A Four Year Old’s Joke

Fishygirl‘s 4 and a half year old, code name Sunny, tells me a joke: Sunny: "Knock Knock!"Dave: "Who’s there?"Sunny: "Silly!"Dave: "Silly who?"Sunny: "Silly because I didn’t say silly, Uncle Dave!"(Dave laughs uncontrollably)Sunny: "that was a funny joke!"Dave: "yes it was."Sunny: "I cracked you out!!"(Dave laughs uncontrollably again)

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Lessons you teach other people’s children

So, I’m babysitting today. watching the youngest three of the four kids in Fishygirl’s family. They have net nicks already, so I’ll use them here. Fishygirl and Trout are out: Nemo is watching tv, Sunny and I are in the kitchen playing on computers (she’s on Webkinz, I’m playing Facebook word games), and Little Man is [...]

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Blog Slacking et al.

I haven’t been very verbose lately, for about the last month, in fact… it’s because of the show. I’m playing the trombone book for Peter Pan at Olney Theater and it takes up a lot of my time… 8 shows a week, plus I did some arranging for it. This weekend I have 4 shows [...]

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Read my Guest Post…

…at Fishygirl’s blog. She and her husband are my oldest set of friends, he and I have known each other since 1985 (Sophomore year, high school ’band week’ orientation) and I introduced them. I babysit their kids, and that’s what the post is about. Check it out!

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Sims 3 coming in 2009

I’m even more excited about this than I am about Spore. From the new EA Sims 3 website, it looks pretty good. In other gaming news, I’ve bought a Wii on ebay. New. Coming from California so it won’t be here until next Friday at the very earliest. Before that I had bought an (6th [...]

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Not Much Going On

My sleep pattern is all turned around yet again. sleeping 9 am – 6pm the last two days. One of the reasons I can put up with being an insomniac? “I like the quiet.” (I’m quoting Xander there. That’s at least 10 geek points.) With Andy, I’ve been figuring out what songs will be on the [...]

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