Number 90 In Your Programs, and Number One in Your Hearts

Today, I’ll look at the defensive side of the ball for the Houston Texans, outlining who I think will start, and writing a little about them.
Free Safety: Eugene Wilson – Wilson came over from New England, last year. He’s a corner/safety, the same as Marcus Coleman was when he was here. It’s nice [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, your Houston Texans

Over the next little while, I’m going to be posting a few entries on the Houston Texans. Today, I’m going to go over what I believe will be the starting lineup on offense and my thoughts on each player.
Quarterback: Matt Schaub – Schaub has shown that he can be an extremely effective quarterback [...]

All Families are Psychotic

I haven’t done a book report blog post in awhile, but it is a very tangible part of In The Now history, so I figured I’d squeeze off a couple of paragraphs over the last book I finished.
All Families are Psychotic is exactly the kind of book that I’d expect from Douglas Coupland. He’s [...]

With God On Our Side

I don’t spend a whole lot of time discussing religion. I never have. I wasn’t raised religious. We never had discussions about God. In this, I was left to my own devices.
My teenaged years were largely incurious, and my college time was spent on a Christian soccer team, shying [...]

Violent Aggression, Episode 2

We’re back! Cliff, James, Vlad, Chad, Tammy, Kelly and I have another audio adventure for your listening… well, pleasure might be too strong, but you’ll have to listen to it to find out.
As before, the podcast is not for little ears (Kyle, I’m looking toward Saskatchewan as I type that).
Thrill to the [...]

The Slow, Slippery Slope

I have slid away from blogging as a centre. I have slid away from editing the podcast for publication. I have even thought about work less.
I blame it all on olivia.
I knew that when she was born, my life was going to change. I knew that it was wildly optimistic to try [...]

The Rock-Stars with the Red Stitching

While I often post like I have multiple-personality disorder, I like to think there’s a certain flow in what I write. That said, there are some things I’ll blog about that surprise the heck out of me.
This is one of those cases.
Kim and I decided we would cloth-diaper Olivia. We made a small, [...]

The Lovin’ Spoonful

No, this isn’t a music post.
Our family has grown by one member.
What does it take to raise a child?
Generally, it seems, the first child is the biggest adjustment. A new parent will find that time that was once wholly theirs is now wholly dedicated to the care of a new person. [...]

Five Seven Five – A Birth in Haiku

Buckets and buckets
Water pouring from the tap
Filling up the tub
Turn the kettle on
Put the water on the stove
Gotta make it hot
Occupy the kids
Kim needs space for contractions
Another bike ride?
Nicholas asleep.
Lily freaks out – wants her mom
Put on a movie
Warm up the water
Empty the pot, fill the pot
Dump it in the tub
Shrek 2’s over now
Lily freaks [...]

Et Cetera

We had a baby.
I am a punk.
I am a father again.
I didn’t blog in three days.
She’s so damn cute.
I have to get back on track.
Gotta get more sleep.
Blog about the baby. That’s pretty fertile ground.
Heh. You said fertile.
You’re so juvenile. Get off your lazy new dad ass and write something.
Thinking [...]