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Vacation can have a negative effect on blogging. As in, "I'm just not doing it." But I am going to keep the Snippet Wednesdays going as they really serve as a great way to recap all that has been happening.

And, since I'm sitting in our hotel room watching The Karate Kid (the new one with Will Smith's kid and Jackie Chan) while both Nathan and Katie are asleep, why not?

Betcha thought I was going to miss another Snippet Wednesday. In all honesty, I almost did. Being that, as of 4 a.m. today, I'm on vacation with Katie and Nathan. At the last second, or five minutes ago, I remembered it was Wednesday and I needed to get a post out there.

So here goes a Vacation Snippet Wednesday!

As a proud geek, I take a bit of pride as I watch Katie's own repressed inner geek start to rear it's wonderful head.

This is, after all, my wife and I love her and I want to be able to share with her stuff that I find interesting and important and all that jazz.

Today, Nathan turned eight months old.

He's eight months old!

And I just realized that I never posted his seven month photos to the blog. I'm a bad dad. Here's a link to them posted to Flickr.

For some strange reason, and despite any indication to the opposite that you all might see via my Facebook page or my Instagram profile, I feel like I haven't taken enough photos of Nathan.

Welcome to an exhausted Snippet Wednesday. Why "exhausted"? I just ran on my lunch break. Although it wasn't as long a run as I would've liked, it still kicked my butt and I'm still in recovery mode.

I may not be one to blog about celebrities and gossip and whatnot -- well, not too often anyway -- but I do like to talk about TV shows being canceled and new ones that will be starting up in the coming season.

And this has already been a busy off-season for TV shows despite the fact that several still haven't aired their season finales.

As I reported last week, I'm having issues with commenting on my blog. I spoke with customer service and their answer was to simply log in to my Typepad account and check the spam comments area (which I never knew existed until this convo) and simply approve them.

Simple enough, save for two issues.

To my mom and my grandmas and to Katie's mom and grandmas, we would both like you all to know how important you are to us and how much we love you. Beyond words. I wish there was a better way to say it, but there isn't. Just know we love and appreciate you ridiculously.

I also want to wish a very happy first Mother's Day to Katie from both Nathan and me. We love you so much, hon, and could not do this without you.

First, an apology for the rush of onomatopoeic titles lately. Can't be helped sometimes.

Second, WHAT THE BLOODY F$&@ IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!?!

Look at this! Snippet Wednesday is alive! Alive, I tell you! Alive!

Before I start my post today, I'd like to offer my condolences to the family of Ray Harryhausen who died today at the age of 92. He was the creative mind behind one of my all-time favorite fantasy flicks The Clash of the Titans (the original). He was a visual effects wizard who pioneered "Dynamotion," a brand of stop-motion model animation that highlighted interaction between stop-motion models and human actors.

While most of his work is all but forgotten in this Industrial Light and Magic-enhanced world of computer effects, I regularly watch The Clash of the Titans and relive my youth. Thank you for that, Mr. Harryhausen. Rest in peace.

I guess the rest of this post is actually somewhat related in that I'm about to discuss the topic of music nostalgia. Specifically, I want to know what were some of the first albums you ever bought with your own money and of your own accord?

Have you been experiencing issues with comments here on this blog? Yeah, me too.

Turns out that the spam filter has gotten so finicky that it's been moderating longtime commenters like Kilax, Marty, and even my own mom and I didn't know it.

I missed Snippet Wednesday!!!

Not that missing a Snippet Wednesday is an unprecedented thing for me. I've missed them before and I'm sure I'll miss them again. But, when I do miss them, I usually make up for it with a Snippet Thursday: The Reckoning!