Crazy crazy crazy. Stress and anxiety, fear and guilt, happiness and joy, calm and inner peace. Rotating around between and among them, comforting and requiring comfort. Seemingly no rhyme or reason. I expect the worst one moment, then don’t do the bare minimum the next and set myself up for trouble. I’m different than I was, and the same as always. Silliness. Status guo. SNAFU.
Reading a cool book on the brain. Learning lots. More potential connections in the human brain than there are atoms in the universe, babies need to hear language sounds before one to learn them most easily, brain is awesomely plastic. The undiscovered country. Just read Tipping Point, which was excellent. I’m a salesman, I figure. Before that read some of the History of Western Philosophy, but got annoyed by the fact that Plato’s the greatest philosopher ever and he’s a weenie trying to compensate for his insecurities with ridiculous utopian scenarios. I got that at home in my own fridge, why pay restaurant prices for it? I’ll get back to the book, at some point. It’s going nowhere, riding my hip in a holster like all the rest. Bought, for $20, 3000 classics for my phone, on which I do all my reading now. Works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Dostoyevski, Twain, Dickens, Tolstoy, and a bunch of others. 3000 of them, novels and stories and poems and essays. Now I have them close at hand at all times, a whole fuckin library. Pretty damned cool. Before that I read The Drunkard’s Walk, which was a great book about randomness. Learned that the child of two smart parents is usually dumber than the parents and two tall parents shorter, which makes sense when you think about it, as we have no ultra-geniuses or 12-foot people after 10,000 years. Don’t read paper books anymore. No sadness, though it is a waste of space and money, as I’ve bought a bunch of paper books over the last 10 years that I still haven’t read. Want a book?
Lisa bought me Kung Fu Panda and Toy Story, two of my favoritest movies. Brilliant, both.
Playing Magic Online constantly, i love it love it love it. Keeps me thinking and competing, two of my favorite things.
Therapy is stalled, I don’t feel I’m getting much from it.
Haven’t had a drink on almost 7 months, wanna start again but am afraid I’ll overdo it. If I overdo it one more time, I’ll have to stop for good, though I’m pretty sure I can be reasonable.
Job’s a bear, economy’s got everyone scared and snippy. All my coworkers are at the cusp of retirement, or were, anyway.
Got some Bobby Blue Bland, real good stuff, don’t know how I never heard him before. Do yourself a favor.
Gribble rules. So funny and fun. Charlotte will be here in April. She’s not funny yet. Lisa is the greatest, my best friend and favorite person.
Maybe I’m getting there. Maybe. It does feel different now, despite the repetition. Wouldn’t trade it, whatever the case.
So good to see an update from you!!! Thanks for checking in with your readers…
You have 3000 books that you can read ON YOUR PHONE?? Geez, I think I’m seriously falling behind on this phone technology stuff… Can you even see the text on the screen? Is that comfortable to read on such a small area?
I find that kind of depressing, about two smart parents having a “dumber” kid… I consider Sergio and myself to be *ahem* fairly intelligent, so I wish that it weren’t true. Isn’t there a chance for having a child of the SAME intelligence? Pretty please?
Good to hear that things are going well on the family front… You should update Gribble’s website!!!! Is he walking yet?
I won’t comment on everything else that you mentioned… Just let me say that it’s good to hear from you! You’ve been missed…
Thanks, Cindy. Your comment made me feel good.
Yeah, I have over 3000 books on my phone. I don’t have trouble reading it – you can adjust the font size and type. I have a Blackberry, and people read email on them all the time. There are about 70 words on each page, so you have to scroll a lot, but it’s so convenient in other ways that I really don’t mind. You can read in bed without a booklight, and you always have your book with you. You can also click a button and look up a word in a dictionary (you have to buy one) in your library. I love that feature, as I’m too lazy when I’m reading a paper book to go get a dictionary.
I suppose two smart people could have an equally smart baby, but the odds aren’t good. I can see it in my kid, he’s dumb as a rock.
He has taken a few steps, but he still crawls (and quickly, too). I will post some new photos soon.
I don’t get it. A kid isn’t always dumber than his parents, right? I would think he could just as well be smarter as dumber. Is it that you couldn’t breed a super-smart race by always breeding the two smartest people together? There’s probably an upper limit to smartness (where Nate and Lisa are), and if you’re both up there then your kid probably still won’t surpass it.
Not always, sure. But odds are better that the child will move closer to the mean than further from it. Or is it farther? Griffin and Charlotte might be ok after all.
I heard this many years ago from my high school ‘gifted’ teacher. and she learned it from a smart person’s conference, so i second this information as valid. better chance two smarties will make slightly less than average smart kid. but, for all you new parents or soon to be parents out there, i say, don’t worry about the averages, thats like politicians following the polls too closely, or a self-fulfilling prophesy, you’ll be all up in your kids face, expecting him/her to be dumber till he gets sick of the expectations and decides to prove you right