Maryland Science Center

Took the kids to the science center today.

The full set of pics I took is here, although you may want a taste:

Paddy’s

Happy Paddy’s day! (Even if you Catholics aren’t supposed to celebrate today.)

You’ll need music, of course. Via myspace, so you can listen:

Flogging Molly (You’ve read here before, yes? You knew they’d be here)
Flatfoot 56
Charm City Saints (locals!)
Meisce
Dropkick Murphy’s
Amadan
The Bloody Irish Boys
The Killigans
The Sandcarvers
Blaggards
Culann’s Hounds
Larkin
The Cherry Cokes (From Japan!)
Mahones
Joe O’Connor
Greenland Whalefishers
Mingus O’Bannon
Saint Poitin
Neck

Last but not least, a friend of mine is in a local band (for now, kid on the way, so he’s leaving):
The Wild Rovers

Flogging Molly – Float

Those of you who know me know that I’m a big fan of Flogging Molly. so you know I’m pretty pleased that they are releasing a new album on March 4th. On top of that, they’re currently streaming the whole album on their myspace page.

 Flogging Molly

Flogging Molly’s Myspace page

blarg

I’ve been a bit too busy to write, the wife’s been sick and I’ve been trying to hold down the fort.

I’ll write again soon.

Bleh again

Carries control, phase one.

I’m sitting here with a hole in my mouth where a molar used to be, and waiting for the codeine to kick in.

Hope you’re having a good day.

Oh, yay

Say, you know what’s small, cubelike, and sounds like a squirrel being electrocuted?

My PCs power supply…..

Fortunately, power supplies are pretty cheap when ordered over the internet, as opposed to the retail stores that want 80 bucks for a 600w.

Christmas ‘07

I don’t really celebrate Christmas like most people.  I’m not big on the whole gift thing, I’m not big on the whole party/feast thing.  I just like to relax.  Mind you, I’m no grinch.  I try not to ruin it for the kids with my lack of enthusiasm.  So you couple my overall indifference with the kids overall impatience, and you have us opening gifts early.

It started last year.  I had gotten done my shopping (the last to do so, as always) early for once (as in a week before Christmas as opposed to the day before Christmas eve.  Lisa was practically vibrating with excitement, and Karen was getting tired of having to keep her away from the gifts.  Em didn’t do much back then.  We decided to open early, which turned out to be a good thing, as Lisa ended up in the hostpital for four days, getting out the day before Christmas eve.  Hectic times before Christmas aside, our Christmas day was the most relaxed any of us had ever had.  We made the decision then to just open the weekend after we finished buying every year thereafter.

Well, it’s been a year, and I got done shopping this week, so we opened today.  Now everyone’s relaxed.

I like the way we do Christmas :)

Shaving

The day before yesterday, while my wife took the eldest to play practice (she’s in the Christmas play at church), I took the opportunity to shave. Em watched intently asking the same question every ten seconds or so.

“Daddy, whatcha doin’?”

“Shaving, honey.”

A half hour later, I’m down in the living room, and I hear her exclaim from the dining room, “Oh, there’s mine!” Then I hear water running in the bathroom. Naturally I was curious, so I went up to the bathroom to see what was going on. She had grabbed an Expo dry erase marker that has an eraser shaped somwhat like a razor. This is what I was treated to:

(clicky)

Don’t drink soda…

Just got done with what boiled down to a three-week long root canal at the dental college.  Don’t drink soda kids, or your teeth will rot out of your mouth.

Thanksgiving sickness

I don’t know what it is, but just about every year at this time I get sick…this year it was Thanksgiving night.

bleh.  At least Call of Duty 4 is helping ease the pain.