Public Transportation

No time!
I've started doing more stuff in the morning before I go to work. This leaves me precious little blogging time. Ahhh, the trials and tribulations of being a dad.

Yesterday the kid and I took the light rail line over to the central library. I like to pride myself on not really being concerned with my appearance. Compared to some of the people on the light rail I must be extremely vain. What I'm noting is one of the great reasons to take public transportation, people watching. I love it and so does The Kid. We could have rode the rail all day. One poor man had half his ass crack showing. I shouldn't say anything for all I know he could have some sort of illness or who the hell knows what. But the truth of it is that it is tough to get that image out of your head. What can you do?

It was so wonderful to go to the central library with The Kid and to do it on public transportation made it all the better. It was such a less frenetic outing and it seemed like more quality time with her as opposed to all the time we've raced off to the playground. It left me feeling as if I had somehow neglected The Kid during the summer, I kept thinking "why didn't we do things like this more often?"

Off Track

It has been this way all summer, the blog has been off track. We have had so many visitors and then a computer crash. What's a blogger to do? Now with preschool starting I've got more to do in the morning before going to work. The blog takes yet another blow. The blog and I will survive we will regroup and we will push on!

Cat Stevens a terror threat. I mean come on. It seems that all the news and jokes were probably told about this one within the first 24 hours but I just can let it go. It's so damn funny and alarming all at once.

I'm done. I've got nothing.

I've been waking up at 6:00 AM, after going to bed between 11:00 and 11:30. I guess I've got a lot on my mind or something. I know what it is but I don't want to blog about it. Anyhow, the point is I'm not getting enough sleep and this nonsense has got to stop.

We just had the Madre and the Pistol in town. It is so wonderful to see them play with The Kid. Best of all is seeing how much she loves them. I've always been so nervous that living so far away would make it difficult for The Kid to develope a close bond with her Grandparents. My fears seem to be unfounded and that's great.

Getting the oil changed in a car is such a simple task. Why do I hate it so. Both cars need to be serviced. What an annoyance.

Bringing Down the Man

I've just finished reading "Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America." It is interesting although somewhat repetative. It is written by the founder of adbusters, his basic premise is that we (Americans) have allowed corporations to take over our world and it is time to take it back. I've been in a real "Bring Down the Man" state of mind due in part to the book. My small web contribution to the cause it to switch to using FireFox a open source web borwers. Just a small way of sticking it to Microsoft and after only a couple days of use it seems to be better than Explorer. My other website of choice it No Sweat where you can get clothing made under fair trade practices by union shops.

"I've only just begun to fight!!!"

Still haven't resolved the computer problem at home. It has put a real damper on my blog :(
The Madre comes into town today with the Pistol coming in a day later. The kid doesn't seem to be as wound up as normal. I think she may just have a lot going on with school and all.
We've been starting to look into more avenues for adoption. The lawyer we used to finalize our last adoption places a lot of children and we are getting the ball rolling to hook up with him. The adoption stuff is just too heavy for the blog.
I've always wanted my blog to be funnier.
Why can't I achieve that?
Where's the humor in my life?
I know it is out there I just can't seem to wrap my arms around it.
Big goings on this weekend M&D are in town that means The CEO and I get to go out!!!! It is almost scary. It's like venturing into New York city for the first time. It is big and dark but also exciting there is so much out there that we are not seeing or taking advantage of. Don't get me wrong, with The Kid our lives are full and exciting and a different way. However, spending kid-less time with the CEO will be a welcome change.

She's a Big Girl Now.

Today is day one of the first day of school for The Kid. School starts at 9:00 and we are allowed to stick around 'till 9:30. Then she is own her own until 1:00 pm. I know she is going to do great. I'm pretty much speachless about the whole thing. I can't believe that three years have gone by so fast.

Left of center. Big time!

I've always heard that as you get older you become more conservative. Quite the contrary in my case. I keep leaning or maybe I should say leaping more and more to the left. OK , I hate paying taxes but it isn't because I don't believe in them. It is because I don't believe that politicians are spending my money wisely, especially W and his friends. Also, living in hyper liberal Portland Oregon probably adds fuel to my leanings. Anyhow, what has really prompted this rare political blog is that I just got back from seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 (Finally!). My only problem with the movie is that I don't think it was long enough and it didn't go deep enough. There seem to be so much damaging stuff to report on Bush that one 2 hour movie just isn't enough and I'm pretty sure the M. Moore is mainly preaching to the choir when people see the movie. I just keep thinking that there are a lot of people out there who usually don't vote that have gotten pissed off enough at W that they are going to come out and vote and we are going to beat the pants off of this little s#*t. God I hope so.

Who made that?

Who made Crater Lake?
How do you begin to explain that to a three year old?
The Kid, the CEO and I all just got back from a great little vacation. We spent a couple of days at Crater Lake and a couple days in Ashland. The big discovery we keep making is that travelling in the mini-van kicks ass. We can easily do 300 miles in one day and The Kid does really well.

The Kid is up.

Internet Pirate

I brought home my WiFi ready laptop tonight. I turned it on and low and behold someone in the neighborhood has WiFi and it needs no pass key. I'm on line and it's free, sort-a. This is kind of cool.

It's too late for me to be doing this s*#t.

7 hours later:
Eyyyy! Good morning mates! The internet pirate is back.
The CEO turned our mud room into a breakfast nook. I believe she has single handedly changed the "feel" of our house more than any other change we have made. Even upgrading the kitchen somehow doesn't seem to have been such a nice change. I'm out in the new room right now enjoying my breakfast. We never have orange juice when I want it. If I'm having eggs or toast with peanut butter (like right now) I need OJ. I poured myself some water, no good. I think I'll switch to milk.

Still down and out!

I doesn't feel right blogging at work. But I am just sitting here waiting for my huge PC file to load. Here it is.

Now it's a couple of days later and I've finally brought the home PC in to be fixed. I hope they are quick.

There is just so much crap to always to be done and when I get home from work I never feel like doing it so I put it off until my lunch hour at work. The problem is a lunch hour is just that an hour.

Big trip to Crater Lake coming this weekend. Of course it seems as if I got more work than I can possibly complete before I cut out of work a day early. Why do I always do it to myself!

The kid goes off to school right after we get back from CL. She's going "Big time!" on us way to fast.