I would ask you if you’ve ever had one of those days, but I already know the answer. Of course you have. We all have. Those days are the days where it seems like things couldn’t go more wrong if you tried. Today is one of those days. Well, only kind of.
The day started out innocently enough, despite the 3 trips to get water for Ethan between 2 and 5 am because he couldn’t stop coughin, poor kid. Oh and Evie had to go to the bathroom at 5:45am. So I pulled myself out of bed today at 7:45am, feeling like I’d pulled an all-nighter and hopped in the shower.
For the next 45 minutes I tried to juggle getting the trash out, finding a juice cup, getting ready for work, making coffee, and cleaning up the dog excrement that my precious beagle decided to deposit in the kitchen as well as on the new living room rug. To top it off, she managed to pee all over her bed.
Molly is a great dog and rarely does things that I’d classify as stupid. She must have been having an off-night or a geriatric moment or something. *sigh*
I finally managed to get out of the house and make it to work, well after my scheduled arrival.
The day is not a total loss though, it’s Christmas Eve. I’m sure the day will improve as it goes on. Have a Merry Christmas everyone.
When it comes to photography, I’m probably not the person you want snapping your important pictures. On top of that, I’ve never really had a great camera up until now. Yesterday I got a Canon Rebel XS (1000D). I got a sweet deal on it and it even came with an extra telephoto lens to boot. So the question is, where do I go from here? I’m running on full auto at this point and while I’ve read about F-Stops and all that jazz, I still really have no bloody idea what I’m doing. Any advice is welcome.
Back in High School, when I had the free time to play an instrument, I played bass in a Ska band with some of my friends. The name of our band was Morska. We played maybe 3 or 4 shows total at local churches and had a blast doing it. While ripping some music to the computer this weekend, I stumbled upon the only recording of 3 of our dozen or so songs. I’m throwing them up here for the world to enjoy. It should be noted that 100% of our music was never written down and existed only in our heads. So sad. Here is Raygun, Bruce Lee, and Going Nowhere. My favorite track, Skacucaracha was never recorded.
I’m a big proponent of family activities. The one currently keeping my family occupied is Rock Band 2. The no fail mode here makes it possible for the kids to rock out with us without affecting the overall score of our song.Whe the original Rock Band came out, I passed it on to one of my staff members because I really never got into Guitar Hero and I figured it was more of the same. I was wrong and I’m loving it more than ever these days.
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.
I’m a big time gamer. Not so much in the sense that I get to play a ton of games these days (because I don’t), but because I am a part of the gaming media and it’s kind of my non paying job to play games and write about them. Last night after dinner, the family sat down to enjoy a session of Rock Band 2 and the guitar was acting kind of funky. Funky being the laymans term for the fact that the strum bar is totally busted and refuses to accurately trigger a note.
Crap. I’m currently trying to procure another guitar of the PS3 variety.
Unfortunately all of the other guitars I have are for other platforms so they won’t work. This is my first personal experience with Rock Band hardware being faulty and I hope it’s the last.
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.
If you asked me yesterday if it felt like Christmas was just around the corner, the answer would have been no. It was a cool high 60s to low 70s day and it was gorgeous. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining one bit. Days like that used to be pretty rare down here.
Today is a different story. Today it is 39 with gusty winds. It’s downright cold.
I am kind of glad it got cold. It’s no fun to have a hot Christmas.
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.
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