FIFTEEN POUNDS OF CRAZY IN A FIVE-POUND SACK

My tiny little brain is still trying to re-absorb the week.

Noodle has been alternating between nightmares and needing the potty, Beast turned 3, the Nana had to be hospitalized for a bit of falling off the wagon, yours truly had to blow up his schedule for a three-hour congressional candidates' forum and then get said Nana off to the hospital, and Her Awesomeness has been lost somewhere in a cloud of flour as she attempted to bake Beast a birthday cake as well as a couple of banana breads for the big school bus driver's appreciation day today, plus it's over to Kingston for a lighting part that just came in so that I can fix the living room lights and then off to the Wal-Mart to return some insufficiently flattering Noodlewear. She's not being spoiled...it's just that she's 99th-percentile tall for her age and standard clothing sizes don't work all that often. Add that to Wal-Mart's superior quality control (/sarcasm) and it would have been less of a time-suck to buy the nicer stuff straight off, except that the bank account is approaching Bush-approval-rating levels.

Yeah, you caught that right, I'm doing electrical work. Red's hot, black's not, why is my hair sticking straight up and what's that burnt-flesh odor I'm smelling?

FUN WITH LOGISTICS

Here's a look at the addenda to the usual Boogerland work-n-family schedule for tomorrow:

1:10 - Mets game. Praise be, the headcase Oliver Perez isn't starting so this should end at a reasonable time.
2:00-2:30 - pick up Beast and Noodle at school, but not too late because they're napping.
3:30 - Noodle eye doctor appointment. Hand Beast off to Her Awesomeness.
4:10 - Yankee game begins, and hopefully the Mets are done by then so I can put that in the WPDH afternoon news, with Noodle in tow at the radio station.
4:45 - Beast allergist appointment.
5:?? - Rendezvous with wife and Beast; attempt civilized restaurant dinner.

This'll work without a hitch. I'm so sure of it.