Tag Archives: Family

Girls camp from a dad’s point of view 2

My wife is out of town at girls camp. I spent all day Monday with the kids. No one started bleeding. Nothing caught on fire. Everyone is still breathing. It was a good day. I think a father’s standards are a bit different than a mother’s. My wife’s standards for our children are somewhere above [...]

Bizarre midnight snack 1

My father in-law has great taste in many things including cars and computers. I admire him a lot. However, sometimes his actual taste baffles me. Whatcha got there Doug? Looks like some ice cream with chocolate sauce and a strawberry topping. Nice. Wait. Are those Wheat Thins? And string cheese? Yes. Along with three pickles [...]

Handyman 3

On Friday my almost-three-year-old son informed me that the heater (vent) under my desk was broken and that we were to fix it. Armed with nothing but a near-dead flashlight, a squirt gun and a stegosaurus we (apparently) fixed the heater which now works fine. Still. Ah, imagination. Image courtesy of here.

Laid off and other melancholy news 1

Welp, got laid off a couple weeks ago. It was a Wednesday, I think. Kinda sucks. Should have known something was up when my check engine light came on the night before. No hard feelings toward my former employers. This is the third round of layoffs in as many years and they broke the news [...]

Pleading the Fifth 2

I can neither confirm nor deny that I was listening to ZZ Top while going 105 mph in my father in-law’s BMW yesterday. But I’m sure that if I did, it would be awesome. Image courtesy of here.