The frustrating thing about watching Shield Hero anime is how they totally ruin a good character and turn him into a good protagonist in the anime. The book character is real, he has hate in his heart, he feels pain, you have a sense of his mortal existence being in danger and his moral growth is not a foregone conclusion. The anime version is a ( Read more... )

One of the reasons this is the best car I have ever owned up to this point.


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Working 55 hours a week AND taking care of a 6 year old and the house mostly alone AND taking care of a wife going through residency does not make for a person who can spend time keeping in touch.

I have dropped off the face of the earth, and I'm still falling.

I think maybe I should look for a less demanding job for the time being.

Everybody else there was a Department Head or Dean or Department Chair. It was an informal dinner amongst friends. We were invited because my wife's father was a former classmate of one of new persons there (and we are friends with some of the other people ( Read more... )

It seems that switching to on-demand digital cable and internet connected set-top box has made TV completely too complicated to watch for my family. Half the time they can't even get the stuff to turn on properly.

To quote my son: "Dad, could you come help me with the TV. It only works when it sees you."

Last night was pretty exciting because my son decided to show off exactly how much he knows to his aunt on his own accord. Something we usually can't coax out of him so we usually can't guage what he has learned and what he hasn't ( Read more... )

Finishing up the move to our parents basement. Insanely tired. We have way too much stuff. Too unfreaking believable much of it is really fragile tea sets and extremely thin glassed decoratives. Reminds me how much easier it was to move while being male ( Read more... )

After we sold off the Volvo Wagon (because hunting and fixing tornado injuries is fun when you are a single guy, but not fun when you have a kid and a wife who screams bloody murder everytime you approach a car with a wrench), we had to borrow my parents car (a white civic) for a while because of the huge expenses and need for a buffer amount in ( Read more... )

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For breakfast today:

Two spicy kababs in between two heavily garlic buttered texas toast slices with Helman's mediterranian roasted garlic mayo.

Downed with Private selection black tea with orange and spices that was brewed in artificially flavored hot spiced cider.