I snapped at my child earlier tonight, and I... well, maybe I wasn't wrong to say what I said, but I was wrong to have snapped at her.

I don't even remember how it came up, but she said something to me that included the words "good job, *genius*" and that was what set it off, and I snapped at her and, as un-angrily as possible under the ( Read more... )

Not related to any viruses. But a while back I posted, asking to see if anyone had any issues with my old LJ likes list ( https://dogofthefuture.livejournal.com/294139.html) It seems nobody did. I have heard that David Foster Wallace may have sort of been problematic, maybe?  And Dave Attell is such a weirdo that it's hard to say.

But overall, I ( Read more... )

I just reviewed my interests and found many of them terribly embarrassing. Ay yi yi.  Anyway here is the current list, please let me know if any of this is terrible and should be removed...

Other than Dave Attell - I know, he's such a dickhead but at least I don't think he's an evil dickhead.

calvin and hobbes, christopher moore, cooking, dave ( Read more... )

The answer is simple:  Start making them. It's really easy to start them. The hard part is to keep doing them until they actually become traditions. For my immediate and chosen family, one tradition has turned out to be easy as long as we all have some money and vacation hours, and that is the annual Disney trip.  It's also proved to be flexible, ( Read more... )

I have absolutely been neglecting this particular outlet for blathering, instead blathering other places... but mostly not blathering at all. I'd say sorry, but on the other hand, you've been spared a bunch of blather, so where is the crime?

It really is so nice to spend time with your family of choice. At least, it is for me. I'm lucky that a lot of my biological family members are also people I enjoy spending time with, and that some of my extended family members are too... but in the end, it's the ones you pick who make for the best times.

It's time to say "see ya" to Facebook.  There are many reasons why it's time to let this thing go, and increasingly many more reasons to kick it in the ass on the way out.  Reasons:

- They're selling the heck out of every tiny piece of my personal data. I know that's happening with Google, too, but hey, at least this source I can do something about ( Read more... )

My wife always loved having a little kid. She was super enamored of the cuteness, and, well, who could blame her? This kid was super, super cute. (Still is!) But me, I was always looking forward to the later years, being able to talk to our child as something more of, well, not exactly equals, but as a person who I wasn't necessarily controlling ( Read more... )

I  want my front door lock to unlock when I'm within a certain proximity, like with some cars.

Obviously this is immediately problematic - what if I were to leave my proximity key near the door?  Well let me tell you, I have got an answer for you and an answer for a few other objections: The door lock should only scan a radius of a few feet in ( Read more... )

So there's been a lot of generational talk lately.  It's not all entirely wrong, I think - obviously different folks who grew up in different times experience the world and the culture at large differently. You only need to see one or two memes on Facebook about how "We grew up drinking from the hose and with no seat belts and swallowing lead paint ( Read more... )