This is an interesting week, and a complete reversal of sorts.

Next week, I’m on the road, as I have been in the past during my career, and she’s managed on her own to take care of the home, then one kid, then two kids, and working, etc.  Before I head to the airport, I generally verify that the house isn’t on fire, kiss the family goodbye and good luck, and see you in a couple of days.  God bless my wife, because she’s always survived somehow.  I remember one time I was heading out to Montreal in 2005, and we had just moved into our house a few days earlier.  She calls me while I’m waiting at the Newark airport gate, and tells me all the power is out in the house. It’s been hours, Josh’s infant formula would be going bad, etc.  What could I do at that point for her?  I mean it, my wife has done her bit for king and country on her own while I’ve been working.

Now for the reversal: My wife is off on a business trip (her first ever) this week, and I am the one home with the kids!  It was a last-second change in plans, and my wife was off to bring home the bacon.  I’m surviving so far, and it hasn’t been that bad.  Of course, my wife did more than verify the house wasn’t on fire before she left.  She made the baby food (and labelled and told me the schedule), she filed our 2008 federal & state taxes, did the kids’ laundry, and a slew of things to make my life easier while she was gone.

You know what this means?  Before I head out next Sunday, I gotta….. geez, how do I even get to her level?  I’ve already gotten a new appreciation for my wife. I don’t even know how to show it to her.  This is gonna be a thinker.

Killzone 2

My other redeemed-rewards-points PS3 game arrived today: Killzone 2.  I installed it this evening, but I haven’t had an opportunity to play it yet.  Too many other things to do around here than to play videogames.  I have played the downloadable demo, and the game is pretty neat.  Good graphics, good feel to it.  I’m not ready to play it yet, as I have to finish Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune first.

The premise of the game (turns out to be the 3rd in the series) is you take your battle against the alien invaders to their home planet.  Expecting a quick win, it turns into a slugfest.  Not much of a story, I gather, but it’s an opportunity to do cool stuff in a combat zone with your squad. I’ll play it in a couple of weeks, no rush.

I’m not sure why I find Indian cookies amusing, but I do.  Let’s be accurate.  It’s not the actual cookies — they’re delicious.  I find the packaging and marketing of them amusing.

• I love the wholesome boy on the Parle-G package.  He just screams “I’m round and healthy, because Mummy feeds me Parle-G with every hug.”
• You can successfully market anything, even “Dream Cream” cookies if Shah Rukh Khan must be eating them all day in his mansion.
• In the ingredients/nutritional information for the Good Day cookies, it lists how much fat, sugars, and “energy” are in every serving, measured in kJ.  Energy? So you could develop a next-generation fuel cell based on these cookies?

Indian cookies