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OK, I know I’ve been harping on it, but Tuesday Stretch and I will be at The Bob’s Big Boy in Sun Valley… It’s Happy Hour and a live broadcast, should be a lot of fun! (11/17/2009 6-10p – 8274 Sunland Blvd, Sun Valley , California  92353)

Craig Shoemaker was really great Friday night, rumor has it he’ll be hosting his own show on CRN soon… I’ll post as soon as I know all the details.

The kids and I had a fun weekend.  Saturday we played a little tennis with Grandma and Wendy…  Well, most of us payed tennis, Bing mainly ran around the court collecting the balls which he would then lay claim too and not allow anyone to play with them.  Lucy really enjoyed playing, as soon as I get a job I’m going to get here into classes… I took lessons when I was a kid, I even remember my teachers name, Daisy Wong.  I hit a few serves, I was surprised I could hit it as well as I did. Sunday we met my Cousin and some of her friends at The La Brea Tar Pits… We didn’t know when we decided to go there, but there was a huge dog adoption fair going on which turned out to be a lot of fun.  Lucy got to do some hula-hooping , which she really enjoyed. ( Thanks to Hoop Kitty!)  Although it was kind of a bummer to see so many dogs that needed homes… Lucy really wanted to get one, and I would have if I could have.

I’ll post more at you soon!  Have a great week!

Oh ya, new photos posted on facebook.

Rock On, Jack

That is pretty much what our day was about.  Since Denny’s and Bob’s Big Boy have let us down IHOP has taken over as one of our faves. (and Pit Fire Pizza!)  I’m not sure what we’re going to do tomorrow, but It’s a sure bet we’ll swim at some point.  There was no sign of fire in Sunland tonight, so that was reassuring, hopefully they’ll have the Station Fire contained soon. I hope you something fun planned for the long weekend…  And hopefully it’s not too smokey to do fun stuff!

Should you get your kid a cell phone?  One tough kitty.  The secret ingredient.   Elephants hate rich guys!  Stretch’s dream girl.  See Ferris this weekend.  Free Patti Smith concert Thurs night.  Everybody sing “Don’t let your kids stay at the Y-M-C-A“.  R.I.P.  Akituusaq!

Rock On, Jack

To the new home of Jack’s blog, and Thank You to Myspace, without it I may have lost contact with many of you.  On it I have posted over 1300 blogs which were read over 5.5 million times, but it was time to move, so here we are.

Vacation was really fun, the kids and enjoyed ourselves!  We took the Amtrak to San Diego, which was so nice… way more relaxed than driving, we got to color and draw, play and look out the window at the ocean.  In SD we went to Balboa Park,  hit the museums and IMAX theater and visited an aquarium, which is a Lucy Fave.  All Bing cares about is the pool table at my Uncles… He would roll balls on it all day if we let him.  We also got in a bunch of swimming pool time, today is their last lesson and they have greatly improved… I’d say Lucy is officially a swimmer and Bing is very close.  We went to I.H.O.P. last night and it was good… Except we forgot Baby (Bing’s blanket), so I had to make an emergency run back before the CRN show to rescue him.  Bing was upset, but he was thrilled when Baby beat me home by a couple minutes and rang the door bell and waited for him to open the door and discover him… Lucy asked me, “Daddy, you put him there right?  He didn’t walk there by himself did he?”  I really feel the pressure now of finding a regular full time job… I keep hoping radio will start paying, but I can’t afford to wait!  Which leads to the question that has plagued me for the last year, what am I qualified to do?  If I figure it out I’ll let you know.  Anyway, we made chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast this morning… I must highly recommend the Quaker Oat’s Oatmeal Pancake mix, it’s really good.

This is one way to get your kid to school! Blinds recalled!  Which clunker do I serve red in?  I like that he had a schedule. Fall Out Boy arrested. A new drinking spot? Don’t leave your wax kids here.   X-Rated Andy! They can get anyone.  The mayor is a panty thief!

You are a hero to your kids… No pressure!

Rock On, Jack

I glanced over my right shoulder, Lucy’s hair was blowing in the wind, I forgot a hair tie today (No matter how long I’ve been doing this single Dad thing, hair ties always escape my memory as we run out the door), and her hand was out the window sailing with the flow of the air.  Bing was fast asleep, as I could see in the rear-view mirror, just 10 minutes earlier he was excitedly asking “Daddy window down?”, but he had since rolled it back up and drifted to sleep.  We were listening to the new Third Eye Blind album (I know I’m old, no one calls them albums anymore), so Lucy wasn’t really paying attention (if it’s not Taylor Swift or Black Eyed Peas she’s not interested), but she was really enjoying herself, just letting her hand sail in the wind created from our travels on the 5.  In her other hand was her Littlest Pet Shop lunch box… Which we all had some sense of satisfaction in finding, it took us two days and four Targets, but we finally found one that had it in stock (Burbank Target rules).  I wanted her to have something special for when she starts Kindergarten in a few weeks… To be honest, I don’t even know if she will be bringing a lunch, but we both kind of decided she needed a new lunch box (mainly for me because I didn’t know what other supplies she may need, and I remember I first lunch box… it was steel and housed a plastic Thermos and was decorated with the band Kiss – I didn’t like Kiss, my Mom got it on sale and so it was mine.  I wanted Lucy to have the exact one she wanted, thus 4 Targets we visited.)  The sun was hot by mid-afternoon so driving with the windows down felt good.  It was hard to not just stare at her, so young and happy just letting her hand fly (But someone had to drive!) And to be totally honest I think if I could have I just would have kept driving… We were all so happy, Bing peacefully resting, Lucy hair flowing, gazing out the window and me, my kids in tow without stress or worry at that moment.  It’s amazing how just catching your kids at the right time, they not even knowing you see them, can warm your heart.  We arrived at swim class, Bing awoke, the windows went back up, but that 30 minute drive was stuck in my head all day.

Tomorrow, we go on an adventure to San Diego… which just to start involves the subway and the train, and maybe later in the weekend, swimming with sharks.  So I’m sure that next week I’ll have much more to post.  The blog has been moved here from myspace so we can have more control and less problems… So hopefully that will be the way it works.  I know it will take me a feww posts to get used to it, but I really think in the long run it will be much better.  Have a great weekend… And if you get a chance, roll the windows down!

Rock On, Jack

P.S. Podcast, Crn Show and regular blog posts will return Thursday.