...My wife gave birth the to the cutest baby girl ever!
Happy Birthday Josie! Our life wouldn't be the same with out you.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Three years ago today
Happy Birthday Josie! Our life wouldn't be the same with out you.
Monday, April 27, 2009
A very happy birthday wish
To the most awesomest wife & mother ever!
I love you baby, and I can't wait to spend all the remaining years with you.
I love you baby, and I can't wait to spend all the remaining years with you.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Bloggering report
So, last night Janet, I, and the spawn went to the Waldo Bloggering gathering. We had a great time and reconnected with some of the people we've grown to know over the past years.
Let this post be my re-entry into the local blog scene. I'll try to have something useful to say.
Let this post be my re-entry into the local blog scene. I'll try to have something useful to say.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Things are getting better
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
XO nailed it
Several months ago, XO called this election.
Welcome President Barack Hussein Obama!
I can't believe how happy I am!
Welcome President Barack Hussein Obama!
I can't believe how happy I am!
Humbled
I went to my polling place after I left the gym this morning. I expected that since it was early, I'd be in and out in a few minutes.
I was greeted by some nice folks who told me the line started one door up from where it normally was. No problem I thought, it will be all of fifteen minutes instead of two; then I got in the door. There must have been 300+ people in the line I was in with more coming.
It is not often I am gobsmacked in the course of a day, but there it was. I was humbled and moved by my fellow citizens all standing in line for what they knew would be over an hour. They were all standing there waiting to exercise their franchise. Every type of person was there, the old grandfather, the young college student, the daughter of immigrants - every one wanting to make their voice heard today.
Through an accident of address, I was able to skip most of the waiting(only about 30 minutes or so). However, the actual voting area was full up. I sat on an old piano filling out my ballot scribbling my ovals in and hoping my tiny scribbling can make this nation better for my wife, son, and daughter.
Whoever the next people running the government are will have a host of problems to fix, but I have had my faith restored in the ideals of my country and the decency of my fellow citizens.
May every one's vote be counted, and may the next leader take this day of enfranchisement as a symbol of the electorate's sacred trust in him. Thank you my fellow countrymen and women for voting today.
I was greeted by some nice folks who told me the line started one door up from where it normally was. No problem I thought, it will be all of fifteen minutes instead of two; then I got in the door. There must have been 300+ people in the line I was in with more coming.
It is not often I am gobsmacked in the course of a day, but there it was. I was humbled and moved by my fellow citizens all standing in line for what they knew would be over an hour. They were all standing there waiting to exercise their franchise. Every type of person was there, the old grandfather, the young college student, the daughter of immigrants - every one wanting to make their voice heard today.
Through an accident of address, I was able to skip most of the waiting(only about 30 minutes or so). However, the actual voting area was full up. I sat on an old piano filling out my ballot scribbling my ovals in and hoping my tiny scribbling can make this nation better for my wife, son, and daughter.
Whoever the next people running the government are will have a host of problems to fix, but I have had my faith restored in the ideals of my country and the decency of my fellow citizens.
May every one's vote be counted, and may the next leader take this day of enfranchisement as a symbol of the electorate's sacred trust in him. Thank you my fellow countrymen and women for voting today.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Attitude
Last night at dinner(cheesburgers on whole wheat buns, brown rice, & lima beans), Matthew, Janet, and I were discussing his choice of Halloween costumes. Matthew it seemed didn't want to be Sportacus anymore.
You may be able to tell how unhappy he was from those photos when he got the costume, which he asked for, last week.
So being a good dad and telling him that if you don't go as Sportacus you don't go, and if you don't go you don't get candy; he tells me that he will go and yes he will get candy anyway.
Janet jumps in at this point, since I was quickly becoming cranky, and says "That's enough attitude out of you Matthew."
To which Matthew replies: "I wasn't attituding you, I was attituding daddy."
My son isn't normally that assertive and that funny at the same time. Janet and I had to look away from each other to keep from laughing out loud.
He's still going as Sportacus.
You may be able to tell how unhappy he was from those photos when he got the costume, which he asked for, last week.
So being a good dad and telling him that if you don't go as Sportacus you don't go, and if you don't go you don't get candy; he tells me that he will go and yes he will get candy anyway.
Janet jumps in at this point, since I was quickly becoming cranky, and says "That's enough attitude out of you Matthew."
To which Matthew replies: "I wasn't attituding you, I was attituding daddy."
My son isn't normally that assertive and that funny at the same time. Janet and I had to look away from each other to keep from laughing out loud.
He's still going as Sportacus.
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