Bastian pulled my beard off: Never to fear however, I'm planning for a foot-long this round.

Bastian's new favorite thing to watch is Thomas the train, and despite my best efforts he's already watched it more times than a healthy fat kid should. Lucky for me, his next favorite thing to watch is this:

Time flies.

We made it home Monday at about 8:30.  Bastain did pretty well considering it was a day drive and all he could do to entertain his crazy self was watch movies that he's already seen at least 15 times a piece.  At one point he started crying because the boob tube had numbed his brain and he just wanted some peace and quiet....poor kid.  I guess we over did the electronic babysitter.   He did spend some time playing with all the little toys Gogo let him steal from her, which was so nice.  Thanks again mom.

Brooklynn, you're the best.  Thanks so much for everything you did while we were there.  Can't wait to everyone again for Thanksgiving.  

Bored on a Friday night:

It's been a great few days here.  Gogo has been such a tireless playmate and Brooklynn too.  Dad has given me some work to do, so that was nice as well.  Leaving Hotel Barry is going to be rough, but I'm certainly not complaining because Mayhill is a little slice of heaven.  I just wish I spent more time there.

Here is a scary video I made recently.  I did it because I wanted to put some audio on here that didn't play automatically while the site loaded, but gave ya all some insight into the beautiful rhythms that inspire one side of me.  It's nothing special, just some stuff thrown together for the audio. 

Well tonight Alli went with a friend to a show down in central Phoenix, so Bastian and I hung out with Gogo, Grandpa, Brian and Scottee with their kids, and Devin and Allison.  Aunt B was there some of the time too.  It was fun.  Grandpa fixed Mac and Cheese for all the grandkids and then we all squished imprints into Allison's water swollen legs.  That was awesome.   

Rob is out in Mississippi right now picking up a tractor....I can't wait to see it.    We're here in Phoenix to go their (Rob and Betsy's) wedding shower on Saturday (we're a little early).  

I'm beat.  

Oh yeah, last week I was Houston for a class.  It went well.  I really learned a lot.  Houston is a funny place.  They're such hicks down there....I thought Mayhill was the pooling place for backwoods, but boy was I way off....Texan's are all backwoods.   Mayhill is just the tip of the iceberg.   Before long, I'll be throwing out "Hey ya'lls" and wearing tight Wranglers....Yeeehaaaaa.

Sunday night.  I have a week long class to go to starting tomorrow that will give me the nitty gritty details about the stuff Rob and I spray called polyuria.   It's a product, kinda like that spray-in truck bed liner, only way stronger with more tinsel strength and psi strength.  

The road has been done for quite some time now.  I got excited today when I replaced the battery in the RV and it turned right over, so I decided to take it to the top.  The guy that came to give a bid on drilling us a well was right, the road is too narrow for wide vehicles (dang it!!!).  I made it 4/5 the way there.   I hit a bump in the road which jumped me violently to the right (downhill) and shoved the RV's passenger tire overboard.   If I could ever get this internet to upload before it timed out, then I'd put up a picture, but it doesn't look too promising.  

Alright, I'm the kinda guy that needs feedback, any feedback on things that I write, so please go over the site: jimmysplacetoreign.blogspot.com and read it when you get enough time.  I'm certainly not a professional, but if I've ever going to try and make money at this thing, I'm gonna need feedback.   If it just plain sucks, I'd like to know...ya know?  But, if it holds your attention and you kinda want to know where it's headed, then that would also be great to know.  

Well, I've tried several times to upload a single small image, but the internet just won't handle it for some reason.  I guess that means to videos either....I had a couple good ones to put up too darn it.

I posted chapters 2 and 3....

Bastian is just over two years old, so I thought I should try and write down some things that he might want to know when he's older, which reminds me of one:  Whenever he is thinking of something he'll go, "hmmm, let's see," and then continue that sentence as long as he's sort of spaced out working on something.  He puts his hand up to his forehead as if the sun were in his eyes and looks off into the distance saying, "see anything?"  He then looks around at all of us to make sure we're doing the same thing.  Hmmm, let's see, what else?  Oh yeah, he's got his ABC's down and absolutely gets a kick out of finding new places where his ABC magnets will stick.  He also knows his numbers up to 12 and counts on his hands as if he actually knows what it means (who knows, maybe he does).   I'd say his vocabulary is up to about 800 words and uses two word sentences.  We've been working on spelling GO lately and other two letter words, but I don't think he sees how the phonics comes into play yet.  He can name the letters, but the word doesn't mean anything to him yet.  Hmmm, what else?  He really likes playing with trucks and talking on the phone (balancing out that yin/yang), though he'll have nothing to do with Barbies yet (I guess that doesn't come until your a teenager, hahahahaha).  

Oh, see the bottom for my latest political outcry (boring)