Showing posts with label just don't break the tv it's all i have. Show all posts
Showing posts with label just don't break the tv it's all i have. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Live shot
This is what it feels like that little girl is doing all day long.
I honestly can't believe how much she moves sometimes. She will bounce off the walls. She will also be the end of me. I can't keep up with that kind of energy. I'm almost 27.
Also, StarFox was so awesome.
I honestly can't believe how much she moves sometimes. She will bounce off the walls. She will also be the end of me. I can't keep up with that kind of energy. I'm almost 27.
Also, StarFox was so awesome.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Kind of meh
Edit: Don't ever treat anything in here too seriously.
Not "meh," just "kind of 'meh,'" which is kind of like waiting just to get into Purgatory. I feel like we are in some kind of holding pattern; something is going to happen soon, I just don't know what it will be. It's just my luck to be awaiting my first child while I am getting close to graduation and looking for jobs at the onset of the Next Great Depression. It'd be nice to be in Canada right now, aside from the freezing weather.
I am 100% sure I could get legal status in 2 minutes, since their immigration policy is (get this!) not insanely retarded like the U.S.'s - Ariane actually had to jump through a flaming hoop to get her final Green Card, I don't know why I haven't mentioned this. Canada: Making even the sane parts of the U.S. look stupid since whenever it was they kind of decided to just be friends with the UK.
I think I am looking at fairly poor options for the next couple of years, at least.
1.) Stay in school until December.
Pros: Economy may begin to get better, perhaps more jobs available? Get an extra publication or two (which doesn't really help). Better chance of staying here, which gives Ariane a better chance to graduate whenever she may get to it. Get some time to work in a relatively low-stress environment while learning how to be a dad.
Cons: Duh, still don't actually have a real job, and no guarantee of improvement. Paid in beans. In the red every month.
2.) Look for jobs with oil companies
Pros: Pays insanely well
Cons: Live in Houston, sell my soul. Really, why does it have to be that the only companies that seem to be hiring are the only companies I have ethical problems with working for? I'm still not even going to look. Luckily I have a wife who is supporting this decision.
3.) Look for a postdoc
Pros: Umm..... uh..... available? Actually, I think if it's not a university postdoc it would pay well, plus it would be incredibly awesome science. (I read yesterday that they melted diamond and found an all new phase of carbon. Excuse me sir? Your badassery is showing.) My advisor may be able to help me get something at Sandia in Albuquerque, since he did a sabbatical there in '07.
Example of badass science
Cons: Not happening in Austin, probably have to work long hours, don't know where I'd go from there
The other options are applying for jobs for which I am unqualified (which I will be doing, and happily accepting rejection notices), look for research positions with the military, and collecting cans and bottles for scrap prices. Seriously, $0.25 per pound of plastic is looking mighty fine right about now...
My baby is taking after me in this regard already: She is a master of poor timing. Maybe one day she'll make her ol' dad proud by picking the wrong check-out line at the grocery store every. single. time.
Not "meh," just "kind of 'meh,'" which is kind of like waiting just to get into Purgatory. I feel like we are in some kind of holding pattern; something is going to happen soon, I just don't know what it will be. It's just my luck to be awaiting my first child while I am getting close to graduation and looking for jobs at the onset of the Next Great Depression. It'd be nice to be in Canada right now, aside from the freezing weather.
I am 100% sure I could get legal status in 2 minutes, since their immigration policy is (get this!) not insanely retarded like the U.S.'s - Ariane actually had to jump through a flaming hoop to get her final Green Card, I don't know why I haven't mentioned this. Canada: Making even the sane parts of the U.S. look stupid since whenever it was they kind of decided to just be friends with the UK.
I think I am looking at fairly poor options for the next couple of years, at least.
1.) Stay in school until December.
Pros: Economy may begin to get better, perhaps more jobs available? Get an extra publication or two (which doesn't really help). Better chance of staying here, which gives Ariane a better chance to graduate whenever she may get to it. Get some time to work in a relatively low-stress environment while learning how to be a dad.
Cons: Duh, still don't actually have a real job, and no guarantee of improvement. Paid in beans. In the red every month.
2.) Look for jobs with oil companies
Pros: Pays insanely well
Cons: Live in Houston, sell my soul. Really, why does it have to be that the only companies that seem to be hiring are the only companies I have ethical problems with working for? I'm still not even going to look. Luckily I have a wife who is supporting this decision.
3.) Look for a postdoc
Pros: Umm..... uh..... available? Actually, I think if it's not a university postdoc it would pay well, plus it would be incredibly awesome science. (I read yesterday that they melted diamond and found an all new phase of carbon. Excuse me sir? Your badassery is showing.) My advisor may be able to help me get something at Sandia in Albuquerque, since he did a sabbatical there in '07.
Example of badass scienceCons: Not happening in Austin, probably have to work long hours, don't know where I'd go from there
The other options are applying for jobs for which I am unqualified (which I will be doing, and happily accepting rejection notices), look for research positions with the military, and collecting cans and bottles for scrap prices. Seriously, $0.25 per pound of plastic is looking mighty fine right about now...
My baby is taking after me in this regard already: She is a master of poor timing. Maybe one day she'll make her ol' dad proud by picking the wrong check-out line at the grocery store every. single. time.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Just for kicks
Here is an approximation of what is going on inside Ariane's belly now:
That baby kicks like nothing else. According to the book, if a baby is kicking about ten times every two hours while the mother is lying down and feeling for movement we can consider that to be normal activity. Our baby kicks - seriously - two or three times a minute when Ariane is lying down. And I am talking big kicks. I've tried to get video so you could see some movement, but I haven't gotten any yet. There's still time, though.
We're fairly confident of the following: she will be loud, she will break things. I also am under the impression that she'll be athletic, like her mother was. I'll push her to take on mankind's greatest athletic endeavor: Global Guts.
And when she wins that piece of the Agro Crag, you better believe I'm going to ride those coattails of athletic glory like Richard Williams. I'll claim it was all me, then irresponsibly blow through the millions she'll certainly earn in endorsements (we can name everyone who ever won Global Guts, right? hint: purple never won) so she won't have a chance to be self-destructive with it. Just looking out for my daughter.
That baby kicks like nothing else. According to the book, if a baby is kicking about ten times every two hours while the mother is lying down and feeling for movement we can consider that to be normal activity. Our baby kicks - seriously - two or three times a minute when Ariane is lying down. And I am talking big kicks. I've tried to get video so you could see some movement, but I haven't gotten any yet. There's still time, though.
We're fairly confident of the following: she will be loud, she will break things. I also am under the impression that she'll be athletic, like her mother was. I'll push her to take on mankind's greatest athletic endeavor: Global Guts.
And when she wins that piece of the Agro Crag, you better believe I'm going to ride those coattails of athletic glory like Richard Williams. I'll claim it was all me, then irresponsibly blow through the millions she'll certainly earn in endorsements (we can name everyone who ever won Global Guts, right? hint: purple never won) so she won't have a chance to be self-destructive with it. Just looking out for my daughter.
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