A good start on not being a hermit like dad
Little E already has his first invitation to a birthday party this weekend. Wow! This means his social calendar is 100% more busy than his dad’s. Apparently the theme of this shindig is going to be Batman, so there’s no telling what the boy wonder will get up to.
Every day at work I see a commercial for some hair coloring product where a grey-haired guy says “My hair says experience,” while his darker-haired doppelganger says “My hair says energy!”
All I can think of is: “…and my hair says AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!”
Guess you kinda have to be there.… Read more

One of the things I do at work is to “prep” and check shows that will air later that night, the next day, etc. etc.; I also have other duties that occasionally mean I have to stop that task in its tracks and come back to it minutes later (or longer). If something urgent happens, I don’t even look at where I stop – I’ll just have to figure it out later. And when I come back to it later, it’s still sitting in the middle of the show I was working on, and I see something like this.
Little guy really didn’t like my suggestions that his little tired butt needed to go to bed tonight after a long cranky day of refusing to take a nap. He was also kinda difficult to have any kind of a conversation with:
Tonight as the bathtub was draining:
LITTLE E: Dad! This [stuffed] puppy turned into a tiger! RAAARRRRR!
Conversation with the little guy on the way home today:
Amazing true tales from OVGE 2010, a candidate for the dumbest prime-time TV promo ever, Pac-Man as a spectator sport, and lots of incoherent mumbling!
The true (but necessarily vague) tale of the time I had to sue someone for stealing from theLogBook.com. 😯 Also included: more weird radio stories, waterproof droids and… a cat on crack.
A couple of my Facebook friends recently posted some personality and intelligence test results courtesy of an app there. I’ve taken those same tests before, but it’s been a while; I went directly to the site for the tests rather than do the Facebook app (even before the recent revelations, I just don’t do Facebook apps) under a silly pseudonym. But what the heck, I’ll post the results here, even if I don’t want them to have my info. …