Right now a bunch of kids are dropping by for candy for Halloween, and I’m thinking, how much fun would it be to be a dad, and take my son or daughter out trick or treating..
But then, is being a parent more like being a friend, or more like being a disciplinarian?
Right now it looks like a whole ton of fun… and I’m getting old, gotta get on it if it’s going to happen.
Thoughts?
Jennifer got picked for the Picture of the Day on Gadling a few days ago.. Congrats Honey!!! You will recognize the picture if you’ve been reading this weblog recently.
(Via Gadling.)
Apple’s new software Aperture makes me want to:
1. Go work at Apple again, but on it.
2. Buy a digital slr and become a photographer.
Stunning. Simply stunning.
(I’ve been thinking a lot about hobbies, and what my spare time should involved. Photography is right at the top).
I just found out Jennifer is working 3am to 10am tomorrow. Yikes!
Gee, I just had my first really bad experience at an Apple store.. Jennifer and I went out for dinner, because I’ve just been overwhelmed at work. (I’m taking the night off, after working late Sunday, Monday and last night).
After dinner at CPK, we decided to go check out the new stuff that was released by Apple over the past few weeks, so we stopped by the Bridgeport Village Apple Store. Well.. they had nothing… just the nano, no new iPod’s, no new iMac’s, no new PowerBooks or towers.
I said, probably too out loud to Jennifer “this store must be a lower one that Washington Square, as they don’t have anything”. I had just talked to my friend who works at Washington Square, and they had set up 3 17″ iMacs today, and had gotten shipments of the new PowerBooks and new PowerMacs that day at 10am (but hadn’t set them up).
Then some big guy who was sitting at the Genius bar with a bunch of his buddies, said in a really arrogant “you don’t know what you’re talking about tone” : “We’ve got everything”.
I’m like – no you don’t buddy, you’ve got nothing. If it’s not in front of the customer, you have nothing.
What really bothered me though was the tone.. he had no idea who I was, that I knew about the other store, etc..
After being treated like that, I’m never shopping there again. I’ll be purchasing my Apple stuff from my student friend at Washington Square, or just ordering it through my friends at Apple.
Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, you need to fix people like this. You need to remember your customers are the people who pay you.
This is the first time I can ever remember being disappointed by an “Apple Employee”. It’s left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Well.. more like yesterday now I guess.
I talked tonight at Entheos, for a bit about the busyness of our lives. A bunch of the youth, and adults too, had been talking about how overwhelming life is these days, with homework, sports, school, hobbies, their parents asking them to do stuff, friends, tv, internet, instant messaging, etc.
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Number 5, if you can believe it. Time flies when you are having fun.
Last night Jennifer and I were talking about what I have planned for tonight:
“The place we are going for dinner tomorrow night is more for me than you”
“We are going to Indian?!”
“No, I wouldn’t do that to you honey…”
“We are going to Hooters?”
Then we laughed for like 5 minutes over that one. 
Congratulations to Brent and Shelia, that’s great for them, and I believe great for all of his users. Read all the details here.
I just got back from date night with Jennifer, we went out for dinner and saw Serenity The Movie. (Which might have been a mistake because I’m dog sick).
But it was a damn fine movie. Damn fine. Made me wish the idiot(s) that run/ran Fox would have never cancelled it. Hopefully Sci Fi will somehow pick it up and keep it going, or at least another movie.
Go.. see it.. make it successful. Please.