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Aaron is 8 months old & we are expecting again!

Dec 30th, 2006 - 07:15:00 pm by Dragona

Current mood: tired
Category: Life

OK I suppose it is time for a new blog (hope it works this time)

Aaron is now 8 1/2 months old! He is learning to walk, we bought him shoes a couple of weeks ago. He is eating really food, very little baby food anymore! He is startingto potty train YAY!!! If we can get him potty trained in the next 7 months that would be WAY cool He goes in for his 9 month Check up on Janurary 23th. though he was weighed yesterday at hte WIC office and is up to 21 pounds and 4 ounces... My how he has grown For those that would like to see and keep up to date on Aaron's new pictures here is a link: Aaron's Page

Now on to the new news! We found out thatwe are expecting out next and last child in July of this up coming year! There is a page for the new baby on our server at: New Baby Sacks Umm, what else.. Lets see this pregnancy is taking alot out of me this time around.. I am having really bad morning sickness (had none with the two boys)... and am very tired all the time...

If those links get broken or anyone wants to look at the others that are there, the main page is: Sacks' Pages

-=Dragona=-

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Screw you too.

Dec 14th, 2006 - 08:49:00 pm by Conner

Recently I got a message on myspace that really pissed me off. It wasn't the problem in and of itself, but rather it was 'the last straw' for me. Apologies to anyone who was expecting something brief here. But, what the hell, as often as I bother to post a damned blog, what's it going to hurt that this one's on the long side?

To those of you who think it's cool to type/speak with complete disregard for grammar/spelling - grow the hell up already, the reason we all spend at least twelve years in learning English in this country is because it is important to communicate properly.

To those of you who feel I'm too judgmental or critical or whatever, you should hear the things that asshole in the mirror says.

And to those of you who are sitting there staring at your screen shocked at the tone of this blog, after reading the title of this blog maybe you were you expecting a pep talk, a little cry of happy holiday cheer perhaps? Hmm?

Anyway.. with the basis of my rant stated, here's what I responded to that aforementioned email with... though I think I'll edit it slightly, my comments/edits will be noted in parenthesis, centered and italized on their own lines, oh, and in black. This is my damn blog, I can do that since only those who are actually interested need to read it and I'm not forcing it on anyone.

First of all: Thank you for the congratulations and the warm wishes for our future.

(as a point of reference, this first two lines of the email were a congratulations in regard to my last blog, the other nine paragraphs were a complaint about a comment I made that needed an ensuing four more comments from each of us exchanged back and forth to explain one line of my five line initial comment in response.)


Second of all: It wasn't meant to be judgmental nor upsetting, just a comment because I'm really tired of the 'gangsta/leet- speak' from all these children who always seem so uneducated. Oh, and btw, for the record it wasn't two words, it was the following sentence: "Those old skool peeps sure knew they isms huh?" and, frankly it was beneath you to exacerbate it into four additional comments like that, but what ever makes you happy.

But maybe you're right, maybe I am being too judgmental/unfair and should just withdraw from all people already because frankly, I'm pretty tired of most of them in general and a few even more so in particular.

(I mean, let's face it folks, you all know me, at least rudimentally, and I'm always critical and judgmental and generally a nasty person, right?)


After all, when I have to explain a stupid comment four times over two days in order for it to be understood, it becomes obvious that I'm not expressing myself nearly well enough to begin with, so perhaps it's much better to simply stop bothering to try to express myself at all. It'd certainly go a long way toward my own peace.

(I used to be really good at explaining things the first time so that people could understand me regardless of their educational/maturity level. I guess I've lost that skill completely when I can't even clarify what I've said without re-explaining it three times to someone who is generally fairly mature and reasonably well educated.)


Even on my mud, I could easily withdraw to just being the coder/administrator/owner without a need to actually interact with any of the players or those who visit indirectly either. I'm getting irritated with having to always help everyone else with everything from their code to their spelling and grammar anyway.

(What is it with people today who think they can be little dictators about what others must see/hear/do on their own time with regard to their own stuff?)


I could certainly easily enough shut down my instant messenger services, frankly they only serve as a medium for people to spam me with bullshit from other countries, to beg me to play teacher to them, and to annoy me with insignificant trivial issues that don't concern me anyway.

(Why do people think I should know how to solve all their problems even when I tell them up front that I don't know anything about the nature of their problem? And, if any of you has ever read my profile on Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, or MSN, please tell me why someone from another country would have the impression that I'm interested in marriage, teaching someone to speak English, or financing their illegal operations, let alone responding to the infamous "age/sex/location?"


Frankly, while I'm at it, it'd probably not be significantly noticed by anyone if I just gave up on email altogether... or nearly so anyway since I do deal with certain bills and such via email so I'd have to maintain my accounts, but have no reason to actually respond to anything 'personal'.

(Hell, I get about 2000 emails each day, and roughly 1950 of them are spam, and of the ones I get that aren't spam, any that are actually personal are not included in that count to begin with.)


...maybe it's just me at the moment, but I've really had it with the hypocrisy and so forth of everyone telling me that I'm being this, that or the other.

If, after "over the last ten years", you still don't know that I say what I mean/feel without trying/intending to be mean or deceitful and that my comment wasn't hurtful or judgmental, just a comment in response to what you'd said because I'm the kind of person who tries to by polite and nice to everyone by responding to every comment and message and email (not very successfully, but I try to) and so forth, and it offends you thusly, then there's nothing forcing you to continuing tolerating my eccentricities. And tolerating happens to be the real key word, as I'll be explaining in a moment...

(Most of you who do know me well, know that if I want to be, I can be cruel enough to "burn bridges" quite thoroughly when I intend to be and that I really do try very hard to not be that way, and when I do say/do something that causes insult or pain I generally rush to 'fix' the matter as completely as I can.)


And you know what, if you feel I'm overreacting or whatever, bear in mind that it's not been a good day so far and is not getting any better at this point and I'm mostly venting because you happened to say the wrong thing at the wrong time and just keep your judgment to yourself.

As you should be, quite easily, able to tell by now, not all of this is directed at you, per se, you just happened upon the 'last straw' for me for today.

I don't know about you, but I do still have every email and instant message I've ever gotten or sent since roughly 1992 when I started dealing with email and later instant messages (in fact, that's one of the things I dislike most about myspace, these stupid comments, blogs, messages, bulletins, etc all auto-delete eventually and don't get archived like all my other correspondences) - one of my eccentricities, I suppose.

(Again, those of you who know me know what a pack rat I am, especially digitally where I don't ever have to throw anything away and can easily vouch that this is entirely true. I log every instant message, and save a copy of every email that I send out and archive all the mail I receive, though recently I've actually started deleting more than just the spam.. this is a major breakthrough for me, but I've come to the conclusion that old news articles and such really don't mean anything to me anymore anyway.)


Anyway you're hardly non-judgmental, Laura. You've questioned my beliefs in the past, criticized my practices, and generally passed judgment on all sorts of things in my life. In fact, just read through your own blogs, you very much enjoy questioning things and people and making assumptions about what you decide for yourself the answers must be to those questions. So if you feel that something I've done is judgmental and critical of you in some way, perhaps it's time to watch out for those mirrors, you might not like what gets reflected.

(Normally I'd have edited out the name here, but since the comments in question are visible by any who can see either of our myspace pages could easily identify who I was writing to from either the line I quoted or from the fact that I'd mentioned the exchange of five comments from each of us over this, so I really didn't see the point of it this time.)


Humans are judgmental, it's part of our very base nature, denying it doesn't change anything. What does make a difference is in how tolerant one is about the judgments they've decided to make about others. I've spent decades trying, often to my own very limits, to be tolerant of everyone out there as best I can, and to be told that I'm too judgmental because I really don't feel a need to have to deal with the so called gangsta or leet speak on my own "ground" is just beyond my tolerance.

(Again, this is my blog on my myspace page, my mud is my mud operating on my server in my house, my BBS is my BBS operating on my server in my house, and my email is my email. Hell, even my instant messages are appearing on my computer in my house. Don't bring your 'leet speak' or 'gangtsa rap' to any of them, it is not welcome and will be treated as such, and if I see enough of it, you will not be welcome either.)


Have a happy holiday season, but don't bother writing back unless you have something to say that doesn't include your usual religious slant or more negativity and such, I've really had enough of all of it from everyone lately and am not the least bit interested in hearing/reading more of it.

(For the most part this goes for all of you. I'm not talking about the usual standard holiday wishes here, by the way. I do honestly and sincerely hope each and every one of you and the members of your families and other friends all have a very happy whatever it may be that you celebrate this time of year, even if it's just a nice quiet few days to yourself because you are of one of the few 'religions', like atheists, that don't happen to have a holiday this month.

I'm talking about the spam that I get all the time regarding christian doctrine. (oh yeah, didn't anyone tell you that unsolicited emails are considered spam, regardless of the warmth of your christian fellowship message that simply must be shared, and happen to be illegal in every state of this country))


You know, the worst part is that now this damn blog entry is going to over shadow the happy news that was my last blog. If you haven't read that one yet, go read it and try to have a nice happy thought or two about this month's festivities and the happiness that it's supposed to bring us all.

-=Conner=-

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Guess who's coming to town...

Dec 13th, 2006 - 10:34:00 pm by Conner

and I'm not talking about any fat guy in a red snow suit either!

Well, it's official.. we saw the doctor today and they determined that Dragona's pregnant again already. So we're expecting another new family member on or about July 24th, 2007. So far we know that if it's a girl (finally) it'll be dubbed Samara Pauline Sacks, and if it's another boy, it'll have a name that we haven't yet used.

I suppose I'll try to remember to give you more info as I get it.

Oh, they also took the baby's first picture today while we were there, here it is for you to see.

When you get done with that one, there will be plenty more slated for appearance over the next 18 years or so at The new baby's web page too.

Oh, and to those of you celebrating a holiday in the next few weeks, Happy Channukah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanza, Festive Solstice, Happy Yule, etc, etc, etc.. and to anyone who feels offended that I missed their particular winter holiday in all that, a nice warm Seasons Greetings to ya'.

Oh, and for any of you that want to, I'm going to post this same blog, or one really similar to it at my Yahoo! 360 page too.

One final note, for those who feel compelled to offer baby name suggestions, and there always are some who do, feel free, we have a lovely brand new circular file to store them in.

-=Conner=-

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