Entries from January 2010

January 27, 2010

Dead Dads Club

Yesterday, it was the 12 year Dead Dad anniversary to celebrate the deadness of my Dead Dad.  It was a great day in history, as I made my fabled ‘Dead Dads Club’ public to the world in the form of a Facebook page.  You are most welcome to join it here. The time has come [...]

January 25, 2010

Gamers- Modern Day Heroes

Today I read a teenage boy in Italy stabbed his daddy in the neck for interrupting his FIFA playstation game. Fair call.  Harsh, but fair.  Interrupting an imaginary game of soccer is grounds for a good stabbing if I ever heard one. It’s like running up to a sleeping dog and vigorously rubbing it, while [...]

January 14, 2010

Cat on a Milk Carton

My Teenage cat child, Bok Choy, is still missing. I don’t know what to think.  Had she been a sensible teenager, who never ran off with 40 year olds, or got pregnant at one year of age; I may have raised the alarm earlier. But miss Ungrateful Choy has had patchy attendance in the family [...]

January 5, 2010

Single White Computer

I got a new MacBook. After 6 and a half years of listening to what sounds like men in steel capped boots running up and down stairs to retrieve files in real-time; I have decided it is time for a computer upgrade. Can I afford it?  Probably not, but I have an amazing skill that [...]