Notice something different? Yep, the DaddyMom’s at work, noodling around with the look and feel of Driving With DaddyMom again.

I’ll admit it: the look of the site was just not to my liking. It was a quick-fix while I finished building out Wizard of Ads Gulf Coast, Four Speed Selling, and DaddyMoms. With those pretty much set, I have time to give this blog the time it deserves. (adMISSIONs is due for a rework too, but its content is syndicated to Wizard of Ads Gulf Coast and MogerMedia, so it’s less pressing.)

I was PB&J in a snuggle sandwich between Stella and Zuzu at mass tonight.  At one point, Zuzu looked up and me and gave me a hug so deep, I could feel her mom’s arms in it. Those are the sweetest treats of all.

I’ve been distracted from them by a couple ventures that help (or soon will) put Special K on our table. It’s all good and getting better. Stay tuned. Be sure to weigh in on my video experiment. My AT&T DSL is flaky; not a good streaming test-bed. Nor is the T-1 at work; few have that level of connectivity.

Thanks for your patience. My goal: post something weekly by hook or crook; the crooking happens when posts pile up; I backdate to the day they happened. An accurate time-index that will matter more later.

In the meantime, our road winds on. I’m glad you’re along for the ride.

My pastor and friend Fr. Mario Arroyo

The road goes on. We either travel where it goes, or stand and wonder where it goeswatch it rowithout us. That obligates us to uncounted goodbyes in life. Tonight I said one to Saint Cyril’s of Alexandria Catholic Church.

Saint Cyril’s has been our family church home since before there was a home or a family. Tracey led me there in 1989. Over the 20 years that followed, every one of my babies was baptized there, three made first reconcilliation there and took first communion. My marriage was blessed there and I buried my wife there. I became Catholic there.

While saying goodbyes to the Pastoral Council members with whom I’ve served over the past eight years, I said if this were a decision made looking in the rearview mirror, there wouldn’t be a chance of my leaving. But, in looking forward, the needs of my kids dictate our change of church home.

Sunday we will officially become members at St. John’s and begin a new chapter in our family book of twists and turns. I wasn’t prepared for how sad this would leave me. It is another parting from the life with which I parted seven and a half years back. Another passage, a portal taking DaddyMom and his babies into what only He knows. We are not among those content to stand and watch. That’s why we walk this road in faith.

Creative services director and genuine mac genius Mike Raskovsky taught me years ago: no software updates or installs on Fridays. Wish he could have secured Apple’s cooperation in that. Today the new Snow Leopard OS Update landed on my inbox and she’s growling to get outta that box. Now, Friday ends at 6pm, technically speaking. Right?

The best place to hide something at my house is in plain sight. Turns out challenges I was having making postings from my iPhone was a case of the same thing.

When the dialog box came up talking about XML and PPC and lots of other letters and numbers, my simple automatic-transmission mind locked up. That is until my good friend Paul Boomer set me straight. I thought it had to be some kind of setting deep in the code–scarry to Mr. Big Picture. Turns out I was, as is so often the case, over-thinking the problem. Two check boxes later, my iPhone connected and now you are reading this.

The ability to post on the fly was the one remaining capability lacking from the bad old TypePad days. Thanks Paul for your help and for not making me feel like an idiot. (Far better at doing that myself.)

The offer seemed too good to resist: map where you’ve traveled in the world. Turns out the DaddyMom has only seen a measly 4% of all the world. Let’s see: 50 years to cover 4%. At this rate, it would take me 1,200 years to reach 100%.

create your own visited country map
or check our Venice travel guide

I feel only slightly redeemed by this similar map indicating my travels across the US of A.