Good morning and happy Monday, Buffistae.
The sun is out, the garbage trucks are making a ruckus, and we had an earthquake last night.
I slept through it. Which bodes well for my house and the bedrock granite it sits upon, and the old Redwood framework that holds it together.
This is Birthday Week in our family, with Emmett turning 29 tomorrow and Matilda turning 19 on Friday.
If you've been following along since Emmett was in single digits and Matilda was an announcement in Beep Me, you are now encrusted with years like a ship desperately in need of dry dock.
We'll go out to dinner on Saturday to celebrate.
Birthday Week has always been the unofficial kickoff to holiday season for us, with JZ beginning work on Matilda's Halloween costume and the dimming of the days.
After Emmett went to college it was also the time for us to reconnect with EM because it wasn't uncommon to go half a year without seeing her.
That early commitment EM and I made when we split up to spend all birthdays, Thanksgiving and Xmas together is the thing that made her a part of our family.
That commitment is a much easier said than done proposition, and it is truly a wonderful thing you did for your family.
Happy family birthday week!
It is almost as baffling to me that Emmett and Matilda are adult-aged as it is that my OWN child (who is also, clearly, A TINY INFANT BORN MERE DAYS AGO) is as well.
I’m not sure why you must lie about ages of your children.
I’m not sure why you must lie about ages of your children.
Time makes liars of us all!
For example, twelve years ago I was 52. Clearly false!
At home for a week in Ft. Lauderdale. When I got up yesterday morning it was in the 30s and my neighbor was coming over to do laundry because his well was dry. Bad drought up there, hoping for some rain relief this week. When I arrived last night after 11 PM it was pouring rain and nearly 80. Ah, home sweet humid home.
Brendon has been busy the last month working on surprises for me including furniture and built-in construction stuff, as well as perfect balcony dining options. He also had vases of roses all over the place. I go north every summer, but this year he seems to miss me more than usual.
Hopefully while I am down here this week we can find some kind of an option for my son since he can't stay in either my place in Otter Lake, or here. In the meantime, I am relaxing.
ABC/Disney caved to pressure and is putting Kimmel back on the air.
Such craven corporate behavior in all directions.
12 years ago, I wasn't.
Yeah, I'm pleased, I guess, but I wish it was like "We would never do that, ever," instead.
Awww, good work, Brendon!
ABC/Disney caved to pressure and is putting Kimmel back on the air.
When you piss off the Disney adults I guess you lose tons of money. Political regimes come and go (please go, current regime!), but a happy Disney adult is an investment that pays for decades.
Whoa, Monday is Deadsville here.
People must be working and shit.
Today's exciting mail, an art book I bought from Century Guild many months ago and forgot that I ordered. It is "an art nouveau bestiary by Anton Seder": [link]
