Thursday

Jonny is so frustrated with xml. He is trying to update a tag that is null. The problem is it has attributes that aren't null. Perhaps talking about it helps. Well that didn't help. Jonny didn't know that Romney is out of the race. That happened about 2 weeks ago. For lunch Jonny went to look for restaurants near to 3rd and william. He was going to go to the Wolverine sub shop. But they closed 4 days ago. He ended up at the cloverleaf. A real dive. Really seedy. Well Jonny was just interrupted by Lea. She wanted to map a network drive. It was really easy, check the box that says reconnect at login. Easy peazy as Junnabe Jones would say. Jesse started packing his stuffed animals. Jonny hung up on Angelina. She called her 7th time by 2PM. Jonny is up to page 50 of The Shadow Roads. He is upto 42 a in Brachos. There is a blog called not your father's talmud. It discusses each Talmud page. It plans to anyway. It started in 2005 and fell apart in 2006. A very good effort though. Jonny thought of going to the Le Dog for lunch but they didn't open until 11:30. There are at least 80 restaurants within 1/2 mile of Hollywood. Tomorrow is back to Hotel California and the big training session.

Wednesday

Yesterday Jonny completed listening to Conviction abridged on CD. For a death penalty advocate the book offers some solice. If the main character the lawyer was not seeking to right a wrongful death penalty conviction then she never would have stumbled apon this case. In other words if this mythical character was merely sentenced to life in prison she would never have met him. Only because of the finality of death was she made aquainted with his, abusive childhood, his lack of represented council etc and all the other wrongs committed to the accused. Jonny is on page 38 of The Shadow Roads. He is trying to update a SYS.XMLTYPE field now. Vacation is coming soon. And the new house soon. The family will be doing some major packing. Jonny has no less than 23 windows open. In two more days he trains some Administrative Assistants in how to extract data using Access. Doesn't sound hard. With all the politics around here it could be harder than it appears. Jonny finished listening to Brachos 39b, the emphasis which is on food. Jesse, Lorraine, Alberta and Angelina went to look at the new house. They spent a good amount of time. The new house is 2 miles to Hollywood and 2 miles to Hotel California.

Tuesday

Page 16, Chapter 3 of The Shadow Roads. Jonny already had weird dreams. He had to get out of bed when Jesse came into bed. So sleeping in the bunk bed must have been difficult for him. He woke up suddenly, but didn't want to make to much noise. Lorraine was on the top bunk. Eventually Lorraine woke up. She looked at Jonny. He was hiding under the covers so she must have thought it was Jesse. Jonny is a clever one. Yesterday Jonny and Angelina had an extended meeting with the mortgage company. Today Jonny is listening to Ki Tissa. This is the Grossman commentary. Mainly it talks about the Fay Taigel. And it discusses the Sutton. In the meantime Kristina sent a couple of congratulatory emails. Jonny doesn't want to tell her about the upcoming vacation but he probably will have to. It has been so cold here. Jonny is almost done with Conviction on CD. He had a meeting today from 9 to 11. Lunch. Then another meeting with his boss. They meet one on one every day for a few minutes to 45 minutes. Finally there is another meeting at 2:30. The stretch monitor comes on every so often here at Hotel California. After this meeting Jonny will have lasagne for an early dinner.

Monday

Why make a more creative title than that? Over the weekend Angelina and Jonny bought and sold a house. They sold the Pittsfield Township house and bought a house in Burns Park. The two of them were in the office of the money source for the last few hours and thus the blog is late for the 2 pm usual time. Jonny went to the teen service. Alberta helped out in the kitchen. Jonny didn't figure out it was a teen service until the Rabbi made an annoucement at the end. The 6th graders worked in the kitchen. With this new house everyone will be able to walk every where. Even Angelina might lose some weight with walking the kids to school and all. The dogs will have a new one block circuit. They can even go in the new fenced in yard. The house needs an AC and dishwasher. Jonny finished reading King Bongo by Sanchez (306 pages). He is on page 2 of The Shadow Roads by Russell. He is onto 37b of Brachose. Maybe time to listen to the Parsha. Angelina is serving dinner 15 minutes later tonight so Jonny can work a little harder. Jonny told Wendell about the new house and he offered to pay for the dishwasher. Angelina wants to remodel the kitchen: in specific, change the counter top, add cabinets and of course a dishwasher. Over the weekend Jonny discovered the world of video blogging. He found a video blog called frum satire. This guy is very religious but he isn't a "white-shirt black-hatter." He wears a tallis under his tee shirt on camera. Very interesting to watch. Also found another video blog under utube called too hot for words. This woman give the etymology of words and is very beautiful to watch her work. Her show is tastefully down and it would be interesting to ask her to look up the meaning of the word Bar Mitzvah.

Friday

Another creative blog post title by Jonny. Jonny is up to page 271 of King Bongo. He is almost completed with that book. In addition, he is almost completed with CD 5 of the 5 CD's for the book on CD Conviction. He is up to Brachos 36b. In addition, Jonny is almost done listening to the Parsha discussion of the week for the third time. So it sinks in. Now he plans to use Real Player and listen to chanting. Jonny highly recommends listening and watching the video mac or PC. It is hilarious. It is a rap video and the jury isn't in about which is better. Every now and then Jonny reads a few other Jewish blogs, it is fun.

Over the weekend there was a Bat Mitzvah class for the parents. After the Bat Mitzvah class, Alberta's 6th grade class put on a TuBsvet play for the parents. The buyers of Jonny's house are still debating. Tuesday Graser the cat was neutered and declawed in the front. Also this week was the 100th day of school. Jesse and Lorraine's school made a big deal of it. Lorraine wrote an essay about health eating and health living. Jesse and Jonny made a 100 piece lego project over the weekend. Lorraine's class is doing a read-a-thon in Hebrew School. She records how many minutes of Hebrew she reads. This week Jonny helped her with math and science homework.
Also Lorraine lost a tooth. Jonny had to go to a two hour meeting on engagement in the hospital process. How boring.

Thursday

More exciting stuff for Jonny Lee Miller. He will be doing training. His job. He'll train a room full of administrative assistants how to do simple queries. The problem is Jonny uses DOS, NOTEPAD, SQL, ORACLE and Excel. He doesn't use Velos at all. But it is helpful to use it to verify the data you pulled. In the meantime Angelina Jolie is willing to give the house away. Jonny had to spend an agonizing 20 minutes on the phone with Thomas Hill. He would prefer that his daughter Angelina not give a refundable $1000 damage deposit to cover the house while she spends 4 days moving out, after closing on the deal at the end of next month. Jonny discussed this with the realtor. His shocking email to her asking to lower the damage deposit from $1000 to nothing, prompted her terse email reply, call me. Sunday Jonny will be looking at houses. His strategy will be to keep Angelina happy. He trusts Angelina to choose a house. Angelina doesn't trust Jonny to choose. He would just as soon live in a cardboard box on main street, with no parking, no basement, 1 bath room, no garge, no eat in kitchen. But if it was a perfect world sure he doesn't want pick pockets running around outside his front door and cars using his street as a cut through to other neighborhoods. Jonny listened to Brachos 34b. Rob Schneider and Penny Fuller decided Jonny will be in Hollywood now 3 days a week and Hotel California only 2 days a week. Jonny is on page 248 of King Bongo. And after everything that is going on Jonny can say he has only worked on Lea Thompson's stuff as back up to billing for 5 hours this week, not the agreed apon 12. He is too stressed: to go to bed early, not snack at night, do sit ups, do relax and let go and finally do nasal irrigation.

Wednesday

Dabney Coleman is out sick. So is Penny Fuller. Jonny is trying really hard to work on billing 12 hours per week for Lea Thompson. Dolly Parton gave him a task today and then took it away. He went upstairs to talk to Rob Schneider. Today the realtor called and wants to deal. Angelina Jolie is in no mood to deal. She thinks they are giving the house away. Right now Jonny is listening to Brachos 33b. He also listened to the Parsha Tezaveh today, second time this week. This is the parsha where Moshe isn't mentioned. This happens because Moshe said take me out of your book. So for one parsha he was removed. How would the talmudist scholars have differed in their work if they had computers? Probably the only difference is they would have finished their work quicker? Yesterday Jonny had an engagement meeting. That is hospital speak for a moral boosting quick win for management. Jonny is on page 212 of King Bongo. The book is almost done. Then he'll read that Sean Russell book Angelina picked up at the library. Jonny has been very negligent on the situps. There has been so much snow lately. Alberta has about 54 guests she would like to invite to her Bat Mitzvah celebration. A cool website for looking at house prices is zillow dot com. It make a zillow estimate based on their secret housing model formula. The prices are a bit inflated for Jonny's neighborhood. Zillow wants 206 for his house when indeed it might sell for 166 with 10 back at closing which is really selling for 156. They bought the house for 125 a long, long time ago.

Thursday

Jonny is at Hollywood today. He went out for lunch. It was nice to walk to Marne's Thai restaurant. Jonny has a meeting at 3PM. Rob will be there and they are all programmers. Jonny has listened to the Parsha twice and the chanting twice. He also finished listening to Brachos 31b. Jonny was up late reading Brachos 1a through 4b online. He applied for four jobs for Angelina. As expected Wendell Pierce emailed. He was sick. Wendell said what are you doing for Passover. What he implied was we are inviting you for the fifteenth year in a row. Jonny complained to Wendell and said the Thomas Hill and Angelina Jolie were the real roadblocks. Wendell wrote back and said don't forget we invited you every summer and every thanksgiving too. Darn Jonny left his book mark for King Bongo. There Jonny had to add the underlining code using html. This blogger is losing it's touch. He left it at the restaurant. Jonny took the pc to the help desk today. They took the computer apart. They pulled out the hard drive. They hooked up a usb reader to it and copied the files to Jonny's pc over the network. They have that kind of power. Penny Hill was complaining to Rob Schneider that Jonny keeps saying I instead of we. How weird?

Wednesday

Jesse has a big bladder. The biggest bladder the pediatric urologist has ever seen. Angelina took him in for a check up today. He had the ultrasound yesterday. Today Jonny sent Kristina an email because she wrote back. They went to the beach and she layed it on thick about how nice it is there. What is implied, "My advice to you is to let your wife to let you and your family vacation with us at our beach house." Jonny escapes work and life in general. Hmmm spell has been broken for a while now. He does it by reading King Bongo by Thomas Sanchez. He is on page 54 of this book about Havana. The setting is Cuba, 1957. Today Jonny listened to the parsha again. He was very tired but too busy to be tired. Pulled in a lot of different directions.The weight loss is going well for him. Lorraine was sick yesterday. She didn't go to school. Last night she went into Jonny's bed and he slept in her bed. Much to crowded with Angelina, Jonny and Lorraine in the same bed. It wasn't easy sleeping in an upper bunk bed. At around 6AM Lorraine woke him up to tell him he could go back to his own bed. Jonny went back to sleep. At 6:22 Angelina woke him up. Then he climbed down and walked the dogs. The rain was horrible. Jonny had to drop Lorraine off at her friend Marc Anthony's house. He has siblings and the mom will take all the kids to school. Her school starts around 9AM and Jonny needs to get to work long before that. Well more like 8:30. After the bus ride and the walk through Hotel California it was 8:45. By the time he was done emailing his mother it was 9AM. But if it wasn't for this car pool arrangement Jonny would have been doing those things at 9AM instead of 8:45. This was all because Jesse had his pediatric apppointment today. Jonny and Angelina had to wrestle Jesse to the ground to get him ready this morning.

Tuesday

Jonny is back at Hotel California. He had a long meeting in Death Valley with Jeff Harding. So he didn't get to the Hotel California until 12:15. Then he had lunch. Later today he has a meeting with Penny Fuller and the doctor and the admin clerk. Penny is sick so she probably won't come. These meetings are once every two weeks. The next one is cancelled. Jonny is all ready for the meeting so he will drink this coffee and go upstairs and see Rob Schneider. He ran into Dolly Parton while getting coffee. She wants to make sure the Varis to Velos link works but doesn't break Varis when it becomes aria. Meanwhile back at Hollywood everyday Lea Thompson complains that Jonny is doing enough to learn her job and work on the billing programming.

Jonny finished a book last night. He will attempt to sell The Long Suit on Amazon. The book is 279 pages. That means Jonny read over a 100 pages yesterday. It was also confirmed by Angelina that the group who looked at the house over the weekend for 45 minutes, was the same group who saw the house. So they made a list of questions. Stupid ones. Like does the fireplace work, it looks so clean maybe it is broken. Jonny finished the first ZZ Top CD and is working on the second one. They are learning chapter 2 of Word in Jonny's class this week. Did Jonny recommend The Long Suit? Not really. It has more British/Irish humor. This time. Jonny and Harry are in trouble. Harry the main character tells Jonny that they have two chances and Slim left town. Ha ha ha.

Jonny talked with Richard Ziman for 20 minutes last night after drinking a Winter Beer Bock. He was walking the dogs too.

Monday

By the time 2PM rolls around Jonny is in no mood to write. He listened to the parsha chanting today. Over the weekend the family didn't go to services. Alberta had a basketball game. The whole family went to that. Sunday they had an open house. Lorraine, Alberta and Jesse went to religious school. After school Bill Maul picked them up. Like Jonny he had all 5 kids in the car. On the way Jonny drove. He called Kristina. But after a few minutes had to hang up because William De Meo was screaming too loudly. Margo Winkler was in the car. Alberta came home. Lorraine and Jesse went with Bill and Jennifer Badger's children to McDonalds. They played and ate. Jonny and Angelina did the final prep work. They went all in one car to pick up Lorraine and Jesse at the McDonalds on Ann Arbor Saline Road. Then they went to great clips. Jonny and Jesse got their haircut. Then Angelina dropped them all off at the library. The dogs were in the car this whole time. Jonny listened to parsha discussion at work today. Now he is listening to Brachos 31 a with the option of reading it online. He is up to page 175 of The Long Suit. At the library he picked up a ZZ top cd and two books on CD. Jesse played games. The hour went fairly quick. Last night was the superbowl. Jonny's parents went to the beach for the weekend. Jonny ate way too much for dinner last night. He really wants to lose some weight. There was a snow storm and he tried to shovel snow and hurt his back. He balanced the check book over the weekend. Jonny was unable to do situps for a day. Spell check is broken in blogger. Jonny will be going back to Hotel California tomorrow. He has religious school pick up today. OK ten minutes of writing are up, bye.

Friday

There is snow in Detroit today. The mayor of Detroit is involved in a sex scandal.

While over at a meeting at Death Valley Jonny ran into a former worker from the insurance company. He asked her about Matthew Lillard. She stayed until December and she said Matthew got a special deal where he can stay until he retires. Today the IT department announced that Jennifer Rice was leaving and going on to a management position. She lasted all of 13 months. But they said she was a great contributor. Back in January when the peons like Jonny were scrambling for jobs she had one lined up. But who cares Jonny won't be leaving this department for a management position somewhere else in 13 months. His other old friend Jeff Harding is the Interum director for another department that handles the velos. He was a DBA type and will be working with database. Good because Jonny wants to clean it up. Spell check is broken.

Last night Jonny talked to Wendell Pierce. He has a bad cold. Wendell allowed himself 2 minutes 30 seconds to speak to his son. He was mentioning the Yartzeit for Jonny's grandfather. This occurred some 31 years ago. Is there some hidden meaning in this brief conversation. Wendell said he would talk to Jonny over the weekend. Jonny told him about the house.

The neighbors have lowered their price from 175 to 165. Another neighbor has a house listed in this neighborhood as well. Jonny listened to Brachos 30a again because he wasn't sure what his place was. Since he got a new computer. Finally he listened to Mishpatim for the third time this week. He installed Real Player and listened to the chanting back on Monday. But this is gone since the new PC will need Real Player installed again. Better get to work and install other work related software.

Jonny is on page 88 chapter 8 of The Long Suit, by Philip Davison.