Scarlett is eleven months old and is getting tantalizingly close to her first birthday. It's just weeks away at this point. In March, I'll be taking off the final couple weeks of Paternity Leave that I still have remaining and I'll be taking a bit more PTO after that too, so I'll be out the majority of March. That's something I've been looking ( Read more... )

In the three months since my last entry, our Pomeranian dog, Chip, has been living nearly full-time with my mother. Nicole and I live in an apartment (Hopefully this is our last year doing so) and Chip still has extreme separation anxiety so he can't be left alone. If he is left alone, he barks uncontrollably and won't calm down. We can't have that ( Read more... )

Another two weeks have gone by between entries! Am I too busy to write? No. Truthfully it's a combination of laziness and lack of a interesting stuff goin' on. The last couple work weeks have been good. Daylight savings was crazy though. When the clocks shifted, a lot of the fab machines got stupid and stopped talking to the computers. It's one of ( Read more... )

Back in February, I ran out of my Asthma medication. Even though I like to believe I've got a mild case of the disease, it still requires specialist care to get medication refills. And what do we know about specialists? They're expensive. Thankfully, earlier this year, the guy was nice and granted me one refill without coming in and seeing him. Man ( Read more... )

Earlier in the week was my mother's birthday. For the first time in eons, my brother and I actually succeeded in getting her a couple gifts she might actually enjoy and use. She's probably the hardest person I know to shop for because she's very humble and self-sufficient. Kind of like me. Very hard to shop for. But this year, she actually asked us ( Read more... )

I've spent several days at my sisters house. This is the end of the fourth solid straight day of being here. With my brother leaving Portland in a week, we all have a lot of digital work and projects left to be done before he leaves. My sister's boyfriend, Franko, wanted LEDs throughout his case just like mine and Ryan's so we've been working on ( Read more... )

Well things have picked up greatly. Back on Thursday the 20th, I wrote about all this garbage that had suddenly happened. Pretty much everything solved itself in one day and I had a great weekend ( Read more... )

Ick it's been a crappy couple days. Yesterday was the worst day I've had in a very long time ( Read more... )

It's been real hot lately. So hot, in fact, that the family has begun pulling out our box fans from the garage and firing them up for the first time since last summer. For me, this has been an unofficial start-of-summer ritual since I was very young. Every year, when it was hot enough to start needing fans around the house, I knew summer was very ( Read more... )

Ahh young love. Earlier today during several drives back and forth between my sister's place and mine I noticed several limos accompanied by young people decked out in tuxes and gowns standing in their driveways taking photos. I realized it must be prom night for the local high school. As I drove by these kids, I realized how human and awkward they ( Read more... )