Regular Dad

The Brewers finally did it!  After a lengthy drought between visits, they soundly defeated the Rays to win their first-ever World Series.  And even though they're a rival, even I was rooting for them.  A classy team that plays the game the right way.  Well done, sirs. 

Tuesdays are logistically a rough day.  And I thought I'd conjured up a workable solution.  Unfortunately Cash had other plans.  And it broke me a little bit inside.  

Looking for a new show to watch?  I can solidly recommend Lanterns on HBO max.  

Enjoy!

It was a weekend of unfortunate events.  Nothing terrible or unrecoverable or that ruined the weekend.  But it just kept the weekend from really feeling like a success or relaxing.  2 steps forwards, 2 steps back.  

The new dishwasher is in.  Which is the key outcome of the weekend.  But of course there was no shortage of trials and tribulations.  But I guess alls well that ends well.  Or something.  

Lowe's is getting dangerously close to unforgiven territory.  We've all heard my rants about skipping Thanksgiving to fill the stores with Christmas decore.  But now they're skipping Halloween, too!  {deep breaths}

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My puppy learned a valuable lesson: never trust a f'n Tesla.  They're like really smug BWMs except the drivers may or may not be trusting a buggy software platform to control the 4,000 lbs death machine.  

Purdue Football got a win!!  We took down Illinois in an exciting, but comfortable-ish finish.  We weren't supposed to get any, and we already have 1.  The ceiling is the roof, baby!

And for the first time ever, a family member has unfriended me on Facebook after I called out his latest misinformation meme.  I'm surprised it's taken this long given some of the battles that happened during the election run-up.  Should add some nice spice to Christmas this year.

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Well, we survived a weekend of epic rain.  Thanks to me and my pop-up tent, thank you very much.  And I made some chicken stock from all the raw chicken bones I've been hoarding.  You'll thank me in like 2 months when my gravy hits.  

Our hockey antagonists completely let me down, but AC/DC did not.  Not their best show ever, but they're like 100 years old now.  And only 1/2 the band is there.  It was a great show and the kids loved it.  

And yeah, I've got a grievance to air.  You silly people that stop to let other folks turn left in front of you for NO FRIGGIN REASON.  It just doesn't end well.  Pocket your selfish altruism and just drive your stupid car. 

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My Parents' visit went really well...except for my mom bursting her eardrum saturday night.  And not in a fun way.  But otherwise it was great.  Their cut-glass conference went great, the travel was easy, and we all had a great time here.  

As we all predicted, the Bears offense went from record high, to a near shut-out.  Only they could pull off that crap.  And Caleb popped a hammie.  It sounds like it might not be bad, but he's missing at least a few games.  Like the big Eagles game.  Yay.  

Which is why I feel less guilty about not watching the entire Bears game to play hockey.  There's a potentially spicy sub-plot building and I most definitely don't want to miss the potential shenanagans.  Fingers crossed for both...

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Well, we once again have a puppy in the house.  We adopted a "shepard mix" from a woman I know who was serving as an emergency foster.  Was I 100% ready for the mental load of taking care of a puppy all day?  Probably not.  But he's pretty awesome and so far makes up for it.  

When your kids comes runnign into your office and yells "Dad, the basement is leaking!  From the floor!" you go running into the basement.  Luckily he meant the ceiling, but that still means lots of problems that I didn't need on a Wednesday night.  

And don't get me started on the end of that Purdue-Wake Forest game.  I'm not even. 

Enjoy!!

Move over Alice Cooper, because school is officially un-out for summer.  What?  Whatever, both kids are in school and taking buses.  Does that mean everything is chiller?  Nope.  Just means I'm driving less before 4pm and than a poop-ton b/t 4-9, while also trying to cook dinner.  

Peacemaker, of all shows, sent me on an introspective journey.  And I gained some insight as to why 1 aspect of the MAGA crew annoys me so much.  Just because a situation isn't directly your fault, doesn't mean you can't do something to make it better.  

Middle West Spirits Pumpernickel Rye.  We're doing another review!  Is this just more meh stuff from a craft distillery, or is this worth bugging your local store to get in stock?

Project Hail Mary was met with mixed reviews in this house, and you might be surprised at who had what review. 

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New Season, same energy, same me.  Are there any promises for content or format changes?  Listen and see...

I'll keep this short (because I'm posting late and rushing), but a bad movie got me all reflective on my own Senior Prom.  Which was a non-trivial number of years ago.  Did the weekend go the way I thought it would?  Nope.  Was it still a memorable event?  Obviously, because I actually remember it enough to discuss it. 

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Yes folks, I'm fine.  It took over a week to get there, but it did happen.  And just to wrap everything up, I'll go over some of the higher-level points.  Things that were triggering me, memories, all that stuff.  But then we can all be done with the heavy lifting.  

And I finally thought of a positive spin to put on the ole Subaru Feugo incident.  And really, this is the narrative that I'm going to go with from now on.

Enjoy!

I'm not going to say much here, as the episode does it for me.  This was recorded over a week ago not long after it happened.  So this was part of my healing process, but also some of my rawest.  

I thought about not actually putting this out, but I feel it has value.  Not everything can be anger and made-up words and dumb jokes.  

Enjoy.