yet another update

Talked to buffalogal this morning. She said it will take 10 days for that money to be put back in our account. So she is gonna wire me about $150 on monday.

In other news I took Conor to the ER last night. Nothing too major, just an ear infection. Ofcourse it crops up on a friday night when the pediatrician is out of the office for the weekend. So off to the ER we go. His ear really hurt him. He was crying at some points from the pain. We got a prescription for some antibiotics, and they gave him tylenol with codeine for the pain.

It was a long night. He started hurting again as we went to bed, but I couldn't give him anymore medicine. Thankfully he fell asleep before long.

He seems to be doing good today. Not complaining of any pain, and took his medicine like a good boy.

Groceries

Well spent almost all my money on groceries. But I should be paid back and then some come monday. So it should be alright. When I left for the store, it was cold and rainy. When I came out of the store, it was cold and SNOWING. We got the first snow of the year. It was kind of raining and snowing at the same time. I think the technincal term is "icky weather".

Conor asked me when we were driving to the store, "where does rain come from?" I said, "The sky." and he said, "no, who makes it?"

"Nature makes it."

"Who's he?"

Now I had a slight connundrum. Do I instill a sense of wonder of the supernatural, or give him something more rational? Do I go with magic or science...

"Nature isn't a person, its a system. Its how the world works."

I remember being very interested in science when I was his age... the natural world has a lot of wonder in it without having to resort to the supernatural stuff "behind the curtain" or "outside the cave" or whatever anology you want.

I think I made the right choice.