Wow. I must say, for a guy who enjoys sitting on his ass and doing very little, I managed to do a hell of a lot today.
For starters, I was out of bed by 9 which is unheard of for me on a Saturday. But, Tamara was gone to painting class, and I knew the weather was going to be good and the garage needed to be cleaned out badly. So, I got out of bed, and started and didn’t stop until it was done.
By the time 1pm came, my feet were killing me, my front lawn was littered with stuff and I had thrown out countless old computer junk, papers, boxes, and books. I now have a large pile of garbage at the end of my driveway on the curb, which will be picked up this week. I put all the keeper stuff back in the garage in a very organized fashion and now, there’s actually enough room in there to park the car, imagine that!
If anyone is looking for old computer parts, monitors, or other stuff, you might try driving by my place before this stuff gets picked up. I threw out like 3 monitors I think, and some really old boxes. I kept the stuff that I know I wanted like my 486, Mac Classic II and my Atari. There’s no way in hell I’d throw that out.
However, I’m not a man who does a whole lot of physical labour so by the time I was done, I needed food, and drinkage and since it WAS Saturday, sausage time ensued. I got home, crashed in bed for like 2 hours, and just came upstairs from watching that Herbie movie with Lindsay Lohan and you know, it was kind of cheezy but it was cute, and Lindsay Lohan isn’t that bad either but the car was pretty funny.
Tamara is off again so I am just vegging, pondering what the evening will entail. Probably not a hell of a lot but I will say that I don’t feel like walking too far so maybe a drive or something else is a good idea.
In just over two weeks, I guess it would actually be three, we will be heading to Alberta. WOO HOO! I am getting excited both for having a vacation in Alberta with Tamara, but for just having a week off.
Work has been very good as I have been busy and have been feeling pretty good about my workload and my abilities there. I officially passed through my probation period which means both a good and bad thing. Bad in that now they will start taking benefits off my paycheques so they will go down a bit, but good in that I know I can now rest a bit easier, knowing that I’m at least good enough to keep around there. Unlike otherplaces I have worked, *cough* Compucollege *cough* Oh wait? Did I say that? *snicker*
In baby world, the idea that I am going to be a dad has really hit home a few times. I’ve been thinking more and more about the fact that within 6 months, there’s going to be another human being living in this house for which I will be responsible for. It’s somewhat scary to think that I have reproduced. I mean, I have always considered myself to be a little bit… different. Yeah, that’s a good word. So, to think that I am going to have a child who will likely inherit some of his/her father’s idiosyncrasies is a little daunting. At least having gone through all the weird things I have experienced, when my kid gets to be a teenager and tells me that they are going to dye their hair, or flop around on the floor like a dying fish, I’ll know that it was all my fault. Scary thought eh?
Oh ya, I haven’t shared my plan for the baby with regards to my video that I intend to make. It’s a video that will probably take anywhere from 10 to 20 years to make, but I always knew that if I had a kid, I’d have to do something like this. So what kind of video is it? Ok, for those of you who don’t have kids, apply this to yourself instead of a kid. Imagine that you could take a picture of your child once a week for 18 years, preferably in the same spot, like either in a chair, or table setting, or something where the photo would look basically the same except for the fact that every week, the child will have grown a little or look a little different. Now, say you did this, somehow, for 18 years. From the day the child was born, until their 18th birthday. You would have 936 photos (52 weeks per year x 18 years). Now, take all 936 photos and put them in sequential order. Now that we are in the digital age, this is going to be a hell of a lot easier, but now that you have them in order, build a slide show showing the child from the first photo, to the last photo. each photo only displays for a single second, meaning that you’d have a slide show of 936 photos, 936 seconds long. Divide that by 60 seconds per minute, you’d end up with a slide show just over 15 minutes. In fifteen minutes, you could literally sit and watch your child grow from the day it was born, to its 18th birthday.
For me, I think that would be the coolest thing ever. I mean, I know that for myself, I’ll likely take shitloads of photos of my kids, but if I can take the time and the effort to do this, when all is said and done, I’ll actually have something that can show the progress from start to finish (finish of childhood that is) and I think that would just be seriously cool. I mean think about it. For yourself. Wouldn’t it be neat if you could watch a video of yourself growing up from age 0 to 18? I know I’d enjoy it.
In other news, interestingly enough, I’ve been listening to this new Peeping Tom album more and more and I really am beginning to like it, especially track 11, We’re Not Alone. Mojo is a really good tune but I’m almost thinking that Alone is a better tune. Also, I found out that there will be a video for Mojo and that Rachel Hunter, as well as Danny DeVito (who apparently is like this INSANELY huge Patton fan). I’m wondering if this is the first video Patton has done in a long time because I don’t think there’s any actual videos made for his other stuff although I could be mistaken.
So, since my posts have been a little little laterly, I think this makes up for it, at least for a little while. Now I need to find something to do.
