It's Been a Long Time Since I Rock and Rolled

My apologies to my faithful readership, I have been preoccupied with work and a number of other things, subsequently my heralded blog has suffered. But if absence makes the heart grow fonder, than you should be fonder than a mofo - technically speaking.

You see I am putting the finishing touches on a piece of software that I'm writing and it will be used by a number of people with varying degrees of technical aptitude. Therefore, I have been writing some very comprehensive help and this has left the right side of my brain aching and in no shape for blogging.

But I'm back, and I have several things to talk about. The first is that I have a new niece! I urge you all to follow the links to the right to get updates on Kendra Ruth Durec. She was born on my sister Jessica's birthday, January 12, and from what I hear she and Mom are doing great. She is so cute and I can't wait to meet her.

Last week my Mom came to visit and we had a great time. Among other things, Carrie and I were able to go on a date. We saw Juno (because the theater we went to is no longer showing No Country for Old Men) and it was really good. I started to really feel my age prior to the movie starting as I listened in on the conversation behind me and I realized that kids are now also speaking in acronyms as opposed to just texting this way. They might have the acronym heavy US Military beat. It's nice to see that some of the old staples, such as using "like" about 15 times per sentence, are still around. The movie was very good, I could tell that the lack of sleep was really starting to get to me because I was an emotional wreak.

I love talking to my Mom because I always find out new and exciting things about my family. I knew that both my Great Grandfather (Walter Hard) and Great Grandmother (Margaret Steel Hard) were authors and poets who lived in Vermont (check out what I found Mom/Jess/Sarah: follow this link to The Vermont Encyclopedia which has a lot of history on Nana and her parents). What I didn't know was that my Great Grandfather also served one term in the House and four terms in the Senate! That's right, my great grandfather was the f-ing Senator of Vermont! (the aforementioned Vermont Encyclopedia mentions this). This blew my mind, I can't believe I never heard this ... maybe it's just me, but this seems like a huge deal. With genes like this it's no wonder I'm the a national treasure that I am.

While Mimi was here we also snapped some more pictures. I read a book several years ago called Bag of Bones about an author suffering from writers block. Lucky for him he had a stash of books that he had written along the years and he was able to satiate his publisher for several years by dipping into his stash and producing a "new" book. Well I suffer from picture block, and I now have my stash. I plan on releasing a few at a time until you guys are talking to Jack on the phone and I am posting "new" pictures of him laying on the floor flailing.






Bye for now. Go Giants! (keep crying T.O.).