So...it turned out to not work so well as a good luck charm, and I mostly shaved the beard off.  I've now changed over to the "evil alternate universe" look and kept a goatee.  It's...interesting for sure.  Mostly in that it has all the frustrations of a beard but twice the maintenance.  I may be a little harsh to my facial hair - I haven't gotten ( Read more... )

So...about a week ago I decided to start growing a beard for the Stanley Cup playoffs.  This would be my first beard ever.  It's now just a hair shorter than long enough to obviously be a beard, and I've discovered that  my genetics have played a cruel joke by making much of the hairs on my chin blond and red.  The hair on top of my head is dark ( Read more... )

I know I'm tremendously guilty of not posting enough.  I know I whimper and complain about my lack of posting every time I post.  I may well just make these first two sentences a static header for me ( Read more... )

dexeron  has written a nice summary of many things that are wrong with Twitter, and what ends up making it fail as a communication tool.

I like my friends that have Twitter, but I have to guiltily admit that I also imagine the other side of the conversation to always be the most embarassing and inappropriate of possible responses.

I've been very busy, and it's late tonight and the girls are still up, so this will be quick.  Tonight I got this ten second burst from Megan about our dog Dizzy ( Read more... )

Apparently, Roger Ebert gave a review for a movie I didn't even know existed: eXpelled with Ben Stein.  eXpelled is a movie about Intelligent Design and how the scientific community is censoring them.  I'd recommend this as a must-read review regarding the topic, regardless of whether you believe in Intelligent Design as science or not.  http:// ( Read more... )

I was thinking today that it sucks to make a pandora's box-type of choice - one where the consequences of taking an action may end up far outweighing the good of taking that action.  When stuck in a situation where the consequences of taking the action or not might be close to the same, I'm left with the feeling of never knowing if it was better to ( Read more... )

I think that I may well be in love with the nearly 2.6 million people that voted early in NC.  Thanks to you, it took me fourteen minutes to vote from the time I parked my car in the parking lot to the time I got the kids buckled back in and started the car.  Yes, fourteen minutes with two wild kids (though they did really good today).  Fourteen.  ( Read more... )

Lissa and I talked about voting early a few weeks back, but ultimately we decided that we wanted to do it on Election day when we had the kids, so that we could make the attempt to impart the importance of voting and elections with them.  It sounds kind of silly as I say it now, but I do feel strongly about giving them a chance to see what voting ( Read more... )

It seems at times that it is more challenging for me to write a post on livejournal than it is to do any other daily task that I have...and I have no idea why that is the case.

If my day could be summed up in two songs, they would be: Realize and I'm Yours.  Coming up soon is our seventh anniversary for megansmommy and I.  I don't think anyone ever tells you ( Read more... )