Yesterday, I was talking to Candy's mother about something or other and happened to say something with the word 'goon' in it (I don't remember what I said, mainly due to being distracted somewhat by what happened next.)

Max, who was obviously earwigging like nobody's business, picked up on this word and said, gleefully, "Goons! Eee Yakka Boo!"

I had an interesting conversation with my son this morning.

He started off by asking me where God lived. I did my bit of 'People who believe in God say he lives in heaven' and all that stuff. It went on with him asking if I believed in God and if mommy believed in God. Then he said he didn't believe in him either. Then he asked me what God did. If he was 'our leader'. I replied that 'people who believe in God say that he made the world and the people and all the animals'.

Max's reply to this was that God didn't do that. He said (and this is a direct quote) "There were little furry animals called mammals that stole dinosaur eggs and they grew up to become us."

So, there you have it, a basic explanation for evolution, a refutation of Creationism and expression of atheism. From a four year old...

My son is just so fucking cool.

I am so turning my son into a geek. Not content with him knowing about superheroes, I am introducing him to the classics of Science Fiction cinema. So, as I left for work this morning, Max was busy watching Star Wars (Ep IV: A New Hope, for all you real geeks out there...) - the link because, y'know, you may not be familiar with the film... And he was totally engrossed. It had just got to the point when Ben Kenobi was sabotaging the Tractor Beam generator. A scene which, if you remember, is played out over a very deep chasm. Max was watching, eyes wide, saying 'oh, it's so very deep'. It just made me melt inside. My son is just SO cute!

I have had a totally geektastic, Whovian few days. It all started last Thursday with the new Doctor Who Magazine. It continued on Saturday morning when the latest SFX Special Edition, which was a Doctor Who special, dropped through my letter box (yes, I am such a geek that I subscribe to it). This was followed on Saturday evening by the first new series trailer and then I that followed by downloading the first of the 'Tardisodes'(a neologism which makes me go 'ick' by the way...). Then, yesterday morning, whilst having breakfast, the postie delivered my Series One box set, which when I opened it up gave me a big fanboy grin on my face. It's a very cool package, although really rather awkward for storage purposes, taking up, as it does, the space of about five or six ordinary DVD cases. Oh well.

Last night, when I got home from work, Max and I watched 'Rose' (the first episode of Series One) - he had apparently been pestering his Mother to watch it and to play with the DVD box (if you don't know, it's in the shape of the Tardis), but she wouldn't let him until I got home. I think he enjoyed it, or the exciting bits anyway. I think he'll enjoy episode 2 (The End of the World) even more, because there are lots more aliens in it. Anyway, now, as well as knowing what a Dalek is, he knows who The Doctor is (at least the Eccleston incarnation), who Rose is and what a Tardis ("Tardist") is. I am SO proud of my son!

My last entry on my LJ - which I guess kind of makes this an 'existing on life support Journal' if not quite a Dead Journal - was on July 20th. And it was a pretty piss poor one to go quiet on as well. Oh well, that's life.

I've been doing lots of work - not good work or interesting work or well paid work - but work, and work that didn't allow me any internet access at all - for the last few months. I'm not going to talk about it because it was just horrendously dull and absolutely bloody awful. On the plus side, it's finished now. On the minus side, this means that I am once again unemployed. This has not been a great year for the ol' finances. What with getting married, being forced to move and neither Candy nor I having particularly brilliantly paid jobs it's been kind of hard. But, it'll get better. And, when I finally finish my MCSE (which is going well now, thanks for asking. There was a hard point in September just after the move when I lost my motivation for about a month or so, but it's back now and I'm just about to do my first exam. If things go well the rest of the course should get done more quickly.)

SO, what are the good things that have happened? Well, Max just gets better and better every single day. He constantly comes up with new stuff that neither one of us know where it came from and he's really articulate and imaginative and inquisitive. (The latter can make it hard occasionally. When he's meant to be going to sleep he is an expert at delaying it by asking 'whassat?'at every little sound. Which made it interesting around November the Fifth, I can tell you...) Candy and I celebrated our 15th year of being together this last month, which was very nice. We had lots of friends around who all brought gorgeous food and bottles of stuff and we just had a great afternoon, going into a really pleasant evening just sitting around talking to shewhomust, durham_rambler and Chaz. Something I haven't done for far too long and really need to do again soon. (Which, considering I'll be going to see them this weekend, is going to happen soon! Yay!)

Oh, and I've discovered the BBC Radio Listen Again malarkey. It's great stuff, that allows you to listen again (as the title implies) to radio programmes for a week after they've been broadcast. And, considering Radio 7 does the Goons and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue very week and there's a new series of Clue on Radio 4 and Radio 7 (again) have been broadcasting Doctor Who audios, things have been really pretty good on that front. Combining that with my MP3 player has been pretty much the only thing that's kept my sane(ish) whilst doing working. (I'm actually recording 'Galileo's Daughter' from Radio 7 as I type.)

So, there we go. I'm back on LJ. Dunno how often I'll update this thing. I'll try and be more regular whilst I'm unemployed but I don't know how long that will go on for - not too long, hopefully - and who knows what'll happen when I'm once again a non-dole scrounger.