sketch: may 13, 2008

Things are big, and underway, and lots of changes - coming. Outside the weather is turning to summer, and if you can believe it, it is already May 13th.  This means that we are going to be 11/24 through the year in about 2-3 days.  If we were making an analogy against a 24hour day, it would be 11am.  Almost lunch-time or brunch. yum.

I find it amazing and astounding how time seems to accelerate as one grows older. Is it because we end up having very structured routines? Too many responsibilities and not enough paying attention to playing outside, chasing butterflies, lying on the grass, kicking a soccer ball around, playing catch?  Who knows what it is!  But time definitely seems to be moving quickly!

I am not lamenting, just observing. :)

Sketch: May 9, 2008

I don't have a lot to say today.  Fridays are like that.  I did make a sketch here.  I dunno how it came to be, but here it is. :)

Creativity to the Max.

Hello there!  Things are crazy busy in life, in work, in art.  It always comes in these intensified spurts.  Most of it is brought upon by myself.  I am very ambitious; not in a I'll-do-anything-to-get-what-I-want-kinda-way.  But more along the lines of: I love what I do, and enjoy the challenge, and love to build teams and be challenged in huge ways.  I am inspired by working in a close knit group, and have a fairly positive outlook on how to address problems and make things more efficient.  

What really gets me excited is solving problems.  I love solving people issues, technical issues, communication issues, artistic issues, organizational issues, logistic issues, etc. etc. etc..  It's just the way I am I suppose.  Why I am blogging about this right now, I really have no idea.  I guess I have been fairly guarded on this site and thought it would be nice to put a little bit of myself on the page; in the past, when I was much younger, I had pretty heart-on-the-sleeve online journals (pre-blog days, circa 1997).  Yes, I guess I'm not a youngin' anymore: A daddy with a toddler is me now.

With regards to the little toddler, my mom & dad are nuts about her.  As is Kittie's family.  Her mom is quite a fashionista, and bought matching sunglasses for Mackenzie and herself.  Here they are, they're nuts:

Royal Ontario Museum

Kittie and I love the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum).  Last year the ROM unveiled its updated look and architecture.  It is fairly stunning.  We went earlier this year with Mackenzie, and we bought ourselves a family membership.  We especially love the dinosaurs, I mean, who doesn't love the dinosaurs?

The first time Mackenzie went, she saw these fossilized eggs, and kept pointing to them and saying "egg, egg!"  We were crazy surprised.  How and where did she learn that?  And just like I've stated above: "who doesn't love the dinosaurs?"; it comes as no surprise that all parents think their kids are super smart and amazing.  Same thing.  :)

Have I talked about this already?  Dinosaurs, RAAR.

I think my favorite dinosaur is the Stegasaurus.  I think it is largely because I owned Snarl of Dinobot fame when I was a kid. :)  "Transformers, Ch-chu-chu-ch-ch!"