So for everybody I work with who reads this blog (read: the people who have the power to fire me), I’d like to apologize up front for the rather vulgar punch-line of this, my first post of 2010. I ask for mercy only on the basis that this is a true story and simply [...]
Uncle Vic had fun with his Facebook Profile pictures. The above is my favorite. He titled it “Alaskan Redneck”
My Uncle Victor passed away last night. He took his own life.
He had some horrible variety of cancer that was attacking his body and giving him agonizing back pain. While it likely wouldn’t have taken [...]
Dom didn’t get to go trick-or-treating yesterday. He had a pretty high fever and the buzzkill doctor said to keep him inside. We did as we were told. Does that make us good parents or bad parents?
Either way, Kerry and I were really sad for our little guy. We had spent the majority of the [...]
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My brother was a senior at Toledo during my freshman year at Bowling Green. He was happy to buy me beer, but he me made me abide by one rule: I was only allowed to request Milwaukee’s Best or Natural Lite. He told me that good beer was wasted on the underage. He was absolutely [...]
“You”
Dom has a fun new game where he randomly shouts out animal names and then humiliates me by making me act them out for his own twisted amusement. (Just for the record, what the hell sound does a giraffe make? It’s keeping me up at night.) Anyway, I try to entice Dominic into acting out [...]
Both hands where I can see them, mister
Well, I guess someone has to post after Steve, and it’s my turn. Since there is no appropriate way to follow up Jack’s first birthday, I have decided to write about the absolute least appropriate thing I can muster. If you haven’t watched Jack’s video, please do, and [...]
In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, or any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no [...]
I thought Friday was the night. Conditions were perfect. Dom picked his Elmo Potty Time Video to watch before bed, Kerry watched him chug two cups of water before I got home from work, and I was feeling lucky. Conditions were perfect.
Right as Elmo’s dad was having a little pee-pee party for Elmo, Kerry [...]
“Dom at 7 months—completely strung out on “paci”
Dominic turned two years-old today. That sweet little baby boy who slept on my chest has grown into a willful little toddler driven by an insatiable lust for mini vanilla wafers and demonic talking Elmo dolls. Obviously I’m kidding—I adore my little buddy and love the little [...]