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Spiderman Panties

Anna came in the bathroom this morning as I was getting out of the shower.  Upon observing a thread-worn pair of boxers I had discarded in the bin (second pair this week), she said "Daddy, you need a new pair of panties.  I'm going to get you a new pair of Spiderman Panties for my birthday, when I'm four."  She is a generous, thoughtful little girl.

My Sweet Daughter

Today I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, made especially for me by my eldest daughter. She is five. She was going to make one for herself and asked if I would like one too. Did I mention she is five?

*all child labor comments will be deleted :-)

Men are from MARS!

Our friend and babysitter, Megan, comes over to watch Tivo'd episodes of Lost and the occasional movie as her busy schedule permits. While the cast of Lost is hard at work in beautiful Hawaii to bring us the next season, we decided to give Journeyman a look since it was too late to start a movie.

The three of us had just finished watching the pilot of Journeyman. It had an interesting sci-fi time travel kind of plot, so I enjoyed it.  The show ended with the guy proving to his wife, who was convinced he was on drugs, that he really was traveling through time.  My thoughts after this scene were that I'd like to watch the next episode to see how they open up the plot and elaborate on the whole time travel angle.

The first post-show comment I heard was Megan reassuring Margaret, "well, at least now she knows," which prompted a rehash of all the inter-character relationships and emotional issues they would each face given the storyline that had developed.

As a Martian, I cannot imagine watching this show and then at the end turning to a buddy and saying, "well, Ed, at least he convinced his wife he wasn't really on drugs. It's too bad he wrecked the Mustang and had to tear up the patio.. He was probably feeling a lot of stress from all the time traveling and the strained relationship with his brother and his boss at work.  Poor guy.  Oh, and did you notice the shoes?"

And its not just this one show, but pretty much after every episode of Lost I'll have to hear about how Kate must feel being torn between Jack and Sawyer blah blah blah...

...women are from Venus.

Z at Beaners

Here's a shot of Z relaxing in a comfy chair at Beaner's.  Its a nice place to hang out for a little while to unwind at the end of the day. My favorite drink right now is a short vanilla breve latte with two shots of espresso poured over the top.  Yum.

Some of you will be happy to know that I finally took the time to figure out how to take a picture with the iPhone and then post it with comments to the website.  Lots of websites now are putting out special pages designed for the iPhone.  Slick.

Halo 3

I thought I'd catch a late show tonight.. The show starts at 10, ends at 11:40, and tonight just happens to be the night they are releasing Halo 3. What perfect timing.. I'll get out of the show just in time to pick up what is certain to be my next favorite game on the xbox 360.

Given the game's popularity, I guess I should not be surprised to find there are 75 people (and counting) with the exact same idea, and they got here first. Should I wait?

UPDATE: I came out of the theater to find about 200 people standing in the parking lot outside of GameStop. Seriously.

1+1=6

We have a new baby!  Jonas Russell Winn was born May 6, 2007, weighing 9 lbs and 21" tall.  Mom and baby are doing well.  Me?  Well, I'm just really glad the whole birth thing is over.  It's no fun at all, and my job is the easy part.  I can't imagine how women have more than one baby.. it seems that after the first they'd know for sure they didn't want to do that again!

Very Proud of Herself

Another Birthday

For those of you wondering how my birthday was celebrated this year, after last year's excitement, you'll be disappointed to know it was rather uneventful.  I avoided smoothies with green powder and oil and other healthy stuff and took the kids to see Meet the Robinsons, topped off with a large slice of chocolate cake with milk chocolate icing (my favorite).  And, no, I am not 40...

Mental Break

What a break that turned out to be!  I'm referring of course to the lack of posts on here since October or so.  For those who are curious, here's the condensed version. 

I was really busy back in October.  We took a trip to Atlanta to visit some friends and around that time I got a big portfolio to work on which kept me occupied through the end of November.  I was spending a lot of time getting the work stuff done and just didn't have the mental energy for the fun computer stuff at the end of the day.

Too Slick

Last week I met a "wealth manager" after a conference over in Birmingham, Michigan (cool place).  Out in the lobby after the conference, he sat down next to me and another guy and started chatting about the conference, what we all do for a living, if we had any kids, etc.  I mentioned I have three precious kiddos at home, at which point he said "hey, let me show you a picture of my kids."

Ok, I'm thinking.. he's a proud dad.  That's great.  I should probably carry around pictures of my kids in my wallet, or in something less nerdy than on my cell phone (does that make me a bad dad?).

He begins to flip through a three ringer binder, pointing to pictures of celebrities and "important looking" people (presumably some of his clients) and finally gets to a picture of his teenage children.  Then he tells us that he put $32,000 into a fund that he manages and that it's appreciated to some astronomical figure over the last three months, 500% growth or something like that.  I'm being pitched.

Anyone who can start with "let me show you a picture of my kids" and ends with "results like this, of course, are not guaranteed, but I mange [name drop] and [name drop] and blah blah blah options, and blah blah blah futures, and here's my card if you're interested in blah blah" is too slick for me.