All growed up…
#1 son is going to be 16 next month. But he’s always going to be the two-year-old who literally climbed up me trying to get away from a bunch of amorous (or hungry) ducks. Today I found this on his debit card statement: Now it used to be the most common “Merchant Name” I’d see [...]
Manual Labor…
Just a quick note… My kids are driving me nuts about school… Especially my 9 year old… This weekend, I have a GREAT idea… I have a pile of rocks in my back yard.. I’m going to ask him to move them from one side of the yard to the other. When he’s done with [...]
A good weekend…
You know… it’s weekends like the one I spent right before I left for Seattle that make me remember that despite everything, life is good. Started out on Friday by taking the day off. Well not “off” but “work from home” without any actual work-from-home to do. So coffee with the wife, turned into a [...]
Dear Teenager…
I’ve wiped your butt, cleaned up your puke, held you when you were sick, taught you to swim, and this is how you thank me…
It’s not a school day…
My youngest son’s favorite whine/cry/scream when he doesn’t want to go to school.. “But it’s not a school day!” Yes, actually it is. The problem with having kids is that I have a good memory. I remember what *I* used to think as a kid. I’m also grown-up enough to know how incredibly wrong I [...]
Photographic Memory sucks…
My brain is *SUCH* an asshole. I have a photographic memory, but I have *ZERO* control over it. I recall the strangest stuff but usually can’t remember where I left my keys. I had another life. Before this one. Before the kids, before my wife (well, after her, but before this iteration.) I was married [...]
Father’s Day Part 2 – The Family’s Revenge
(If you don’t care about the trainwreck that is my family, you can skip this post. It’s really intended for an audience of one – but as I *AM* a blogger and it’s my nature to air dirty-laundry online…here goes) Wow – I forgot that my sister reads my blog from time to time. I [...]
To my dad on father’s day…(Rated R)
Dear Dad. You’ve been dead now for 13 years and as I don’t believe in any form of afterlife I know that you’ll never know how I feel. This isn’t for you this is for me. Fuck you. You were never a father to me, or more specifically, you were never my “Dad” You made [...]
An Early Father’s Day Post
Well, the time has come. Yet another in a series of manufactured holidays intended to encourage us to go out and spend money we don’t have on stuff we don’t need. Luckily women have it much easier than men most of the time when it comes to gift shopping. Tools or small personal electronics and [...]
To the *Childfree by choice* idiots:
I wrote this comment in response to a post on the ChildFreedom blog, which is apparently a site for people who don’t have kids to bitch about the lame decision they think people who do have kids made. Just remember Einstein, our kids are going to run the world you grow old and infirm in, [...]
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