Sleep

Want to get back into this if only briefly. Sleep here is 50/50. Last 2 night good, prior 2 night bad. THE baby is Chubby as all get out. See Erin's blog for pics. For me personally... I'm not bad. I feel like I'm starting to finish some things. I finished the steps onto the patio, mostly finished up cleaning the basement and restoring my workshop to order. Mostly cleaned out the gagage, and mostly finished scanning and archiving crap that I feel I want to have, but can't stand to keep in file cabinets. Using drop box to back up the data, and am happy as a pig in shit.

Hope to finish some of the mostly soon. Other than that looking forward to my sisters visit, ans seeing the niece and nephew. Erin and I are planning activities so it should be fun.

Ta Ta

twelve beers of christmas

It has got to be the only things I really wanted for Christmas. Erin dropped them on me early so I could have one a day and be done by tax season. Given my last couple of batches went so poorly, having some really good beer is a complete joy. The first one I tried was Goose Islands - Honkers Ale. I opened the bottle and spent 3 min just smelling it. It smelled like home brewing. The Styrian Golding hops, which I have used several times is just awesome. It smells fresh and light and delicious. That with a little of the yeasty smell and some of the steaming grain smell. I didn't even have to drink it to be happy.

But I did, and is was great. A simple, very well balanced, very flavorful, absolutely awesome ale. I'll keep my eyes on the look out for other beers by these guys. Get one if you can.

Windows's Fu(king windows

I recieved my windows 7 upgrade dvd (Free) in the mail Thursday. I was very excited as I was running vista and didn't much like it. I spent the next 72 hours trying to do everything I could think of to get the upgrade to work.
-first it failed
-then it took 35 hours to get 85% done, before locking up.
-then the DVD drive quit working
-then I got the dvd drived re installed and delete a bunch of programs hoping to get a successful re attempt of the upgrade.
-then the up grade worked. It took only about 45 min and it was all done, until I ran the updates
-then it installed 8 upgrades then uung on the last 2.
-then the system (now running in windows 7)would crash after about 3 min.
-then I cussed a lot, and tried to figure it out
-then I threw up my hands in discussed and did a clean install.
-which worked perfectly the first time.
-and now runs great, but I have to reinstall everything.

So I'm now pleased to report I have windows 7 and it is great. But I don't recommend the upgrade.

Random Items

I like the post Geoff does about random items in life, and event of the day. So here is my version, all items form the last week.
- Passed part one of the EA Exam, awesome.
- Saw Couples retreat, and laughed uncontrollably.
- Looked at Hank tonight and saw him start the change from a toddler to a little boy.
- After above beautiful moment Hank cut a wicked wet fart while standing up in the tub. I almost fell over with shock.
- Just about finished the remodeling work in the office. Really crossing my fingers that paperless office works for us.
- Loved hearing my Mom say, "Oh I love having 2 monitors"
- Found some letters that My dad wrote in the late 80's and loved reading how he wrote. It's not about what he said, but how he said it.
- Had an awesome dinner (burritos) and Mint parfait, all courtesy of my lovely wife.
- Cleaned out the garage so I can park my car in it.
- Had my car worked on (bye bye $280)

Life in a nutshell!

J Fuego

The other night was a surprisingly warm and pretty night. While I've been hitting the text book hard for the EA Exam I saw no reason not to enjoy myself while doing so, so I went outside. I broke out the double wide lawn chairs, a beer, My laptop (for studying), and a J. Fuego Natural, Toro, 6 1/2 x 52 Cigar.

The studying went well, but the cigar was great. It lit and drew very well for the entire smoke. Excellent 2 inch ash, and a very even smooth flavor. I didn't detect notes of anything, or a spice or other flavor. Just a cigar that tasted like it smelled, like smooth tobacco. The finish was good but unremarkable, except for the complete lack of any harshness.

It was a great smoke, and I will try to buy one again when I get the chance. Would be an excellent smoke to share.

Allergic on a cellular level

So while Erin and I are trying to figure out whey my sperm and her egg don't want to party together we started the next round of fertility treatment. Back we are, but for me at least it's not that scary. I feel we are not that infertile. Either my sperm just flat out swim the wrong direction, or Erin's egg is a fricken amazonian warrior fending off the attack.

Erin did offer up a different solution after our appointment today. While trying fill me on on why we haven't gotten the job done as of yet she said "I'm allergic to you on a cellular level"

There is nothing I can add to that.

Fathers Day

 
Fathers day was marked by sleepinmg in a little, and then having a killer breakfast of puff pancakes (crazy cool looking, and taste good too) and bacon. Then a little play with Henry, and a big run at naptime. Followed by some slides at the park, and genral chasing Hank around. It did get very windy in the park, but not so much to stop the boys from playing. All in all a very nice day.