Where the Down Boys go....

I am listening to Warrant as I write this. I saw them in concert way back...I think it was 1989. I got hit in the head that night so it is kinda of a blur (they had Danger Danger with them and they played that little building where the 67s sell tickets.) There were a lot of concerts I have gone to over the years, and I'm going to see Roger Waters do the Wall later this year at Scotiabank Place.

I am going to do it. I am going to wean myself off of Farmville. (Collective Soul is playing now, gotta love random in Windows Media Player!) I have decided that I am only going to try to check it once a day for a while, because the constant slowness of the program is driving me up the wall.

I am also going to try to be more positive in life. Everything seems to be bad right now, but I have to wonder if that is only my perception of it. My work has slowed down, which is something I have been looking forward to (as I have caught up and am now ready for the next wave), but the uncertainty of the move and stuff is getting to myself, as well as my co-workers. I just want to move on. For the record, I do not work in a secret government lab making secret things to take over the thoughts of Icelanders...we are trying to take over Luxembourg.

Isn't astronomy fun? I wish I still had the telescope I had with my dad when I was younger. We always looked at planets and that to me was the coolest thing imaginable. Unfortunately, most of the time that we saw Saturn (1980-82) the rings were mostly edge-on across the equatorial regions to us here on Earth. It was the same now (the rings were not very visible in 2009), which means in about four years (around the time I get to interest my son in the planets), we may get a full side view of the rings in the telescope. As Ottawa is at 45 degrees North latitude, we are in a great spot to see most of the variation in the night sky.

(Now Helter Skelter is playing; I've got blisters on me fingers!)

I have been thinking a lot of education for my son. I really wish I knew now what kind of direction to sort of push him in (I really want him to go into physics/engineering...), but anything he wants to do is fine with me. I started trying to teach him natural numbers tonight, but all I got from him was "yes", the only thing he says clearly right now.

I think I'd like a snack when I'm done writing for tonight. No new TV, no hockey guess I'll just put on my wrist braces and continue reading "The Great Hunt" (Second book in the Wheel of Time series for those that don't know...) Have a great day.

(Today' column was in honour of Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo (1956-2002)).