It’s amazing to me that in this day and age of hands-free devices that are affordable to the public; the majority of people don’t use them, especially in the car.  Let’s put aside the obvious caveat that one shouldn’t really be talking on your cell phone in the car if at all possible.  It’s simply not a reality anymore so let’s move forward beyond that and save our ranting for other offenses.   The people with the “Hang Up And Drive” bumper stickers, while I share that sentiment, really need to realize that’s a lost cause at this point.

I have to give credit to Big Daddy for inspiring me on several of his posts of things you say that you never thought you would pre-parenthood.

With the writer’s strike looking to not be resolved any time soon, it looks like my Netflix queue will have a larger-than-normal chunk bitten out of it in the near future.  In a way this is a good thing since, as anyone with kids can attest to, your TV watching time is severely curtailed (not necessarily a bad thing).  We can barely keep up with the shows we watch normally so adding a movie or two to the mix is a luxury sometimes.  Megan and I love movies so the cutback in our normal volume of ones we’d like to see makes our Netflix queue keep on rising like a lump of dough with some out-of-control yeast (Good God, that analogy sucked – see why we need professional writers?).

Note to my newspaper delivery person - when sending out your holiday card solicitation for tips, make sure it’s not the day my paper is sopping wet.  Yes, I’ll tip regardless because that’s what I do, but others might not be so understanding or sympathetic.