Posts Tagged ‘DadOMatic’

Change Is Unavoidable. You Might As Well Embrace It.

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

 

Calli and I at her first war protest in 2007. This was in Columbia, MO. We lived not too far away in Jamestown, MO at the time. We were mentioned in an article about the rally in the Columbia Missourian. You can read that article at http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2007/03/19/marching-toward-peace/

Calli and I at her first war protest in 2007. This was in Columbia, MO. We lived not too far away in Jamestown, MO at the time. We were mentioned in an article about the rally in the Columbia Missourian. Calli was only 7 months old.

I woke up this morning to blog, and for the life of me, I didn’t know what I’d blog about. So, I turned, as I often do, to one of my favorite blogs, dadomatic.com. The front page entry hit me square between the eyes. In a post called ‘Don’t be afraid of Change’, Jeff Turner talks about his ‘adventure days’, where he packs the family into his truck and just drives! He starts by telling of car-pooling the other day with a handful of kids:

Howefitz Comes Out Of Exile With A Somewhat Fresh Start

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

As some of you who follow my twitter updates and Facebook status updates know, I’ve been using my AT&T cell phone as my modem. I had what was advertised as an unlimited tethering package. So when I recently moved, I didn’t worry about setting up cable TV, because I could stream my favorite shows online! I’d hook up the laptop to my TV, and we’d catch up with Heroes, Pushing Daisies, Daily Show, etc.

            Incidentally, Hulu is my current favorite site to stream television shows, though Joost has a lot of good stuff too.