Today I embark on a three week journey from one side of the states to the other. I’m taking this trip with nothing less than a blessing from the wife, who will have to endure three weeks of my son raising hell.
This is one of the more complex trips I’ve ever had to put together as it involves flying in to multiple airports and driving to other townships mid-trip. The last portion of the trip involves staying over in San Francisco so that I might traipse off to San Jose.
I have to admit, my wife is a real enigma.
Not only is she allowing me to go on three work trips back to back (one of which was not mandatory, but she knows I really want to go), she’s allowing me to go on A) her birthday and B) when my son has three basketball games.
She is a real treasure – it’s not too often you will find a mate that is understanding enough to let you take on something like this. I’m not too fond of being away from home that long, especially during her birthday and my son’s first few basketball games. However, she knows (as do I) that I will have nightmares if I do not attend MacWorld.
I’m appalled at the lead story on CNN.com tonight (“What will you tell kids about Britney’s sister?“). I’m especially appalled that the world thinks that American parents are freaking out all across the nation about Jamie Lynn Spears being pregnant.
So… what will you tell your kids about it?
How about… the truth? Why is it so hard to talk about sex with your kids? It’s natural, they will do it one day. You did it – that’s why you have kids, remember? What’s the deal?
I thought I’d do a quickie post and describe to you a little bit about my online life – where you can find information about me in real time, or maybe anytime later you want to check in… or if you want to completely ignore me, you know which sites to avoid.
Under the blogroll on the right-hand side of the site, you can see links to various content tendrils to latch onto. These tendrils do not have suckers, they’re merely there for you to grab at will. Okie, I’m not paid for analogies these days. Get over it.
So you might find it unusual that the first blog entry concerns something that is apparently afflicting parents of all children in the U.S. – the sudden scare of lead poisoning. It seems that Mattel has hired some unscrupulous folks in China that cut a few corners and put some lead in products that made it into the hands of children.
Now, call it what you will. Sure, people everywhere can make a case for a possible invasion from China – a backhanded way at infecting our population beforehand. You could make a case of that. You could also point out that somewhere, someone was being cheap bastards (let’s see, where did the cheap bastard thing start? That’s right! In the United States! Congratulations, boys and girls!)
So there’s the situation that developed last night that I just have to laugh about. It’s one of those things I usually think happens to just me… some real life slapstick. The setup was perfect, the execution was perfect, the timing was perfect – it really was something out of The Money Pit.
So my son declares it’s time for him to pee pee. All the signs are there – he’s dancing the dance and gripping the appropriate place. I wasn’t in a position to immediately help him and neither was Taitai. No problem, we have taken the childproof door knob off just for a situation like this. We encouraged him to go.
Tonight we decided that BunBun was feeling well enough for a babysitter, so we asked Auntie Lynda to come over so we could head out to catch Spider-Man 3.
Awesome flick. Nuff said. I hope they stay away from 4, 5 and 6 – 3 just wraps up the whole set of films into a nice package, it would be a shame to try to extend something that may not be there.
We have…
…a very thoughtful Starbucks gift card!
…a really sexy LED watch!
…Wii!
Many thanks to my family for a lovely birthday, even if we did have to spend part of it in the emergency room.
BunBun came down with what looks to be the stomach flu today. He had a temp of 101-102’F all day and was totally not himself. He was puking all day as well… couldn’t keep anything down. Poor little guy. It’s heartbreaking to see him so sick. He’s not himself at all and it just breaks you in half. We finally got some medicine in him late tonight, hope he keeps it down.
Some time ago, we had cut down and removed our troublesome apple trees.
We replaced them with Japanese cherry blossoms. I was disappointed to see that two of the trees died, but a third tree in the front yard prospered through the first year. This year, it decided to give us a little hint of what’s in store for us in the many years to come.
I must be getting old, because this is really very exciting to me.
