Ladies and gents, I present to you your next generation American Idol. Apparently. Maybe.

And I don't mean Gina (based on age, not capability). Warning, it's a bit loud, but you have to keep the volume up a bit to hear A.J. He's been doing this a long time, actually.




By the way, if you want to see a lot of videos of A.J., I have them up on YouTube, but they're private, invitation-only...so if you have a YouTube account and want to see them, send me your email address there and I'll add you to "the list"...if not, no sweat...I plan to put the really cool ones up here from time to time.

I have a son, right? Sometimes I wonder, mostly because, well, this past month has been a hellish whirlwind of travel and time away from home. It bothers me. It really does. Since the end of April, I've been in Germany, Atlanta, Minneapolis and just got back yesterday from a return trip to northern Alabama and Georgia (via, you guessed it, Atlanta).

I mean, I do enjoy seeing places and all that stuff, but now, with the boy at home, I don't want to do so much. And I'm off to Utah in the beginning of June, too. I find that I do miss him...and I feel terrible that I'm not as much a part of his development as I want to be. He totally looks at Gina whenever she calls him or even shows up in his peripheral vision. Sometimes, he doesn't do that for me. Now, I know why that is and all that, and I understand that it will change over time. But still, there's a little part of me inside that is just eaten away by it somewhat. And then I feel slightly guilty and all.

So hopefully, travel will ease off somewhat. Some time.

Laz, in commenting on my last, now ancient post, asked about I.J. Well, I am, of course, unbelievably psyched about it. But, I've been out of town, and I'm going to be crazy busy this weekend too. So I'm not sure when I'll first see it. But I do know that I will likely see it a few times. I mean, Indiana Jones is the pinnacle for me. If I didn't have A.J. here, I probably would have gone to the midnight showing on Wed./Thu. and taken Thursday off of work, seriously.

But I'm TOTALLY psyched. And I, too, have had the South Side Andy theme stuck in my head, interchangeably with the Indiana Jones theme. Did I ever mention that Gerard won some WBBM radio contest for re-recording and reworking their jingle? Well, he did...couple of weeks ago. Won a whole bunch of tickets and tours and crap. So, pretty cool. But South Side Andy is still his ultimate best work ever. ;)