31 July 2007

For Gram and Granddad...

I apologize for the lack of updates this summer. But there has been a small reason weighing on my mind...



Cheers, everyone!

30 July 2007

For My Wife...

I duly apologize, before my mass readership, to my wife for being a jackass.

07 July 2007

Oh Boy...

imaginative
adj.
1. Having or showing creativity or inventiveness.
2. My son, Austin.

This morning, Austin was playing at his corner Lego table. He was chattering away at me as usual, this time with the tale of him being on a baker's blue airplane. When I told him to play nicely while I was going to take a shower, the following conversation ensued:

"You can't take a shower, Daddy."
"Why not?"
"It's the Baker's shower."
"Oh it is, is it?"
"Yeah. It belongs to the Baker in the kitchen."
"Okay, Austin, I'll just ask the Baker to use the shower."
I walk over to the kitchen. "Hello Baker," I began, "mind if I use the shower? *insert gibberish as baker's reply* Okay sir, I will keep it clean in there; no splashing around." I turned back to my son at the table, "The baker said it was okay for me to use the shower. You play nicely and I'm going to go take–"
"You can't, Daddy. You didn't ask Tony the Baker."
"Oh? I thought I just had."
"No, you didn't say Tony."
"Ah, I see."
I stepped back to the kitchen. "Hey Tony," I said with a bad Jersey accent, "Mind if I use the shower? *More gibberish reply* Thanks, man!"
Back in the living room, "Alrighty, Austin, Tony the Baker said I could use the shower."
"Okay, Daddy."

I had to negotiate with an invisible baker named Tony in my kitchen in order to take a shower this morning. If that's not a sign of a free mind at work, I don't know what is.

03 July 2007