Month: April 2013
holden parenthood
We got a walker
Holden technically took his first steps back in early March but he pretty much decided that that business was for chumps and he’d rather scoot and crawl around for travel purposes. We’d try to encourage him to walk but he would crumple into a ball every dang time, for about a month and a half. One day Ray was brushing his teeth and Holden was in the bathroom watching, clinging to his legs, when he…
holden parenthood
Deep thoughts on a playground
Yesterday I was up early with Holden (he hasn’t slept past 7 since I’ve been off) and when he went down for his nap, so did I. The sun was out after lunch so we went to Long Hunter in the early evening for a walk, and found that the lake had flooded most of the walking trail. So Ray sprinted back and forth on the accessible part of the path and Holden and I…
vacation work
Vacating!
I’m finally taking some time off work. First real stretch of days off since October. Gah, how did that happen? Oh right, we have been so short-staffed at work since December that it has been impossible for me to get away. Day one of the vacation has been spent inside, rain pouring nonstop since early morning. I don’t mind. I need a day of decompression before I can even contemplate what’s next or how to…
photography poetry
Madness in the spring
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown — Who ponders this tremendous scene — This whole Experiment of Green — As if it were his own! “1333,” Emily Dickinson
I hate/love nature
Animal life in the wilds of Antioch, Tenn.
This is a groundhog, right? This little guy gets around. I see him in our and the neighbors’ back yards as well as across the street in the horse pasture. He’s the size of a very large cat or a raccoon. You can’t tell scale from this crop but you can see the fence behind him here. He’s always sifting through the dirt and grass when I see him. He has a really interesting pattern…
music
‘That’s my opinion’
New album out by my favorite Swedish twins. I had it on in the car the other night as I was soliloquizing on the way home from work, as I do most nights, and I was ten minutes into one of the ambient tracks before I realized that the whole thing sounded like a movie monologue, what I was saying. It was awesome. I really wanted to post “Raging Lung” but EMI blocked it so…
the internet is fun the internet is NOT fun
Dear Google, I don’t give a crap about your April Fools pranks but I do actually give a crap about useful services
Listen. I don’t hate fun. Really, I don’t. I have even been known to HAVE fun every now and again. I encourage it. Within reason, of course! But this is getting ri-frickin-diculous. That link that you probably hovered on but did not click is a roundup of all the April Fools pranks Google staged in 2013 alone. I realize that Google is a global ginormamegacorporation that employs tens of thousands of people, so it’s possible…
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