Pauls Rants and Revelations

Today is my sons birthday. It seems only yesterday that he sloshed out of moms womb and now he is six years old. Where does the time go?

And since this is such a huge deal, I decided that it is time to get him a skateboard. I mean a real one; not the tiny play one like at Target. This is an official World Industries board with a nifty flame boy decal on it. He was totally excited about it and started riding around in the house. Now we just have to wait for a non-rainy day and off to the park we go.

We also got him a huge lego set that we spent the entire next day putting together (which his cousin destroyed the next day; bummer) and games galore. Board games, mind, not video games.

He was really stoked with everything including the black-light pirate themed mini-golf we did in Portland, which was a bit of a trip actually. We also had a pirate ship chocolate cake. It was just coincidence that it worked out that way since I ordered the cake and my wife  set up the mini-golf.

Everything considered, it was a really good birthday and my little dude was quite happy with everything.

-Cheers

If I had a penny from every sale of something when I heard someone say “I’ll just get a new one”, I would be a semi-rich man (it is only a penny after all).

Its sad that or society has gotten to the point where everything is replaceable. No very many people now will take the time to make something instead of just buying it. They get a new one if it breaks instead of fixing it.

It just seem so wasteful and stupid to spend money on something you don’t need and immediately get a new one if something happens.

Perhaps I just feel this way since I just dropped a load of cash on bills and birthday presents. Anyways, its still valid I think.

-Cheers

Did you ever notice that if you swing your Macbook Pro around the room really hard, the hard drive sounds like a lightsaber?

Though you might find that interesting.

-Cheers