Monday, March 30, 2009

The Devil was Beating His Wife Today

Consider the rainbow:

And while you're doing that, this turkey vulture will be over here, eating lunch:

Thanks, Jack.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

I'm Lovin' It

Everyday my daughter grows a little more. And everyday she finds a new way to put her mark on the world(yesterday it was by pooping on her ride-a-long and the carpet). I've found for the most part these are enjoyable excursions into the Land of Dad because some of the most mundane and banal of my daughter's activities are almost bringing tears to my eyes everyday. Because she gets dropped off at day care at the butt-crack of dawn and she'll get breakfast there, my wife and I have taken to giving our daughter a snack for the drive. So, everyday, I get to do something that up until now I've only heard people talk about: I get to pick up stray snacks from the car. It's weird that you think you know everything about your kid...and then you open the door and there's a cracker in the armrest. This has truly become my favorite part of the day.

You Gotta Love Change!

I read a lot and don't usually care for audio books but after hearing these quotes, I might have to renew my Audible subscription.

Friday, March 13, 2009

With a job, a baby, a wife and a shrinking tolerance for alcohol(not to mention a newly instituted random drug screening program at work), I don't get out too much anymore. Because of this, I tend to look forward to the little things. For example, the highlight of last weekend was driving to Wexford, PA with a 16 month old. Here's a tidbit: Did you know the word "wexford" means "mudflat" or "stagnant pool"? Yeah. Anywho, I've been geocaching for almost a year now and I'm finding that it's starting to replace a lot of the joy that I used to have and some joys that I've always wanted to experience. For those that don't know, geocaching is the practice of using multi-billion dollar military satellites to look for tupperware in the woods. It's great fun, really, and here's why:It allows me to travel! Well, not really, but things I own are travelling and that's pretty cool. I own a couple travel bugs, which are trackable dog tags that are attached to tchotchskys and sent out into the world. One of them is still somewhere in PA but the other is off seeing the world. It's this Scooby-Doo antenna thingy and some guy picked it up in PA and dropped it off in Alaska. When I first started caching I didn't think I'd care about an inanimate object out in the wild. But as I think about it, it seems pretty neat to me that something I've held in my hand is out there experiencing things. And I don't even have to worry about if it'll be home in time for it's curfew. Or if I'll have to be "cleaning my gun" when I meet its date for the first time.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Free at last...!!!

Finally, after being on midnights for five of the last seven weeks(basically all damn year), I'm finished playing vampire until July. The world is different for some reason and...Oh my God!! What the hell is that bright yellow thing hanging in the sky?!?!?!? The sun!?!?! What the hell is the sun?!?!?!