I wish everyone had IM on most of the time. I would rather riff over IM than on phone for most casual communications. I do find it strange when an IM goes to a mobile phone.

O.K., I wasn’t expecting high brow material here. In fact from the creators of South Park I was expecting low brow, offensive humor that is one of my “guilty pleasures.” This movie simply didn’t deliver. It was a pretty good send up of a certain kind of Hollywood testosterone driven, nationalistic blockbuster. There were some very funny scenes but overall the movie just wasn’t that funny. I do wonder if Alec Baldwin liked the movie more or less than I did.

My favorite recent new parent Jennie, has been posting about the difficulties of parenting. I so sympathize. Parenting is so much harder and more rewarding that I ever expected.

Hearing your child scream helplessly, seeing their glazed eyes the first time they are really sick, watching them tumble down a few stairs are all such heartbreakers. Parenting is full of this kind of heart break; it proves just how much you are head over heels in love.

I’ve learned so much about myself since having children. I never knew how much I dislike being bitten or contradicted until having children. I used to consider myself a patient and calm person, not anymore.

In a college class on the topic of human sexuality, the idea that the relationship between husband and wife changed dramatically after child birth was a strange mystery. I remember thinking at the time, “I can’t imagine why marital satisfaction rates would decrease, how peculiar.” Hey, not that I’m not happily married, but when someone goes days without a conversation that isn’t interrupted in on way or another it changes things.

On the rewarding side, there is nothing so wonderful as a pair of happy toddlers nearly knocking you down with their hugs when you come home after a hard day of work. There is nothing like your child telling their first joke, catching their first fish, or learning some new skill.