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or El Nino or whatever it is in heaven above that has given this as our 15 day (and month of Feb) forecast:

Now if this holds true it will pose a few problems:

1. Hobos living under the bridges wont know wtf us going on. This will totally screw with their hibernation.
2. The Occupy people just caught a huge break if they’re still camping out. damn.
3. The Mayans probably did predict this & we’re all goners in December.
4. PennDOT will find some reason not to patch holes.
5. If I have to cut my grass I’m cutting someone.
6. I think it’s God’s way of telling me to get outside and exercise or else.
7. I can’t throw any more snowballs at Teaspoon

Plus side if this holds up:

1. I’m wearing shorts to Pens games
2. I don’t have to buy any more salt
3. I can brew outside
4. It buys me time to get the house properly insulated and fix more of whatever Capt. Obvious did.
5. My birthday is going to be very comfortable

I need to smile more. Jesus I didn’t realize it until I saw this pic and this was the best one out of the series on my webcam I just shot.

I wonder how long I can grow a beard until I wake up and find that someone shaved it off? At least let me make some designs first.

What’s with that funky eye thing from my glasses? I need to get new glasses or contact. Probably depend if I play softball this year what I’ll get.

Dropping pounds. Not from some great miracle diet unless you count sleeping in 2hr spurts a diet. Let my kids sleep over for a couple weeks and you can be as dashing as myself. If anything it making me cranky. Yes, cranky.

I bought a couple books today. I hate reading but something compelled me when I listened to the author speak. I never impulse buy. I did today. Books will be posted when they get here.

Did you ever notice the people that bitch most about how they hate the high school drama on social media sites are always the ones causing it? Even funnier is when they drag fantasy land into the real world and spend all of their time offline talking about what happened online. Watch out I might blog about it. Err wait. And people wonder why TV soap operas are dying *sheesh*

You thought all those D&D kids from grade school were freaks. They’re the ones building the apps right now you can’t stop using. Suckers!

I’ve paid attention more to the debates recently not because I want answers but because I want to see who’s going to get choke-slammed by Newt next. He probably won’t win the nomination because people are still too sensitive but man he’d be a bad ass. At the end of the day though my vote in November will go to Stephen Colbert.

If the biggest drama in your young life is if you should have kids now or later,  my advice is to wait until you’re 30. You’re obviously not ready to handle the mindscrew they lay on you so enjoy your 20′s. Just wait until there are 2 of them.

Want or need? The most annoying thing old people, especially my mom, say to me is “Do you NEED it or do you WANT it?” when it comes to making purchases. I have a feeling this has the legs for a good post subject. One that I NEED and WANT.

Late today I got the great news that this big project I’ve been stressing over got the green light to launch days earlier than expected. To celebrate I’m going to be the celebrity judge at a wine competition tomorrow night. Wrap your noodle around that one. Little know fact, I like wine… Franzia, thanks to Griff.

I have a couple more brew kits coming my way and I just need to pick out the yeast. Be afraid.

Looking forward to hanging with various groups of friends I haven’t seen in almost 6months. There will be bowling, mexican food and tequila involved. This can’t end well.

cheers!

When I wrote the “2012: realistic” post I wasnt sure what was going to happen next. I knew what I wanted to start doing but getting there was a mystery. Someone I follow on twitter said she was “streamlining life” and cleaning up her followers. While it may sound crazy, social media has become a key part of the daily life of people.

Organizing the mess
Over the MLK day 3-day weekend, and thanks to finally having a full night of sleep, the organizing bug crawled up our butts and we got to work. Monday I heard a faint cry for help coming from the basement. I went downstairs to find someone had put them self into a corner from falling boxes.

The day was spent with a solid 7 hours in the basement cleaning out junk that moved with us and damn did it feel refreshing. Granted I still have the stuff that Capt. Obvious left here when we moved in but now we have a floor! The Christmas and holiday decorations are in one section, summer and spring have a shelf and an area was reserved for things we still need to go through (mostly photos and things we were too lazy to sort when moving). I’ll still need at least 1 more solid day of it but we are SO close to being done.

The boxes we did go through furnish pictures that I haven’t seen before or forgot that we had. Plenty of wedding items I forgot about and some childhood memories that I didn’t even realize came with me. There’s still a whole shelf of those boxes I haven’t gone through yet and not sure if I should. No one wants to see me in 6th grade  That picture above was when we first moved in almost 2 years ago. The pile has doubled since with a couple holidays and birthdays under our belts plus there are boxes from 2007 in there.

The garbage men hate us. When they came this week we had a mountain of boxes and junk waiting for them. While the next load wont be as bad, it will be heavy. I have some cement and wood that need to find a home.

To finish off our day we upgraded Teaspoon’s room. He’s had a single bed for over a year but now we put the headboard on and raised it up a little bit. I’ve also started hanging framed sports photos in his room which once were in my room. Feels kinda cool seeing him appreciating the same things you did.

Welcome to my hell and where I have been the last 2-3 weeks. Shortly after turning 1 my youngest spiraled into teething hell. You’d think I would have remembered what it was like with Teaspoon but obviously I blocked it out of my mind.

Those without children have already chimed in about giving the kid hard liquor or Tylenol to which I twitch and look at them funny. If there is even a picture of liquor around a kid you have some freaky freak calling youth services on your ass.

The picture is a few months old but shows perfectly how almost every waking hour has been. At first the teeth would come in slowly and them BOOM 8-10! Its like the kid was on some growth hormone and man was he pissed.

Thankfully he’s starting to chill out and after weeks of us averaging 2-4hrs of sleep a night we’re close to making it a full night.

We’re on the dawn of our next fight. He hates his crib and refuses to sleep in it. Someone get me the duct tape…

The inaugural Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week is now official! Logos and a webpage make things official right? To say I’m psyched for this is a bit of an understatement as I’ve been involved on one of the planning teams for a few months. To see this growing from a small idea to what it is now, is incredible!

Last night was a who’s who of craft beer in Pittsburgh at one of the major planning meetings.  You should see more info coming soon on the website and also details of the newly created Pittsburgh Craft Beer Alliance  (which has already said to be “like a drunkard Justice League”). The week will be April 20-28, 2012 and will feature Pittsburgh finest craft breweries and craft beer restaurants.

Pittsburgh has an incredible food and drink scene that we want the world (and all of yinz) to explore.

That’s all I can tell you for now. In the meantime click the links below to connect with PCBW and if you’re on twitter start following the #pcbw tag.

Website: http://pittsburghcraftbeerweek.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pghcraftbeerweek
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PGH_BeerWeek

cheers!

I’ve written this about 4 times now so we’ll see how this will turn out. I realized in the previous drafts that I’ve lost my tolerance for stupidity and that I have a lot of built up anger towards people constantly telling me what they think I should do and that if I disagree its my views that are uneducated.

Its time to cut those people loose.

I took some time to myself (in between the kids fighting) to think about why I was always overwhelmed and exhausted. The answer turned out to be that I spread myself way too thin again and I need to stop. I have a problem saying “no” when asked to take something on and I need to start. I need to get organized if I want to get control of everything again. I don’t have time for SIDT like I wish I did. Making time to do more than working full time and being a dad is increasingly difficult so I need to write down what’s on my plate and refocus my energy. I also need to quit bringing my day job home with me.

I need to take a weekend away from the family and all the hectic things in my life and go figure out what I want to do.  Not a “where do I want to be in 5 years” but more of “what needs to be done personally and professionally.” My social media presence needs a new direction, my servers and sites need consolidated/reorganized and overall I need to make time for myself. Someone in this house  is working every day of the week so its very easy to feel overwhelmed.

2012 has started and i’m already feeling behind