Where I've been

I am terrible at forming new habits, especially good ones. And I'm pretty much limited to one or two new habits at a time. So I should probably be happy posting weekly for the time being, and once I'm done creating the other good habits I've been working on since I was in my teens (house cleaning, brushing my teeth, daily exercise, etc) maybe I can worry about the infrequency of my posts.

Anyway, in the past week I've attended the last (and most fun) of my three cooking classes at J&W; failed the Cisco test, again, this time just barely; and I spent four days at a male bonding event at a buddy's house in southern NH. Basically, three days/nights with some college friends, dedicated to playing cards, grilling food, abusing alcohol and enjoying the outdoors as much as the fickle New England spring would allow.

Of course, enjoying the outdoors in New England while being too inebriated to think of basic precautions means that two of the four of us ended up with ticks -- FIVE TICKS between the two of us. Because my wife is a Professional, she was able to take the one off my back fairly easily. The other one was positioned to give me a free vasectomy and had already made some progress in that direction, so I took care of him myself. Nothing like having the back end of a sesame seed with legs sticking out of your nethers.

[We'll pause for a moment so all my male readers can yell "EWWWWWW!" and jump up and down around the room.....done? Cool.]

Now I spend the next month looking for symptoms of Lyme disease and hoping that I caught the little bastards early enough for that not to be a problem. Hopefully the bacteria will die of boredom as I will probably spend most of that time reading the Cisco website.

Also, while I was gone, the fine US-based crib company sent me free replacement parts for the ones I hosed up. So with any luck we will have a changing table in the next couple days...and no hard feelings, OK?