I’m Not Dead

At least not yet. My apologies to anyone who’s been checking back for some new material. I had no idea it’s been that long since my last post!

The last year or more has been extremely busy at work and at home. 2008 was a record year for deaths and so far 2009 shows every sign of breaking that record, especially considering the holiday season is still to come. Like retailers, we see an increase in volume right around Thanksgiving but without the resulting economic prosperity. While these records are bad for the general public, they’re good for job security.

Job security is even more critical at home than it used to be because of the record number of births that occurred here the last few years. Two to be exact. A virtual population explosion by comparison. What little energy remained after a day (and many, many nights) at the office was devoted to cleaning up (or cleaning up after) whichever of the two needed it the most. If memory serves, the last year and a half has been a dead heat.

I’ve tried many times the last several months to sit back on the couch with a laptop with little or no success. It now seems clear the last thought entering a charging toddler’s head is, “I wonder how much daddy paid for that?”

Now that they’re a little older (and have actually started to play while they’re, fighting) I see little windows of opportunity opening up in which I hope to compose new content and respond to comments. But right now I have to go investigate a situation in my own home–an oddly disturbing silence.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 1:38 pm and is filed under Main Stories. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.