The most interesting thing that happened to me today involved being in the same room as another guy who crapped his pants so hard he got it on his socks.

That guy was my nine month old son, so it's not as messed up as it could have been, but that is still a reasonably odd thing. My son is gifted in this respect, and has been from the get go. ( Read more... )

I work in a warehouse, so we don't have too stringent a dress code. Requirements tend to be pretty loose; so long as one is wearing closed toe shoes, a top, and a bottom, it's fine. That is to say it was fine.

One of my coworkers is a fan of My Little Pony. Her love encompasses both the current Friendship is Magic and the original incarnation that I ( Read more... )

My brain is all over the place right now.

I finished draft zero of a novel; by the time I was done I actually still liked the main idea, the protagonist...everything, really. It's kind of an odd feeling, and is somewhat unprecidented for me. We'll see if that persists after I change POV and re-write the entire thing in order to arrive at draft one. ( Read more... )

I recently finished reading a dystopian YA novel that has had a rather lasting impact on me, in the form of a persistant background thought spiral where I attempt to make sense of just what it was that I found so annoying.

First things first, since I am doing this for myself, I will not be revealing the novel in question. This is an attempt to ( Read more... )

My wife is not a geek. Nor is she a nerd, or anything else one would care to apply to those of us who obsess over and devour science fiction and fantasy.

This one fact has significantly changed my perspective about books and movies. It has set me to thinking, and I found a great example of this shift in my own perspective when a movie came on late ( Read more... )

I got a chance to talk to some friends that I only connect with a couple of times a year. It was nice, if too brief; the idea that I can get across six months of my life in an hour long phone call has always been laughable ( Read more... )

My parents were over at the end of the week to visit, see the grandchild, and all the usual parental hanging out stuff. They're going to be in Hawaii for the rest of February, you see, so they won't be able to just zip over if they feel like it and we all have the time ( Read more... )

More accurately, this would be Movie Night, part 2: the next day, just before the dvds were due back to the local Blockbuster.

Titles are hard.

Anyway, the second feature in our weekend of trying to watch some good movies was The Hangover part II. We could have done better. We should have just watched FWB again.

I knew this one was probably going to ( Read more... )

My wife and I both have the same two days off this week, which doesn't usually happen and far more rarely comes up when we have nothing else going on. Clearly this should allow us some sort of celebration. We rented movies.

At some other time, I'll possibly write about what "fun" means as I get older, but not today.

We watched Friends With Benefits, ( Read more... )

I'm having kind of a hard day, and it's been really bothering me that I can't quite pin down why, exactly, that is. Don't get me wrong, I never have a problem noticing when something doesn't sit right, or starts to piss me off, but the underlying reasons behind sometimes fail to reveal themselves until long after the fact. In other words, I have ( Read more... )