Now for my real morning post
Whine whine whine.
Yeah, I think I'm sick. Going to try to get rid of this sinus headache, but I am not sure it's going to go away by itself. Going to go up and get a Musinex in a little while. Can't think straight, tho the japanese post was fairly understandible.
No deep posts today Mike, I promise.
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Boston - 1.5 games behind the Rays, 6.5 games ahead of the Twins in the WildCard. Interesting post yesterday about whether Francona(Sox Mgr) will push them to try and take the division, or rest everyone up so their healthy. A bunch of people could use some time off. We'll see. If we win tonight and the Rays lose? Could make things interesting.
Ohayo gozaimasu (Ohio Go Zai Mas)
I was looking at my stats to see where people are coming from, and noticed someone is coming in from Japan. Hence the title 
I picked up a set of Pimsleur cd's on Japanese to teach the boyo. I've been listening in my car and it's really interesting. Here's what I learned:
Sumimasen (Sue Me Ma Sen) - Excuse me. Like if you were trying to start a conversation.
eigo ga wakarimasu ka (Eh go gah wah kah ree mas ka) - do you understand English. Literally - English do you understand.
Iie (ee eh) - no.
Hai - (Hi) - yes.
Nihongo ga wakarimasu ka (Nee Hon go gah wah kah ree mas ka) - do you understand Japanese.
adding ka to the end of something is like a voiced question mark.
Wakarimasu - I understand
Wakarimasu ka - Understand? or Do you Understand?
It's a neat language, and since my commute is so damn long, I've got plenty of time.
Deep, thought provoking post
Then again, maybe not. Yeah, I got nothin.
It's been a fairly busy as hell week trying to get some project work done, trying to pack up my cube and get ready to move into my new office (we're moving the whole office to a new building), keep myself sane, keep my brain from leaking out, and in between all that, try and be there for my family.
Why do we do it? This thing we call life? Why do we do our day to day stuff, dreaming of a better life, of more money, of more stuff? Why do we have kids and attempt to help them live a life that is better than our own?
Okay, maybe it is thought provoking today, I guess those M&M's I just ate woke up my noodle. Sometimes I have no f'ing clue. Other times it's so crystal clear that I'm amazed I don't see it this clearly. As I get older and my kids get more independent, I have more time to think and analyze what I do and why I do it. I can't even imagine being back at my old job, being a drone in a factory of idiocy. No I won't name the company, but suffice it to say that I am still, 2.5 years later, breaking the old ingrained habits of that place. UGH!
I think it all boils down to wanting to see what happens next. To see if the decisions you make and the choices you focus on work out or not. I'd like to be more 'thing'centric and concentrate on more of the things that matter - like making sure that my grandkids don't have to go to Mars because we've f'd up this planet so badly. I'd like to make sure that people hear me when I complain about my government and try to do something, even if it's only to cast my vote for someone who I think can make a difference.
Why do you live life everyday and do the things you do?
Plan for Change
I know a lot of people don't agree with me, but just hearing this kind of thing makes me glad to be American. Can he do it all? Will all of his plans work?
I don't know man, but you know what? Listening to him makes me feel safe for a little while and better about the future of America. Will he be better than McCain? My vote is yes.
Funny for the Day: Get a Mac
Okay, I'm not as rabid as some, but I definitely prefer to use a Mac for almost everything. To that end, to add to your morning, go here - http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
Entirely too funny, especially the one about free pizza.
Truthfully, PC makes these commercials, but Mac being such a foil for him, makes him so much funnier.
What is a Parent?
I've been writing for a while now, see (http://cushingonline.com) and I've been coming across a bunch of really well written bloggers and realized one thing.
I am not a very good writer
I am getting better though, and I realize that the reason for this blog is a many faceted one. I blog to keep my sanity. I blog to get my feelings and thoughts in order. There are way more posts that I write, that never get published, simply because they really wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to anyone but me. (come on Dice K, throw a damn strike already)
Oh, sorry. I'm watching the Sox/Rays game right now. (Ah, he listened!)
I blog to converse with the internet, and the nice thing about it, is the internet is answering back There have been comments from as close as the 2nd floor of my Condo, to all the way out on the West Coast (HI MIKE!!! HI RAGING DAD!!!) The cool thing is, I feel like I'm finding friends in a way. Not someone I'll call and tell my troubles to, but definitely people that read my stuff and comment and i'll read theirs and comment there too. I feel like I'm part of a parental growing internet group.
So what is a parent anyway? I've been looking around at all of the blogs that are Dad oriented and they all talk about New Dads. You know what? Been there, done that. I'm father to an 11yr old boy and an 8 yr old girl. This blog isn't about diapers and thomas the tank engine. It's about how shitty 5th graders can be, and "Daddy, can I have a cell phone" and I'm gonna call you Dad in front of my friends, but Daddy at home, K?
I love being a father. I love being able to be for my kids what mine wasn't for me. Don't get me wrong, I love my Dad. I've just been taking notes and learning over the years, and along with the lessons from my Father In Law, I have a fairly decent idea of what to do and what not to do. I still make mistakes, I still yell when I shouldn't, but I think the things I do right far outweigh the things I do wrong.
I care for, love, play with, am stern with my kids and I love them more than anything in the world.
New site
Hopefully it'll be better than this really soon. I know, the theme is boring and there is no content.
Moving moving moving
I'm going to be slowly but surely migrating to the new domain - http://mattdaddy.net
cushingonline.com is too hard to say
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Girl Time
Today is our friend's birthday and Fae and her two friends are hanging out for the day just talking and being girls and all of that. I've been trying to get her out of the house more and out doing Non-Mom things, just to break it up, let her use her brain for more than "Cheese Doodles or Nachos today while packing lunches".
She called a little while ago and asked me what to do - "Do I leave now and miss the traffic, or wait until after". I immediately responded with "Stay, I've got the kids" and told her that I was glad she was taking some time for herself and that she needed to do it more often, and hopefully more regularly. To that end, I suggested that if I knew ahead of time, she could do it regularly and I would stretch out my workday a little and handle things here. I have my workouts and martial arts, why shouldn't she have some kind of way to blow off steam?
She put me on speaker and told me to say it again so her friends could hear, and I was surprised at how 'generous' I was perceived - "what did I do to deserve you" and "you are so awesome".
Come on! Is this not normal - a guy suggesting his girl take it easy? Truthfully, I didn't see what I was doing as such a big deal. Is it? Now that I've been writing about it, I'm curious to see what people think. What do you do to give your spouse a break?