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Here’s to year full of animating and entertainment. ‘09 here we come!

So the Ratatouille DVD/Blu-ray is out now! I’ve scoured the disc (Blu-ray version) and love all the extra features. I briefly appear in the “Good enough to Eat” documentary when though show Michael Walsh cooking food for the staff which is more than I expected. The box with my name on it also shows up directly in the background seconds before Remy is trapped but it is blurred out too much to read (look for the “Barrett” logo). The box literally takes up 1/3 of the screen but the camera’s depth of field is shortened to only show the rats. Oh well. It was still an amazing movie to work on and I loved every minute of it. I still can’t believe my name is in the credits, it is surreal. One of these days I’ll have to share some cooking/photography adventures that I experienced! Let’s just say the cooks in the Pixar kitchen got used to stepping over me…

Hello once again my friendly blog!

As previously discussed, we (as in you and I) are slowly rebuilding our once-spirited communicative relationship! A lofty goal that I started mid-way through an extended bachelor period which was rife with free time and boredom. Yet, once that bachelorhood ended with the return of my wife and daughter and new task reared its head: moving to a new house!

Writing blog posts while sitting alone in an semi-organized apartment? Superbly easy!

Writing blog posts while transporting a disassembled computer to a box-filled, sans-internet, disaster zone of a house? Not so much!

You never know how much stuff you can accumulate over time until you are forced to box it up and move it. But fear not, for while the boxes remain the computer has been reassembled and the internet has returned. And thus my first post-promise post has appeared, albeit lacking solid info.

So until I have rectified my minor box infestation, further information will have to wait. But I shall leave you with this last tasty tidbit: My new house has stairs, a first for my dwellings! As such, the first thing I did was re-enact the famous Robin song shown below!

Toodles,

-Jay “I shall never say toodles again” E.

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Of course I would be remiss if I didn’t include the video of this post’s namesake.

Ah, my sweet little blog. How I miss thee. Much has transpired since we last spoke: My family grew by one just a few weeks after our last meeting, and soon after you were placed in a dark digital corner while your more family-oriented brother took over the oft-neglected reporting duties. But I have returned, my precious blog, renewed with vigor, passion, and a perplexity caused by a newly-purchased-yet-two-decades-too-late Rubik’s cube (as well as a temporary bachelorhood created by the vacation of 2/3s of my family to the ancestral home of Arkansas). As I have recently cast my colored cube aside, I am now ready to begin the renewal of our relationship.

But let us not get too hasty. The flame of our relationship is one that should not be rekindled too fast; for I fear it may burn out all-to-soon . In previous times, a return from blogging neglect was succeeded by a torrent of information pertaining to the recently-transpired key points of my life . When said torrent ran dry, the dark silence of neglect crept back into our relationship.  Alas, nothing remained but the awkwardness of two once-fiery spirits coldly staring at each other, longing for fuel to revive their passionate pyre yet fearing the resources were permanently exhausted. As such, I will not extinguish our reborn flame with a deluge of information. Instead I shall carefully drip delicate drops of my life over a carefully selected set amount of time! Doing so will allow this blogging phoenix to grow and return to the magnificent creature it once was: strong and elegant; vivid and informative; a fiery behemoth able to to defend against the onslaught of the icy leviathan of apathy and neglect!

Thus my Homeric metaphor of fire and water concludes and I vow to return with less elemental (and somewhat sophpmoric) posts!

Truly yours,

-Jay

(In other words: I had a baby, forgot about the blog, 1 year has passed, the blog is now reopened, and I will post about the past 15 months over time so I don’t run out of things to say)