Long Time coming.

Don't be mislead by the title.  It's going to be a long time between posts.  No surprise at all, really.

So what's new?  Lots of things since the last post.  As you'd imagine.  Because, if you've read any other posts, I've got two young boys.  They still change every day.  It's not as if I can simply say "Yeah, the other one already did that" and then move on.  It's a surprise every time.

Monkey #1 is just talking up a storm.  I'm amazed at the level of conversation he can hold up.  Seriously.  I knew English majors at Pan-Am who didn't have his command of the language.  Monkey #2 is quiet, but he'll point to things and say what they are every once in  a while.  It's amazing, as I've already stated in this very same paragraph.

How can they move up the intellectual ladder so fast while I keep falling behind?  It's not even as if I'm static while they move.  I can actually feel my brain atrophy as the days go by.  I can't read as fast, I can't retain information, I can't even imagine as well as I used too just 10 years ago, let alone 15.  But the boys are just rocketing.  So I can't even claim credit for that.  It must be their mother.

As for me, well. . . just don't expect any more posts for a while.  Not that anybody would.  Nine hours of college classes and the job and the boys and the wife pretty much take up all my time.  Even if the classes are easy enough they still suck up tons of time.  The job takes up a lot of that, too.  I'd take more classes if I could choose between those two, though.

The job did send me off to the Third World for a week, so that was sort of nice.  It was actually really, really cool most of the time, when I didn't focus on anyone else other than me.  This was a business trip, right?  Not just fun in the sun.  So I got to eat in restaurants that cost a weeks' pay for a meal, and stay in hotels that I could never hope to afford, while being chauffeured past shanty towns (favelas, if you're interested).  But the place is an ecological disaster, worse than what you see on TV, and they don't really care.  Or maybe they care, but they just don't have the desire to change things.  They're in a hurry to catch up to us, and when they do they'll find that it's going to cost them a whole bunch to fix the damage they've done.  But that's a problem for another Generation so they'll continue to pollute and destroy and so on and so forth.  Not that I'm concerned about the environment simply for the environments' sake.  I'm an industry that exploits nature so I've made my peace with that, but you have to protect it a bit because it's more expensive to fix problems later on.

I want to put more pics of the boys up, but my wife hates any images of us online.  I don't like any of me, but I figure the boys are going to grow up in a connected world so they won't know the difference at all.  By the time they start thinking about their relationships to people other than just mom and dad web relationships will be perfectly normal.  But for now I'll respect her opinion and leave it at the two previous low-rez images.