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So where the hell have I been lately? I'd like to be able to say I was doing something terribly interesting or exciting,...but no. It didn't happen that way. Nothing interesting happened, I've just been lazy. Actually, one of the things I did over the President's Day Weekend was reinstall the operating systems on both my computers. I formatted the hard drive of my desktop and installed a fresh version of Win 98. I don't usually like to go more than 18 months without wiping out and starting over. I install and uninstall so much crap that my system just gets bogged down. And because the desktop has become the "family" computer, I had to re-install all my son's games. Then I wiped out my laptop drive and was going to re-install Windows 98. Then, the more I thought about it, I realized that I was going to have to support a dozen or more new computers coming into our company that will be running Windows 2000. since I don't have much experience with 2000, I figured I should put it on my own system so I could get familiar with it. After all that installation, I didn't feel like spending much more time in front of the monitor.
I had two seperate conversations with Jake in the last 24 hours that served to remind me why I have kids. These particular conversations might be more meaningful to the men out there. As I was putting him to sleep, I heard him sing something under his breath. Bump-be-da-bum-bum. At first I thought it was "The Ride of the Valkyries". Then I remembered he is 4 years old.
ME:
What is that you're singing?
JAKE:
Fred Flinstone
ME:
Wha?
JAKE:
Fred Flinstone... he was a superhero...
And then it hit me; Superstone! Baa-ah-he-HO-HO! I'm sure you all remember the Superstone episode. I laughed out loud and told him that I remembered seeing that one. Then he asked me if I used to watch the Flintsones when I was a kid. It kind of stunned me for a minute. That particular episode aired in1965! That's 35 years! The Flintsone have spanned both our childhoods. It was kind of weird.
The second conversation was a typical guy/Seinfeld/Stand By Me discussion. It was just weird that it happened between me and my 4 year old.
JAKE:
What do you think those three dots on Brainic's head are for?
ME:
uuuhhhhm... I dunno.
JAKE:
Why is Braniac so evil?
ME:
Well, he used to be computer on Krypton and when he discovered that Krypton was going to blown up, he made himself a robot body to escape. And when the people living on Krypton found out, they tried to stop him. So he's angry at all the people from Krypton.
JAKE:
Do you think Batman could beat Brainiac?
Stupid things like this make me happy that I have kids.
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