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I need a lawyer

August 24, 2009 | 1 comment

I have been really bad about updating regularly, as I previously commited to. I would like to point out, in my defence, that I dent fairly often, and tweet more often still. If you want to keep up with me follow me on those services. I would recommend that you follow me on identi.ca if you have accounts on both, and my dents forward to twitter, but I also have semi-spammy SpyMaster updates and all sorts of other stuff that isn’t worth following on my twitter feed. My dents also forward to my Facebook profile, if you are my friend there or wish to be.

Anyway, the kids aren’t with us any more. A couple of weeks ago, they went over to their dad’s for his weekend with them. Instead of bringing them back, we were delivered a paper from his lawyer that he is fighting for custody of them. We went to a preliminary hearing, where we were told that until the courts can hear our case he will be keeping them. The wife and I are obviously hiring a lawyer, as we feel that we are the best thing for them. At the very least want visitation so we can get to see them.

The problem is that I make too much money to use Legal Aid or any of the other financial assistance legal services I have found, but do not make enough to hire any of the lawyers we have talked too. Does anyone know a good family lawyer around Ft. Worth, Texas, who would work on a sliding scale or pro bono?

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Field Trip to the Dallas World Aquarium

May 21, 2009 | 2 comments

On Tuesday, Evan’s grade went on a field trip to the Dallas World Aquarium. The wife and I tagged along as chaperones, taking care of a small group of kids. Despite my normal antipathy towards children, we actually had a great deal of fun!

Before we went to the aquarium, we took a side trip to Linda Spurlock park, where the kids played a while and ate lunch. Then they all boarded a bus and we headed to Dallas. I normally can’t stand Dallas, and refuse to go there even to see a good show (I do plan on making an exception for when the Nekromantix play with the Reverend Horton Heat on 25 July) but was willing to do so to hang out with the wife and kid.

When we got there, we hit a slight snag; parking was $5 and for some reason the parking lot was one of the ones where you have to stuff bills in a box. We rarely if ever carry cash, and this is the first place I have seen in several years where I couldn’t use plastic. Fortunantally, one of the other parents had some extra money and gave it to us. It would normally be embarrassing to have to even ask, but I refuse to feel like a fool when they are the ones who won’t take my Visa.

Jennifer took the camera I got her for X-Mas, and took several pictures. She created a gallery of her favorites; I just uploaded the entite mess to flickr. Feel free to browse and enjoy.

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Kids

April 29, 2009 | 4 comments

Sorry about the departure from the promised standard updates. Jennifer’s mother has been going through some rough times — she lost her home and has no job — so the wife and I have been watching her kids continuously for the past three weeks. I currently get off of work at one in the morning, have to leave to take the kids to school around seven, and have to pick them up again at three. Then I have to go to work at four. So, needless to say, I am sleeping pretty much any chance I can, leaving little to no time to blog.

We are actually quite annoyed by current circumstances. Her mother has no way for us to get ahold of her, and no address so we can’t even go by to catch up with her. We would like to transfer the kids from the school they are in on the opposite side of Ft. Worth to the better school two blocks from our house, but can’t as we don’t have custody. We can’t even take them to the doctor without their mother — we don’t so much as know their social security numbers. We are trying to get temporary custody or power of attorney so we can take care of the kids, but it is not easy because their mother is afraid that if she lets us have any type of guardianship she will lose her child support or food stamps. We don’t give a shit about the money — we want what is best for the kids — but it is really hard to get someone who doesn’t think the same way to understand that.

Anyone reading this have experience with similar circumstances who can give us any advice? If so, please drop me a comment or email me.

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Happy birthday Josh

March 7, 2009 | 1 comment

Me, dressed as the Joker for a party

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Jennifer’s brother Josh is turning ten tomorrow, so yesterday we had him a birthday party. He loves Batman, so we themed our party as such.

To make the party extra fun, I dressed as the Joker, which would have worked better had I had some hair. It seemed like a fun idea, and I even got into character quite well, but I didn’t realize how much I was setting myself up to be picked on by a small army of small people! We had water guns and confetti eggs, and instead of turning them on each other all the kids were squirting and confettiing me! Stupid bullies. They were just jealous!

In addition to a malfunctioning pinata and the aforementioned water guns and confetti eggs, we had a huge cake and a shitload of pizzas, and watched the 1990 Batman (with Jack Nicholson as the Joker) and Batman & Robin. I had never seen Batman & Robin, and must say that it is somehow cornier than the Adam West Batman movie! It was just plain awful.

After watching twenty or so kids for three or four hours we were completely exhausted. I don’t see why anyone would have more than two kids… children in large numbers become evil!

Fortunantly everyone seemed to have fun. We spent pretty much our entire grocery budget putting this party together, and knowing that the birthday boy liked it makes it all worthwhile.

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