Saturday, July 08, 2006



Sunset behind the Sepulveda Dam.
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My son is nervous because he has to try sleeping in his own bed again next week and he's dealt with the anxiety by posting Lego guards all over the apartment. They guard every door and window, making our home safe for sleep.
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Between Deviant Art and Pocket PC Themes, my themes have been downloaded many thousands of times. I'm pleased that people like them - one person wrote to tell me that while browsing one of those sites for themes, the only ones they liked enough to grab were mine. That's always nice to hear. Yeah, ok, thousands of downloads, but thousands of free downloads. Do you suppose if I charged a dollar a theme that people would still want them? I'm thinking of letting DA sell them. Thinking, thinking, tap tap tap. We'll see.

Suddenly everyone on the planet is looking at my DA gallery. According to their stats, more than 400 people have visited me there since 5 pm on the afternoon of the 7th. That's a big jump - on June 30th, there was like 3/4 of a visitor. Today, well over 400. I'm pleased, but where did they find me and am I really that good?
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My middle girl is laying down behind me, laughing at Eddie Izzard

. . . Eddie Izzard is God . . .

and nursing a very unhappy stomach. Meds. I hate doctors, I hate meds, I hate mystery diseases that hurt my baby and I hate feeling so useless and impotent and such a failure. There's this ages old, reptile brain, primitive imperative shrieking "FIX THE BABY!" and I don't know how.