I feel like I’ve been busy this week, but probably a good part of that has been spent with the little dog while my wife was away. Stuff like that is pretty much exactly what I envisioned when I decided I wanted her/we should have her.
I accidentally stepped on her foot Thursday night….and she took it as I wanted to play with her.
It’d be an interesting case study to see the takes on the different care styles. I leave her alone for the most part, but we run on my schedule. It’s time for breakfast. It’s time to go out. It’s time for interaction/play. She can push things, but I tend to remain firm, which frustrates her sometimes.
She was very upset that I wouldn’t give her peri-peri chicken. Sorry, sweetie, but this is my dinner. You had yours. I will give you ear scratches after I’m finished, and have washed my hands.
It would have been fascinating to see how we’d have been as parents. I think I’ve written her before why we’re not having kids. Yes, there’s the flippant answer that we know which South Part characters we’d produce, but I can’t do the things
There’s a lot of things I think it’s important for a dad to be able to do that I physically can’t; it probably wouldn’t be fair to him, or me. (Yes, I said, “him;” in something like four generations, there’s about three girls out of probably 25 kids…..)
I started writing this while watching overage of the LA fires.
I was listening to this, and getting angrier by the minute.
Do I feel bad that you and those you love lost things that are dear to you? Of course. But for the past decade-plus, I’ve heard your explain why people like me may not enter the ranks of your affluence. I’m privileged simply because of my sorta-observable race, and gender.
The subject line in the draft was “GFY,” which really summed out my feelings.
That fed into Biden’s farewell address.
I was having trouble finding words to describe everything that was wrong with it.
Ted Oberg, with whom I worked when he was at WAVy/FOX43 in Tidewater gave a glowing review.
It was so adoring that I had to call him out on TwiX. The folks from The Fifth Column had pretty much the same reaction I did, though it was delayed by probably a day and a half.
Same sort of “GFY” reaction.
I understand that Ted was playing to his, and WRC’s audience in DC, but I really think Biden, when talking about a tech oligopoly, was expressing that threatens what he has spent his entire adult life fostering.
You attend a private boarding school. You marry someone of a similar standing. You attend a high-priced private university (think Georgetown, GWU). You produce two kids better than yourself. You buy a property that’ll never decline in value, mortgage it forever, and instead of paying off the loan, you invest in whatever Rep. Pelosi is buying.
The tech bros didn’t do that. Zuck is a f’n dropout. Must stop.
Again, GFY.
Monday should be interesting. We’ll see how things go.