Wednesday night, and the sparse entries continue as work has been somewhat of a wringer lately. Less time to capture random thoughts into the cellphone as that night’s blog ideas, or something. Or less desire to sit here writing them. Something like that. Going camping this weekend over by the sea, that’s called “coastal,” y’all (not “coastal” like the Florida slang-for-cocaine “coastal,” but real-life on-the-coast coastal). Supposed to be pretty chilly and windy, somewhere in the 40s. Guess we’ll have to huddle-up in the tent at nights. I’m looking forward to it as a slight getaway, and hoping it gives me that release. Moving on…
Sharaun and I have decided to pull out all the stops for our first Keaton-havin’ Halloween party. Not really for the party, but for us… as we’re planning to fly my folks in as babysitters. I just didn’t feel comfortable pressing forward with the planning while the question of who’d be watching Keaton lingered. Knowing my folks’ll be here and with her that night makes me feel much better about planning my yearly apex of personal debauchery. Although the party is actually pretty mild as parties go, I feel better with Keaton in good hands. Plus, my folks are planning to stay a couple extra days to hang out – and I’m glad they’ll get this “tweener” time (between regularly scheduled holiday visits) with Keaton. She’s changing so much, I know if I only got to see her every few months it’d be a different little person each time. For that reason, I wish we were closer to our parents. That, and we wouldn’t have to buy plane tickets to get grandparent-babysitters for our Halloween bash. Nah, I’m just effin’ with ya… it’s really the sentimental one.
I’m so excited for Fall and Winter to officially be here, for all these, and more I likely couldn’t think of, reasons:
- Seeing Keaton in thick, snuggly, long-sleeved shirts and warm comfortable pants for the first time ever
- Turning on our fake gas-powered fireplace
- Grey rainy days spent inside wearing sweatpants
- Halloween (Keaton’s first, by the way)
- The smell of the air on a cold, dew-damp morning
- Taking Keaton’s first pictures in a pumpkin patch
- Not having to mow the lawn for months at a time
- New albums getting “stuck” as wintertime albums in my head
- Keaton’s first Christmas
Yeah, it’s gonna be awesome.
I was thinking the other night about how it’s sometimes hard to find certain bands on filesharing networks/sites. I’m talking about bands with very short, non-standard, or ridiculously common elements to their names. Most search engines have trouble with strings like “and” or “it” or roman numerals and symbols. I think it’d be funny to see and up and coming band “obscure” their work from easy filesharing-fishing by naming themselves “It and The Was,” their album as “I Be,” and simply naming their tracks as incremental roman numerals, I, II, III, IV, etc. Try weeding out the results for something as search-string un-friendly as that.
Goodnight folks, I love ya.
Also written on this day...
- hook 142 - 2021
- been here before - 2010
- we're all beaters - 2009
- sleep deprivation - 2005
- dustin' smokies the whole way - 2004
- strange how things turn out - 2003