The Bushrod Chronicles

i hate it when i can’t sleep… every now and then i go through a phase of sleepin’ troubles and it totally throws me off… and as i understand it lotsa folks get truly horrible sleep virtually all the time… no wonder there’s a lot o’ buttheads out and about on a daily basis…

good chance to write a blog entry though… i’d probably do a lot more of these if i wasn’t wranglin’ chilluns all day long…

first and foremost i’d like to give a big ol’ f. you to all the wankers who are inundating my blog with comment spam… i’ve already turned off trackbacks due to some truly ugly crap that was showing up… is the ability for folks to comment the next rather useful feature to die???… i hope not… i’m certainly trying to keep on top of it all with the spam tools i’ve got but golly folks… can’t ya just go eat a weenie and go advertise all yer crap in a little more forthright a manner???…

on a more positive and dowright exciting note i’ll be rejoining my pal steve, guitar playing cohort in spank, for a podcast this eve… this’ll be the second time i’ve been his guest on his most excellent production, a brit abroad… we had a hoot last time so it promises to be a fine evening…

speaking of spank… the band’s getting all worked up into a lather o’ joy about our upcoming gig at the central club in kirkland… or maybe that’s just me… we’ll be playing there on wednesday 11/16… hopefully lots of folks will join us for an evening o’ joy… the last time we were there was for our cd release party and it was too much fun… really… 12 people expired from sheer happiness…

and the family has just passed a milestone of sorts i guess… its been six months since i began my oddysey as a stay-at-home dad… ’s been lotsa fun, presented a few challenges along the way… uh… daily, been more rewarding than i can say, and has thus far proved itself to be a good decision for the family i reckon… i’m compiling my thoughts in a little more detail for a post coming soon…

homeboy… homechicken… homeslice…

so a week from today will be my last day in the traditional workforce for a while… as i mentioned a few days ago we’re gonna be a stay-at-home-dad type family for a while… and… uh… i’d be that dad…

i think i’ll set up a separate blog to keep track of our adventures… and adventures i’m sure there will be…

i have dipped a toe into the ocean of the online homedad world… looks like there’s some kinda cool sites around… lotsa regional stuff but some good worldwide and national resources too… amigo steve and i were havin’ a chat last weekend and he said if he were gonna embark on such an adventure he’d be the most connected homedad out there… i reckon he’s onto something… i think i’m going to join every website/chat board/support outlet i can find… gonna be a member of a whole new community in a week… might as well find out all i can about it…

yesterday was a big day…

i alluded to big changes in my last post… well yesterday they were officially kicked off when i gave notice at work of my intention to leave at the end of the month to be a stay-at-home dad…

was a bit of a bittersweet feeling as i told folks what was going on…

on one hand i’m sad to be leaving… been with them for about seven years and its been a very cool time in my life… that timespan has seen me be a (relatively) care-free batchelor… meet karen… fall in love… get married… buy a house… father two amazing children… be in three amazing bands… make friends… lose friends… and through all of those adventures a constant backdrop has been my workplace and work-type comrades… a great company and great folks…

on the other hand… i’m ecstatic about the opportunity to stay home and spend my days with mackenzie and sebastian… karen and i have been doing a lot of thinking about the whole childcare situation as her maternity leave draws to an end and taking all factors into account we started to float the idea of me staying home… the more and more we thought about it the better an idea it seemed…

a challenge???… you betcha… for all of us… but one that i’m amazingly excited to undertake… and far as i’ve been able to tell in my 37ish years the good stuff don’t come easy… haha…