Hey all,
Pictures are still forthcoming I promise! I’m slow with technology and Roni is the sage who controls all things digital camera related.
Anyhoo, its been quite another week in 2006 – since re-entry into daycare on January 3, Emmet’s been sick about 4 times – the latest morbidity is conjunctivitis, aka “pink eye” – it doesn’t matter how he’s feeling, there is no going to daycare if one has pink eye. Roni has been a saint, staying home and delaying work on her thesis so I can get into the office. But its been hard on everyone and this weekend all 4 of us are suffering from cold related illnesses. I rarely go out, and yet have had to cancel on a friend twice because of this – I don’t feel guilty because my kids are my life and their health is paramount..but I know its hard for folks sans kids to understand, as I did not prior to Micah’s birth.

Nevertheless, the weekend has been good so far. Micah and I drove to DC yesterday (Saturday) to go the Air and Space Museum (neither if us is contagious I think, and if so I’d rather infect DC than Bmore ) . We had a great time – talking and singing on the drive down, and having a special Daddy/son lunch afterwards. And oh those airplanes and rocket ships! The only downer was it rained like the dickens – driving home was slow and a little scary, but we made it. After a short nap, I spent some special time with Emmet too, albeit a large majority was grocery shopping. Man, having two kids is something – Roni and I feel overwhelmed (and overjoyed too) – no down time, we are broke as hell and incurring debt weekly – but I have real respect and awe for single parents, parents of more than 2 kids etc..

In other news, I reneted and watched Hustle and Flow this past week – it’s a 2 hour affair so of course it took me 3 nights to finish –but hot damn, what a movie. The story line is perhaps a basic “Boyz in ‘da Hood”, “South Central”, “New Jack City” type affair, but the characters and acting were awesome, the music surprisingly good (I watched the scene where the main characters sketched out their first song “Whoop that trick” – normally I’d roll my eyes at the clichéd misogyny (although thats probably the point, after all this movie is about a pimp!), but damn if the track wasn't hot- check this scene out and see if your ass doesn't start shaking..

Today (Sunday) we went to the Timonium Fairgrounds to see a train show - I used to be into Lionel trains as a kid, and Micah loves trains. they had some awesome displays fer sure - and Micah was enthralled. But man, this is a serious nerd scene, perhaps myself included - makes Trek conventions and Renaissance fairs look like equals..

Aight, I'm out for now..more to come soon.