So I now have two sons: One of whom loves me so much he is jealous when I look away from him (at the second son) and another who is starting to tolerate me. It has been a blast so far; don't get me wrong. He is a smart, sassy kid and he's a keeper. So is his brother.


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I'm making a rare post (and rare public post) in hopes that this will get indexed by search engines and turn up when one of the people mentioned in this post does a vanity search ( Read more... )

Five months ago today Theo officially became my son. A week ago I finished up a whirlwind paternity leave, one I knew would be short and would require nearly a week of daycare transition. It was a good time.

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I'm still reading LJ, but it's no surprise I haven't been posting ( Read more... )

In case anyone has been only getting my updates via Livejournal and we're not friends - you don't follow me on Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, etc. - here's a public post to catch you up a little.

The only thing of note that has happened since February? This guy is my son:


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As threatened, here's the post about the iPhone and my iPhonography ( Read more... )

To break the LJ silence, I wanted to write a little about my photography. After a 365 project in 2010, I decided to take it easy in 2011. By mid-year, I realized that I wasn't shooting as often, so I decided to kickstart things by doing a "180 project"--180 daily photos in the second half of the year. And I did it, even with some lazy days. And I ( Read more... )

Those of my friends who recall that I drag my feet on purchases and rarely commit to buying things will be happy to know that within the last two weeks I bought a new PC (i2600, 8GB RAM, 1 GB video card, etc.; the old one was new in 2003) *and* we both have smartphones. (We got iPhones but upgrading my phone from a 4-plus-year-old clamshell dumb ( Read more... )

This is no surprise to me, but I missed my 10-year LJversary. Here's the auspicious first post. And the post you're reading now is just another in a long line of "wow, I haven't posted much lately and I still don't know what to say" posts.

I know I haven't posted since January, but I'm still around. I'm reading your stuff and not letting go of having an LJ just yet. (I'm coming up on 10 years this Fall.) For me, it's the usual Facebooking/Tweeting that's my social outlet, although I do think up ideas for blog posts while walking to and from the Y. I just need to start writing them ( Read more... )