A small sampling of thoughts that have little interest to anyone other than myself and have absolutely nothing in common with each other...

It is, roughly, 10:30 PM on Sunday evening as the cheese begins typing this. The actual posting time will no doubt be much later as the cheese is alternately procrastinating on both homework and work work. Both the princess and momma_cheese are in bed, as Sunday night has become the cheese only time to actually "do" stuff. Last Sunday, for instance, the cheese stayed up until 4 AM (Monday morning) finishing a paper. After a thoroughly unrefreshing 3 hours of sleep the cheese woke up to feed the kid.

Tonight does not seem to be destined for such a late bed time. Nevertheless, here's some things that have been on the cheese' mind of late....


-A short list of various points of advice for Tengu (or any other new fathers out there in cheeselandia), in no particular order
1. At some point, you will get poo on or around your face. Perhaps this has already occurred. If not, accept the eventuality of it and try not to freak out when it does occur.
2. As soon as he starts grabbing on to things, things will start going in his mouth.
3. At least for the princess, books seem to be incredibly delicious, so you might want to stick to board books in your living room.
4. The cheese hears that some time away from the baby is good for parents. Since the cheese only gets time away for work/school/homework, he'll have to take other's words for this, but you might want to try it out.
5. Classical music is particularly good at soothing the princess when she's upset...off key renditions of Itsy Bitsy Spider, I'm a Little Teapot, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star work well also.

-It's a few months late, sure, but the cheese isn't up on music/movies/anything like he used to be. Regardless, this band is pretty much awesome from top to bottom so check em' out.

-The cheese has said it before, and he'll say it again, but James Blaylock is a seriously fucking good writer!

-With only two weeks left in spring training the Dodgers seem to be blessed with a ridiculous surplus in pitching. They haven't yet been able to parlay that into a trade for a big bat, but as the season rolls on, the trade deadline approaches, and teams fall out of contention, this state of affairs may change. On the other hand, the Dodgers do have some serious speed at the top of the order, followed by a number of very good, selective, and not overly prone to strikeouts hitters, so maybe they don't actually need another bat. They made the playoffs (though, let's not dwell on the resulting three games) last year without a legitimate home run threat, and they seem even better this year.

-The cheese has enjoyed coffee for many years now, but with 4 hours of sleep a night becoming a reality, and the ebb in energy the cheese has felt as he approaches the end of his 20's, coffee is not so much an enjoyment as a necessity that rivals air.