And glacier melt has revealed 100 square meters of World War I munitions. The comments on that article are saddening.
Category: Daily Life
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
Teach them automotive maintenance young
My 16 year old son is driving now. Some good friends cut him a deal. They gave him a 1991 Ford Tempo GL and, in exchange, he drives their son to school. The only problem is the Ford Tempo isn’t running right now. The radiator is too gunked up. When I was 16, you could have given me the biggest lemon in the world and I would have spent every waking moment cleaning it, tuning it, staring at it, and driving it to Timbuktu. My 16 year old son doesn’t seem interested in the car in the least. Before we knew this car was coming into the family, I offered to lethelp him repair the Jeep but he wasn’t interested. This is not limited to my son. The 16 year old populace, at least those we know, seem genuinely disinterested in driving. I think we need to rename them Generation Xbox.
So, I set out to replace the radiator myself. And, surprisingly, ended up with a great helper. My seven year old stepped up, and single-handedly removed the air filter and all the connecting pieces.
And that lollipop is not cigarette inspired. Just a coincidence, but funny!
I’m sorry you don’t like my vocabulary choices
If my choice of adjectives cause you to end our conversation, then you are closed minded and fuck you.
From the mouths of babes
Wife: "May I buy kitten food?"
Me: "If I say no, will it go away faster?"
Apparently, that was not the correct answer.
How tired?
I woke up at 5am to discover I fell asleep last night sitting up.
I have the winning ticket for the $340 million Powerball jackpot!
So I bought a Powerball ticket last night since it was a rather large jackpot, $340 million to be exact. Driving down the interstate today, I noticed the lottery billboard shows the Powerball at $40 million which means someone won. Using quantum physics, I know that I am that winner because I have not yet observed the ticket (nor have I observed an announcement of the winner) therefore my ticket must simultaneously be every winning and every losing combination. Now I just have to figure out how to observe that winning number.
Today’s todos
Today is Sunday…a day to rest. Today’s resting list:
- Fix three computers
- Work on a client’s website to add recurring Paypal donations to their site
- Repair two cars
- Repair one lawnmower
- Buy propane and CO2 for the mosquito magnet
- Clean the house
- Do paperwork for cub scouts
- Do paperwork for boy scouts
- Do paperwork for me
- Do paperwork for the IRS
An easy day at last!
Coffee Java java java java
How important is coffee to me? I sent my daughter to Costa Rica to bring back some grounds. Today I broke into them and the coffee tastes great!
Parenting is hard
When I said I want to be "that tv dad" I didn’t mean Red.
I suck at parenting.
When I die
Let my tombstone read: "Could have been worse."
Doug’s Mantras
Be a knowledge seeker. -DM
Catch-22
My mind is so stressed that I cannot work; I must work to reduce my stress.
There’s a drum circle in my skull
I think my head is going to explode.
Vacation Done
I have just completed a wonderful vacation, yet I find myself so stressed that I cannot think straight and an unclear mind does not lend well to eliminating the causes of the stress. Stress in this regard is a self-perpetuating disorder. Once upon a time, a hunter in the field was met unexpected by a herd of lion too numerous for the hunter to engage. Fight or flight stimulus, aka stress, kicked in and the hunter fled to safety where his adrenaline returned to normal levels and the hunter calmed. In today’s society, our stress response rarely eases and our body and mind suffer. I have been under constant stress for twenty years. I am ready to escape to safety. I want to know calm.
Spider-Evan
Yesterday we took Evan rock climbing at The Climbing Center in Knoxville. He is a natural! Once attached to the rope, he shot up the 40 foot walls without fear. Understanding that his next handhold could be discovered by straightening a bent leg seemed intuitive to him. Noah made it up the wall twice before feigning to hunger. Cathy only had her hand sucked into the ATC (brake) once. My supple skin only lost a few layers of epidermis due to belaying. We had a blast!
