Once again I sit here with nothing to write. I stare at the screen and no words come to my head. As I start typing this I realize I don’t want to be writing this at all. I don’t want another post about how hard it is to write each and every day. But here I am continuing to write that exact thing. I mean do I really need to post today? I have already posted my picture of the day. So I have continued my streak of posting every day. That now stands at around 1144 days in a row. Sure 1052 of them are days where I’ve posted a picture. But even that can get hard specially after doing it so long. But this month I upped the game this month it was to be 2 posts a day. One photo, one written. So far I’ve managed it with only a limited amount of rambling, but tonight I just don’t see how to continue. I’m just out of words. Sure I’ve spouted out almost 200 worlds already, but do I press publish? Do I use this another post that lakes a real direction on to my blog. Sitting here as the day slips by I’m torn, so I ask myself; If I don’t will I continue for the rest of the month? Will I have the commitment to continue with my new themed posts? Or will failing to post today be the first step in going back to just posting a picture every day, and the written posts going back to the once every few months that they have been. Of course I could just push publish, and let these words head out onto my blog. It may not be the best post but it is a written post. It’s just over 300 words, so my challenge for this month of NaBloPoMo would be satisfied and my hope of posting twice a day would be intact.
So I ask my what should I have done, was pressing publish the right choice or should I have pressed delete?
Today you see the dangers of taking to many pictures of your kids. While heading to ballet with Violet I was taking my usual random pictures. When she decided enough was enough and walked over to the wall. She stayed that way till I put my phone away.
Yesterday Your mother and I went to your school to meet with your teacher and she told us you were doing great in school. That makes your Mom and I very proud Jacob. While I sat there talking to your teacher I couldn’t help but wonder where the time has gone. It feels just like yesterday that we brought you home from the hospital, and now you’re in grade one. With each day as you get older you get more responsibility and I’m impressed how well you handle them. I know at times it can be hard but that’s why you have friends, teachers and parents. We’re her to help yo when it get’s hard.
Watching you play hockey this year is amazing, you are getting so much better with your puck handling. I can’t wait to take you to the Ice Path to practice your skating. Already this year there have been some amazing memories during your hockey games. Moments I will treasure, and I hope you will too. I know that Hockey is something that can be hard for you at times, but it’s when yo keep trying and work at things that are hard that they become easier and you become a better person for going through the work.
Your continued interest in reading is great. When ever I see you sitting there with your head buried in a book, I can’t help but smile. I was so much older than you when I began to understand the wonderful worlds that could be found in a good. To see that you have learned that already makes me proud, I just hope that the Video games and TV shows don’t cause you to forget about the simple fun of reading.
I’ll will end this letter on a last note, you are a great big brother. I watch you with your sister and I can see how much you love her. I see how much you want to protect her. I know there are time’s when being big brother can be tough, and there are times that you don’t want to play with your little sister. Just remember that she looks up to you. You are her big brother, you will always be her big brother. You will always be there for her and she will be there for you. It’s one of the special things about having a sibling. So on the days that she annoys you by wanting to play in your room with you when you just want to be alone. Remember that she wants to play with you because she looks up to you and loves you.
Always remember that I love you and will always be here for you no matter what.
I remember the day that I went from a non-reader to a reader. I remember having no interest in reading books, to burying my nose in them for hours at a time. The book was Jack of Shadows, I was in grade 9, I don’t remember why I picked up that book, I just remember that my mom read me the first chapter and then I read the rest. Reading was always a struggle for me, it took me years to learn and it wasn’t till that book that I became confident in my ability to read. After that book I went on to read other books, first Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, then I moved on to foundation. I remember sitting in English class reading one of his books when the teacher gave me an article about his passing. It talked about him writing right till the end, and that his last book, ‘Forward the Foundation‘ would be out the following year. That was the first Adult hardcover book I bought myself, I wonder if I still have it.
Today was skating night with Jacob’s parent teacher Melissa and I had to miss it. So the kids got to have an evening out with their Nana and Papa. To top it off we gave Jacob some money so he could take everyone out for dinner. They all had a good time. I’m so glad that they get to spend so much time with their grandparents.
At work to day I found myself replacing a dead hard drive in a clients computer and re-installing windows. OF course this is an older computer that’s running Windows 7. I inserting the disk and watching the progress bar go for what felt like an eternity. It was a start contrast to the two installations of windows 8 I’ve done over the last few weeks. I had hopped to do a post about the process, using my the upgrade of my work computer as the basis for screen shots and just a source for the overall feel. Unfortunately when the time came to do the upgrade, I found myself doing two or three things at once and forgot about documenting the process.
So instead of a thought out review of the process I thought I’d share my thoughts of it compare my move to windows 8 with the setting up the windows 7 on a fresh hard drive. Before you say an upgrade isn’t the same as a new installation, I should say that on both my computers I did a clean install not an upgrade. So there is a pretty good base for comparison. Of course today I was using a Dell system restore disc so so of the options were already selected for me.
Usually I want till the end of the day to post the picture of the day. Just in case I get a better picture later in the day. I don’t have to worry about getting anything better. This picture is an amazing picture. It’s Melissa’s weight. Since she started this journey she’s lost 200 pounds. It’s an amazing accomplishment and I want to celebrate it with my amazing wife.
I captured today’s picture of the day this evening after swimming. For some reason when we got home Violet wanted to dress up in her princess dress. Jacob settled into the big chair watching Netflix on his 3DS. I guess she was interested in what he was watching, so she climbed onto the big chair to watch with her big brother. When I saw the two of them, I had capture the moment so I grabbed my phone and snapped a few shots. As a father it always makes me smile to see the kids playing together so nicely.
When I first broke my phone, I did a search for replacement parts for my phone and found that the screen was only between $40 and $50 to buy. This gave me hope that it wouldn’t be to expensive to get fixed. Of course when I contact local places to do the repairs I was presented with a price of around $170, I decided to put the repairs on the back burner and live with the broken screen. Then today I saw that HTC will probably be bringing Jelly Bean to the Amaze in the new year the desire to repair my broke screen return. So I did a search for ‘How to repair a HTC Amaze screen’ and found this video.
Between the two it show’s that it should be possible for me to replace the screen myself. Though I’m not sure if I’m confident in my abilities to actually try. After all there were plenty of electrics that I took apart in my youth that never seemed to go back together right. Do I want to try it with my phone? Do I want to risk being without even my broken phone? It’s a tough call. For now I’ll leave it as is and see if HTC does indeed release Jelly Been for it, before I take such a big step. Of course it could be possible that Google will bring the cost of the new Nexus down low enough that I can just get a new phone(Shhh don’t tell Melissa I’m thinking of buying a new phone).
