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SAHD Friday: The Truth Hurts!

May 27, 2014 / / 0 Comments

I am sitting here today in a small conundrum. I had a post all ready to go about patriotism and teaching your kids pride in the country but I just couldn’t publish it today.
You see, the old cliche’s about how fast kids grow up is slapping me in the face like so many cold fish from that old Monty Python sketch. go ahead and watch it, it is only 15 seconds.

I have known for well, 10 years now that I someday will have a 10 year old. It was inevitable. Time doesn’t stop. I have been trying to talk about it a lot lately to get used to it. Today however, the big fish hit. We have been preparing for Leatha’s birthday party. Her first slumber party. Today is the day and it just hit me that my daughter is getting this close to being a teenager.

She is not too far away from driving and college. She is still 20 years away from a boyfriend though.;) I guess that having the new baby here is really putting some perspective on things. We now have all of our kids and the next babies that my wife and I will be playing with will be our grandkids. In 25 years or so. 😉

I know I am getting older, I finally don’t feel like a 14 year old kid most of the time, but I still don’t feel like 36.  I have finally given up on all of the assorted BS that kept me somewhat repressed and timid for all of these years.  I am only concerned with my immediate family now, everyone else is just there to bring gifts on holidays.

I know it has been said before and will be again, kids grow up fast.  10 years goes by like a flash, it seems like Leatha should be turning maybe 6, not 10.  Enjoy every minute that you can with your family.

Being a Stay At Home Dad has afforded me several opportunities to watch my kids grow and develop in those intimate moments when they think no one is watching.  It is a perspective that is very valuable towards finding great Christmas presents because I feel that I know my kids and their personalities fairly well.

Anyone can do it though.  Watch your kids.  Spend time with them.  Throw a ball around with them in the yard.  Let them help when you fix the toilet or patch the wall.  My son is very excited about the new belt sander.

All in all, I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world.  I love my family and cant wait to see what happens when we have that 18th birthday party.

Have a great Weekend, go do something fun with your family.

-Justin

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I did the Twitter thing 20 years ago!

May 27, 2014 / / 8 Comments

I was on Twitter the other day and was having some great conversations with a few people.  It struck me how this type of communication has actually been around for 20+ years.  This will date me and label me a huge geek, but who remembers a time before the internet?

A time when monitors were 1 color (amber or green).  A time when learning BASIC in school was the gifted and talented program.  On Atari 2600’s with the membrane keyboard.   A time with 5 1/4″ floppy disks.  How cool it was when a 3.5″ disk could hold 1.44 MB of info on it.  A time when “online” meant “modeming”.  Calling into some local guys server and chatting with 20 or so people until you got bumped off by a timeout at 1 hour.

This was the BBS system.  A BBS was a bulletin board system.  It was a place to upload and download stuff, leave messages, and chat with people.  And it was DOS based!  Gold star if you can remember the command to move up and down in the directory.  I loved DOS mainly because it bugged my dad that I knew how to mess with his computer.

I am specifically focusing on the chat rooms in this discussion.  The chat rooms were set up so I could type something, hit enter and it would go out to anyone who was looking in that same forum.  Then I could read their stuff and go back and forth all night.  Now we have Twitter.  The only real difference despite the worldwide internet, cable modems, windows upgrades (Remember win 3.1 that you had to start every time???) is the 140 character limit.  Most of the time when we were chatting, responses were not that long.

I was really drawn back to those fun old days when I was tweeting the other night.  Sad though the demise of the humble BBS, it was a great way to interact with people.  Hell, I met my wife in one of those chat rooms.  We started going out and didn’t modem much after that.  That was 17 years ago.  Bah!

They were also good to piss off my dad because he was convinced I was going to download a virus.  I never did get one, but one leveled his system just 2 weeks ago…Norton be damned.

Does anyone else remember the BBS glory days?  Leave a comment and lets chat about it!

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Justin

Hey, You Wanna Buy a Watch? Tricks to be careful of.

May 27, 2014 / / 0 Comments

The other day my doorbell rang.  Upon answering, there was one of the kids from around the corner standing there with a couple of other kids from our street.  They started with “Do you want to buy a raffle ticket for our raffle of stuff?”  I thought this odd.

I checked the “No” that was forming on my lips and asked what they were giving away in the raffle.  “Just some stuff” was his answer.  I said no thanks, an shut the door thinking, just some stuff was a bunch of nothing.  I already had it figured that my dollar would go into this kids pocket and end up with the ice cream man or something.

There was no real raffle.  I got to thinking that this kid was actually a decent marketer.  He will do well on the internet with all of those other scheisters that try to sell us stuff.  Think about this, how many slick sales pages have you seen that promise something, part you from your money and you get a mediocre ebook that you never read or even just a series of emails that will probably end up in your spam filter anyway.

Tons and tons right?  I saw the beginnings of 2 infomercials tonight both promising over $11,000 in profit the first month for part time work!  That sounds fantastic and I really wish I could get in on some of that action.  Well for only 3 easy payments of $49.95 I could get in on it, aka, would you like to buy a raffle ticket?

The only people who really seem to make money at these programs are the guys selling the programs.  There are certain people who sell stuff that sounds like a fantastic book but if you dig deeper they have been to prison for fraud and are probably scamming you again.

If you wan’t to spend your hard earned cash on something, go for it.  Just be aware that you are gambling with that cash and you may never see any of it again.

So, wanna buy a watch?

tell me what you think in the comments below.

-Justin

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