Okay, the main purpose of the blog is to keep family and friends up to date with what is happening with my family. To that end…
Ari is enjoying Kindergarten and his bus ride home. No real news to report there yet. They went on a field trip to see a ballet of Peter and the Wolf, which “was good but not too good.”
At the moment we have only one car, so Sara and the kids have to take me to work, then she and Sidd have to take Ari to school. Why only one car? The other day Sara calls and says that the truck feels funny, like it has a flat and the brakes weren’t felling right, but she pulled over and the tire didn’t look flat, and decided (against my instructions) to continue on. Later she calls broken down. A friend of hers came and got her and the kids and took them down to their place since that was where she was heading anyhow. We learned that the lug nuts must not have been tight enough and that they came loose (odd thing is, I thought I tightened them, and the truck drove fine for days afterwords). This resulted in one of the bolts getting sheared off. So now we have to replace the 5 bolts… not an easy task. The alternative is to replace the whole hub, but that costs a crap ton and since it only needs bolts, we’ll wait until we can get that fixed…
Meanwhile, Sidd is rolling over both directions really well. His rolls to his back are sometimes met by him bumping his head, but for the most part he does well. He sleeps on his side it seems. He is also starting to get some of the mechanics of crawling… well, scooting. He hasn’t figured out that if he got on his knees that he would be more mobile, but he does try to scoot to get stuff that is out of his reach.
Sidd’s colic is gone. For the most part he cries if hungry, wet, wants attention, is too bored or really tired. Otherwise he is a fairly happy kid. Still needs lots of attention.
The apartment is okay. We are nearly unpacked. The downstairs is cleared of all boxes. Sidd and Ari’s room still has boxes, but not much we can do about those as those hold toys and we can’t have them all over the floor as Ari’s toy box is already full. Lots of boxes in our closets, but nothing we can do there either as there is no room in this place for the stuff to be unpacked.
That should be the quick rundown of all that is going on here.
video game. 40 years from now how well will Britney, the Jonas Brothers or any other pop icon be remembered? Will they sell as much music as The Beatles sell now, or heck even then? I would wager that 40 years from now The Beatles, Pink Floyd and lots of other big bands who were around before the 80′s will outsell 98% of the music that is popular today. From the mid 70′s on, music has been largely dead. Internet didn’t kill the music industry. Illegal downloads didn’t kill the music industry. The music industry killed itself by producing a product instead of letting artists create art. To heck with it. Here’s the video:
, touches on how music died in the mid 70′s and became more of a product.
, which includes a headset for talking during games, a chat pad and a game. The headset would be kind of nice…
or a 
. The DeLorme unit is cheaper, but really isn’t that usable outside the US. The Garmin unit is a bit more expensive, but is better for car use and easier to use outside the US. (As a low end choice is the 
which is a car unit, but is portable in that it can be taken out and used on the trails, but you really need a good carry case for that one, and by the time you add the stuff to bring it up to usable for geocaching status, you already are at what the Delorme unit runs). In the end the Garmin Oregon is what is most wanted.
with all the instruments and all that jazz… that and a 
membership so we can use it online.
. This is the 
which allows for a separate flash.Now Reading
Planned books:
- The Dark River (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 2) by John Twelve Hawks
- A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
- Feed (Newsflesh, Book 1) by Mira Grant
Current books:
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In His Majesty’s Service by Naomi Novik
Recent books:
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
- The Copywriter’s Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells by Robert W. Bly
- The Traveler (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 1) by John Twelve Hawks
- Jonathan Strange by Susanna Clarke
My Amazon Wishlist
Brian's WishlistBrian's Boardgame List
Ari's Wishlist