It’s beard season!

October 1st has finally come and it’s time to start growing the winter beard!  When I was working the overnight shift I always started it September 1st because it gets noticeably colder during the overnight hours sooner than it does for the daywalkers but now that I’m solidly a daytime worker again and have been for around a year and a half I thought it would be best to wait a little longer, at least to the point where it’s starting to get hard to wear shorts to work any more. I don’t know why I look forward to beard season every year because every year after a couple months it bugs the everloving shit out of me until I finally get so tired of the itching and face bedhead that I cut it all off. Not all at once mind you, it always goes in stages. Usually it starts with a botched neckline trim, then it turns to the all around shortening, then usually into a douchebag modified chinstrap beard, then a goatee, then a walrus mustache for a day or so, then nothing. I swear my life is like Groundhod Day sometimes, same thing, over and over, just slightly different.

Speaking of the same thing over and over I’m giving up Facebook… again… for like the fifth time I think. What is it that makes the human mind want to peer into other people’s daily lives and makes it so damn hard to resist? And mostly with people who I wouldn’t want to talk to in real life most of the time anymore too? I wish it was easier to just delete the whole thing but there are many old friends on there that I just don’t want to completely lose touch with. It was ridiculously easy when it came to deleting my MySpace account back in the day. I envy the people I know who have never even made an account. I guess for now I will just settle with deleting the apps off my iPad and phone and not visiting the site anymore. If you need to get in contact with me email me because I won’t be checking Facebook (until I do check Facebook… I guess its like quitting smoking, hard to stop for good).

Things are going pretty well in the Korgie household. Jessica is almost done with her season at the park and is wrapping up the big video project for the National Park Service centennial. It’s a pretty good video so far in my opinion, kinda quirky and fun, I’ll be interested to see everyone’s reaction to it when it goes public, I think people will like it. We’ve had a major breakthrough in the potty training department with Alexander. It seemed like he just wouldn’t cooperate at all, especially when it came to pooping but one day something clicked and he decided that he was going to do it on his own without being asked and since then he’s hardly had any accidents. Most of the time he can make it through the night as well which is great! Every time he goes now though he asks, “Now can I go to school?” because we told him that he couldn’t go to school if he didn’t know how to go to the bathroom on his own. Hard to believe that he could be in kindergarten in less than 2 years if we can do whatever they require to get him in early because he missed the cutoff by a couple weeks for normal admission. I don’t think he will have much of an issue passing whatever tests they have for that, he’s pretty damn smart and well behaved, sometimes he talks like he’s wearing a top hat and a monocle when he’s talking to people and when people have him they usually can’t believe how well behaved he is (most of the time, he’s 3 and nobody is perfect). I need to do better at sitting down with him and working with him though, I slack at that sometimes but he likes to learn. We need to see about getting him into a real preschool next year too because interaction with other kids is something he desperately wants (and needs).

I’ve given up fast food and pop (again). Food is my absolute nemesis when it comes to being healthy. If it’s not good for you and in my reach I stuff it down my stupid gullet. Being at work for every waking minute of the day 3 days a week doesn’t help at all either because the guys always want to eat out and eating takeout always tastes better than the leftovers I have in the fridge. Jessica and I had out health screenings again this year and like always she passed everything with flying colors, couldn’t be better. Me on the other hand… mediocre. Again. If it was just me I wouldn’t have qualified for the good health discounts but we still do because they average you and your spouse’s scores. I actually managed to get my blood pressure down into the good range for the first time since I’ve been doing these screenings but my blood sugar has started to drift upward into the moderate risk range. My good cholesterol is always not good, but now my bad cholesterol is now up too along with my triglycerides. Gotta get things under control because I still have 10,091 days until I retire and I would like to enjoy my life for a little while after that too. If I don’t then it’s my own damn fault for not doing the work it takes.