This is how we do it

Today like most of the past week, Tyler had some trouble sleeping. He woke up 10 minutes into his nap, and proceeded to call for me. Normally I would just go up tuck him back in and tell him to have a good nap. But today he started crying and asked me to come up and snuggle him so he could sleep. "My teeth hurt,come snuggle me so I can sleep." My theory is he won't ask me to comfort him when he is hurt or sad forever, so I may as well take advantage of the time I have. Best part of my long day....... falling to sleep at noon on a Monday with my favorite kid (I can only say that for a few more months) curled up at my side.

Garden State

I like this movie. There is something about movies where nothing happens in any of the scenes, but in the end they all add up to something of great consequence. It seems that most movies I like have some profound statement about life, all told through scenes of nothingness...... I just connect with them. So if you have the chance, watch Garden State. But be prepared, it moves like The Station Agent. See it through to the end, and remember, it is the sum of the parts.

Facebook and the faceybookiness of it

Facebook. As legend has it, it's legendary ability to assist in e-social networking is the stuffs that legends are made of. And that my friends is just what I have found to be true.

Recently I broke my ban on Facebook and signed up for an account. I was talked into it when someone whom I know very well informed me that a friend had written about how they had recently been introduced to MarioKart on the wii. As I have also found myself addicted to the MarioKart, I needed to sign up for Facebook to look for other acquaintences with similar racing issues.

Day One: Sign up for Facebook, request my wife as a friend.
Day Two: Get bombarded with email (30ish) regarding friend request things
Get annoyed that my email was getting junked up
Day Three: Spent 2 minutes trying to find people that I know who play MarioKart
Tried to start a "Group" for MarioKart but found that there isn't a way
to restrict EVERYONE in the Facebook "community" from joining
Left a message for someone that I haven't talked to in five years.

I still haven't found anyone from my previous non e-life that plays MarioKart. There is not a way to search by geographic location or by interests. All I have found is that it automatically cross refrences your "friends" list with those of your e-friend's friends lists to "connect" you to other people you might find interesting. To sum up that "neat-o" function..... useless. Facebook first impression you ask? It is like the childhood game telephone. You know where you whisper in the ear of the person next to you and it goes down the line and the last person says something histerically funny that is not what the original person said. Yeah like that. So far it is useless, and if I tell a non-Facebook user that it is useless and they tell someone else, by the time it gets to the last person not on Facebook they say "IT'S SO AWESOME!"

We will see in the coming weeks if I find any use for an e-life, or time for it as being a parent of a little kid (turns 2 today) leaves little time for computing (aka wasting time on Facebook)