We gave Stephen some pureed carrots last night in his high chair. Having a high chair makes it official--we have too much stuff for the baby. Now we need him to get a little bigger so we can retire his larger stroller. This is the start of a very messy boy. Soiled both a bib and a blanket in no time. He seemed to take to it eventually. Not sure if he liked the taste, but he liked the challenge of eating. We started by giving him such tiny amounts which would end up all over his chin. Then he would start opening his mouth for the spoon. I guess we're supposed to start doing this every night. Maybe it will be part of the routine; Jaime can feed him while I walk the dogs.

Looking through my .mp3s when Scott was here, I rediscovered some of my old favorites like Joseph Spence (1|2) and Tim Easton (1) and Townes Van Zandt (1|2)

We had such a good visit with my family this weekend; it seemed longer than 28 hours. It's rare that we get all five of us at the same place. I feel bad for Robert, he had all kinds of flights and riding in the car to deal with. Fly to my parents' and ride to and from my aunt/uncle's.

We got something in the mail that said Sirius/XM was going to reinstate our service for two weeks in an effort to bring us back. We were excited about it because it was going to be during the time of our big drive down to NC. Well, it turns out they gave us Sirius Lite (my name, not theirs) which has a limited number of channels. And it has NOTHING that we listened to. No 40's, 90's, Bluegrass, or Folk.. and it only had one of the 4 Comedy stations. You really need all four comedy stations if you plan to find anything remotely funny at any given time. Good job, Sirius/XM. Way to not win us back. We clearly didn't like it that much to begin with... they have gone as low as $4/month with a few offers ($24 for six months) and we still haven't signed back up. I know I am not an everyman in this regard, but I found that it didn't have much that I liked, even when we had all the stations. The "electronic music" stations in particular are dreadful.

I'm sad that this season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is over. It was promoted as the series finale, but we'll see about that. Larry David quits after every season, but ideas start trickling in and he makes another season 2 or 3 years later.

Okay, I'll stop rambling now. Lord, I was born a Ramblin' Man.