Sunday, October 26, 2008

A Blort Shog Due to Timited Lime

So I'm working on consistency with the whole blog thing. Seems like things have taken a turn for the busy! Most days I get home in time to spend a couple of hours with the kids and then start back on homework as soon as they are asleep. I'm not complaining, I'm just offering up an excuse (for those who can't stand people who make excuses, I'm not making excuses, I'm just complaining).

I just had my first job interview on Friday with Lockheed Martin. I think it went well, but it's very early in the internship search, and there are a few other companies I am interested in, too, so it's way too early to make any predictions. Unless we're talking elections, in which case my money is on Huckabee!! Oh, wait, make that Obama. There's got to be some consolation there--we missed out on having a President Huckabee, but I think President Barack Hussein Obama will be a fine substitute, speaking strictly on terms of ironic syncopation. Which, by the way, I think should be the primary standard for all important leaders. Just think, instead of Ronald Reagan, we could have gone with Inglebert Humperdink. But we missed our chance, didn't we?

Saturday, October 4, 2008

I know what you mean Sonny Bono...

See what happens when you go 2 weeks without posting!!? Your former employer gets shut down by the government and bought by a competitor, the market finishes collapsing, pretends to rebound, the bailout fails then passes and the Office gets pre-empted by a debate. I'm guessing by my next blog, we'll be colonizing Venus. Wonder how their economy is doing?

On the home front, Ethan has started kindergarten. Alexa is dealing with it pretty well, although she does want to stay there with him. Zach just turned one and is in the 96th percentile for height and weight. Val is slowly recovering from a badly sprained foot and I am studying for mid terms every waking moment. And the beat goes on and the beat goes on...

At some point in life while all this normal life is happening, you begin to realize that regardless of your intentions or plans, life keeps going by, people get older and certain things in your life are now etched in stone. For example, the fact that I am past the age when the average NBA player retires suggests that I will never join that esteemed organization. Of course the rational mind realizes that there was never any ghost of a chance of ever having been a professional or even college basketball player (I didn't even start playing in earnest till after high school), but the unreasonable part of me says, "Dang! I missed the boat!" Ditto for any other completely unattainable closet dreams (movie star, rock star, you name it).

That's why, as a clear-headed, responsible adult (yes, I said it), the only appropriate course of action is to start pushing all of these ridiculous fantasies on my children and saddle them with guilt if they fail to meet up to any of these unreasonable expectations. And finally my kids are getting old enough to start perpetuating the unending cycle of not being world famous. Important life lesson: if you try for something and fail, that makes you a failure, but if you never try, you still have all kinds of untapped potential, and who knows how far you could go if you really applied yourself!!

Having said all that, I just realized I'm old enough now to be president of the United States!! Hmmm.....