Random Acts of Mind by Dones

So yesterday my wife was asking me nonchalantly whether I was going to take our two-year-old Josh to my parents’ house for the weekend. Knowing that she had to study for a work-related test coming up, I had been planning on at least a ‘boys day’ to the pool or something. But we had spent [...]

I logged into Xbox Live for one game this morning before leaving for work. It just so happened that it was my best performance ever in a team deathmatch. Granted, it’s nowhere near the best anyone has done, but I was so shocked, I had to share my new personal best with the wider world. [...]

Upgrade WordPress from 2.1 all the way to 2.8.1, which enables a lot of features I have heretofore been missing out on: – Ajax back end – auto upgrades, plugin installs, etc – posting from my iPhone So now you’ll hopefully see more posts from me. I’ve also decided to more fully integrate my Twitter [...]

When Joshua woke up at 5:45am on the morning of his first birthday, Mommy & Daddy decided to give him a special ‘good-morning’ song! Baby Josh seemed unimpressed…

As my online presence expands to include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Amazon wish list, and my shop on CafePress, (along with the occasional Stickam live video), I am finding that this current blog format is not quite cutting it for me. I need a portal that includes all of the above in a reasonably appropriate [...]

Usually, we hear about how a company sucks, especially telecom companies and their spotty customer service. It’s very easy to find at least a dozen commentaries online about how Verizon Wireless sucks. But it is rare that anyone decides to go far enough out of their way to relay a positive customer experience. This is [...]

The votes have been cast, the machines unplugged, the chad have dropped. It was only a matter of time before the next campaign started… NOW FOR THE BIG NEWS: I turn 35 years of age in 2011. Thus I will be eligible to become President in 2012.     And so, without further ado, I [...]

Watching Two Babies! Originally uploaded by metamorphilia. Wrangling my nephew and my son is getting more tenuous. No daddies were harmed in the making of this photo.

As I’m sitting here watching my nearly 5-month-old son haphazardly rolling around on the floor (thankfully he doesn’t move too quickly), I was reminded that I have yet to make known my thoughts so far about the presidential election. So I muted the rerun of ‘Psych’ on the TV, left ‘Cranky Geeks’ running in the [...]

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted about my life, so I thought I’d share one of my more recent reflections on fatherhood: parents are not kidding when they say certain things about parenthood: 1) IT’S HARD WORK. I don’t say any of this for those readers out there with children–this isn’t news to [...]