Terrible Analogies

I’m taking a few days off from work to celebrate our son’s first birthday (it’s been a year already?!) and to take a quick trip up to Disneyland.  Will be thinking of everyone as we’re eating cake and taking a spin on Space Mountain!  See you back here Monday.

In the meantime, please enjoy these postcards my dad sent me many years ago as he travelled the world while serving as an officer in the Navy (hover over the photos for text from the back of the postcards)…

Another year has come and gone, and for the wife and me it marks the year of the birth of our baby boy.  To tell you the truth, I never thought much of becoming a father until the moment I first laid eyes on Tyler.  It was only after that initial skin-on-skin contact when I nervously held him for the first time, when he first looked into my eyes and took hold of my pinky finger in his tiny wrinkled hand did the reality of me being a father solidify in my mind, and I knew in that moment that nothing was ever going to be the same.

Yep, 2010 was a life changing year.

Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010
Top 20 Worst Songs of 2010
The Best Images of 2010 from Imgur
Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2010
Top 10 Funny New Year’s Resolutions
2010 National Geographic Photo Contest (wallpapers)
2010 National Geographic Photo Contest (non-wallpapers)
Top 10 News Stories of 2010
Top  Words of 2010
Best Video Games of 2010
Top 10 Boards Games of 2010
2010 Darwin Awards
Top 10 Diseases of 2010
Top 10 Worst Movies of 2010
2010 Yearly Box Office Results
Best Albums of 2010
Top 10 Most Memorable Quotes of 2010
Top 10 TV Jerks of 2010

Hope every has a Happy New Year and a fantastic 2011!

So…how’d everyone enjoy their Christmas?

I have to say that the festivities over here exceeded our expectations.  The gifts were great, the food fantastic, and the company even better!  I think my greatest score was a 7×7 Rubik’s Cube and a Garmin GPS unit for the car.  And somebody was keeping careful notes throughout the year and picked me up a Dan Fouts Chargers jersey (*cough* thanks Karin! *cough*).

Then it was off to the parents to meet up with friends and family for an amazing dinner, where we were all on our best behavior:

I think we found Tyler’s niche in life…ripping the wrappings off of Christmas presents.  Man, that kid is talented!

As I gather my thoughts (and sobriety), I can’t help but give thanks for a wonderful year.  Here’s looking forward to an excellent 2011.  Hey, with 2012 coming up fast it might be our last good year before the comet/aliens/chupacabras wipes humanity off of the face of the Earth…

It’s that time of year again to hang the stockings on the mantle, ornaments on the tree, and mistletoe from the doorway.  The whiskey is warm, the beer is cold, the music is soft, and the cat is indifferent to it all.  All of this can only mean one thing..

…yes, I’m taking a small vacation.

Here’s wishing all of my blogging friends and visitors a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa and a Wonderful Yalda, Saturnalia, Karachun, Yule…and Festivus for the rest of us.

Many thanks for all of the visits, comments, suggestions, disagreements, encouragements, enjoyment and strife this year!

Special well-wishes go out to Ron (enjoy the reads!), Ed (our writing blog will be a priority!), Tatiana (wonderful pics!), Pearl (a writing genius), Deviki (stay famous, yo!), Dianne (sending positive vibes your way), Kathcom (yay for merging blogs!) and Jen (you’ve got the life!).  Thanks for sticking with this strange little blog.  I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it!

Here’s hoping that everyone has a wonderful holiday, and I’ll see you back here on the 28th!

Merry Christmas!

I’ve had enough posts about work and the upcoming holidays.  I refuse to write about crowded shopping malls, last minute gifts and the “war on Christmas” today.

I need a break.

Let’s instead relax to the some time-lapse photograph of strange plants found in Japan:

Ahh, that hit the spot. I feel much better now. Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system we can get back to the task of commenting on pop culture and holiday strife once again…