Mental Junk

For the past three years I have been saying that I will replace the old light fixture in my office.  I finally got around to it and can now see the crap in my office.  That is a little bit good and a little bad.

 The old light was a bare lightbulb hanging on a cord from the ceiling with a pullchain.  I had a compact flourescent in the fixture – but that didn't give a lot of light – not to mention that it gave an eerie horror movie feel to my office when first turned on.  It would sway back and forth  for a good ten minutes casting eerie shadows all around.

 I must admit – that did give my office a sense of forboding which I will remember fondly.

Now I have an actual light switch!!!  Oh my!!!  Welcome to the 1920's!!!  I also have an insane amount of light now – I put up the old kitchen flourescent fixture that was replaced five years ago.  It has four tubes in it – each four feet long and gives off enough light to blind the dust mites.

The only bad thing about this upgrade is – now I have no excuse not to see the unpaid bills lying around.  Oh well.  Take the good with the bad, I guess.

Many years ago I hacked a game and changed the sounds – friends would attest to the annoyance of hearing 'rob' 'ROB', 'Roooob' each time they shot a ball.

I came across this post and laughed my ass off.  Not many people would appreciate the amount of work that would go into something like this…. more would wonder why bother.

Cameron had a chance to visit the Zoo To You with his Grandma.  Of all the kids present, Cameron was selected to come up and touch the lizard.  Pretty cool, especially since he didn't raise his hand to be chosen.  He was just sitting there watching when he was called up.

Shortly before Nathan went in to the hospital (Aug 3rd) to have his ileostomy reversed, Kelvin had a BBQ at his place for the staff.

We were invited to swim in the pool, but I didn't want to blind anyone with my pasty ass.  Cameron, however, having not yet developed a sense of humility, dove right in!  Michelle, having a healthy sense of parental responsibility, joined him.  I took my usual position of cameraman and enjoyed the dryness of the sidelines.

After the swim (or controlled near-drowning) Cameron tried his hand at soccer.  

I was hoping to post the video we made before now, but I got sidetracked and then life happens. 

As a surprise, Michelle packed up our dinner and we headed down to the Lake for a picnic.

I think this was the first time that Cameron saw a seagull up close – he seemed to be amazed with the birds.

I still get a kick out of how he interacts with other kids.  The older kids always seem to be doing neat things that he wants to try.  There was a kid playing on a playground toy that Cameron wanted to play with.  It seemed as though Cam misdirected the other child's attention to another toy so Cameron could play with the one the other kid was playing with.