Wow – a month – Boring Personal Life Update
A general update on life in the shredderfeeder household…
It’s 2am and I’ve lost my mind.
It’s 2am and a whole number of random thoughts are rolling through my head. **I can’t sleep. I should be sleeping but I can’t. I have a long day and I know I have a long day but my brain is buzzing with everything from my realization that I’m back to not eating to the [...]
Changing Course…
I’m a bit of a stick in the mud when it comes to change. I dislike it. A *LOT* So what did I do…gave up my years-long love-affair with Blackberry and bought a new Android-based phone. I’ve sort of had it spelled out to me recently that I resist change even when it makes sense. [...]
Panic! in the Cub Scouts
Panic didn’t want to go to cub-scouts tonight because he didn’t want to leave his “favorite toy car” at home. No amount of cajoling, prodding, poking, bribing, etc. would change his mind. No amount of explaining that tonight we’re going to go and be with his friends and learn about the flag ceremony and this [...]
Some days start off badly…
…and then just go downhill from there. It wasn’t too bad, at first. Until I realized that it was 8am and I’d forgotten to set the alarm. Until I realized that I had forgotten to turn the door-chime back on that lets us know when our escape-artist children have wandered out of the house. (They [...]
Government Run Healthcare or Private run?
When my son, Aidan, was denied *ALL* health coverage because of his high-functioning Autism the health-insurance industry became my mortal enemy. Trading private insurance for government insurance may not be the best solution, but as long as our healthcare system remains a “for profit” industry children like my beloved middle child will be cast off [...]
Sometimes he’s Autistic…
…And sometimes he’s just a brat. Panic is a cub-scout. Has been since the wife failed to duck fast enough when they were asking for volunteers to lead a den in the local Cub Scout Pack. Last weekend was the annual “Rain-gutter Regatta” and it’s something that we’ve known about for months. Which is why [...]
The last frontier in civil rights..
Meet Aidan. (I’m not one to use my son’s real name in a post, but this is an unusual post) Aidan is 6. He’s a hyper-intelligent kid, loves legos and Nintendo and Spongebob Squarepants like any other 6-year-old. He smiles, hugs, runs, jumps, plays, is learning to read, is rocketing through Kindergarten, and is happy, [...]
So our first family getaway in 7 years is done…
It went like this: Friday – Drive to Pennsylvania. Friday Night – Hershey Park’s “CandyLane” Christmas special in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Saturday – Ride on “Thomas the Tank Engine” in Strasburg, Pennsylvania Sunday – Drive Home. We did good. Got to the hotel, checked in, rested a bit, and hit the park around 7pm. We had [...]
Autism speaks
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this on my site before, it’s kind of a touchy subject. My 6-year old son has been diagnosed with Autism. This scares the hell out of me on so many levels, not so much because I know it means he’s going to have to work harder to maintain the [...]
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