My night/morning so far…
- 1:30a - poked in the back to signal “…your son is hungry.”
- 1:31a - dad rolls over, falls asleep.
- 1:46a - boy begins to cry.
- 1:47a - poking & prodding continue from the wife.
- 1:47a - wife says (tired, grumpy & sternly) “go. feed. boy.”
- 1:48a - dad blindly stumbles into kitchen, prepares bottle.
- 1:52a - dad begin feeding the boy.
- 2:31a - dad finishes feeding, burping & changing the boy.
- 2:32a - dad puts the boy back in his crib.
- 2:35a - dad picks the crying boy up, tries in vain to console him.
- 2:54a - dad finally puts the boy back in his crib.
- 2:55a - exhausted dad climbs back in bed.
- 2:55a - wide awake.
- 3:48a - dad gives up on this whole sleep business.
- 3:49a - dad gets up, works on past due design projects.
- 4:57a - dad posts blog about inability to sleep.
This is going to be a very long, very caffeinated day.
“A Harvard researcher said last week that regular coffee drinkers may be lowering their risks for certain kinds of cancers and Type 2 diabetes by indulging in what many of us already consider to be the nectar of the gods.
Whether coffee lowers the risks for those things or not matters not a whit to me. Good, bad or indifferent, I’m going to continue drinking it till I keel over because I’m a lot nicer to children and animals and yuppies when I’ve had my morning cuppa joe.”
~Tony Long, WIRED.com
It’s like a real life “Coming to America,†complete with the big evil corporate company McDonald’s restaurant trying to shut down McDowell’s (“We are totally different! They have the Big Mac, and WE have the Big Mick! Totally different!â€).
Except this time it’s about coffee. And that’s no laughing matter.
MUMBAI, India — Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) is opposing Indian entrepreneur Shahnaz Husain’s plans to start a chain of coffee shops called Starstrucks, the Mint business paper reported.
Read the rest of the story here.
I haven’t posted anything for nearly a month, so I’m a little rusty. Here are some things that happened while I was away:
Okay, that isn’t completely true. Some excitement definitely happened …but that’s a whole ‘nother post.
Wednesday. Next week. Stay tuned.
I feel like I’ve been going up and down and up and down constantly for the past year …work. church. marriage. work. family. work… and of course: stress stress stress. I never knew anyone could worry about so many things in so little time. I constantly amaze myself with my shortcomings and inadequacies.
In the middle of feeling less than perfect and like anyone on the planet is better suited for every possible task than I will ever be: I run and hide. I jump behind a wall of anger toward my own wife for something as ridiculous as whether or not we want to go out for coffee with some friends after church. I said yes — she said no.
What triggers this self-righteous anger? Why do I throw up these iron shileds? I was ready for war! …over coffee. And it’s always as soon as I feel like I’m getting past myself and the need for acceptance. It’s at that moment that some little thing springs up and [boom!].
Typically it’s something miniscule and incredibly petty, like coffee or dinner or whatever else. But out of nowhere — I’m upset or angry or furious or just plain right. She is wrong. I am right. And you know what?
That scares me.
Because I have to face the fact that I’m nowhere near the husband I should be. As soon as my character is tested, my true character comes out — and it’s an ugly sight. And I know just how inadequate and undeserving I am of affection, grace and forgiveness, from my wife and from my God.
