Why I hate love being a dad…
He always has to do everything I do.
I dont get to hang out with my friends as much as I would like.
I never get to sleep in on the weekends.
He always wants to tell me something.
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Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
They are saying the flood on the Missouri River this year could be as bad as it was during 1993. I was 13 years old during the last “great” flood and was living in South St.Louis city at the time.
My Grandparents house wasn’t flooded but we did lose electricity so we stayed in a hotel for a week with a pool somewhere in South County.
I remember Budweiser stopped making beer and started to can water.
I remember walking down to South Broadway and getting a can and saving it.
(I dont remember what I did with it.)
I remember walking to River Des Peres as it was getting ready to top its levee.
(I remember calling it River De Poop. (Hey I was 13.).)
I remember eating steaks for three straight days out of the deep freezer so they didn’t spoil when we lost electricity.
I remember getting free Nachos and Soda at the 7-11 because they had lost electricity.
I remember a sense of community I didn’t feel again until I moved to a small town.
I remember wishing it was over.
I now live in a small town across the Missouri River from Jefferson City and there is no chance of my house personally being flooded. There is a really likelihood of me being inconvenienced going to work if they are right.
Maybe if they are right I’ll take a few vacation days and stay with my Grandma as see if I cant lend a hand in South City.
My son turns two years old today. He has stopped being a baby this past year and has started being a kid. It is amazing how smart he is and how fast he has grown.
Here are some of my favorite pictures of him from this past year.
We complain we have lost the true meaning of Christmas or Easter but I think the commercialization of those Holidays pale in comparison to the Holiday we will celebrate Monday.
What is this Monday?
A great day to get a deal on a new TV?
The perfect time to buy a new Car?
The unofficial start of summer?
The day to fire up the grill and have family over?
Actually Monday is the most important holiday in America. Seriously. It is a day set aside to honor our fallen military members that give us the freedom we enjoy today. Very few of us do it. We don’t like to think about the true cost of our freedom.
The true cost of freedom is 1,343,812 American lives lost in combat since 1775.That’s the number I am going to focus on this weekend 1,343,812. Not 15% off. Not 5 hot dogs. Not shooting under 100 on the golf course. Not a 3 day weekend. 1,343,812.
We had a tornado warning at the Capitol today and the house photographer snapped these pictures of the storm approaching.
Now this is the story all about how
My phones got flipped, turned upside down
And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I became an android user?
Ok…Ok…
Yes, I hate Android.
Yes, I hate the fact the 99.7% of all Android smart phones vulnerable to serious data leakage.
Yes, I have bashed Android on my twitter account for a long time.
Yes, I loved my Iphone.
Yes, I bought a $30 HTC Inspire 4G Android phone today.
Butt…Butt… I had to… Kinda, Sorta.
This morning my Iphone refused to charge on any of the 5 or 6 chargers I have a around the house and office so I was forced into a corner, because like oxygen a security guy needs to have a phone with all of my email accounts on them to survive.
I kept a hold of my Iphone 3Gs for the last six months hoping that the Iphone 5(4Gs) would come out in June, because I wasnt going to drop $199.99 on a year old phone.
So I went to Best Buy and was faced with the hardest decision an IPhone fan can make, buy a year old phone for $200 or buy an Android/Windows 7 phone for no more than $50?
The sales lady pretty well laughed at me when I told her I was thinking about buying a Iphone 4 for $200 when every Android and Windows 7 phone in the store was $50 and less.
She told me that she could make me a great deal on the Inspire and get me out of the store for $30 instead of $200. At that point no amount of sweet UI, ITunes, non flash playing sexy silver rim could make me fork about ~7* the money.
So I cried inside knowing that I will be ridiculed on the internet and in the office for this choice but sometimes as a man you have to do it….
And I yelled to Steve Jobs "Yo, homes smell you later!“
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the prince of Android?
Ooh, A Talking Moose Wants My Credit Card Number, That’s Only Fair.