Testing… 1…2….3….

Testing 1…2…3….

I wonder if this mic is on?

So I have been trying this blogging game for about a while now, and the articles I have read tell me to be patient. So when will I see all the traffic? Will I make any money?  Unlikely I know.  The first few blogs were simply test runs… so for those that are paying attention, Thank you. We will call those first few, my “pre-season”. From this point on, I promise, I am going to do my best.

So a little more about my writing skillz (z was on purpose)… I am no literary wizard, that is for sure. Here is another promise, I type what what my brain tells me. I just hope it comes out making sense. I hope my grammar isn’t too awful, so I will apologize in advance…

I look forward to having good blogging conversations with you, this is a two way street right?

Is your mic on???

Dad’s Music

I love music. Anything from Country to Classic Rock, R&B to Hip-Hop, and everything in between. Listening to all the different kinds of genres has been made easy thanks to smart phones. I have an iPhone, and have 8 music apps, iTunes Store, Music (music on my phone and also iTunes Radio), TuneIn Radio, Pandora, Songza, Amazon Cloud Player, Spotify, Slacker Radio and Beats Music.

Here is a breakdown of my opinion on these music apps/services…

For What Its Worth – Tooth Fairy Fails AGAIN

Another good TRUE Story from my friend… I can’t make this stuff up!

For What Its Worth:

My son’s second tooth fell out while he was riding in the car with my wife.  She told me that somehow he dropped it and neither of them could find it in the car so he was completely depressed about the whole thing.  Most of his frustration was because after only getting $5 from that cheapo Tooth Fairy for his first tooth, he learned the hard way that $5 doesn’t get you very far at the toy store these days.   We convinced him to save it until more teeth fall out so he can buy bigger.  I have no proof of this, but I suspect he spent the following night punching himself in the face or picking fights at school because miraculously he lost tooth #2 within 24 hours of that conversation.  Anyway, without a tooth to leave under the pillow he wouldn’t get paid.  My wife put him in a warm bath to calm down and she went back to the car to look for the missing tooth but no luck.  So, like any dedicated parent would do, Mom improvised.  She went and got tooth #1 which had been taken by the fairy the night before and brought it inside proclaiming that she found tooth #2!  He didn’t suspect anything so Mom was a hero that night.  He cashed in the tooth so now he’s got $8 in his tooth treasury.

For What its Worth: The Tooth Fairy Fails

A good TRUE story from a friend of mine… 

For What Its Worth – Tooth Fairy Fails 

Last week my son lost his first two baby teeth.  This gave us two chances to wow him with a surprise from the Tooth Fairy (rumored to be Santa Clause’s mistress).  The whole thing caught my wife and I by surprise.  We didn’t have a game plan on how to actually set up the tooth drop off and subsequent money exchange.  For Christmas each year we set out cookies and milk, make sure we leave ADA compliant egress to the fireplace and put our son to sleep.  As soon as he’s sleeping we take a few bites of cookies, drink the glass of milk down to half, and pile the gifts under the tree.   Since this was our family’s first tooth fairy operation, there was bound to be complications.  Like, for example, what if you put the tooth in a tiny container under his pillow and somehow forget to make the money drop?  How do you deal with a kid who wakes up crying because that old witch-fairy didn’t bother to visit?   Or, for example, what if the tooth is lost before it can be buried under the pillow?   How do you deal with a kid who bursts into tears because he’s not going to have anything to offer the Tooth Witch?  Yes, both those things happened to us last week.  How would you handle those situations?  Would you tell him it was going to be OK, distract him with something else and let him realize that life goes on?   Or would you take some heroic measures to maintain the fantasy and preserve his childhood innocence?  You guessed it, we took the heroic route to save that Tooth Witch’s reputation.

Baltimore Fans are Passionate

Baltimore Ravens logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I live in the Baltimore area. Been here for over 10 years now. While living here, people would ask me, who is my favorite football team… I would say, I root for the Ravens, Redskins and Steelers (yeah, I know too many teams… I have moved around a few times) but I am a FAN of the Bears… I think I am about to add a second team to that FAN category. But I need to be careful  I do not want to seem like I am jumping on the Ravens bandwagon just because they won the Super Bowl. So I guess I need to gain acceptance from a member of the Raven Nation…  Before I get yelled at by my fellow Bears Fans (Karl, Patrick, Jason) don’t worry, Bears will always, ALWAYS be number one in my heart.