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My blog just turned 3!
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Yesterday was our son’s 18th airplane ride. I’ve made a point to take a quick photo of him on each trip.
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Time Magazine, August 17, 1997. Bill Gates had just made a $150M investment in Apple, likely preventing the company from entering bankruptcy protection. Today, for the first time in either company’s history, Apple’s market capitalization exceeded that of Microsoft.
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They say that life all comes down to just a few moments. This was one of them.
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Fisherman’s Terminal
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A Day with My Son
For the West Coast, I think I put in some pretty respectable hours at work. My wife takes care of our son and our home. I refer to her as CEO of Fatzinger, Inc., as she is, in actuality, the boss, but also because she has a job far more difficult than mine. That of managing the lives of two boys separated in age by 38 years. For the most part, I come back in to the world of my wife and son when his day has only a few hours left in it.
Today, as my wife was out with friends, I got to spend almost the entire day with him. Just father and son. It’s not that I don’t spend time with him. Most of our evenings and all our weekends include the three of us, give or take a couple of hours here and there. I’ve spent only two nights away from him in his 15 months.
One-on-one is different. A dad needs a day with his boy every once in a while. A boy needs a day with his dad every once in a while.
During our trip to the Museum of Flight, we wandered. I tried to tell him what I knew about aircraft. He pushed a lot of buttons. We had some lunch together. I bought him a children’s book about airplanes.
In the book I wrote a little note on the inside cover. I thanked him for this day, May 1, 2010. The day we watched the planes, went to the museum, had lunch, took a nap, played around the house, then waited on the porch for mommy to come home.
A day he’ll probably never remember. A day I’ll never forget.