the percentage of spoons in our silverware drawer that have taken a spin in the garbage disposal has now climbed over 50%.

why is this fate exclusive to spoons? none of our forks or knives carry the scars of the disposal blades.

turns out the ‘e’ for everyone on some ps2 games doesn’t in fact mean everyone. for example the ‘e’ on lego star wars ii means 10+.

this wouldn’t have been a problem if natalie hadn’t been the one who discovered it after walking in on ethan and i playing…

he’s not even four years old yet and he’s already slept around.

states where ethan has spent at least one night (in green):

my father was in town over the weekend and during his visit made several positive comments about his relatively new home state, texas.

which further confirms my belief that there must be something in the water that affects the thinking of everyone who lives there…

its great to root for teams from ohio because they will always build up your hopes making it to playoffs, finals and national championships. and they will build up your retirement betting against them to win.

“spank your children every day, if you don’t know why, they will.”

it may not sound like an eulogy but as my friend affectionately remembered frank borchardt i felt as if i had lost something too.

when i got home last night my three and a half year old son gave me a detailed account of how our one and a half year old daughter scaled a kitchen counter to reach a screwdriver that she then took to the side of a couch to drive holes in.

after asking which couch, we all started walking in to the play room and before my son could got there, my daughter was standing at the side of the couch pointing at the damage calling out her brother’s name.

manipulation and guile, the family traits every parent pines for…

when i was a teenager i had a friend who’s mom was by teenager standards the coolest mom in town. she would buy us beer, let us stay out as late as we wanted, let us get high and even on some occasions join in lighting up with us.

i remember everyone used to go on and on about how great she was and kenny would just shrug, barely acknowledging our lavish praise.

it wasn’t until i was much older that i realized what kenny inherently knew. his mom wasn’t cool, she was failing him.

i have known a lot of parents who have tried a variety of tricks to win the affection of their children and inevitably they all seem to fail in both winning the love they seek and in raising a quality human. in fact it seems to me that anything shy of accepting a child for who they are and stepping up to all the joys and chores of parenthood is going to lead to some level of failure.

this was all real easy to say for the guy with a two and four year old who hasn’t yet realized the scars he’s afflicted on his children. check back in fifteen years…

‘geek with a view’ – the label assigned to this site from my good friend at mouse medicine.

someone needs to put out the fires in georgia – its starting to cast a gray pall over my otherwise sunny day.

i may have missed richard stallman’s talk at umsl a few weeks ago but thanks to a couple of friends who were there, i think i got an even bigger dose of his medicine by listening to their accounts…

his latest crusade can be found at bad vista.

i know you got to let them loose in the wild at some point, but my god its not supposed to turn out like this: senior still in coma.

this boy lives four doors down from us and we travel seawell school road every day.