Observing children's habits of any kind can be an interesting journey to say the least. Being a parent, I can say I have more than some experience in this arena.

Whether you're a parent or not, you've surely caught yourself saying, "If/When this happens, my child will be this way." Such as, "My girl won't act like that about video games or sugar." This usually comes from someone who either doesn't have children, or is only a year or two in. "We're going to be vegan, no television or refined sugar!"

After many years on this planet I've learned that vegan babies wind up dead. And children that are completely left out of our culture, wind up out of control later on in life for those things that they were kept away from. This happens time and time again, it only takes observation and nothing else.

The best I've been able to do is lead by example and put in front of them the best I can. Let them work out their own path, with moderation. Here we find Tiny E's dinner plate, he wanted the center of the pork chop, some rice and a few beans. Since he didn't want to finish his beans, he offered to eat 2 bananas. I can live with that.

For his effort, he got to have a wine goblet filled with jello he made 2 nights ago.

For me, this is success to the greatest degree. I love my life, and what I've done to it.

xo, Biggles

Yeah baby, happy new year!

Sure for many reasons, but happy for me for a few other reasons. While the holiday's are great and all, it feels better to have all that in the past. Life is tough enough to do day by day, but to add that stuff on top of it can make it traumatic at best.

That being said, we did okay here. No disasters. Later 2008, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

And sorry for being gone for so long, I spent the entire New Years week on the sofa hacking up small furry animals. I didn't get a good night's sleep for over a week and it was getting a bit much. But yesterday it all cleared up and am feeling far better. Thank you Western Medicine, you rock. You know, there's a reason why people all over the world are clambering for it.

What's in store this coming year? What resolutions have I made? I don't know and none. Resolutions are worthless to me. If I want to do something, I do it. I don't need no damned resolution to cloud my ambitions, it's my nature. I do have reviews I'm sorely late on, I'm a naughty reviewer. Sorry to everyone to sent me something to review and it hasn't hit yet.

Where do we go after bacon and smoked pork ribs? I don't know, only the future holds the answer.

Cheers to you all and thank you for your support over the year, it's been GREAT.

xo, Biggles

ps - The photograph to the right there was taken with my old D200 and a far older Manual Focus 50 mm f1.2 lens. That my or may not be of any interest to you, but f1.2 is one wide open aperture. Its light gathering, and lack of depth of field ability is stunning to say the least. Not bad for a 25 year old lens, eh?