Giving the baby a cold one

"Do you want a cold one?" my wife asked my son. I quickly looked at her from the Budweiser commercial on the TV.

Of course she was talking about a teething ring, not beer. Context is everything...

another price of fatherhood

yeah, so we're trying to let our son cry it out these days. If he starts crying in the middle of the night, we let him work it out on his own. Unless its late enough for him to get up...

so here's how it goes, Yesterday (actually, the night before yesterday...if that makes sense...not last night, but the night before) He slept pretty well, waking up and wimpering a small amount, but right back to sleep for him. Then, at 5:30am he starts making some noise. I have to get up at 6, so I figure he'll amuse himself for a bit and then want to get out by 6. So I just lay in bed.

All of a sudden my wife was like, "Zach, it's 6:30..." (there should be an exclamation point there, but we were both so out of it). Yeah, I probably could have dozed/slept until at least 7am yesterday.

Today, he's wide awake at 5:40. On my day off.

Just another small price of fatherhood.

Finding the why

Here's the issue, folks. What is this blog? I originally adopted it so that I could put updates of our family online, so friends could keep up with what we were up to. But my wife has started doing one, and she's doing an excellent job. So if you want to know what our family has been up to, check out The Jones Journey. She does an excellent job.

And sometimes I have some deeper thoughts, but I actually started a blog for that, Thoughts to Chew On. So my deeper thoughts I post there (note that I said "deeper", I have no idea how deep they actually are...but they're deeper than my average thoughts...).

I also play around on my website, but I have a blog for all those updates - so whoever out there who actually cares when I post new reviews of books and other random stuff on there can just add my website blog to their RSS reader and just be notified whenever I find the time to add stuff to it.

Then there's Linux, which I enjoy playing around with - but that's not my life by any stretch. I'm just a bit of a nerd. So I started a separate blog for whenever I figure out something worth noting in Linux - not because it'll be any earth-shattering discovery for most people, but it's a great way to keep track of what I've been up to as I explore what's available. Anyways, My Linux Exploits is all for that.

So, this blog - what do I even have it for now? I'm going to be trying to post more regularly on this one, but, as you can see, I have a bad habit of being quite verbose. Don't stress, I am going to work on that.

I've entitled this blog "Life According to Zach", which I found clever when I first started, and I think it's still a pretty apt title. So, hopefully, in the future (more near than far) you will be seeing more posts here. More posts which will be interesting and worth reading.

If you have any suggestions on the sort of stuff I should be blogging about here, let me know. It's not that I'm redefining this blog (or myself), maybe more like refocusing and streamlining.

Here's to finding the why!