Earlier this evening I was having a splendid chat with myself…
“John, my good fellow, I do say you’re having quite the evening.”
“Mighty good of you to notice old chap.”
“If you don’t mind my saying, you’re doing a superb job.”
“Why thank you. As it happens, I don’t mind at all John.”
This is where Cheryl rudely…
I noted two unspectacular events this week. There was nothing extraordinarily special about these two unspectacular events, I just happened to note them. To be honest, they’re the two most recent unspectacular events and I just happened to feel like writing at this moment, so here they are, in order of occurance.
1. Adam was weighed and measured at the doctor’s office. (Have you…
Beth and I were leaving Tae Kwon Do and I heard the sound of sudden submersion behind me. I looked back and saw Beth up to her shins in water.
(Defensively) “Dad, I stepped in a puddle by accident!”
(Angrily) “Beth, that’s the only puddle in the parking lot and you had to walk about ten feet out of your way to get to it. The only thing accidental about it is you…
We were making our second slow pass as a family through the drive-up window at our local pharmacy, and I couldn’t help but reflect on the circumstances that brought us to this place.
If this were an interesting story, this is where some nifty hook would be. Alas, it is not an interesting story. All I’ve got for you is two adults and two children in line at a drive-up pharmacy window.
All Children’s Hospital is in a nice part of St Petersburg (FL). Tree lined brick roads and the understated architecture of the early 20th century create a sedate setting. There’s just one problem though; when you’ve gotten up at three in the morning to take your son to the hospital minor surgery, the last thing you need is to use words like “sedate.”
On the bright…
Christmas as an adult is not as fun as Christmas as a child. Just the fact that you’re not up at 4:30 a.m. with giddy enthusiasm on Christmas morning is evidence enough. Then again, maybe you are (in which case… as the British might say, “Bloody good for you”).
None of this means that Christmas can’t be good, or even down right fun for adults. Even balanced against…
Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose, and sometimes you do both at the same time. Take yesterday afternoon… the Patriots absolutely destroyed the Bucs. As a fan of both formerly hapless franchises, this was a terrible game to watch… and a great game to watch.
More and more, I find that this sort of thing is the rule in my life. Have a healthy child… and worry about him conking…
A week or so ago my wife dropped a Best Buy bag in my lap. “Here,” she says, “this is for you.”
I peeked in the bag and what did I see? A new Palm handheld just for me.
Since my PDA is basically my life (while I’m at work), and since I’ve been carrying around two half dead PDAs for the last four months (each was broken in a manner that complemented the other), a…