Archive for January, 2004

Brief moments of normal, responsible parenting

Saturday, January 31st, 2004

You should’ve seen us, me and the baby. We piled out of bed around 10:30 and glided into the kitchen. Nicolaus, still wearing his soft white jammies, slid magically into his highchair. I gave him two little piles of shredded cheese and started working on a gourmet breakfast. This involved first washing the cookie sheet, [...]

Time management

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Today is one of those rare days when Kevin and Nicolaus leave the house for hours and hours and I am left with a whole entire day to do whatever I want. Days like this offer a nice little break, but shine a revealing light on my abysmal time management skills. It turns out that [...]

gbomerso

Friday, January 30th, 2004

A few months ago, some guy started giving out his email address incorrectly. gbomerso at electricboogaloo dot net.
Now, I *own* electricboogaloo.net and have a catch-all email account set up such that whatever@ comes to me. It’s nifty, try it! Dylanhasabigfatass at electricboogaloo.net etc.
So I started getting all these messages to gbomerso, who I am not. [...]

happy birthday to me

Wednesday, January 21st, 2004

Yesterday I turned 30. So now I am 30. It doesn’t feel any different. Maybe that comes later.
I’ve been awake since seven for no reason, definitely not the behavior of a twenty-something lazeabout. Right now I’m in a hot bath working like crazy on a web site that offers training for surgeons.
Nicolaus just woke up [...]

Terrible and wrong

Monday, January 19th, 2004

Someone died. Someone I knew in high school; had a crush on even. He had a wife and a baby – or rather, they had him. And now they don’t.