Atomic Ned

music. pop culture. sports. babies.

1.06.2003

A free (weird) song every day of the year. How great is that?
Thanks to donewaiting.com for pointing out this site. Quoting from the site: "For the entire year of 2003 (January 1st to December 31st) this page will feature one mp3 file (every day) to download. The content will be focused on musical pieces, but will also include spoken word. Listeners of the incredibly strange and outsider realm take note, for this is the majority of material that will be made available. Obscure and out-of-print recordings will be the primary focus, although once in a while there may be a change. The year 2003 is a normal year, with 365 days in total, which comes out to 365 songs that will be made available. Carefully hand-picked pieces I might add. Some days may leave you begging for more and others may leave you cursing my good name. Regardless the bottom line of this is to share with you all."

There is some very strange stuff to be found here but definitely worth your time to check it out.
There are others out there
I thought we were the only ones with a baby who won't sleep through the night. Now, in reality, I know that we aren't, but when you are hovering over the crib at 2:30 a.m., listening to your baby cry for no apparent reason, you feel like the most helpless person in the world. It's frustrating. That's not to say that I'm frustrated with Abbey (how can I be?), I'm frustrated with what I consider to be my lack of parenting skills (I know, I know ... it has nothing to do with my parenting skills, but I still feel that way). My wife Kate found this article and it made me both happy and sad to read. It made me happy to realize that other parents go through this but, for the same reason, it made me sad. As I read the diary entries I kept thinking to myself, "Wow, this sounds exactly like our nights."

Who said being a parent was an easy thing?