With great joy I present....

World meet Ace, Ace meet World.

Here he is, my raison d'être, my heart, my purpose.

Ace Christopher

At the time of this writing, he's six weeks old.

By God's Grace, he's happy and healthy, ten little fingers and ten little toes. He's stubborn just like his Mother and is temperamental just like his Father. Pray for us.

Also, his nickname is "The Commish" he hands out orders and, we follow them. The End.

In the future, expect a good portion of my posts to revolve around him and my experiences raising him, or more like - his raising me - more on that subject on a future  blog entry.

For now, "ooh and ah" at how cute he is.

Was that last sentence vain and full of conceit? Yes, yes it was but I'm his pop, cut me some slack.

If Ace had the ability to speak I'm sure he'd say something along the lines of

"Hi World!! :)" "Do my bidding!!" >=]

But with a smile, so, you'd do it euphorically enveloped in his charm. Soak that up for a bit while I think on my next post.

G

Just turned 39, might become a journalist, blame my son.

This past Thursday I turned 39.

 Let's get this out of the way; YES, this is my las year in my thirties and, YES, next year I'll be turning forty - Insert obligatory "OMFG I'LL TURN FORTY YEARS OLD NEXT YEAR!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!! KILL ME NOW!" here - there,... moving on.

The odd thing about my turning 39 is, it doesn't bother me at all, not even a lil' bit. No, as a matter of fact it caused me to reflect, rejoice and, ask "Ok well, now what?" almost as if my life were on the verge of beginning this year and not; as popular opinion would have me believe, on it's way downhill to a close.

The world is my oyster, and it's up to me to crack it open.

There, that sentence right there the all around feeling I've had this past week. This is primarily because of two major factors in my life recently :

1. My Son was born.

2. On his arrival my wife and I decided I would take a Leave of Absence from work to take care of/raise him once my wife goes back to work from maternity leave.


Soon after the decision was made and some logistics were hammered out, something dawned on me.....other than raising my son, ( make no mistake, I fully understand  that this endeavor in and of itself is a full-time job ) I'd actually have some time, a few hour-long chunks, here and there to do with as I wish.

So? What do I do with this time?

The gears in my brain started turning, excited by the possibilities laying ahead of me , and before too long all my gear turning produced one thought, clear, concise and fullfilling -


                                                               WRITE .




It's always been a dream of mine to become a writer and or journalist. For some reason or another my life's twists and turns have led me away from that journalistic goal. This year however, I plan on actively pursuing  a career in journalism to some extent, I don't expect to win any pulitzers or anything, but just being in that business and filling this gap (giggidy) with actual written work would sate me. For now.


Now I won't be posting about my pursuit in the Journalistic Field exclusively, as I know it will be slow going at first, there are a few holes in my writing, grammar and punctuation that need to be filled with greater writing knowledge before I approach any one company with samples of my work.

Truth is, anything worth your while, will most likely take a while to progress with a number of long lulls  in between the high points.

Also, awesome things don't just happen to me everyday kids ( I know I know, unpossible) those double rainbows however?  All me.  You're Welcome.

Let's crack this oyster together and see if we can't find ourselves a pearl hmmm?

1st Father's Day

 This one will have to be a quick post, as I am currently enjoying my first Father's Day. Overall, it's been an awesome day, nothing but baby, wife and Sherlock Holmes, both the second season of BBC's Sherlock and the sequel to the 2010 movie starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.
 
  It's been a surreal and exhilirating week, this past thursday, was my 39th birthday, and today is Father's day.

  Many thoughts on both counts, but as I said, this is short and sweet. My thoughts, and feelings (uuugh, feelings) on both will be posted tomorrow.

It's Mah Birthday!!

SO, here I am , looking at a failed blog...again. In my defense, I've been pretty busy : Work, School, Tattoo Sessions, trying to create and keep a podcast going,  Marriage, and oh, yeah....a baby!

This Birthday is my first Birthday as a Dad and, come this Sunday it'll be my very first "Father's Day" as a Father.

There WILL be a post where I introduce my son (it's a boy!) to the world, but this is not that post. No, dear reader, this post is more of a promisary post. Who am I kidding? NO ONE is reading this, so it's more of a promissory post to myself.

From here on out, I promise to actually write and post things here on this little nook and cranny I've designated for myself on Teh Interwebs. As I wrote before, I've been hella busy (yes, "Hella" is a word , in my brain.) so I'm not being too hard on myself for skipping out on this blog for oooooh, I dunno , NINE months! If you do the math, that's about a pregnancy's time of absence, no?


See you soon blog, and I do mean SOON!

But for now, it's BIRTHDAY TIME!