Ketchikan is what I thought it would be. I love the vistas every day. Ocean, eagles, mountains and white trash. My job has been great as well. There is always a balance of hope and skepticism in my mind, but hope is prevailing here and now. There is plenty of work and all of us have willing hearts and minds. Though the short 5 months we spend here will go quickly, it will stamp a firm impression in all of our lives. Not Luke though. He probably won’t remember anything. He probably forgot that I was here in the house since I am on the John blogging after I crushed Ashley’s 4 mile run time. He will be so happy to see me again.
Posted 3 weeks ago
We wear Luke out as often as possible and the gym is a great place. He took a break from running to get down with his bad self.
Posted 3 weeks ago
We went to Rotary Beach at low tide to see the star fish and other marine life and we were not disappointed. Luke touched the star fish and tried to run into the cold ocean. Ashley was enjoying poking all the sea creatures with a stick and two of them squirted water at her. Cam was surprised to find that star fish are incredibly hard and hard to get off of the rocks. The weather was cold and rainy so our visit was short but we had fun.
Posted 1 month ago
Luke is a crazy son. He is constantly finding ways to inflict pain on himself.
Posted 1 month ago
Actual Rant
That last rant wasn’t ranty. Here is my real beef.
My friends started talking about the hunger games and my buddy said that he had read the books, then he corrected himself and indicated that he hadn’t actually read the books but had listened to them on cd. If a person listens to a book on tape, can they say that they read the book? Is this offensive to you book readers out there?
Here are the two sides’ best arguments as far as I can tell. (I can tell a reasonably far distance.)
You cannot say you read the book because reading includes visually or physically (Braille) interpretating written material. It is possible to listen and understand a book while being illiterate.
You can say you read the book because all that is important is that the imformation is communicated the mind from any sense (sight, hearing, taste, seeing ghosts.)
I think the strongest argument is made in the direction of not being able to say you read the book. If that is the case, why not tell people you listened to the book on tape? There seems to be a certain negative connotation associated with listening to a book rather than actually reading it. To avoid the shame, a person may simply indicate that they had read the book. This is fine with me but is a odd thing to lie about.
In the end, it’s just bad taste to tell someone who has listened to the book on tape that they now need to actually turn a page in order to join the book reading association. Just enjoy each others common knowledge that the hunger games movie did a fair job of representing the book.
In that same vein, I would still rather just watch the movie. The movie is always better than the book. Can I say that I read the book now that I watched the movie? Now that’s a stretch. But so is Lenny Kravitz as a costume designer. And Donald Sutherland as an evil guy.
Posted 1 month ago
Rexburg was cold today but Luke still got out to the park to get some wiggles out. Love that kid. Seems like his growth has accelerated and he is gaining a little weight in his face. So happy to see that out of him.
Posted 1 month ago
Weekly Rant
This week I am going to give you a little juicy info on your boy, Dave Lambson. I am a chronic thinker. I really enjoy talking to myself to think through things. It helps refine thought when you actually say it, hear it, and analyze it. It creates a level of accountability for my ideas. The art of talking to yourself also creates a social problem for oneself. A person that speaks to oneself is unpredictable. To avoid this, I speak to myself silently, in my mind. At some point in my teenage years, my introspection led to narration. I can’t explain it. I become a third party to my own life and analyze my actions. Showering, driving, running, filling prescriptions, or whatever I am doing and not engaged with another person in conversation, you can bet I am narrating my life. “Dave drove slowly to work today, listening to pandora, sunglasses easing the burden I the sun; life is good.” It is really dumb but I do it. This week I have run into a hitch. I have been listening to a lot of standup comedy on pandora. It is cracking me up. It has in the process, altered my narration to a comedy routine. Instead of, “Dave washed his hair with the tea tree shampoo today and enjoyed the tingle,” it is now, “So this guy washed his hair today with tea tree shampoo…”. The problem with the whole thing is my habit of analyzing humor. My uncles made me a little insecure about my humor as a child and with my introspective nature I began analyzing my humor. Any Lambson does it. We have a standard. So now, my narration has become work. I analyze my life in joke form, and then analyze the joke. This is problematic because funny events don’t occur as often as I narrate. So I am incredibly frustrated with my new pattern.
Posted 1 month ago
Luke loves to climb and did most of the work getting up this…thing. He loves having Cam around. Kids need uncles.
Posted 1 month ago
Luke posted a 2 and 6 record in this game. He woke up from a nap and got enough sleep so he was unusually happy. Ashley must have exhausted him at the park. Luke went down the big slides all by himself. At the end he was diving head first down them.
I dedicate this blog to my wife Ashley. This will not be a complex blog. It is simply the thoughts, pictures, and videos of an average, simple man. Please enjoy a glimpse into the life of a happy man.
