Last night I went to bed at 3am. I was trying to figure out how to setup a mailing list on the LAVA web that I maintain. Well, it was fun. Since I started working on my personal website and other sites, I've learned an incredible amount about HTML, perl, CGI, PHP etc. I also have reduced my free time to nil. Come to think of it i never had free time in my life. I never understood that term. I own a television set but never turn it on. Sorry, I lie, I turn it on for the kids sometimes.
I got so carried away in my experimenting that I forgot that I had to take Jasmine to her Saturday morning Greek school class. Yes, everything you saw in "My big fat Greek wedding" is true. Only I'm the Greek and my wife is the non-Greek. In any case I had to wake up 4hrs later and drive Jasmine to school. I think Jasmine likes this ritual of the two of us alone in the car without any distractions. I try to spend time alone with each of my kids so I can bond with them. During the short trip we try to talk in Greek to practice and listen to Greek music from the latest CD's I put together off of the web.
After school we all went to Pingle's farm and market. I always try to take the kids to the outdoors to experience and learn about where food comes from - not from the supermarket. We were treated to a free tractor-pulled wagon ride to reach the picking spots. We had wheelbarrows there to carry the heavy ones. When we got back to the main area we saw sheep and goats, bunnies and lot's more pumpkins. There was a huge corn maze shaped into a dragon, I told my wife to literally get lost. After buying some apple pie, apple cider and small gourds, I noticed something really cool. They had a pumpkin cannon. Yes, you heard right, a compressed-air powered pumpkin cannon. It had it's sites set on a hay castle in the distance. With every BOOM there was an accompanying SPLAT as the pumpkins dropped onto the castle from above...
