Randomonday

So how was your weekend?

- I had the girlies this weekend. Good stuff. Their mom says they’ve been ‘acting out’ at her house lately. I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary this weekend. Actually, I thought they were pretty good for me. In the past, I’ve suggested that her level of discipline isn’t quite as high as it should be. I think I’ll leave it alone unless things get worse.

- I did not hemorrhage money this weekend. Still spent a little but just enough to get by. Yes, $10 in Cold Stone ice cream was crucial to our survival.

- Took the girlies to Once Upon a Child yesterday. We were looking for some slip-on shoes for Aniqua. Mostly because I’m tired of dealing with her ‘twinkle-toe’ shoes that she needs help with both putting on and taking off. She found some that were a touch big, but I told her she could wear 2 pairs of socks if she wanted to. Her and Bellie found jeans too. All for $20. Not bad.

- I’m an Olympian! Well, not quite yet as I haven’t started playing, but I’ve signed up for a few events in the Seasoned Gamers Olympics. I know the schedule is hard to see, but I have different games every half an hour from 8pm through 10:30pm from Tuesday through Friday this week. Swapping back and forth between Halo: Reach and 3 other games.

If you’ve ever played video games, you might appreciate the difficulty in switching back and forth between different games. Each has their own control schematic. So when I hit the ‘B’ button expecting to throw a grenade, I’ll actually reload. I’m already frustrated. Ha!

There were some events played by others last night and here are the current standings:

Go Yellow!

I certainly do not profess to be a great player, I just hope I can contribute something to the team.

- So besides that my life has been pretty lonely. Not sure if I mentioned this before, but the stbx quit her evening job so all of a sudden I went from an every evening dad to an every other weekend dad. She still isn’t willing to discuss me having them an additional evening a week. She hasn’t said no, but she’s still not discussing it. I’m hoping that my parents might be able to talk her into something. But they need to be careful to not stress their relationship with her, so I don’t expect much to happen soon.

- Besides a couple of people at work (who I wouldn’t necessarily hang out with anyway) I don’t know any single people. None. I’m thinking that’s contributing a lot to my loneliness. There’s a local (well, seemingly local) single fathers group I’m looking into. It’s called Father Factor but it looks like it was established by an online law firm. That seems kind of weird. I’m checking into it, but not holding out much hope. As far as I can find, there really isn’t anything else of a similar nature. Lots of groups for moms though.

- I’m off. Taking an afternoon and getting some practice in. Haven’t played COD:MW2 for a while. Besides, I have vacation time I need to burn before the end of the month.

Have a good week!