Everyone has a blog these days and it can be tough to find blogs that are truly worth following. I only really keep up with a handfull of them these days and here they are:
Dubious Quality – Bill Harris is a wonderful writer. I had the pleasure of meeting him at the one and only Austin Gaming Expo, where we had a table setup in our first valiant effort to build a real readership for Snackbar Games. Bill’s stories about his son Eli are classic and keep me in stitches. This is the top blog that I read right now.
Dooce – Heather Armstrong is a very opinionated woman with very strong convictions. She is also one hell of a writer. I like that she writes what she feels and seems genuine about it. The stories can be a big vulgar and profanity tends to be a staple. Fear not, it’s worth the read.
Collision Detection – Clive Thompson does a lot of writing for a lot of people and he’s more of a cyclical blogger, but his posts are almost always interesting and insightful, even if you don’t care for the content. He’s currently 2 months behind, so expect a wave of posts to hit in the new year.
Life in General
blogs
Today is Ethan’s Christmas party at school. With Lauren as the room mom, it was a pretty important thing that they got up on time and got out of the house. Today also happened to be the one day that we all slept in until 5 minutes before they were supposed to leave. Doh.
Does that happen to anyone else? The days you really need to be somewhere on time are usually the hardest ones to pull off smoothly.
Life in General, The Holidays
christmas, party, running late
It’s common knowledge that as children we can’t wait to grow up. You can’t wait to be older so you can sit at the grown up table. You can’t wait to be older so you can stay up late. You can’t wait to be older so you can drive and then drink and then.. who knows what else.
As kids, it seems to take forever for time to go by so we can hit that next milestone in our lives and move on. As a parent, time is flying by so fast that I feel like everything is passing me by. It feels like it was just yesterday that we were headed to the hospital to have Ethan and now he’s 4.5.
On a smaller scale, this year has just disappeared. I mean, we are a few weeks out from Christmas. Now that I’m past all those milestones that I strived for as a kid, when do things slow down so I can enjoy them? They don’t? I guess it’s time to hold on for the ride.
Life in General
ethan, time
My wife is a true sucker for baby animals. I can’t say that I don’t share her sentiment because kittens are just so cute. As she wrapped up her Christmas shopping yesterday she called me to tell me that she’d found a baby kitten in the parking lot and it was currently riding with her in the car and to not be mad.
I wasn’t mad.
So we get the kitten home and put her in a cat carrier so our cats and dogs wouldn’t destroy her. Our animals tend to roughhouse quite a bit.
We knew we couldn’t keep the poor kitten because both of our cats have FIV. Luckily, my brother was willing to take the little gal since he’s only got one cat.
He let me know today that he named her Sprocket. She is very mellow. I can already tell that we’ll be taking the kids over to visit her. Ethan and Evie were both excited that we had a baby kitten in the house. Evie called it the “Baby Bow”. Bow means cat and is pronounced “bOw” with a heavy emphasis on the O.
Life in General
animals, kids, sprocket
Today wrapped up the final soccer game of the season for my little U6 YMCA team. I couldn’t be prouder of these little guys. Of the 8 kids on the team, none of them other than my son had ever played before. After only 8 weeks, they were out there playing like champs. There is something greatly rewarding about coaching sports and helping to build self confidence in these kids.
Life in General
soccer
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