This is hysterical. I don’t know why, but it is.

Times Square? We are one small step closer to a return visit.

Robbie wanna go back.

I love Cyanide and Happiness.

Am I running out of steam? The frequency of posts has dropped, as had the number of ideas of what to say… obviously the two are related.

I can’t think of anything to say right now.

The Bruins lost again. I can say that. I didn’t expect them to beat the Ducks. The Bruins are the walking wounded and they were slumping before losing a couple of top players. The Ducks were on a winning streak. What upsets me is that the Bruins twice had the lead and couldn’t hold it. What makes it a little better is that Teemu Selanne seems to have broken his face. Not an even trade, but if we’re going to lose we might as well start dragging a few people down with us.

My wife is a fan of the game The Sims. I’ve never played it before. I decided to give it a try last night. My goal is to create the foulest human (simulated) possible. I want to have a character who has a good shot at winning the (not so) coveted Biggest Douche in the Universe award.

On a slightly happier note… Given the choice between spending Dr Martin Luther King day at home with me or on a field trip with their after school program the kids have decided they would rather stay at home with me. I am going to chose do feel all warm and fuzzy, like one seriously happy step-dad, instead of realizing that the field trip probably wasn’t that interesting. I know they are staying because they love me. hehe I am the happiest step-dad in the universe. Granted we’ll probably just sit in front of the tube watching Harry Potter flicks all day. WooHoo!

Okay, I’m not going to top that. I might write again later if I can think of something.

Good Day!

Yes, it’s that time again. January. That means that February is right down the road. That means that it’s time to start pretending I am a musician again! Nice!

February means its time for the RPM Challenge (write and record either 10 songs or 35 minutes of music) and FAWM (write 14 new songs).

I’ve never technically succeeded in either of these challenges, but it won’t stop me from giving it a try for the fourth year in a row. (I finished the 2009 RPM six weeks late, and I finished the 2007 RPM using old songs)

I have signed up for this year’s challenges on both websites. I have decided to refer to this year’s goofiness as The Annual Failure Celebration or something like that. It’s going to be fun to play with, and when it’s over I hope to have a pile of shiny brand new crappy songs to force down everyone’s throats! Muahahahahaha!

In the interest of said torture, here is last year’s collection of crap!

Run away! Run away!

On a slightly related note, I am hopeful that my wife, also known as the love of my life and the woman of my dreams and she who makes my life worth living, will jump on the wagon and start writing again this month. While I am sitting in a corner trying to write and record some new music, she can sit in the opposite corner writing some new fiction. I hope she comes along for the ride.

I love ya sweetie!

Bring on February!

(now all I have to do is buy a pile of new guitar strings, a stack of 9 volt batteries, and learn how to use Apple’s Garage Band. No problem!)

I saw this on the RPM Challenge forums today. Some one trying to psyche us all up to write a bunch of music next month.

Yup, it’s bleeding-heart-liberal-pats-himself-on-the-back-for-doing-something-politically-correct time!

You love this segment, I know you do.

Jen and I have carpooled to work the last two days. We can’t do it any other day this week because it would cause the kids being in their after school program until about 7:00pm and that’s too late.

Still, we’re feeling all green and happy and good.

Actually I am not feeling green at all. Yes I do consider myself a monster liberal, but I didn’t carpool for the environment’s sake. I did it for two reasons. First and foremost it lets me spend an extra 45-60 minutes with my wife each morning. Even if all we’re doing is bitching about the crappy traffic reports on WBZ. Second, it saves us a couple of bucks on gas. Reducing pollution is just an added bonus.

Now, what would be really good for the Earth would be for the freakin’ Bruins to start winning games again. Three losses in a row. Savard, Bergeron, Ference, and Stuart all out with injuries. To put it into Star Wars terms, it’s a dark time for the rebellion.

On yet another totally unrelated note, I have reached book 5 of the Harry Potter series of books on tape. When I started listening to the first book, read by Jim Dale… at least I think that’s his name… Leave a comment if I’m wrong, I did a huge double take as he pronounced the name of the bad guy as if it had a silent “t” at the end: Voldermort sounded like Voldermore. In the films they pronounce the “t” at the end of the name, and I had always read them that way. But this reader did not and it always sounded wrong to me.

Today, after dropping off my love at her office, I listened to the last 10-15 minutes of book 4, The Goblet of Fire, and started chapter 1 of book 5, The Order of the Phoenix. I did another double take when Jim Dale (I think) suddenly pronounced the “t”! Voldermore became Voldermort again. I don’t recall the timeline, but I believe the first film came out after the forth book… which means he changed his pronunciation to match that of the film. Interesting, eh?

Now I have to get a few chapters in to see if Gryffindor stops being pronounced Gryffenduh and the “uh” becomes an “or” again.

It’s official, this is the most fascinating blog post you guys have ever read.

You’re welcome!

The worst part of the holidays is probably the financial aspect. Savings accounts tend to take a nasty hit between Thanksgiving and the start of the New Year.

The second most painful aspect is probably the downer that comes after the season is over. I’m talking specifically about work. We had two days off for Thanksgiving, then a few full weeks, then a short week for Christmas followed immediately by a short week for New Year.

After that? Slam! Back to reality. Last week was a full five day week and it took forever. To make things worse, it was followed by a standard two day weekend which, coming on the heels of two consecutive three day weekends, was very short.

We made the most of it though. The Mrs and I went out for a much needed date night on Friday. We cleared our heads a little and just enjoyed being with each other. We had so much fun we did it again on Saturday. Sunday became a textbook flake day as we slept late, then sat on the couch all day watching movies, and then went to bed early. It was perfect… or as close to perfect as you can get without that magical third day being added in. I have Dr Martin Luther King day off on Monday but Jen doesn’t so it’ll be a bit of a bust. We’re still hypothetically planning to hypothetical go away for a weekend next month. As with every February I also am considering a few extra vacation days for RPM Challenge reasons. We’ll see.

I could have really used a three day weekend this week too.

Despite the two day restriction though, it was the best weekend Jen and I have had together in a while. Possibly since the honeymoon. It was a great weekend.

Last night I had a dream…

I was at my parents house looking through the comcast programming guide and saw that one channel was showing, at 1:30pm, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

How cool is that? I was going to see the last Potter movie on TV looooong before it hit theaters.

I stayed in front of the tube for hours, constantly making sure that the channel info for 1:30pm didn’t change.

When the time came I flipped to the proper channel and…

It was a half hour documentary on the release of the book.

Bummer