"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T. S. Eliot
Eating used to be a highlight of my day, and it's still pretty fun, but I think watching Ern eat might be my new favorite. Will he eat it? Throw it? Wear it? Nobody knows.
We're getting pretty good at rolling around.
Shoplifting has gotten bad enough that the Redmond Target has been turned into a giant vending machine that you can walk around inside.
I finished Starfield. Spoilers!
The end of the game is kind of cool. You meet sort of the entity at the center of the universe who invites you to die and be reborn with super powers in another universe similar to your own. Like a multiverse situation. Most of them are just like your universe but you can make different choices for different outcomes, but others are wild like one character is a houseplant instead of a person, or everyone on your team is a child version of their normal self. I didn't mess around with it too much but I thought it was an inventive way to increase replay value.
It was a bittersweet ending because by choosing to go to another universe you die in your old one, and your friends can't come with you.
It's hard to continue being riotously entertaining because Ernie will get used to your antics and then you have to come up with new material.
Ernie got his Global Entry card in the mail which I think means he's officially a full blown member of our family.
We did round two of breastmilk oatmeal today, this time with some advancements.
For one thing we put a bib on him because it was quite messy last time. We got him a special baby spoon, and we did it on the tile in the kitchen in case there were any spills.
He got the hang of it impressively fast.
I got a try.
The Target in Redmond has quickly become one of our least favorite. They apparently have had some shoplifting and have responded by locking everything up tight. I felt like I was walking around inside a vending machine. Really the entire point of America is achieving higher and higher levels of convenient consumption, so this is anathema. Surely they are losing more in lost sales than they ever did in theft.
We were starting to get into a new groove of a routine with our new roommate.
Maybe I should just quit my job and be Ernie's personal videographer.
We took Ernie on his first Target shopping trip. He was very impressed with the selection of merchandise.
A kickball teammate was having a birthday and I agreed to make a short appearance, which was an excellent excuse for us to try Crumbl Cookies. They were delicious, very large, and pretty expensive.
The event was at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle. It was nearly impossible to find a place to park. I was kind of impressed that I had never heard of a place that was so popular.
This friend group was so organized that they had their own swag. It was a nice opportunity to return to the world of adults for a short time.
I guess a recent rule change decreed that people aren't allowed to have campfires on the beach anymore. Well the people on the beach didn't seem to think that was a good rule at all. So a poor park employee in a four wheeler would drive out to the fires he spotted, and douse them with I think a big bucket of sand. Some of the fires miraculously had a way of... coming back to life. He would then dutifully go back out and kill them again while their creators stood by. There didn't seem to be any punishment other than that so I wonder how long this exchange continued.
An awesome moment was when seals in the water and dogs on the beach took turns barking at eachother.
I hurried back to my fam at home. I'm kind of a night owl by nature so I've been taking the night shift. I feed Ernie his bottles, rock him to sleep and generally just hang out and spend some quality bro time together while Lydia takes some very needed rest.
One of my favorite parts of my day is watching all the funny faces that Ernie makes while he's sleeping. It's kind of aggravating actually because while he's asleep he has a whole range of emotions, but while awake he doesn't really react much to me I would say. For one thing his vision isn't great yet so I'm not sure how well he can see me in the first place. I think I'm just eager to interact with him but I need to be patient while his little computer boots up.
