Continued Frequency Fail

The upside, though, is that when you do actually see something here, it is somewhat significant. Thus, I bring you this:

This is his German heritage coming through. Yes, my kid is awesome.

Updates

I can't help but feel that I am letting my boy down, what with all the lack of posting. Selah, my little man.

I have been kicking posts around in my head for quite a while. There is a lot happening, of course, and a lot that has happened. At Christmas, for example, we had the wonderful opportunity to see friends that we had not seen in quite a while, both sets of whom now have kids about William's age. There's not much to say, really, they're precious little angels.

Here is a representative picture:

My thinking over the past few months/year had changed quite a bit. When I first got here I was all about starting my life and focusing on the things that I felt were important. The downside being that, if this, living in Europe, was what I really wanted then there would of necessity be things that would have to suffer. This included visiting our friends and family at more regular intervals. So be it, I thought. This is important to me.

Needless to say, opinions change over time. Christmas was wonderful and wonderfully difficult, and I don't mean in that Hollywood movie sense. There was no tearful climax which resulted in new understanding and appreciation of one another as people. No, it was really just good, and that's what's hard. We want more of that, and we want more of that for William.

This just seems to be the worst time of all to try and go back. There are things here which we will never get in the US and which are hard to walk away from. There are friends here that would be hard to leave. Still, we need to try and see what we can swing. In the words of Middle Age Man (no link, sorry, but you can Google it yourself if you don't get the reference), I'm working on it.

In the mean time, here is a video of William. Background: We thought we would be safe for a while in not baby-proofing the kitchen. There are two steps which are in the way which we thought would be a good barrier. We were wrong:

With me things are pretty much as normal. I went to a concert a couple of weeks ago out in Chemnitz. As a reference for those that have been there, the place was about the same size as Slim's, in San Franciso. Slim's was the first place, incidentally, that I saw A Perfect Circle. As much as I like MJK and APC, this concert was much better. Lineup: Gwen Stacy (who I had never heard of, schade), Poison the Well (same deal as Gwen Stacy, also schade, but less so), and 36 Crazyfists (best thing out of Alaska since this guy). I haven't been able to stop listening to their music since then. Especially this song, which blows me away. As one of my friends commented, these guys don't look like what you'd expect. They look like truckers. Awesome.