As the Maple Leafs begin their annual mid-season dive in the standings, my thoughts turn to warmer weather and baseball. So today as I was driving along the Gardiner I snapped a picture of the Skydome Rogers Centre and wondered about when spring training will begin. Turns out it’s about a month away, the Blue Jays first practice is February 17th. Last year was a disappointing season, and even though they haven’t addressed any of their issues, I’m still hopeful that this will be the year that we have meaningful baseball in Toronto in September. Of course I also think the Maple Leafs will make the playoffs so I might be delusional.
Sometimes you have start over, that’s what I’m going to do today. Last Christmas I got a Kobo Touch E-Reader, I had wanted to write a review of it for the first Monday of the new year, it never happened. For the entire year I would look at the draft post try and write it and never get it finished. In the beginning of December I sat down and pushed threw it, writing a few hundred words about it, but still never got it finished. So today I through it out and start over. I’m not even going to look back at what I had, this is a new review.
The Kobo Touch is a light weight and easy to use E-Book reader. It’s e-ink screen is easy to read. Over the last year I’ve used it almost daily. The device has limited physical buttons and ports. There is a Home button on the front, a power toggle on the top edge. The left edge has a small port for a Micro SD card (I’ve never found the need for one) and the bottom edge has the USB port for transferring books from a computer and charging. The back is a quilted and almost soft to touch. I remember when I first held it being surprised by how thin and light it was. Of course once it’s in it’s case it looses most of that.
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If you would have told me last week that I’d be firing up the grill today, I’d have laughed in your face. So tonight when I got home from work I headed out and grilled up a couple of pork chops for the family for dinner, I had to capture it. The weather has been so extreme this January, but I’ll take advantage of the warmer days when I can. I’m not sure if I’ll have a chance to fire up the old BBQ before spring.
I want to write, I used to love to sit with a pen in my hand and spin tails of far away world’s and great adventures. Over the years the tails have dried up, but I still love to write. I’ve turned the pen in for a keyboard but I still love writing. This blog I exists because of that. I started it because I wanted to write about becoming a father. Of course if you look at it now it doesn’t look that way. Looking at it now Geek with Kids is a photo blog. A place to see the Picture of the Day. I find it a little strange how much this bothers me, it used to bother me when I’d go months between posts. Now there is a post each day, but I want more written content. Not just photos.
I thought about ending the picture of the day. As the new year dawned I took a long hard look at it, but in the end I love being able to go back to any day over the last 4 years and see a picture. It’s a great way to remember events. So it will continue. Though I’m still working out how I want to organize it. Last year I used a Picasa Web Album to keep them all together, but with Google moving more and more to Google Plus for Photos and the inability to embed Google Plus images outside of Google Plus, I’m looking for a new way to group them.
But what about my writing. I remember telling people I wanted to be a Programmer and a Writer. I’m sure I’ve written that here before too. So what am I doing to bring the writing back to Geek with kids. I could go into lots of plans as I do every so often when I get this writing bug. Or I can stop talking about it and just write. I remember reading an article by an author about being a writer (Don’t remember who the author was) he said if you want to be a writer you had to write. I don’t write everyday. I don’t think of the few lines I include with my Picture of the Day as writing. Sure sometimes I write some substance but most days, I just do a basic description and leave it at that. I want to write every day. I don’t know if I want to share everything I write on my blog. But I think it’s time that I stop thinking about being a writer and just do it. So now every morning I’m going to try to take 20 to 30 minutes to just write on what every comes into my mind. If I like it I’ll share it, if I don’t I’ll either delete it, or file it away for some future time. So stay tuned.
Today Melissa tried her had at making a beef stew in our crock pot. After spending the day with the smell of the stew filling the House I finally got to taste it at dinner, All I can say is that it was delicious, I’m so glad Melissa decided to make it today. Of course I could only manage to eat a bit more then a bowl before I was stuffed. Of course there is always tomorrow dinner.
It’s Saturday and that means hockey pictures. Today we have a picture of Violet taking the faceoff during her game today. I love watching her play hockey, she gives it her all from the puck drop till the final buzzer. Today was no exception.
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For dinner tonight I had an Egg White omelet, with Onions, Mushrooms and mozzarella cheese. Of course I had some Snap Peas, because as I tell the kids you always need to eat your vegetables.
Jacob loves Lego, and for Christmas he got a few sets. Last night he opened up his first big set, the LEGO Legends of Chima The Lion CHI Temple. I love watching how excited he gets as he builds each part. I’m loving the time we spend together working on Lego, and with over 1200 pieces it’s going to take us a few days to build it all.
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Even on the coldest days of the year, it sometimes helps to think of the warmer days. To help with that both Melissa and I recently picked up new flip-flops. I know it could be a long time till we wear them, but then again it could be just around the corner.
School is back and with it each morning the kids need lunches. So today I put together what we call a tray lunch, and packed it up. Their lunch boxes came back empty so I guess they liked it.
