Our Persisting Memories

I uploaded a video of Sophia laughing to YouTube, Here it is.

18740 We have known this for a while. However, she used to need assistance to get to a standing position. Now she can claw her way up most stationary objects. I'm stationary most of the time so I have to shave my legs and wear shorts to prevent this sort of activity. She has also started eating solid food, or at least solid food that has been ground into a watery paste. She takes these times to learn to talk. I'm not sure where she got the idea that eating and talking were related, because most of our eating is done while vacuously watching the current hot sci-fi thriller. I kid, we sit at the table sometimes. When a small child who cannot actually speak tries learning how to talk while eating, it usually involves a lot of gagging and sputtering. In her case, it involves a lot of spitting our her food and smiling. It is a race to get the spoon far enough in her mouth that her closing her mouth doesn't cause a geyser of banana to slide down her chin. It's like...

I don't often break down and tell her, "Heather, I'm glad you're not bats--- insane like a lot of women in the world," but I should. I appreciate her sanity. Sure, she still has a deep affinity for judge shows (IE: People's Court, Judge Judy, Judge Mathis, etc … ) and seems to love silly, happy morning drive shows, but I can’t complain too much as I thoroughly enjoy activities that befuddle most women. You know, activities like: pwning noobs, killing zombies, drifting (DORIFUTO!!!!!), reading subtitles, and listening to incomprehensible music. The main problem is that she doesn’t consider the first three items on the list to be different. She lumps them in the videogames category. Well, I’m sorry to say, they’re very different, unless you’re drifting through zombies in the wonderful Dead Rising. The stupid game has me trying to figure out a way to get my hands on an Xbox 360. Sadly, Christmas-time is not for me anymore. It seems to be for my daughter...

This webcomic is hilarious. Here's his homepage .

Wow, that was fun. If by fun you mean a pain in the neck, then yeah. Much to the detriment of Grandparents and old people everywhere, I've decided people should surf the interweb at 1024 x 768, at a minimum. As such, my website is now bigger and awesomer. Let me know whether you like it the new way or the old way. Not that I really think what you say is going to change the site, but I like to read people telling me I'm awesome.

Here's the official Exchange list. Edit: Watch this space, updates are coming.

I don't mind the rapid spreading contagion of nerdity (I made the word nerdity up, which I think makes me a nerd. A fact that was never in doubt). My only lament is her hesitance to adopt my music. Seriously, I listen to some awesome music. Every week I find new bands, new sounds, and every once in a while I find gold. The only problem is that I've trained myself to like the weirdest stuff I can find. For example: [audio:01-unexpect-chromatic_chimera.mp3] The band is called uneXpect. They're probably considered metal but they have a certain jazz/circus music/opera influence. They're similar to Sleepytime Guerilla Museum but much heavier. Anyway, I'm a huge fan and really have to suggest picking up their latest release In a Flesh Aquarium . I've also been doing some hunting lately and need to share the fruits of my searching. This first one is easy. It's the background music to the Gears of War commercial . Give it a look see. It's breaking d...

16861 Okay friends and family. Enough of hearing from BJ yack about his boyfriend Jeremy Clarkson, the awesomeness of Guitar Hero, how you too can download shows and music from the internet, or great places to go to look at random crap. I jest, BJ knows I love him. He has quite a knack of rubbing off on people. In fact, this is what my post is all about. BJ knows he is a bit of a nerd, computer geek, whatever. I never was one growing up and never considered myself to be one even presently. However, I finished reading through Wired Magazine a couple weeks ago (the entire magazine) and something hit me----after being married to BJ I have become a bit of a nerd myself!!! If I read an entire magazine it is usually People or Entertainment Weekly. I never knew what Anime was until BJ. Who was Orson Scott Card? Fantasy novels?! Other video games exist other than Mario Brothers?! I grew up on books like Nancy Drew, Baby Sitters Club, Sweet Valley High! My shows were the Care Bears...

I uploaded some more photos today. Have a look see at Sophia's new album which encompasses the last 2 months.