Decluttering My Life, Step 1: Deactivate My Facebook Account

Yep, I did it. I deactivated my Facebook account a couple of days ago because the concept behind that site has officially becoming boring to me. There is never anything all that exciting going on with Facebook except for the poorly designed layout changes from time to time, and the site has grown far to big for its britches if you ask me.

It was one thing when Facebook was only available to university students. At that point it held a certain mysterious appeal for me, knowing that a bunch of hormone induced teenagers wouldn't be cluttering my wall space with their absurd speech patterns was quite comforting to say the least.

Then Facebook sold out. They opened the doors to everyone and their MySpace crew, and things went downhill fast. Then was the introduction of "applications" and I knew my time was growing short.

I hung on for a while longer, knowing that my wife enjoys seeing the activities of my friends almost more than I do from time to time, but in the end, it was a waste of my time, a waste of society's time, and overall a waste of time in general.

I've got so many things on my plate right now that I'm looking for ways to simplify, adjust, and come to grips with the most important things to occupy my attention. Watching constant "someone saw someone and it made that someone so happy the other someone wanted to smile at someone" statuses is the epitome of inane in my mind. Thanks, but no thanks.

Ask yourself this: If Facebook has grown to the point where you are now considered a rebel to not be on Facebook, don't you think that tells you something about the world nowadays?

The New Year is Here

This is a common scene at our house these days. Jack loves to take naps, just like any newborn baby does, but for some reason he especially likes to take naps with his mommy. I took this picture just a couple of minutes ago after Holly was done feeding Jack and decided she wanted to catch up on some sleep at the same time Jack was.

For the most part Jack is sleeping pretty well at night, we can usually get at least one chunk that is 3-4 hours long, but the rest is sort of hit or miss. Luckily the doctor told us that once they get to be about 13-16 pounds in weight they start sleeping much better at night. We are doing pretty good so far though.

This is my new computer setup thanks to Mom and Dad. My laptop is still up on its stand and now I have a brand new 22" widescreen monitor to supplement my viewing landscape. It has made such a difference I can't even begin to explain. The ability to keep everything open at once, find things without having to dig through multiple layers, and just see things bigger is well worth it. Thanks Mom and Dad!