I can’t believe it is July already. How the hell did this happen? I swear that it was still January just a few days ago.

I know I’ve said stuff like this before, but honestly this sucks. Time moves so fast that you can’t stop and smell the roses even when you really want to.

So we’re leaning toward visiting Lake Winnipesaukee at some point over the 4th of July weekend. (Hockey fans will be interested in knowing that Google’s spell check recommends replacing Winnipesaukee with Winnipeg. Just like the Atlanta Thrashers! Go Jets, eh!)

Now we just have to decide when to go, and where specifically to go when we get their. Personally, my first choice is to find a public beach somewhere and then take the proverbial “jump in a lake.” There are public beaches on Winnipesaukee so we’d just have to pick one to head to in the hopes that it isn’t an over crowded nightmare on the day we go.

I also would like to check out as many of the natural attractions in the White Mountains as possible. Turns out I am a sucker for waterfalls. Who knew? I’d like to see the flume at Franconia Notch again, but would probably prefer to go to someplace I’ve never seen. Everything sounds like it’s worth a trip.

This particular trip is not about me though, it’s about the kids! As it should be. So where around the lake do we take the kids? The Alpine Slide interests one of them, but not the other. Amusement parks are hit or miss for us, because one kid is a ride crazy daredevil and the other is definitely not. However, at most amusement parks there is something to keep all of us entertained.

While all of these are important questions, they still should not be the first questions we ask. We should be focusing on when are we going and should we stay overnight before we get to specific destinations.

I am seriously looking forward to this weekend. The four of us are going to have a blast!

Again, I got nuttin.

Can’t think of anything to write about.

hmmm…

Hey! Did you hear the Bruins won the Stanley Cup? Yeah! I still can’t believe it. I mean… The Stanley Cup… in Boston! I just… I just… I can’t get over it. I have to keep reminding myself. Normally at this time of year I am reading up on which players are going to become free agents on July 1st. This year? Who cares, we won The Cup!

In baseball news, the Red Sox have dropped out of first place again thanks to losing six of their last 10. Inter-League play is not being good for them. Cliff Lee obliterated them last night, but you sort of expect that from Cliff Lee. I voted for the all star team yesterday. I haven’t been following the majors enough to make intelligent decisions on most positions, especially the National League, so I just made sure I voted for Adrien Gonzales and then placed a few home town votes that probably aren’t quite deserving, and then favored San Diego and Milwaukee on the senior circuit. They have an interesting little tweek to the ballot. You can vote multiple times. You submit the ballot, the page refreshes, and the submit button is still there. You can just keep hitting it. There is a max number of votes (25, I think) but I don’t know if that is per day or per email address or what. I guess when it comes to ballot box stuffing if you can’t beat them, join them.

Still haven’t made any final decisions on what to do with our 4th of July weekend. It mostly depends on the weather. Checking the five day forecast, Saturday is looking great. Sunday might not be quite so good. We’ll have to see.

Let’s just hope for good weather, maybe a beach, and some fireworks.

My Love.

I have nothing to say right now. Can’t think of anything.

The fourth of July weekend is coming up and we can’t settle on any plans. We thought about Maine on Saturday, but then we found out that Beatlejuice is playing at Methuen’s town celebration. We thought about Lake George in New York but thought better of it, fiscally. We are a little handcuffed for Monday the 4th itself because we need to hand the kids off to their Dad at some point, so we need to stay close to home. There are cook out invites all over the place, and there is Lake Winnipesaukee looking down at us from the not so distant North. There are also Hampton and Salisbury and York and Old Orchard and how many other beaches on the MA/NH/ME seacoasts.

Thought: I have long, long, been anti-television show. Prior to 2004 I was pretty much boycotting all television that wasn’t sports. Then I stumbled on Dead Like Me and really liked it. I thought it was an aberration, but recently I have watched a lot of TV shows and liked them.

Or have I?

Jen has recently become a fan of Glee. She watched the whole first season on Netflixs, but season two is not yet available for streaming. I asked her if she was going to watch the next season as it aired. That got me thinking…

When was the last time I followed a television show that I had to wait to see each week’s new episodes?

Dead Like Me, I saw the pilot on-air as a rerun just prior to the start of the second and final season. I then went online and found rips of the entire first year. Also, there was a leak of a bunch of season two episodes and I watched those online as well. I then had to wait for each new episode, but I rarely watched them on television, preferring to gobble them up online.

South Park? I used to video tape each week’s episode, but that was a long time ago. I probably stopped doing that in 1999 or 2000. I used to video tape all Star Trek shows, but that ran out of steam for me in the second to last season of Voyager. That would have been in 2000. I tried to start again with Enterprise but quickly started finding those online too.

Since then my wife and I have watched close to every episode of at least Friends, Scrubs, Smallville, and How I Met Your Mother. There are others too. I watched a bunch of Glee with her, and I’ve snuck in the first year of the Battlestar Galactica remake as well. None of which were watched on broadcast television. All were either via DVD, Netflix, or video tape.

So maybe… maybe it’s not the programming that I have a problem with (although 99.999% of television programming is worse than garbage). Maybe it’s the waiting. Maybe having to wait seven days after watching something on television is too much for my mini-attention span. If I can’t devour it all in a short time, I don’t bother.

Maybe the real question is, who cares?

Maybe we should just say screw it and go to Lake George. hehe What do you say, Jen? hehe

Photo by my amazing wife:

Patches doesn’t have a chip on her shoulder, she has one one her head!

Give a pair o’ nerds a cat and a bag of Tostitos and this is the kinda shit yer gonna see.

My Missus. I love her madly.

I believe this past weekend may have been the shortest weekend since the United States adopted the 40 hour work week. I blinked and it was over. Where did it go? My wife and I had a very nice weekend, spent mostly at home together doing nothing and really liking it. The kids had their piano recital. She worked a little. I cleaned a little. Mostly though it was just us enjoying each other’s company. I love her so much.

Today, however, is Monday. That in and of itself has an extremely high suckitudenal level. Unfortunately this coming weekend is a long one. It is the much anticipated, long awaited three day fourth of July weekend. That means this work week is going to drag and suck and drag and suck some more. The 40 hour week is going to feel like 400 hours by the time Friday sets us free.

Suckitudenality overload.

But…

We have a long vacation scheduled for later in the summer. Today I logged into work and opened up my calendar to see what was coming up and saw for the first time that the start of the vacation is close enough that it is showing in the default calendar view.

Oh the happiness. Oh the sweet, sweet, vacational happiness.

The kids’ piano recital was in the Methuen Library. I had not been in this room before, but I really liked it. I appologise for not getting a shot of, or from, the balcony.

I’m having serious flashbacks to my high school days this weekend.

I have been so overtired for the last week or so that I have slept later than 10:00am both yesterday and today.

That’s sort of how it was in high school… sleeping until late morning on weekends. In college it was more like early afternoon.

zzzz zzzz zzzz