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The one where I make excuses

April 11th, 2011 | Posted by Joe in blogging - (5 Comments)

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Yes, I am alive. Yes, I do indeed have a newborn daughter. Yes, I do remember that there are people that – for some strange reason – love enjoy reading my posts here. But, you may be wondering exactly why my posts have been nearly nonexistent over the last few months.

The most obvious reason, which I’m sure I could note as the ONLY reason and be perfectly justified in doing so, is that I now have two children. Someone, actually many someones, told me that having a second child is four times the work. Many someones would be very correct in saying so. I simply run out of time each day. But that’s not the only reason…

I’ve started a new job. One may think this isn’t a valid reason. Forty hours is forty hours, right? Well, yes. But I now work in a different state than the one in which I live. For the last month, I’ve been commuting to Michigan on Monday, home on Wednesday, back to Michigan on Thursday, then home again on Friday. Starting today, I’m going to be home even less. Michigan on Monday, home on Friday.

Why?

Because the housing market blows. It’s a very lovely home, I swear. We’re even taking a loss with our current asking price. However, until it sells, which will allow us to buy a place up here, I will be commuting. I’m extremely fortunate to have friends up here that can tolerate me living with them nearly full-time during this transitional time.

This has all really thrown off my schedule, and essentially erased the time that I usually set aside to gather my thoughts and write a witty post here.

Thankfully, I work with a great team that has done their best to make me feel like I need to get the hell out of here welcome. They even found a picture of me and made it into a motivational poster.

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Uprooted

April 29th, 2010 | Posted by Joe in blogging - (4 Comments)

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If you’re seeing this post, and believe me I hope you are, it means that I have successfully switched hosting providers. I’ll have a write-up soon on the problems that led me to the difficult decision to break my business relationship with my previous hosting company. For now though, let’s just enjoy the fact that my site loads much faster than previously.

Blog: Problems? Fixed? Me hopes!

March 25th, 2010 | Posted by Joe in blogging - (5 Comments)

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If you have had issues viewing this site or commenting on this site, I’m terribly sorry (and pretty peeved right now) about it. I think I’ve got it all worked out now. I THINK I do. The problem, though, is that I’m not entirely sure if this was something at my end, or with my host (GoDaddy.com). I recently updated my core files, but the problem persisted even after I checked EVERYTHING. I emailed GoDaddy, and the problem went away, even though I never received a response from them (shame on you, if you read this, GoDaddy).

If you have any issues viewing or commenting, please let me know at joe@irrationaldad.com, and I’ll work my butt off to fix the problem. Thanks for letting me know, Tracy! And also, if you self host your site, let me know which host you use and how happy you are with them.

On Being Absent

January 22nd, 2010 | Posted by Joe in blogging | joe | nondad - (8 Comments)

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I’m committing a blogger faux paus here by explaining my absence. I guess it isn’t really a faux paus, but maybe more of a pet peeve of mine. I don’t need to visit a blog to see a post that says “I know I haven’t been around, but I promise to post something soon.” That’s akin to calling someone to tell them you have to tell them something and will call back later to do so.

But here I am, getting ready to explain why my blog has fallen dormant for a bit (and why my unread blogs are in the triple digits right now). So, either skip this post, or just buckle in for a couple paragraphs.

I’ve already mentioned that I had some time off work for the holidays. I had a great couple weeks, and really wanted to enjoy the time I had with my family. I didn’t want to sit at the computer and type up a post when I would rather be with the very subject of my blog along with my dear wife. So I didn’t blog.

I snuck a couple posts in after the holidays, but then I was off to sunny Phoenix for a week (work related). I see my co-workers 2 to 4 times a year, and this was one of those times. With meetings, dinners, activities, a super-awesome sixty minute massage, and sleep, the days were packed full. So I didn’t blog.

I’m like 90% of the U.S. population (that’s a statistic I made up to support this post) in that I’ve made a New Year’s resolution to get in shape. So, this past Monday, I started the P90X program. If you don’t know what it is, Google it. What I will say is that it is the most intense workout I’ve ever experienced. I’ve never been in so much pain over my whole body. To accommodate the 75 to 90 minute routines, I’ve had to sacrifice some of my “computer time” in favor of “exercise time”. I’ve also gone to bed a bit earlier this week, because I’ve been dog tired come the end of the day. So, I didn’t blog.

It also turns out that when one doesn’t blog for a while, it’s difficult to get back into the flow of doing so. I love this blog. I love sharing with all of you. It’s a great release for me, and I thoroughly enjoy going through and reading some of my previous entries. I have a terrible memory, so reading my past posts truly allows me to relive the moments. I sometimes wonder if somebody else has the password to my site and rewrites my posts because the author of some of these entries is damn talented! But having, what a consider to be, too long of an absence, my creativity has began hibernating. And waking that beast is a bitch, so I didn’t blog.

But I’ve missed blogging. I’ve missed your blogs. I’m on day 5 of the P90X and can finally move a little bit, so I wanted to get my blog juices flowing. What better way to do that than to write a post explaining where I’ve been?

So, I’m blogging.

They Sparkle? Seriously?

September 9th, 2009 | Posted by Joe in blogging | nondad - (12 Comments)

He's immortal!!!

With all the traveling I’ve done over the last month (Kentucky, Ohio, Chicago, and Missouri (listed not chronologically, but in my own arbitrary order)), I have spent surprisingly little time at home. This poses a problem as it relates to my blog revolving around Tyler and our adventures. It would be a valid – and true – argument to say that I could just as easily blog while on the road as I could while at home. And this brings me to my confession. If you’ve been following my uncharacteristically sporadic updates on Twitter and Facebook, you already know where I’ve been and why I’ve virtually disappeared from my online world.

UGH! She didn’t know he was a vampire. She didn’t know he was a werewolf. Now she doesn’t know she’s pregnant?! Give me a BREAK!! 11:01 PM Aug 27th from UberTwitter

If he friggin imprints on the newborn, I’m going to assassinate Stephanie Meyer!! 2:17 PM Aug 28th from Text

He imprinted on a friggin’ newborn?! Outrageous! 1:51 PM Aug 31st from UberTwitter

I know my man-card is in danger of being revoked, and for this I need to apologize to all men over the age of twelve. Sheer curiosity made me download the Twilight audiobooks. In the limited free time that would have been better spent blogging, I inserted the earbuds into my auditory opening and pressed the play button.

If it’s any consolation to the fact that I was hooked enough to see how the storyline played out, I did spend quite a bit of time criticizing the story and characters. Sarah informed that the points of the series that had her crying (you too, Mel!) were the same points that I sent her a text message with some variation of “Oh. My. God. Are you freaking kidding me?! How stupid is this going to get?!”

And lastly, to all my blogging friends, I am completely caught up on all your blogs. I made the unfortunate decision to not comment on the backlog of posts in my reader, so that I could get from triple-digit unread blogs, to single digit manageability.

I missed the birth of not Max, I missed good karma planting a kiss on a coal miner’s granddaughter, I missed hearing about my iSister (internet, not interactive) peeing all the time. I missed a lot of stuff and won’t let it happen again.

The tl;dr version:
I got wrapped up in a teeny-bopper love story about sparkling vampires, stupid girls, and an emo, angst-ridden werewolf.
I’m back.