the friday five:

1. What are the first things that you do in the morning to start your day?
If I’m getting up when I should and have plenty of time, I let the dogs out, do my sit-ups (yeah, really, and for a long time now — I may not be an ironman, but I’m doing a hell of a lot better than the elder Testerman generations were at my age), shave, let the dogs in, and shower. Eating is the very last thing.

If I’m running late, the first thing that gets dropped is (of course), the exercise. Breakfast usually becomes a Sprite and a pack of pop-tarts that I eat when I get to work.

2. What are the last things that you do at night before going to bed?
I usually have the house to myself from 10pm on, so I get ‘work’ done — usually web page stuff or whatever project I’ve got going on. Last night I put some of that off to clean my office space up, which needed it.

3. What daily routine have you recently added to your day?
Eating lunch at home, so I can let the dogs out. I used to do it pretty frequently anyway, but with a puppy in a kennel, it’s become a necessity.

4. What routine do you wish you get rid of?
I really wish we could get rid of the fishtank. We’re down to 3 tetras and a cory, and the added sunlight in the room (not on the tank directly) makes cleaning a much bigger deal now, due to algae. Frankly, it’s a waste of time and we get nothing out of it — we’re never in the room the tank is.

5. What’s the one thing that makes you feel like something is missing if you don’t do it at some point within your day?

(a) Blog.

(b) Duh.

6. (bonus) What’s the haps this weekend?
Tonight:

• People coming over.
• Diffuse Jackie’s desire to start painting the main room, because we (a) don’t have the paint mixed properly yet and (b) have a gazibbillion other things to do this weekend.

Saturday:

• Trip to Home Depot for “Stuph”.
  
• Aerate, rake, water, and maybe even reseed portions of the lawn, front and back.
  
• Do something with the bottom of the back fence so that Dizzy can’t dig under it into the neighbor’s yard.
  
• Do something with the TOP of the back fence (razor wire, electricity, glass shards embedded in the border plank, whatever) to keep the idiot kids from the next house over in their own yard. I wouldn’t normally mind, but the fat-ass that usually climbs over to retrieve their overthrown balls is a serious risk to the fence integrity.
  
• Clean out the rain gutters.
  
• Finish the carpet/tile border in my fixed up bathroom and rehang the towel rack.
  
• File our damn taxes.
  
• Test out the sprinklers to see how badly they’re screwed up from not getting them blown out in the fall. :P
  
• Write some more stuff up for Dave and for Randy.
  
• Host Randy’s game at the house that night.

Sunday:

• Spend the morning crying like a woman from all the muscle aches and blisters I’ll have from Saturday’s activities.
  
• Over to Casa Consortium in the afternoon.
  

Maybe you should move the fish tank down to the basement. Do water-related things in the boy's bathroom. Less sunlight, more presence.

Yeah, but then I don't have the tank right next to the kitchen sink, which is the only thing that doesn't suck about the whole thing.

let jackie paint the fishtank. voila!

Per #4: If Taz and Thom aren't getting the job done, you could invite Mist and Indy over. I think they might have a go at it. :)