I just realized, between work and trying to make sure my parents and the wife's parents get as much time with the kiddo as possible, that this three-day weekend is the most time I've spent with Miri since my paternity leave ended. Now I'm glad I chose to be totally antisocial and stayed at home all weekend ( Read more... )

Home ownership is mostly great, but taking care of a yard is exhausting. I fell far behind on all that last year when the baby was on the way, and now I'm dealing with the fallout: specifically, a half-dead yard and weed-infested gardens ( Read more... )

I love being married. I love being a father. (Oh yeah. That happened since last time I posted here.) But I hate not having time to myself anymore. I like going out and hanging out with people, but I'm also very much an introspective homebody. And there's so much I want to get done, and not enough hours in the day ( Read more... )

The idea popped into my head randomly to see if I could dig up the original Jason's House of Random Stuff, a.k.a. the original borg, a.k.a. my oooold messageboard on www.InsideTheWeb.com. (Man, remember THOSE days?) So I started digging around on archive.org but realized I couldn't find much without knowing my messageboard's number, which I of ( Read more... )

I'm getting a serious writing jones, and there are not enough hours in the day. I wish I could pop over here and post 1000+ word screeds. I wish I had reviewed more than one CD for Playback all year. I wish every one of the comic ideas bouncing around in my head could come pouring out ( Read more... )

So I've been digging around my LJ all morning, trying to find the script for this doofy 2-page comic that I could have sworn I posted on here trying to get someone to draw it. Looking at how much action and life and conversation was captured here back in, oh, 2007, I gotta say, I really miss LiveJournal. This place was a really thriving community, ( Read more... )

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Listening to the Dead Kennedys yesterday put me in the mood to listen to some more hardcore, so on the way into work* today, I was rocking Husker Du's first studio record, Everything Falls Apart. What a behemoth of a record that is. Being several years removed from the time in my life where I listened to a lot of hardcore, metal, etc. makes this ( Read more... )