Owen has the greatest understanding of the word mine ever. I have suspected this for the last few days but now I'm sure of it. When owen wants to share something he uses the word "mine." He holds whatever it is out to you and says "MINE!." It's really pretty cool.

Usually at dinner both he and Cecilia want to have some of mine or Jen's meal. Cecilia has no issues whatsoever with just saying "can I have some of that." Owen feels compelled to offer some of his first. So he'll grab something off his plate. Tonight it was a piece of potato. Hold it out to you and say "Mine!" It's adorable.

Now the trick is to make sure he grows up believing that it really is a good thing to think of those things that are "mine" in the context of things you want to share with others instead of things you want to keep from others. I'm telling you he's the Ghandi of 1 year olds.

Ran about a mile today. It felt pretty good. I think if I can force myself to run at least twice next week I should be over this slump that I seem to have been in. It's been a long week and I am ready for the weekend

Dad would have been 81 today

Did the climber today. I was going to try and run but just didn't feel like it. So rather than just walking I decided to do the climber and get a good workout.

I don't know if this was something serious or not but, ESPN had a story on about "Competitive Cup Stacking". It appears to be something that kids do. It involves taking plastic tumblers and, well, stacking them. In pyramids. Then un-stacking them. Really fast. Odd.

The Bean alarm helped me get out of bed on time today. Which was probably good since I stayed up too late last night. I ran a little this morning but not much. I will try to run more tomorrow.

Apparently I was pretty wiped out yesterday. Bean did not go down easily, I went to be early. I woke up at 5:20. Oh well maybe today will go better. The morning should be fun. I have to go fight a parking ticket. Hooray!

The greatest comic strip ever created, "Bloom County", used to have a running gag. There was a dandelion patch and when ever the characters became overwhelmed by the world at hand they would head out to the meadow and sit amongst the dandelions for a bit. It's 9:06AM on Monday and I need a dandelion break!

I got up on time and was out the door somewhat early. Of course I forgot my gym bag and had to come back home to get it. That didn't leave me much time for a workout.

The AC seems to be acting up. I guess the two brown outs are taking their toll. Hopefully it will not be an expensive one. I suspect that with the new construction nearby a connection is not properly shielded. As this seems to occur every time it rains now.

Had a nice walk on the treadmill this morning. It looks as though the weather is going to cancel the walk at lunch.

I need to get to bed earlier. The DQ in town has replaced "Things Go Better With Christ!"(I bet the agree with me that things actually go better with ketchup) with a longer message that I think says the same thing. Oh well, of to work.

Slept in this morning. Not sure why I wasn't too tired when I went to bed. I Guess it was just a busy day yesterday. Too many meetings today.