Man I should really find time to get to this once in awhile...

So what to say, what to say. It's seems like years since I've written a blog, and I guess in Internet world it probably has been years. Life has been catching up with me. I guess Facebook can be kind of blamed for that. I seem to spend a lot of my free time at work there goofing off chatting with old high school classmates and such. Funny really. It got me to thinking about something. I've got a lot of my old classmates on there from Hampton and I wonder sometimes what people think about me when they see the picture of me on their page. Do they remember me as a dorky guy? Do they see me as I saw myself them? What kind of memories come up for these people about me. That seems pretty narcassitic doesn't it, me me me. Well it is my blog I guess. So I guess what I'm saying is when I see their profiles I have tons of memories come flooding back. Like Gina and driving to Mason City and me hitting the ditch on highway 65 cause the Chevette couldn't work up the speed to pass a car. Or Megan who was my first junior high girlfriend. Or Kevin the only dude I ever got into a fight after school with. How do these people see me? Are they positive memories or negative memories, or complete apathy for me? I'm curious about that but not nearly curious enough to ask anyone or conduct and experiment of that nature. I guess I would be afraid of what the answers could or would be. Facebook is far more personal than Myspace though. It's very very interesting to say the least. It will be interesting to see how this interweb social networking effects society as we move forward in life.

Other things of note. So all I really wanted for Christmas and my birthday this year was a record player that could be hooked up to my computer via USB so I could transfer my old vinyl records to mp3. The reason for that being my only request is because Carrie and I bought a 42" LG LCD TV for ourselves for our Christmas gift to each other. It's beautiful and I'm loving every minute of it and we got it for an amazing price so I'm pretty happy about all that. But back to my main point. So I asked family just to give me cash for my birthday and Christmas and my mom came through first with $100 which just happened to be enough for the turntable. I scooped it up off of Amazon.com and boy am I impressed. So far it's been a dream. Easy to use, the software is easy (which it should be after using all the recording software I've used through the years) and the sound quality is wonderful when it's done. I've transferred over so far Carole King's "Tapestry", Wings "At the Speed of Sound", Chris Connelly's "Stowaway 12" Single", KMFMD's "Vogue, Money and Split 12" Singles", Danielle Dax "Where The Flies Are 12" Single", Pop Will Eat Itself "Very Metal Noise Pollution" EP and Bing Crosby's "Merry Christmas" for Carrie. Other then a few unfix able glitches from the detoriation of the vinyl on the older records the quality is just as good as CD. I'm very very happy with my purchase so far. The worst part about all of it is though, the time. It takes forever to do this. Hours upon hours to do it well. But so be it. I enjoy it immensely.

And finally the real reason your reading this: Asher. The kid is doing great. He is a happy and healthy nearly 23 month old boy. Not only that, but his doctor at Mayo has called his high blood pressure RESOLVED. And we don't need to go back to Rochester for another check up until he's nearly in Kindergarten (I never realized how much of a German word that was until I wrote it). That is exciting news. Apart from that he is totally down with horses, swimming, eating and being a rough and tumble little boy. He loves to wrastle with his mom and dad and it just a delight to have in my life. I have so much fun with Asher every day that we are together. He is such a great boy and his vocabulary gets bigger and bigger every day. I'm very proud of my son. Also for the first time I'm gonna say this about myself. I'm proud of myself as a father. I don't mean to toot my own horn or say I'm better than anybody else. But I've finally gotten the hang of this dad stuff and I think I'm doing a really good job at it. For the first time I feel like I've got it. Now watch something will probably throw a wrench into that, but that's exactly how I feel right now.

So with that, life is really good. I'm happy with the things that are going on and I'm happy to be sharing my life with my beautiful wife and wonderful son. Until next time.