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Entries from May 2008

Dear Lily: 66%

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Dear Lily, life

Hi Lily,
Today you are 66% of 1 year old.
In that time you’ve gone from a little immobile lump of cute, capable of not much more than laying around eating an pooping to a fast moving, clawed, sharp toothed, babbling whirlwind of cute.
You exhaust your mom and I, and we may get grumpy about it from [...]

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Instinctual Selflessness

May 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · life

Being a dad has certainly exposed me to a whole new set of feelings and experiences.
Today I was exposed to instinctual selflessness.
This morning, as I was walking down the stairs I somehow missed a step and fell hard…but the scary part was that I was holding Lily at the time.
That certainly adds a whole new [...]

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Blueberries & Fatherhood

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · life

Over the long weekend Lily had some new developments. Blueberries would be one of them. Oh how she loves them, and for those without first hand experience, I can tell you that they are surprisingly similar upon exit.
Those big blue eyes are complimented well by the blue goo that covers her face, sometimes [...]

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Miscellany for a May day….

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments · life

I’ve not had too much to say lately, so a random update.
I’ve been playing with a number of things lately. Project Ubuntu is still ongoing and I am a proud and loud proponent of open source software now. Gone are the shackles of the Microsoft overlords, and I’m happy about it.
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Perspective

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments · life

I drive to work every weekday, 45 minutes.
Often times I spend this entire time in my own head, in my car. Just a singe person, in a tiny, uncomfortable bubble.
When I find myself in a mindset like this, it bothers me. It bothers me because I know there is more to the world than that. [...]

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Sunday Matinee

May 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · life, movies

Its been a while since I’ve gone solo to a movie, but today it will be ironman.
I rather enjoy the sunday matinee experience. There is a certain filter of people that appeals to me.
The punk teens are still just dragging themselves out of bed. Some volume is decreased by the absence of sunday [...]

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So happy….most of the time…

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments · life


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