What are you most looking forward to?

My two year old son is just learning a few words right now. I’m looking forward to the day I can have an honest conversation with him, explain things using words, and get to know what’s going on in his tiny little adorable head.
- How's it going? Did you get any insight into what he thinks about yet?
  
  Yes! Mostly “That’s a car! That’s a truck!” And as his interest and vocabulary is growing, “that’s a hydraulic shovel!” and “a concrete boom pump!”
  I am in fact learning the names of all kinds of construction equipment I never knew before. I never knew that a tiny front loader was called a skid steer before. Apparently, they’re called that because they turn by having one pair of wheels go faster than the other, literally steering by skidding. I’ve also learned the specific names of different varieties of fire trucks thanks to him. There’s pumper trucks, ladder trucks, refraction ladder trucks… there’s a special prototype in Japan with tank treads named the Red Salamander for disaster area work too. I also now know the difference between an excavator, a hydraulic shovel, a mini-shovel, and a micro shovel, on sight. I am also learning the names of specific Japanese bullet train models… that’s the the nozomi, that’s the hayabusa and komachi (they sometimes connect to each other by the nose), that’s the tsubasa…

Moving out of Texas. Waiting for the school year to end, and we are getting out of this backwards state.
- Were you able to move out yet? How are things going?
  
  We're currently under contract to sell our house in Texas. 2 more weeks until we close. My wife has been up in CT looking for houses, but the market up there is insane. We've put in 6 offers on houses and lost 3 of them. Still waiting to hear on the others. But house or not we are out of Texas at the end of this month.
- Best decision I ever made. I knew I wanted to live away from DFW, but fam..... finally too many good job opportunities for us both were just not available in the south so we made it happen. Cost of living is higher but QOL is much better. Good luck!

I think I’m the only person in the universe who is actually looking forward to the PlayStation Portal handheld being released in a couple of weeks. I loved the Backbone One but it was annoying having to take the case off every time I wanted to play on my phone. The PlayStation Portal will fit my use case very well.
- Two years later, did it live up to your expectations?
  
  Not to be a shill, but it exceeded my expectations! I use it often and with a hardwired PS5 I’ve had absolutely no network issues.
- I'm excited but I'm waiting for reviews first. I have a steam deck so I'm really just looking for some screen comparisons. I miss the haptics when remote playing the PS5 on the deck

I've been wondering that for a while. I'll let you know when I think of something.

Having a secure and comfortable, well-paying job with health benefits before I die.
Sigh…
- Ain't gunna happen. No job is safe. Been laid off 5 or 6 times in my career with "safe" jobs

I've been feeling a bit down lately but I'll be buying a new car soon so that's cheering me up a bit.
- Nice what kind
  
  Not sure yet, but I've got some money saved up! It will be a used car but I'm ok with that

Getting this covid shot over with. Currently in the waiting room and I HATE needles.

- Season 2 is really picking up for me. Although admittedly I was hooked from the first episode of season one.
  Have been trying to get through One Piece at the same time which seems to have an endless amount of episodes. Definitely keeping me busy while I wait for new JJK.
  
  Did you catch up with One Piece yet? What did you think of it?

I've got about 50 books "saved for later" on amazon. I expect to have the spare cash to buy them all sometime soon.
- Hey, that's great! I hope you can have a nice cozy winter and read through a few of them.

Looking forward to this weekend when I'm finished giving the best man speech at my friend's wedding. I'm sure it will be fine but the knowledge it is coming up has been intruding on my relaxation time this week.