Archive for tag: Fatherhood

Preemo!

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

We've just gotten the kid to go to bed without having to be breast fed at even intervals throughout the night, and all in time to go see DJ Premier at Berns on the 19th of May. I must've done something right. My mom will be babysitting, or, rather babysleeping, since my awesome kid will be sleeping through the whole ordeal. I love you mom. I love you Alfred. Daddy's going to see Chris Martin perform.

DJ Premier with Nic javas

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Sleep deprivation is the most powerful of tortures.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

This weekend has been rough. My son, at a whooping age of 5 months, keeps waking up at around 5 AM. I try to go to bed early to make up for this fact, but it doesn't matter, it still feels horrible to be awake when the paper guy delivers the morning paper at 5.30.

To top thing off, this weekend has been full of work. We're trying to sell the apartment, so we've been homestyling it extensively. To those of you who don't know what homestyling is, it can easily be explained as the process of removing everything in your home that can seem offensive, crowding, or otherwise undesirable. To anyone. What it means is, get rid of everything. Clear it out. Hide it, sell it, or throw it away. Our storage unit in the attic is so full of stuff, it will probably burst any day. But the apartment looks nice and stylish. Hopefully it'll bring a pretty penny. But keep in mind, clearing out an apartment, while trying to look after a 5-moth-old, is no walk in the park.

Next weekend, we're going to Berlin, for a well deserved vacation. Any tips for sights in need of seeing is welcome. Hopefully, Alfred won't keep us awake the whole trip.

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Reasons NOT to buy a Mac, according to my dad.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Today my dad asked me for advice on buying a new personal computer, and being the avid Apple fan boy that I am, I proposed he get a Mac Mini. Currently he has an Acer TravelMate laptop, weighing in at a sleek 6 kg (13 lbs), and sporting an impressive 512 Mb RAM, no need to say anything more, it needs to be replaced.

Anyway, we're at the store, and the sales-guy gives me the pitch, yada yada, I can do this and that, Windows 7 is the shit, etc and so forth. I totally agree with him, on most points, but true peace of mind, well, it comes with a Mac. It just works. Never mind the price, you can't compare a Mac Mini, with a midi-tower computer. But, I digress. My dad had a few reasons not to buy a Mac, and they are some I, at least, haven't heard before. Maybe Microsoft should pick up on these.

My argument was "In the long run, you'll get more value for your money."

His comebacks were:

  1. "But what if I re-use my OEM XP license, I'll save money."
  2. "My company has a few licenses for XP, and Office, I can use those."
  3. "I'll have to re-learn everything I know about computers, it'll take too long with a Mac."
  4. "Ok, listen up. I'm a diabetic, 61-year old smoker, I won't live long enough to benefit from a Mac In the long run. I haven't got time for that."

There's a sales pitch for Windows 7 if I ever saw one.

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Time to give this thing a personal touch.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Ok, it says in the header that this blog is supposed to be about fatherhood. So I thought I'd put a picture of my kid up on here. His name is Alfred, he's 3 months old, and he's the best thing that ever happened to me.

Alfred, 3 months

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