Well, as I Twitter'ed the other night, M.A.E. (as they say on El Reg) dropped a sprog yesterday morning. An M.A.E.-let named Emma Renee, to be precise. The new mom & new baby are both doing fine; Mrs. Fetched and some others went to go visit them at the hospital. If Mrs. Fetched gets a picture, I’ll post it here later. M.A.E. told me “I’m glad it’s over with,” and “I can’t wait to get out of here and get home.” Her & the dad are supposed to be getting married soon… I just wonder why they didn’t get married first and then plan the kid. Ah well. Planet Georgia and logic have not often been closely associated.
According to Mrs. Fetched, Snippet’s mom is going to whisk her away on the 15th now. I’m not exactly holding my breath, given what happened to the last “gone in two weeks” promise. The Boy, meanwhile, seems hell-bent on violating any requirement we give him as a condition of his continuing to live at FAR Manor. First thing he did was take off with Snippet (and a car) Wednesday night and not return until very late. Due to many glitches in the Matrix — the DSL has been down since Tuesday night, there was a funeral Thursday afternoon that the choir was asked to sing at, I got new tires on my car and a new battery (replaced under warranty, thanks Moto 400) — I ended up calling out of work because I just wasn’t going to get anything done anyway. We got back from the funeral, The Boy was outside, and Mrs. Fetched said something about getting to the chicken houses.
“Don’t worry about it,” he said. “It’s done.”
“What?”
“Yeah. I did the chicken houses already. Checked the medicators and all that.”
After that, tossing him would have seemed ungrateful to both myself and Mrs. Fetched. OTOH, we have another chance — he left Thursday night and didn’t come back until really late agaiin, and he & Snippet were sleeping on the couch in the detached garage this morning. I’m all for getting him out now, although if Snippet actually goes he’s likely to leave as well.
So he alternates between being helpful and being a PITA… which, I suppose, is an improvement over just being a PITA.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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Ahh.... As the Manor Turns (or squirms perhaps?) yet again, eh? At least you don't have to worry about having a screaming baby at the Manor, so that's a good thing. Glad to see you got your DSL back!
ReplyDeleteIVG is right. As life goes, so goes the Manor.
ReplyDeleteIVG, I think "lurching along" is how things go here. The DSL problem turned out to be related to a new phone… the last support dude I talked with said we only need a filter on the line with the DSL box. WRONG.
ReplyDeleteM.A.E. went home yesterday, I think. Or maybe Friday. It was a pretty routine birth. The kid's doing OK, and I expect she'll visit the Manor if we don't get to her place first. She actually lives fairly close by, just in the direction we don't usually go.
Boran, I've had that feeling many many times… I'm living in a soap opera. It's certainly very easy to portray it that way.