I am still alive. We are doing well. Ethan is sick but getting better.

Well, my end of the month scramble to get another issue of WFM has been successful. That means that I'm now a free man (for another week or so) and I'll actually have time to post an update here.

But not tonight. I'm going to bed.

However, before I go if you have a USB drive, you know one of those little ones that you carry around in your pocket or on your keychain, then you definately need to check out getting some portable apps.

I haven't posted very much this month... but I haven't done a hundred other things I've wanted to do either.

Ethan is going to be at 7:30 now, and while that's only an hour later than before it's still taking me some time to get adjusted and make time for what I want to do around my chores.

I'll get back into the swing of things soon, I hope

This is going to sound random, but I'm going to blog about my G-mail account.

The thing about unlimited storage is that people will find a way to try and use it. I just logged in and noticed that I'm using 53MB out of 2711MB available. :-0 That's alot of space used and alot of space to go.

To be fair, I do use that account for all my World Forge Magazine correspondence which includes alot of attachments.

But still, that's alot of stuff I'm not deleting... just cause I don't have to.

So, since it's there. If you haven't started mailing me at Zero00(at)gmail.com Please start. I'm trying to make a full switch as my Yahoo! account fills up with more and more spam (some of it is opt-in since I use that address when I register for sites)

I want to make a quick entry about my boy. He's very into imitation these days. If he sees me or Mia doing something he wants to do it too.

Today, after I got home from work we spent about 10 minutes folding our arms and saying little prayers. Ethan loved it. In fact, he got so excited that he would often start yelling while one of us was saying a prayer.

He also saw me giving kisses to my wife and ran over wanting to be picked up. Then he gave kisses to his mom too.

And, later, after Mia had gone to work, Ethan gave me a phone (he has some old ones with no batteries and a couple of play phones) while he played with his toy cell phone. He thought it was great when I pretended to talk to someone.

He's a great kid and we love him very, very much.

I'm another year older. Thanks to everyone who has been so supportive during this transition in my life. :p

I got called in for Jury Duty today but didn't get selected to sit on a jury.

The day was an interesting experience. There were quite a number of us, and my number didn't even get called to be potentially called to a jury.

So, I just sat and read "Sirens of Titan" by Vonnegut.

I guess I'm done for the next three years, so I'll just have to wait to see if I ever have to decide the fate of anyone in the legal system.

This might seem a bit trival to people like Dad, Monica or Zach who have done more in-depth computer work than I have, but I just got rid of a virus from our computer that slipped past our Firewall, Norton Anti-Virus, and Ad-Aware.

I was in Safe Mode going through DOS menus (with the help of a print out from a site with instructions on what to do) and then had to edit my registry to get rid of all the keys is created.

Man, it was alot of work, but totally worth it now..... and it doesn't look like I messed anything up even.

I have been meaning to make a post about Ethan and me going swimming. Mia has been taking him to swim lessons on Monday, and I take him for free swim on Fridays.

The boy loves being in the water. It's amazing how much fun he has just floating around, or having me propel him through the water. Since I also love being in the pool, I'm glad to stay as long as he wants.

One of Ethan's favorite water activities is splashing. With so much water at the pool, he loves to splash and see how big a spray he can get.

It's very, very fun. We'll have to see how he likes the ocean this summer when we head to California.

A lot of things change when you become a parent. But I wasn't expected my childhood memories to become so different.

Just one minute ago, Mia was reading an old Christmas letter that my parents just sent in a package to us. She read the part about AJ getting a new bike in Ridgecrest.

What I remember about that story is that my parents found a mostly functional bike a a garage sale. My dad fixed it up and painted it blue. They wanted this to be special for AJ so they pulled Monica and I aside, to ask us not to tell AJ that it wasn't a new bike.

Remembering that story just now, made me get all emotional thinking about how my mom and dad wanted to do something for nice for their son. It made me think of all the things that I want to do for Ethan. I love spending time with him, he's such a happy boy, and I can only imagine how much more love I'll have for him as he grows up.

P.S. Dad, if I got this story horribly wrong, please correct it in your weekly email :)