For a second there, I really thought I was going to miss this Snippet Wednesday. Usually I have a series of potential Snippets (along with other writing ideas) stored in my Clear app. I have compiled nothing... zilch... zip... zero... NA-DA.

But leave it to Nathan to inspire me. And he did just that tonight watching some of his shows on TV. I thought I'd use this Snippet Wednesday to recap a few of them. I promise to try and make them fun.

I've made no bones about my hatred of those insipid stick figure family stickers on cars. I like to think of them as the next wave of Calvin peeing stickers. I hate them both.

However, of late, I've noticed a trend regarding these stickers that makes me smile... the broken family sticker family.

A little more than a week ago, Nathan turned 10 months old.

A little more than a week later, I'm finally getting off my butt and posting the photos.

We have a theory that perhaps Jim Halpert of The Office is somehow related to Nathan. Long lost Uncle, perhaps?

Do you cause permanent mental or emotional harm to a baby by coming up with nicknames for them? What I mean is, will Nathan be seeking therapy due to the nicknames we use for him now at this early age?

I hope not because we use nicknames for Nathan all the time. A lot of them are the result of something that he's done and someone or something he may, at that moment, resemble. For example, what baby with its pudgy little belly doesn't get called "Buddha" at some point in time or another?

Let's get... Let's get... Let's get -OCKED with Snippet Wednesday!!!

The weekend of July 19-21, 2013, has come and gone and, as we've done every summer since 1999, my buddy, Eric, and I went to one specially chosen day of the three-day Pitchfork Music Festival. We don't like to go to all three days because we're old and we're poor and our patience for smelly people is waning and I'm sure there are other reasons, but whatever.

Fandango... you are my new bestest app-friend!

AHHHHH!!! Run for your lives!! There are evil Kaiju coming to destroy the world! The only way to defeat them is with, you guessed it, Snippet Wednesday!!! (Don't ask how I expect that to work)

This has been an interesting week for me on the music front.

I really need to come up with new ways to introduce Snippet Wednesday so it doesn't sound like I'm ripping off Dave2's Bullet Sunday intros. Damn him and his creative wordamajigging.

So, like, um, here are some Snippets and whatever.

With Nathan crawling and standing and climbing the stairs and scooting around furniture and even standing unassisted (yes, that's a new development), the recurring question we get is, "has he spoken his first word yet?"

Howdy all! Don your life preservers for we're entering the shark-infested waters known as Snippet Wednesday!

On second thought, those life preservers will just make you easy chum.

Oh well.

Happy Canada Day!

With it now being the beginning of July, it's a good time for a recap of my monthly goals!