I have had a very long week.  Issues getting to work on time in the morning (pouty kids, traffic, forgotten cell phones), people behaving badly, late nights, mental exhaustion, children who don’t sleep, the audit that never ends, catching up on work that actually never gets caught up on. I’m mentally out of it tonight, so I’m not even pretending to consider booting up the laptop.  Screw it, I’m chilling out tonight.

Tomorrow is Halloween, and the weekend is not too far beyond. My wife has been taking care of the Halloween preparations for the kids.  Josh is dressing up as a cowboy, and Lily is going to be a lamb.  I picked up cupcakes for Josh’s Halloween party in class tomorrow afternoon.  I probably wouldn’t have all the time and patience for all this planning for the kids, but my wife more than makes up for it.  God bless her.

I don’t know why I don’t buy from Amazon.com more often.  I stepped into a Best Buy last week to get an AUX cable to connect my iPod to the car stereo, and I happened to see Iron Man (2008) on DVD for $19.99.  I did want to pick up the movie at some point, so I made an impulse buy.

Iron Man

Later, I found it on Amazon.com for only $14.99.  Needless to say, I purchased this, a replacement vehicle adapter (no expensive FM transmitter), and a DVD for my wife.

Garmin Vehicle Power Cable

Meanwhile, the $19.99 edition is sitting in my glove compartment, and will be returned sometime this week.  Unfortunately, lo and behold, this is the wrong vehicle adapter for the Garmin nuvi 660.  It still works via the USB plug, but not exactly the one that connects to the mount directly.  It works, so who cares?

Ah well.  Maybe I can drop it in the lake without my wife knowing.