After several days of issue after issue with my website (errors I made) I was finally able to rebuild the site. Then, my web service company decided to let their servers crash and not fix them for OVER A WEEK! I thought that Zoe would have her driver’s license before the servers were fixed, but again, I was thinking the worst.

Anyway, service is now back up and I am in the process of re-uploading the lost photos and lots of new ones that have been sitting on a compact flash card anxiously awaiting exposure to all the ZStation faithful fans.

Give me a day or so to complete the uploads and then I will be able to resume the funny Zoe stories.

I can not apologize enough and thank ALL my reader for your patience in this most troubling of times!

Oh yeah, Zoe thanks you too!

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To all my faithful readers, I want to apologize for the the problems with the website. The hosting company has had some recent problems with the database program causing the errors. I hope to have this resolved in the next few days.

Thanks for your patience.

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Yes you read that correctly. Zoe has some frequent olfactory visitors - nose goblins. These goblins have long been in hiding from when they used to be called “hangers” and found in the nasal passages of her father - me. It is purported that a little boy named Eric used to have frequent bouts with these gruesome little nose foes many years ago. I can neither confirm nor deny, I have constitutional rights afforded me by the 5th Ammendment.

Anyway, Zoe seems to let these visitors in her crib in the wee hours of the night. The like to camp out in her nostrils. I’m not gonna lie, she has her mother’s nostrils but her Dad’s visitor issues. Every morning Mommy and Daddy have to evict these little critters from the Zo-smell motel, so that Zoe can breathe easy and eat breakfast.

Zoe apparently doesn’t mind the visitors and tries to fight us as we serve them with eviction fluid and suction tubes. Oncde they are sent packing Mommy and Daddy (and Zoe) can breathe a sigh of relief (ha ha, I crack myself up) until the next time the goblins return.

Daddy can’t help but feel responsible for these nasty hangers out, passing them on in some weird genetic debacle.

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The birth of my daughter was an unbelievably life changing event. One of the most life changing things about it is how my schedule changes based on when Zoe sleeps. It really boils down to this simple equation:

Z + S*X = P + F

Z= Zoe
S= Sleeping
X= Unknown amount of time
P= Parents
F= Free time

Who would have thought that math would play such an intricate role in parenting? Anyway, it’s funny. I find myself anxiouly awating Zoe to fall asleep like a sprinter on the starting line of a race. When she goes out, I’m like “OK, now what can I do, gotta use my time wisely, who knows how long it will last” Of course, in my classic ‘too lazy to breath’ style, I squander the time. Piss it away on TV, the computer, eating and general slothiness.

Then, when she wakes up and I havent gotten one damn thing done I needed to, I get mad and try to lul her back to sleep. I’ll try anything and I get somewhat frantic about it. I’ll tell Kris all my ideas to get her to sleep after she just woke up. Not appreciated. And the worst, you ready for this? When she wakes up, I want to sleep. Why? because I didn’t think to do it while she was sleeping.

Man, I am a dumbass. Gotta go, she waking up and I need to figure out how to get her back to sleep.

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