Saturday, February 24, 2007
bombarding you
i'm going to attempt to give a snapshot of what is going on nowadays, while the a.j. is sleeping. prepare for a bombardment of disjointed details. my wife and e.w. are playing with friends at the kids indoor playground at the ymca. i was puttering around the house, not trying to make too much noise, but also trying to clean up a bit. the laptop is here on the kitchen table again, thanks to the wireless router. when i picked it up just now i noticed that it is quite warm. i decided that since it was sitting here all this time i would blog. i fired it up earlier when e.w. was still here, in hopes that i could entertain him with a few internet videos. we started out trying to find a clip of the giant squid that was recently caught off the coast of anarctica, by new zealand fishermen. we did not succeed in finding a video. we also tried discovery.com, but that was not working (is it the flash player?). lastly, we settled on videos about planets, which were interesting (thank you video.google.com). before that i was out with the kids returning the unnecessarily large flat panel tv we got last weekend. while we drove the kids watched "lady and the tramp" on the minivan DVD miniscreen. as we drove i could hear the audio and i wished i could be watching too. prior to that, this morning we were having our cereal and listening to the beatles on the iPod, which i have recently brought back to life (in the house at least) by bringing out the old bose iPod speaker cradle thingy, and we were jamming/dancing to "octopus's garden", "yellow submarine", and "help". doing that made me want to go and check out all of the old chords to that music and learn to play it for the kids. speaking of iPods, i bought one for my wife last year and she never uses it. however, now that she works out and runs, i'm thinking she will use it if i program some running playlists for her. also, i have to load on all the kids CD's; since she's always looking for CD's she can't find for them... it's about time she know the wonders of loading everything onto and mp3 player and never touching a CD again. it plugs right into her car, which is also nice. what else... the house is a mess since we are in the middle of three or four little weekend projects: cleaning out the medicine cabinet in the kitchen, handing shades, re-arranging the playroom in the basement, and so on. isn't my life exciting? oh, and last night we went out to dinner at the "chimney rock" in gillette. mike b. met us there. i came there straight from work and we had a beer and chatted before the wife & kids arrived. a.j. was relatively well behaved at dinner, wiggling and pacing around in the booth between me & uncle mike. after a.j. was simply unable to be contained, i took him over to the front of the restaurant and we played ms. pacman together, which went well. he also liked galaga. arkanoid would have been fun, but the controller wasn't really right for it, and it was impossible to play. ...ok, i think that's enough. i feel that i have appeased the gods of blogging for today.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
mark this day
mark this day. today is the day i passed a milestone of ageing. i just set the font size on my laptop to "large" from "normal". my eyes can't take these tiny fonts. or maybe i need glasses? whatever. i was just discussing ageing with a friend, after looking at some old pictures that i had posted on another blog. we spoke about how we are noticeably larger as well. such is life.
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