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[warthog9]

So I've had a good weekend but for some reason I'm sitting here feeling more down than I've felt in a long time.

Had the good fortune to have my godson and his parents come visit for a couple days. He has gotten big, and very drooly ;-) He's walking and nigh talking now. He's insanely smart, after randomly hitting buttons on my stereo system he honstly started figuring it out, and understanding what he was doing, and by stereo system I mean the entire audiotron, tv, dvd, hifi system. The kid is smart, end of story.

Example: His parents bought him one of those battery powered Eeyore toys, it does stuff and is battery powered. On his own he figured out that when Eeyore runs down to go get batteries (he grabbed two for this story), Find the screw driver (he picked the right one out) and unscrew the back panel and replace the batteries. Admittedly he was a battery short of restoring Eeyore, but he was halfway through the screw before he was cought.

He was fun to have around though, and me being the evil human being I am, spoiled him :-D. He got his quattro (1-3yr old legos) blocks and his Baby Gund Girrafe and was running around playing with them like a mad man! Wandered around Jordan Creek Mall a bit with them, obviously since we ate at the cheesecake factory, and he ended up ridding up on my shoulders most of the time. Those were the times I was like "dude I really do like kids! I want some someday!"

The times when I realized kids are evil was this morning when he woke me up at an ungodly hour. The only thing saving his life was he was cute, and I realized that the only thing preventing parents from killing and possibly eating their children at an early age is they are cute, and we as adults are pre-programmed to not kill that kind of cute. (Mark obviously roled a nat 20 for his charisma roll, with an obvious baby bonus of +20 and cuteness bonus of +20)

I've been a bum the rest of the day. Work is going down the tracks at the typical breakneck pace, the end is in sight I just need to survive long enough to get to the lull and catch my breath. Stage 1 goes live this next week, and stage 2 goes live in a couple of weeks (though of note we haven't even really laid the new code neccisary for stage 2, WHEEEEE!) So to bed with me so I might sleep!