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The week in review

I have to write this down now or I'll never remember it all.

dw = dear wife
1yods = 1-year-old dear son
4yodd = 4-year-old dear daughter
6yods = 6-year-old dear son

Sunday morning and afternoon

No memory of this at all. I may have been awake.

Sunday evening

Shower & get ready for Mass at Holy Cross; drive 1/2 hour to Champaign, arrive on time.

Mass 5:30-6:30pm

Work, 6:45pm-4am Monday

Monday morning

Nap 4am-6am on the couch in the frontend department

Work 6am-7am

1/2 hour drive home, breakfast, take 1yods to doctor: deep cough and a rough Sunday night that had dw up with him all night. 1/2 drive back to Champaign. Doctor says its something between bronchitis and pneumonia (I can't remember the name), prescribes Albuterol and an antibiotic (the usual one, I can't remember the name).

Drive 1/2 back, work in kitchen and watch the kids while dw naps.

Monday afternoon

Dw heads in to work (Catholic bookstore 3 afternoons a week). 1yods can't sleep unless he's upright on my lap, so we occasionally doze on the couch. 6yods and 4yodd are sedated with favorite videos.

Monday evening

On Monday evenings, dw has an hour of eucharistic adoration from 7pm to 8pm. I cooked supper: spaghetti, a bland Ragu "traditional" sauce I won't buy again, and some yummy meatballs I fixed & refrigerated recently. Played with the kids until dw arrived at 9pm.

Dw was hopped up on caffeine (she's especially sensitive to it) so she took 1yods, who was still cranky and let me go to bed for (we hoped) a night's sleep. She was up with the baby til 11:30, then she came to bed.

Tuesday morning

Dw has an appointment at 8:30am, during which time I'll need to watch the kids, so she got up at 1:30 to get ready and drive to Champaign for my Tuesday 3am-4am adoration slot. She did that, ate breakfast at Oakley's, went to Lauds & Mass at St. Matt's, the drove around looking at houses for sale until 8:30. Got her new prescription, dropped by the store for essentials, then came home.

Meanwhile, I was up at 3:30am with 1yods, we slept occasionally on the couch. The other kids got up at 6 & had their traditional "2 triangle peanut butter and jelly sandwiches" (6yods) and "2 triangle bologna and cheese sandwiches" (4yodd) with chocolate milk. Yeah, I know.

Dw arrived home, I showered and got dressed. Picked up her new prescription at the local CVS and returned it home, then sped back to Champaign to take her Tuesday noon hour of adoration at St. Matt's.

Tuesday afternoon

Drove thru Hot Wok Express, best Chinese drive-thru in town and only $4, and ate lunch in the library at work. Ensconced in my office at 2:00pm to field various questions and requests for help in person and by email and get up to speed on the latest work stuff (can you tell I signed an NDA?)

Work, work, work. Field questions, answer questions, defer questions, look up something in Knuth's TeXBook.

Machine crashed. This time I remembered to remove Gnome's "iof" files before restarting X.

Tuesday evening

7pm-8:30pm panel discussion at the Champaign library. Good handouts, GREAT cookies! Run by Walgreen's to get infant and children's versions of Tylenol - everyone is coming down with 1yods's thing.

1/2 hour drive home, run through Taco Hell for 3 soft tacos, no sauce, scarf them down on the way home because I forgot to get Taco Hell for dw, who has a thing for Taco Hell. Arrive home - dw and company had pizza! And there's some left over! Scarf, munch, mmrfff. Mmmm.

Filled dw in on the discussion, watched a bit of "Whose Line Is It Anyway" (best show on TV), then 1/2 hour drive back to work for a projected all-nighter.

Wednesday morning plan

3am-4am: adoration at St. Matt's

4:15am-6am: work

6am-6:30am: drive home

6:30-7:30: breakfast, get 6yods ready for doctor appointment

7:30am-8am: drive to doctor in Champaign

8:30-9am: drive back home, go to bed and crash til 11:30am.

Posted by billw at February 19, 2003 01:05 AM