New Stuffs

Got the new table and chairs yesterday, and realized then that the woman in the store had managed to order the chairs we didn't want, instead of the ones we did, guess I should have checked my receipt more carefully. I came home and looked at them and I'm thinking they were a bit dark...then I realized they were totally the wrong ones. Having thought about it for some time looking at the table I then decided that it wasn't that bad and I actually quite liked them so going to keep them rather than getting the ones we originally wanted. I'll go ahead and post a picture of the new table later. Either way the whole set up is better than what we had before and even Jagr is enjoying the change in the nook there, with all of the flaps up there is more than enough room to easily sit 6 if we need it but it folds down nicely into a small 4 seating table.

Commute last 2 days have been a bother, why is it people can't drive in the rain here I swear! All you really need to do is slow down a bit and keep your distance morons, please save the rest of us more responsible road traveler's the headaches your spills make. I hope you aren't hurt but for heaven's sake be smart about driving with the roads are wet! We had a spin out on 880 this morning, followed up by a stall on the San Mateo bridge...took me a lot longer to get in than normal. Last night I don't know what was going on but I hit solid traffic the moment I hit the tolls, took forever to get off that stretch of road. The pain is going my alternate route as much as it avoids traffic it's longer both in time travel and in distance instead of the 40 minutes it should take me to get home it took me nearly an hour and a half! Can't see them improving this any time soon but oh man what a pain in the rear end.

And let me take this moment to tell the world what an idiot and ass my eventually to be ex brother in law is...he got thrown into jail Monday night for a domestic incident. My sister didn't elaborate much more than that but at least she knows now it's not just her. Frankly he needs a huge wake up call because my sister is now wondering if she should be letting her daughter spend time with him when he ends up in jail like that. She needs his support helping to raise their child but can she trust him she doesn't think he will hurt their child but I know she is scared. He also blew out the weekend that he was supposed to have with their daughter for some reason. He's not very reliable, I know the army is hard and they have to jump when they say jump, but I think my sister has been making excuses for him for far too long.

My advise was talk to someone independent, not a friend not family for some subjective advise see what her options are and see if there is something they can set up between them. She doesn't want to have to keep their daughter away from him but well he's not exactly being a terribly responsible father either. I feel for her I really do and with our parents here right now she hasn't got many options for help right now. I keep wondering if she should get in touch with one of my friends at least she has a child about the same age and maybe able to help a little bit maybe. Most of her's don't have kids or just live too far away to help.

Anyway, I've rambled enough I hate to put out my sister's problems here mostly I want to rant about the ass and looser that her ex is. He has a wonderful child there ok so she has her bad moments but he is going to loose out I hope he doesn't complain again about not seeing enough of his child that he has to blow off because he's in jail. Idiot needs to stop drinking and turn his life around and stop making excuses for himself and my sister shouldn't feel responsible for him as he's acting worse than a child one child is bad enough but two....