What a BuzzKill

This Father’s Day was great! Rece turned off all the ringers on the phones and let me sleep in until around 10:00 am, then woke me up with a menu he had made. It had 4 options for breakfasts he could make me (eggs, cereal, oatmeal, or cream of wheat) along with a choice of beverage (milk or soda). I opted for the eggs, which he made along with some bacon and toast. He makes excellent scrambled eggs!

After serving me breakfast in bed (served on a baking pan, “I had to improvise” he said), he grabbed himself a bowl of cereal and joined me. We watched the World Cup games while we ate as there was not much else on, really. After that I got ready for the day and I called my dad to wish him a Happy Father’s Day.

Not wanting to just lounge about the house all day, Rece and I went out Geocaching (here are some photos), taking our sweet time finding them. Most of the caches turned out to be near parks with playgrounds, so about a third of the time was spent with Rece playing and me dozing on a nearby bench. Our final geocaches found count for the day was 9, in around 4 hours. We had attempted to find 12, but as we really aren’t in it for the numbers, we simply gave up on the ones that required a lot of effort – at least on this day.

Today was a nice reminder of how much I enjoy being a dad.

My buddy Quinn is chock full of the stuff. Not only has he a flair for the silly and odd video, he’s quite the musician too! Check out the tune he made and posted to his blog.

I finally got around to posting pictures of our hike from this past weekend. I linked to the YouTube video that Quinn put up of our rattlesnake encounter. Quinn posted some photos on his blog as well.

Yep, I can’t seem to let this topic go. I’m still not convinced and stories like this just make the gap between the theory of global warming and my belief in it ever wider.

UPDATE EDIT: I have since realized that my thinking on this topic was seriously flawed. Climate Change is definitely a real thing and it is for sure being made worse by human activities. I’m keeping the original posts up, as I think it’s important for people to see that opinions can change after new information is learned.

We are all out of bananas at my place. Yep, that’s all I wanted to say.

My buddy Quinn is up to it again. He’s created yet another funny video using photos of he and I. To be honest, after my last post, I could really use a laugh. Good timing, Quinn!

I knew going in that it was something that I shouldn’t have looked at. Yep, I went to yet another site where you can look up your pay as compared to others in the same field of work and in your area. Apparently I’m making $10-13K less per year than the average salary for what I do in this area. If I were to factor in the 5-10% drop to be expected for the non-profit sector, I’m still at least $6K per year under the average.

I’m not happy about this – both for the fact I feel taken advantage of and that I checked it out in the first place.

Turnover here is pretty high, even higher this year. There’s something wrong when unemployment is still pretty high and yet people are managing to find jobs to walk away from here with.

Gah… why did I have to look? WHY!?

… if he wants most of the pansy-ass bullshit on Forbes’ list of “What Dad Really Wants“. I mean seriously…

This morning I found a link to this article about a woman that simplified her lifestyle. I must say that this sounds very appealing to me! Anyhow, it’ll probably be a little while before I could actually do something like this, but I’ve considered moving up to Oregon and doing it on may occasions.

I went on a great hike this weekend with some friends. We had a good time on a beautiful Sunday morning hiking in the hills near the ocean. We saw a rattle snake (first time I’ve seen one in “the wild”) and spent some time trying to take pictures/video of it. Rece wasn’t quite thinking straight and ended up getting separated from our group on the way back. He ended up having to make the walk back (about 3 miles) all by himself. I think he learned some valuable lessons. I’ll probably post some pictures within a day or two.

Blogger (where this blog is hosted) seems to have had some technical glitches over the last few days. While you could view blogs (albeit very slowly), I couldn’t get in to post. It’s frustrating when you have an idea (or an epically long blog topic) in your head that you want to get out before it blows up and causes a forest fire – yeah Smokey didn’t warn you about those dangers did he?