Just a short post to let you all know I’m still around and will get back to blogging soon. My grandmother passed away on the 3rd, after a brief illness. We will be having a memorial service for her on the 10th, so I hope to be back soon after.
BTW, my daughter gave me the title for this post.
As I mentioned in my last post, I haven’t had the time to update my blog or read any of the other blogs I’ve subscribed to. However, I’ve been relatively free the last two days, so I’ve been catching up on all the stuff I missed the past two weeks.
Something I realized as I went through all the unread posts, over two hundred of them, was that almost half the feeds were ‘headlines only’. There were quite a few interesting headlines and I’d liked to have read the posts in their entirety, but unfortunately I was offline. Going online would have taken up precious time which I didn’t have. Given the speed of my Internet connection, it would have taken ages for each website to load. So I just had to skip all the headline posts. Such a pity!!!
I wonder about the usefulness of a ‘headlines only’ subscription. For me, the whole point of subscribing to a feed means that you want to read actual posts, not just headlines.
Maybe there are other advantages to a ‘headlines only’ subscription that I’m not aware of?
I’ve been neglecting my blog lately. I could come up with several interesting excuses for doing so, but I’ll stick with the truth. I simply haven’t had the time. In the blogging world, this is probably inexcusable, and I should have been prepared for an eventuality like this, but I guess I have a long way to go before I get myself that organized.
We’ve been going around to the various schools in the vicinity, checking on their admission procedures. Now that Thaïs is almost three, it’s time for her to start. Actually the term begins in June, so she’ll be 3 years and 3 months old by then. She’s the only person who’s excited about the whole thing. Even though, for the first year, she’ll be at school for just 2-3 hours in the morning, and even though, since the time she started talking, I’ve been looking for all kinds of ways to get some peace and quiet from the non-stop chatter, it is a little depressing. My baby’s growing up. But who knows? My attitude may change once she actually starts going off to school and I get used to the long-forgotten tranquil mornings…
Also, my grandmother is not keeping too well. Between the regular visits to the hospital and the school admission procedures, things around here have been rather hectic.
And now, lest this turns out to be an extremely boring post, here’s something Thaïs said to her grandmother a few days ago. She had gone to spend the weekend with Mario’s parents and as is customary when she goes there, demanded to be taken out to the park in the evening. So they got dressed and ready to go. Thaïs insisted on putting on her own shoes. So Mario’s mum left her to it and walked towards the car. Afraid she might be left behind, Thaïs yelled out, “Wait for me, bloody bitch!”
I don’t know what punishment she earned for that, but I do know that Mario and I had a hearty laugh when we got to hear about it.
Got these pictures from a friend… Just had to share them!
Spent the last couple of days catching up on my reading. Here are a few of the posts that I found amusing…
Sometimes You’re The Windshield at Dad Gone Mad - Wait for the punch line..
It’s Official, We’re ‘Trying’ To Conceive at DadThing - Thinking about ‘Aunt Flow’ still makes me chuckle.
Aussie ABCs: ratbags & snags at Freaked-Out Fathers - Interesting reading. Found out that I’m using some Aussie slang and didn’t even know it..
You’re Nobody ‘Till Some Potty Loves You at The Busy Dad Blog - Potty antics and some unusual techniques.
33 Reasons and a Son Ain’t One at The Daily Daddy Blog - Why having a baby girl is better.
The Ten Commandments of Being the Parent of a Teen at Busymom.net - These tips I’ll need in about 10 years or so.
Watched the Eagles Farewell Tour 1: Live in Melbourne DVD today. It was a nice, long concert – over two hours of great, live music. An Eagles farewell concert? Sad. Some things should never end… Anyway, there’s still hope. They called it ‘Farewell Tour 1’, so hopefully there’ll be 2, 3, 4, 5 etc…
Listened to John Legend’s ‘Get Lifted’ CD.
Also listened to James Blunt’s ‘Back To Bedlam’ CD. ‘Goodbye My Lover’ was, by far, the best song on the album. IMHO.
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve actually listened to an entire album of a ‘new’ or ‘current’ music artiste. By that I mean an artiste who made his/her debut before, let’s say, the mid ‘90s. Ask me about artistes after that period and you’ll get a blank stare… until I get a chance to google it. We’re usually listening to music from the ‘80s, ‘70s, ‘60s, ‘50s, ‘40s… well, you get the picture. Go on then, guess my age… Hah! You’re about 15 years off!
The little one will be back tomorrow, after her short ‘holiday’ with the in-laws. Looking forward to that. While she was there, she got to bathe one of the dogs. Apparently, she did a pretty good job of it. So I guess from now on, that’ll be one less chore for me… bathing Thaïs!
This is not going to be a pretty post.
It’s been a lousy couple of days. Gloomy weather, non-stop rain. Even the cricket match yesterday was a wash-out. Anyway, that was good. We needed it. Better than losing to the Aussies. In fact, I’m secretly hoping we have a few more wash-outs during the series.
The little one decided she needed to take a break from us, so she’s spending a couple of days with the in-laws.
My internet connection has started playing up again. Time for me to call up the customer service center and complain, yet again. Mysteriously, a couple of days after I complain, it’ll be up and running. (It’s walking, no, crawling right now). To all Indians (in India) out there, do NOT opt for Tata Indicom.
OK. That’s it for now, I guess.
Till I have something nice to blog about….
Woke up this morning to these shocking headlines – 14 Escape From Margao Judicial Lock-Up.
Are prisoners convicted thieves and murderers allowed to celebrate festivals in our prisons here?
Perfect timing, though. I believe the 3rd season of Prison Break premieres in a couple of hours in the US.
I’m back after a short break. Finally reinstalled Windows. It was long overdue. Thanks Tahill, for all the help. Also bought another 250GB hard disc. Thanks, Mario 
Reinstalling Windows is something I like have to do every 6–8 months, otherwise the computer gets pretty sluggish. That, coupled with a not-too-fast dial-up Internet connection, makes any kind of cyber-activity rather agonizing. To add to the confusion, I forgot to backup my Firefox bookmarks before formatting the system. Still kicking myself for that! Now I’m in the process of installing all the other software that I need… one day at a time…
