Love The Who. Don't love Madonna. Do enjoy Mark Vidler's Go Home Productions mashups a great deal. This one is good...
Friday, March 5, 2010
Steppin' Out
I went across campus to get Subway for lunch (toasted Tuscan Chicken Melt with provolone on Hearty Italian, if you must know), walked across the Midway. The snow is melting. Still, I think the weather's psyching us out, at least here. Barring global warming and what-not, it's way too early for it to be proper Spring, even if it's tantalizingly close. I am waiting for the last blast of Winter to hit, just when I think it's gone.
Video: If Love is the Drug, Then I Want to O.D.
I like the willfully retro sound of this one. Just nice and trippy...
Farmvillainy
I remember originally scoffing about Farmville. What a stupid game, total time sink. Then I got involved with making my farm look cool and beautiful. I'm very pleased with it -- it looks like some mad baron's estate, now. I love it! My boys will often pick the crops I "grow" on it. B2 loves the "Groovy" barn in particular. I'm sure I won't play in it forever, but I think my farm looks damned good. Of course, the grapes, peas, and tomatoes were just planted, so you just get to see a lot of stakes. I'll try to remember to snap a picture before I harvest'em...
I just did a slight tweak of it, got rid of the Durian Tree behind my estate and put a few stands of tall conifers in there, instead. Makes it cozier. And, yes, I KNOW I still have the Christmas tree up, but they didn't give me any storage options for it, and I didn't want to sell it. And it blends so well with those conifers!
I just did a slight tweak of it, got rid of the Durian Tree behind my estate and put a few stands of tall conifers in there, instead. Makes it cozier. And, yes, I KNOW I still have the Christmas tree up, but they didn't give me any storage options for it, and I didn't want to sell it. And it blends so well with those conifers!
Quakers, Spring, Age, Life
I was thinking about how that Chilean earthquake actually altered Earth's rotation a bit, shifting the axis and making our days shorter by like a microsecond and a half. That is fascinating to me, an 8.8 magnitude quake doing that.
Today is a sunny day, bright and cold, the snow melting incrementally. Spring is flexing her toes, giving Old Man Winter the brush-off. Spring is a cutie, all fresh flowers and smiles.
I turn 40 next month! Like in 41 days, I'll be 40 years old! Some people fret about that, but I'm okay with it. I remember as a teenager thinking about how I'd be 30 in 2000, and how far away that seemed. Worlds away. I never imagined where I'd be, what I'd be doing. Just being alive in 2000 was something I thought would be cool. Of course, look where I was, what I ended up doing. Hah.
Still, I duly filled out the Census information (held back a few laughs as I worked on it, given my life situation, which is radically changing from where I was the last time a Census rolled around), and that also made me imagine where I'll be in 10 more years -- B1 will be 18 (nooo!) and B2 will be 14. Astounding. My little guys. Wow. It makes me want to enjoy the time I have with them all the more. More quality time, more fun. I bring so much fun to their little worlds -- they're such a couple of daddy's boys. But I'm going to really make the most of those years. Exene is all about scheduling the boys, but I am much more in favor of unstructured time, letting them savor their lives and childhoods. I try to find some balance in the mix. Kids are so special, and childhood is such a magical time. I will do my best to make the next 10 years even better for them -- craft a new, loving home for them, let them take comfort in that.
Spring is coming. Spring is 15 days away.
Today is a sunny day, bright and cold, the snow melting incrementally. Spring is flexing her toes, giving Old Man Winter the brush-off. Spring is a cutie, all fresh flowers and smiles.
I turn 40 next month! Like in 41 days, I'll be 40 years old! Some people fret about that, but I'm okay with it. I remember as a teenager thinking about how I'd be 30 in 2000, and how far away that seemed. Worlds away. I never imagined where I'd be, what I'd be doing. Just being alive in 2000 was something I thought would be cool. Of course, look where I was, what I ended up doing. Hah.
Still, I duly filled out the Census information (held back a few laughs as I worked on it, given my life situation, which is radically changing from where I was the last time a Census rolled around), and that also made me imagine where I'll be in 10 more years -- B1 will be 18 (nooo!) and B2 will be 14. Astounding. My little guys. Wow. It makes me want to enjoy the time I have with them all the more. More quality time, more fun. I bring so much fun to their little worlds -- they're such a couple of daddy's boys. But I'm going to really make the most of those years. Exene is all about scheduling the boys, but I am much more in favor of unstructured time, letting them savor their lives and childhoods. I try to find some balance in the mix. Kids are so special, and childhood is such a magical time. I will do my best to make the next 10 years even better for them -- craft a new, loving home for them, let them take comfort in that.
Spring is coming. Spring is 15 days away.
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