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I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten how to write

I can still string a sentence together, and I still understand the basic principles of grammar, capitalization, and punctuation, and all that – but writing just seems like so much work these days. I think (I HOPE!) it’s just a matter of being out of the habit, but to know for sure, that would require me to actually sit down and write something more often than every four months. I promise nothing. What’s especially awesome right now: our upcoming cruise, our trial of zip.ca , Sarah’s recent mastery of her Nonna’s eggplant parm recipe, Teddy’s consistent sweetness and enthusiasm, Veronica hitting that everything everywhere is fascinating! stage, Modern Family, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, my beautiful dark twisted fantasy, old cheddar, the fact that VB is available at the LCBO, the lineup for Movie Marathon VI, the Nerdist Podcast , Angry Birds, Toronto Thumbs (despite my lack of participation there, or more likely because of it), Gravitee Wars , Uncharted, and Topper’...

Again with the multitasking

I didn't pull this off too well last time I tried it , but we'll try it again. I'm currently: watching "All Quiet on the Western Front" doing Work work listening to Sarah read celebrity dirt out of "The Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History" blogging (clearly) All Quiet is an amazing movie. Dark, terribly sad, still relevant. . . problem being, the version I'm watching is on VHS and unrestored , and while the picture isn't bad the sound is muddy as hell. I should be giving this movie more attention than I am, but too bad so sad. I'm not generally an elitist, but today I'm making an exception. In entirely unrelated news, I'm a little obsessed with the whole genre of Tower Defence games. right now. (If you don't know what that is, just follow the link. Wikipedia will explain it better than I can. My gateway drug was Desktop TD , which I sucked at. Then I moved on to Vector TD (mastered in short order). Lately ...