I Saw Violence

When running through Coopers early Friday morning, I saw three people who were breaking camp. Two guys in their late 20's, one girl in her late teens (maybe). One guy was chasing her, yelling how he was going to beat her ass. "You don't want the knife!", he said.

I had my Ipod on and ran by. I stopped after a few seconds and asked the second homeless guy if the first two were going to be ok. He said they'd be fine, but she was screaming hysterically. I ran back by them, she was on the ground, missing a shoe. He was hovering over her. This other guy who was there heard the ruckus. We knoced on someone's door, borrowed a phone, called the cops. They came too late to find anybody.

In the end, doing the technical right thing (calling the cops and not jumping in) didn't really feel right.

"I should probably hang up"

Sometimes, a screaming baby can be very convenient when you don't want to talk to someone on the phone. Sometimes, not.

Good Dog.

Snoop and Modern Lullabyes

I'm techincally wrong. I've been corrected. I've been saying that Sasha is a month old, almost. When, techincally, she's at four weeks. So be it.

It's been a busy several weeks. Photos from Chris's wedding, NYE in Lodi, and Tania's visit will surely be posted. All was fun.

In the meantime, though, we're dialing the kid in. Guess what just put her to sleep? No, not rainforest music. Not singing. Not Guitar playing.

The muthafuckin' Chronic. Snoop, Dre, DOC, all "bumpin' like a mothafucka ready ta get my swerve on." That's what just put Sasha to sleep.

So, suffice to say, parenthood has been slightly different than expected. It's probably like everything else, in that the mainstream (aka Pink Plastic stuff from Target)usually sucks. Music, parenthood, clothes, whatever. You start digging, though, and you start finding the good stuff.

(Like this book "Crawling", by Elisha Cooper. Highly recommended.)

I guess the overarching theme right now is discovering how to do this with style. It's dramatic, but not overly sentimental. It's serious, but fun. It's work, but manageable. You have to hold her head up, but you can still pose her like she's swinging a punch at a friend's baby.

New Years in Lodi

Chris and Kim's Ceremony