"Murphy was an optimist!"
From the mouths of babes August 14, 2016 10:30 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad, TommyMy eldest son: "Dad, the mower won’t start."
Me: "I’ll take a look at it."
Cranks on first pull. I report back to my son, "Started on the first try."
My son with holier-than-thou indignity with a touch of anger and a dash of annoyance, "Well I’d sure like to know what you are doing different than me because I pulled that string for 10 minutes and it didn’t start."
Me: "I put gas in it."
From the mouths of babes June 12, 2016 9:21 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad, TommyTommy: "You were typing on my keyboard the other night weren’t you?"
Me: “Yes, I just wanted to try it out. I’m thinking about buying one.”
Tommy: “The guys in my forum got a good laugh out of that.”
Me: “Oh, your monitors were off but your computer was still on wasn’t it?”
Tommy: “Yup. You typed your initials and part of your name. Then ‘This would be a good keyboard for programming.’ and some random characters. I told them ‘Oh, that was just my dad playing on the keyboard.’ They got a good laugh out of it.”
- I’ve become THAT dad.
- it is time to change that password.
From the mouths of babes November 28, 2014 7:28 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, TommyCathy: "Why are you laying on the floor?"
Tommy: "Because it annoys Dad."
At least he is honest.
add a commentFrom the mouths of babes May 16, 2014 7:22 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Dharma, Family, From the mouths of babes, Molly, Pets, TommyLast night I asked my son if the dogs had enough food for this morning. This word "yes" I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
add a commentFrom the mouths of babes October 26, 2013 4:33 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad, TommyMy oldest son: "Can I test the spray paint here?"
Me: "You are standing too close to the house and our grill and other stuff that the wind could carry the overspray of the paint onto and cause your death. And I really don’t want to go to jail for the rest of my life."
From the mouths of babes May 24, 2012 12:40 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Daily Life, Family, Of Being Dad, Pets, TommyTommy: "We need a kitten."
Me: "No we don’t."
Tommy: "I’ll take good care of it."
Me: "When you have your own place to live, you can have a kitten."
Cathy: "If you clean the litter box for our cat every day for one month, you can have a kitten."
Tommy: "Yea!"
Me: "Make it six months."
Cathy: "One month."
Me: "I don’t want another cat!"
12 days later, Tommy: "12 days and I’ve cleaned the litter box every day."
I think I have roughly 18 days to build Tommy a small apartment near Amy’s clubhouse.
add a commentWednesday April 26, 2012 1:49 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, Cathy, Daily Life, Evan, Gray, Of Being Dad, Pets, TommyI cannot improve upon Cathy’s Pulitzer Prize worthy post. Do read!
Of Being Dad – Where I explain life December 20, 2010 9:57 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, Of Being Dad, Philosophy, TommyThis morning I had the occasion to explain life to my 20 year old:
add a commentYou eat, sleep, shit, shower, contribute to society, and play. Live a simple, honest life. Basically, follow the 12 points of the Scout Law and you’ll be happy.
Of Being Dad June 8, 2010 4:20 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Of Being Dad, TommyFile this under things that make me twitch.
Tommy, in a phone call to me: "By the way, my laptop hasn’t worked for the past week and a half or so. Says something about no bootable media."
Me: "Did you install anything recently or drop it?"
Tommy: "No but there are two screws missing on the bottom."
Of Being Dad June 8, 2010 4:20 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Of Being Dad, TommyFile this under things that make me twitch.
Tommy, in a phone call to me: "By the way, my laptop hasn’t worked for the past week and a half or so. Says something about no bootable media."
Me: "Did you install anything recently or drop it?"
Tommy: "No but there are two screws missing on the bottom."
Driving Video March 18, 2010 7:25 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, Of Being Dad, Publishing, Tommy, VideoFrom the mouths of babes November 10, 2009 7:32 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, TommyTommy, 19: "I can’t find the snake."
Me: "What happened?"
Tommy: "He was on my lap. I fell asleep."
The snake is fine. It just had a good explore.
add a commentFrom the mouths of babes September 18, 2009 6:23 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, TommyTeenager 1, after walking through the mud, cracks joke: "We’re lucky. In Tibet they’d pay thousands of dollars for this treatment."
Me: "You really don’t know what Tibet is, do you?"
Teenager 1: "No. Well, it has something to do with religion."
Teenager 2: "Yes, it’s in Jerusalem."
Me: "Uh, no."
Teenager 1: "I think it borders China."
Teenager 2: "Well it has something to do with the Jews."
Teenager 1: "It’s mostly a tourist attraction right now."
Teenager 2: "Yup. A tourist trap."
Happy Birthday Tommy! August 15, 2009 9:52 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, TommyMy son turns 19 today! I’m getting him a t-shirt that says, "I turned 19 and all I got was this stupid blog post." I am proud of Tommy’s accomplishments. He has grown up to exceed everyone’s expectations. Happy Birthday Tommy!
add a commentSchool Costs How Much?! August 12, 2009 1:02 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, Of Being Dad, TommyOoops. I screwed up the paperwork. The financial aid office has explained that we have to pay 100% out of pocket for my son’s Fall college…on Tuesday.
I’ve explained it to the younger children like this: "Since your brother is going to college, we are going to be eating Ramen…lots of Ramen!"
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