How fast they grow up…
July 1st, 2009 @ 7:56 am
Parent cliche, I know. Nauseating to listen to if you don’t have kids. Old story if you do.
Still, I’m shocked by his progress in around 20 months.
Then:
Now:
Now:
My eating habits are a roller coaster.
June 29th, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
[plus] Got the healthy option today at lunch – turkey burger pita with greek salad.
[minus] Talked the guy into swapping fries for the greek salad (too many olives in the mix).
[plus] Dropped two fries accidentally on the floor while walking away.
[responsible] Picked the fries up off the floor so someone wouldn’t step on them, mush them up, and possibly slip.
[minus] While picking them up, made eye contact with some random lady in the cafeteria and the way she was looking at me made me want to eat them to see what her facial reaction would be. It was good.
[plus] Came up with a strategy for avoiding chips at dinner with a bowl full of guacamole. I used 3 chicken breasts as edible utensils.
I guess today was a net postiive.
Keeping up with the Sal.
June 26th, 2009 @ 8:49 am
That piped up flickr feed of original sized photos of Sal works fine in the Kodak W1020 wireless frame. So well that Catherine wanted her own. Except that her office doesn’t have a non vpn’d WiFi network, so it wouldn’t work for her at work. I built her a webpage that will auto-rotate through the photos. Works on a phone browser too.
But since the grandparents were coming up for his birthday and she wanted one at home, we got another. Amazon changes prices on the frame pretty often and they sent us a bad one at first, but I got them to replace it and to price match.
The frame really works well I think. We had been giving the grandparents a digital frame each year that they don’t use after they’ve memorized each pixel. I really appreciate how this feed mixes the old with the new – pictures of his birth mixed with pictures of him yesterday. And I sold the grandparents on it too.
Now we just need to go on roadtrips to install the frames (WEP keys and URLs…) at their houses.
It is easy to lose balance.
June 24th, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
The other day we were listening to Sal’s mp3 player and Cat’s in the Cradle came on. I thought it was funny I would put it on there, but it was a good reminder. But I might need more than just good songs to remind me.
Tonight as he’s going to sleep, I’m thinking about how some people might scoff even more at the way we raise Sal cause he wanted another “back massage” to goto sleep. So I’m rubbing his shoulders and putting up with him complaining about my sweaty hands (yes, I’m still sweaty 45 minutes after kettlebell class and 1 shower later…) and running out of patience as he stalls his way around falling asleep. Go to sleep kid – I’ve got things to do!
He sits up and I want to scold him and tell him to goto sleep when he says “I was nice to Akshat. We were playing with my LEGOs and I let him take some home so he could play with them and he’ll bring them back later and they will be in a different shape.”
That settled me down a bit and 2 minutes later he was asleep but I didn’t feel like I had to rush off to do anything anymore.
Bubble captions not needed.
June 23rd, 2009 @ 11:29 pm
Is it possible to see this photo and not imagine the thought bubbles?
Thanks to Ethaney for the photo. Hopefully she’ll let me steal more of her photos in the near future…
putting aside my dreams.
June 19th, 2009 @ 8:16 am
I’ve got a new hire starting in 10 days. For various reasons, I haven’t met him yet. Might have a phone call with him next week.
But I dreamed about meeting him last night. He was an obnoxious racist chauvinst.
You think we’d get along okay right?
Then he poured his cereal on me and threatened me with a knife (watching the Real World/Road Rules reunion as I fall asleep might have had side effects).
I know our new guy won’t be anything like this, but it was one of those dreams that was vivid enough that it’ll stick in my head for a while.
