’ve been turning the laptop off as much as possible as I’ve gotten busted several times this weekend by my loving hubby who chuckles as he walks by the office as I am knee deep in cross-language coding for a project that I’m working on. It’s the first “new” code I’ve done in a few months (and it’s Director/Lingo although of course I just HAD to put in some Flash because of the design of the dynamic content) as my clients love me so much that they keep sending me upgrades, add on’s and tweaks for their projects. Some of which, cause me to rue the day that Actionscript was born. Anybody out there have a Flash drop down box that is NOT using the Flash component for a drop down box. If you use too many, there’s some sort of *$&%*$( memory leak that eventually (not always) causes a crashing error on the exe output. Not the swf output, mind you! Run it in a browser and it’s happy as a clam. Yep, I’m whining. They apparently have a version upgrade they may want done in the next few weeks and eventually I’m going to have to suck it up and build a darn combo box that does not use the component. Ugh. I hate rebuilding the wheel. If only this darn wheel didn’t go bump every third time around when the moon is full. Ok. Enough whining.Please forgive the run on sentences and ramblings. I am now off to do a wee bit o’ online shopping and see if I can book a hotel room for next month’s fab vacation that I am SO looking forward to. I’m hoping they switch out some of the books in our cabin though. Hmm. Good thought. I will leave you with a pic of the kids with the Easter Bunny. I have a full 1 Gig card of photos/video to upload to the site, but that’s SO not going to be happening tonight. Sweet dreams!

~h

We were in the office and Nicholas wandered off to the living room. Nothing new there. A few minutes later Bella runs out to the living room after him and then runs back in yelling “Nicholas is stuck on the porch!” Now I knew that I hadn’t opened the door so I walked out there casually to see Nicholas (not upset but a wee ticked) banging on the door from the outside. Apparently he had crawled through the cat door (which even the cats rarely use) to get outside. Our cat door is not prominent. Most people wouldn’t even know we had one, but our boy sure figured it out fast. Kids!