The best laid plans still don’t stand a chance against a cranky toddler! Cranky may not even be the right word … it’s just surprising how last fall when we took one year-old Christopher to see The Peanuts Movie, he absolutely loved every minute of it and was pretty much glued to his seat from start to finish,…
June 18, 2016: Mac & Cheese & Mini-Shrimp & Words
With tomorrow being Father’s Day filled with family plans and whatnot, today was pretty much my busy writing day for the weekend. Ever have one of those days when you know that you have to eat, yet you really want to work on whatever it is that you’re supposed to work on and you just hate to waste an entire twenty minutes throwing together…
June 17, 2016: Spy Game
“Hey, wait a minute – that’s my room!” Let’s just be honest – eventually one of these days our son is going to make that correlation when he’s staring into the baby monitor receiver in our bedroom, although in our defense I’m kind of surprised that he hasn’t gotten any sort of clue already when you take into…
June 16, 2016: No Hitting
What is it about little boys loving to hit things and people and pretty much anything they come into contact with??? I don’t think *I* was particularly violent as a child, although there was that one time that I accidentally hit one of the neighbor kids in the head with a baseball bat, which I promise you was in reality a lot less…
June 15, 2016: Gate Breach
This day was bound to come eventually, though I’d hoped we’d have at least a few more months of sanity. Long ago, we decided to put a gate up at Christopher’s bedroom door to keep him somewhat contained during bedtime and nap time. And today he confirmed that he’s now big enough to completely circumvent…
June 14, 2016: Registration for Two
I told my wife at one point that doing the whole baby gift registry thing seemed a lot more fun the first time. I figure that could’ve been for a couple of different reasons… I was mostly on Christopher duty, so pushing him around in the cart and keeping him occupied held a higher priority in my…
June 13, 2016: Fatigue in the Wake of Tragedy…
I kind of had a feeling that today was going to be a day like this, though I hoped that maybe we’d be allowed just a moment longer to grieve. When I finally went to bed last night, they had only identified something like a dozen of the victims, and when I woke up today, they…
May 22, 2016: The Disney Springs Update
I’m a little surprised to find myself saying this, but I think I actually really like the recent updates to Disney Springs with opening of the Town Center section of the big expansions. Granted, I probably won’t shop at most of the shops, but I also recognize that they’re not really for me, and for the out…
May 21, 2016: Writer’s Guilt
I’ve written about this before, but one of my big worries as a writer has always been that I’m honestly not very well read. At least not when it comes to the literary greats like Twain and Hemingway and Vonnegut and Salinger… I am at the very least proficient in the complete works of Adams and Barry if that…
May 20, 2016: YouTube -> Plex
Now I should probably preface this entire post by stating that I can’t necessarily vouch for the legality of doing this, so if that’s the type of thing that you like to be concerned about in this digital wild wild west that we know as The Internet, then take notice… 😉 Tonight I discovered this awesome tool that…
May 19, 2016: Flyin’ High, Super FX-Style
On a whim after actually getting my humor column for this week done not only on-time, but in fact early, I decided to dust off the old Super Nintendo and splurge on a video game that I haven’t played in god knows how long – Star Fox! I still remember getting this game when it first got released for…
May 13, 2016: #TeamCap ‘Til the End
So tonight was the big night – when I finally got to watch Captain America: Civil War … a whopping one week after it came out, and … I’m not really sure how much I liked it… I mean, there were definitely some cool moments – the battle scene at the airport that was featured in the trailer, along with a…
May 11, 2016: Hot and Bubbly
(photo from a regular, old bathtime earlier this week because I totally forgot to take pictures in the hot tub … in the dark) Tonight I took Christopher in the hot tub, which apparently is actually a pretty controversial thing – to take a toddler, or roughly anyone under the age of 35, into the jacuzzi – but he…
May 10, 2016: Oracle … Grrrrr!
I yearn for a development environment that just works together. No competing technologies and conflicting software that doesn’t like to play well with one another, and no hours upon hours wasted fighting configurations before I can even start the work that I’m supposed to be working on all this time!!! So in other words, the opposite of how I’ve spent the better…
May 9, 2016: Surrender
Mommy’s alright, daddy’s alright, they just seem a little weird… Tonight I stayed up late watching the 2016 induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on HBO. I can’t say that I was ever really a huge fan of any of the inductees – Steve Miller, Chicago, Cheap Trick, NWA, and Deep Purple….
May 8, 2016: Super Mom
My wife is pretty swell at this whole motherhood thing, and not just because if it was the man who was required to give birth in order to have children, well, let’s just say that this house would have a whole lot less talking animal toys scattered across its floors than it happens to have today! 😯 So today we set aside the…
May 7, 2016: Happy Birthday, Isaac!
Any day that feeds me cupcakes and pizza is typically deemed to be a pretty good day, but this particular Saturday found itself to be extra special because it also just so happened to be my nephew Isaac’s first birthday!!! It isn’t often that a kid gets to celebrate his first birthday, and for the record I think…
May 6, 2016: Family Therapy
Today was a real poop of a day. Like, one of those days when you’d prefer to just crawl back into bed and wake up on Saturday, but you can’t because … responsibilities and stuff. So I’ve been in a pretty lousy mood as I’ve done my best to coast through the day and not upset…
May 5, 2016: Broken Glass
I don’t know what it is – this is seriously the second glass that I’ve broken this week! 😯 Maybe it’s somebody’s way of saying that I need to lay off the dishes for a little while, or perhaps just slow down in general. Too bad, because I actually really liked these glasses, too … even though the little divot in the bottom…
May 4, 2016: Creepy Dream Repellent
We just finished watching Victor Frankenstein, which I had hopes for on account of its starring Harry Potter and Young Professor X … but it ended up being pretty awful. Also, there were parts of it that were super creepy … namely the parts containing body parts stitched together … so here I am watching…
May 3, 2016: Piggy Banks Are So 1985…
Tonight I pillaged my son’s piggy bank – because it’s not like he needs the money, anyways. Best case scenario, he ends up putting the coins up his nose, and needless to say I have no desire to have that hospital adventure anytime soon! Besides, I guess that moving them from one place of his to another isn’t really stealing when it…
May 2, 2016: Code vs Words
Sometimes I find myself torn between wanting to write and wanting to just play around in geeky, developer stuff all day, and today was definitely one of those days. Of course, the dev projects that I have to work on aren’t exactly the types that I felt like working on today … so I suppose…
May 1, 2016: Just Keep Writing
I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call it a crisis of faith, per se, but lately I’ve been kind of stuck in a rut with regards to what I want to write – both today and into the future to define my career, if you will. I guess you could say that right…
Apr 30, 2016: Gator Under Foot
It’s not every day that your neighbors knock on your door to kindly let you know that you currently have an alligator underneath your car… …and thank god for that! In reality this particular pond monster was only about five feet long once the trapper pulled him out and got him measured, but he certainly looked…