Category: Friends & Family
The Paradigm Shift in the Crisper Drawer
Let me set the scene: It’s a standard afternoon, and The Girl (my 8-year-old force of nature) is playing Roblox on an old Android phone. It glitched somehow and wasn’t showing all her avatar items and I’m watching in real-time the oscillation between mild annoyance and total systemic meltdown. I’m…
The Trends Paradox
With the popularity of Stranger Things, “The Girl” has been watching 80s music videos recently and it made me aware of a trend I hadn’t noticed before now: most of these music videos and movies had heavy industrial themes. There’s an incongruity in seeing musicians playing “instruments of the future”…
The Magical (and Gross) Truth Behind Spotless Undies: A Guide to Laundry Miracles
If you’re anything like me, you’ve had that heart-sinking moment when you pull a pair of your kiddo’s underwear out of the hamper (or worse, off the floor) and think, “Oh no, this one’s a goner.” Those brown streaks just scream “trash bin”, but we’re a working class family so…
Everyone really is dumber than you; get used to it
Between living with my daughter and visiting my nephew during the Christmas season, I think often about how difficult life will be for people who’s brains are operating many steps ahead of most people. This is an open letter to those kinds of people who might need this pep talk……
Practical Guide to Handling “It’s Too Hard!” (The PDA Approach)
I was trying to help my daughter with homework the other day and ran into a weird situation. We got the point where I was saying things like, “write a 5”, then “draw a line”, then I’d hold her hand and try to write out the answer with her hand,…
A Happy Unicorn Story
The Girl had this kick where she absolutely HATED sad parts of stories. I tried to explain how it’s a common plot device called the “darkest hour” or “low point” and that it’s basically used in all storytelling, but she was not at a point of caring about what I…
Cold Day Outside
We went up to see my in-laws this weekend (after having been too sick to see them last weekend). There was still a lot of snow up near The Bridge even though we drove through rain to get here on Friday. Kids got me outside after breakfast against my better…
2008 vs Now
I normally don’t do these (because it’s likely feeding the Facebook facial recognition training data more-so than normal) but this one shows a pretty stark contrast between 22 and 39. I don’t know if either of these guys would recognize the other.
Get the Power!
Back before the internet, if you wanted to get through one of your favorite video games, you couldn’t Google for a walkthrough or watch YouTube play-through videos; if you got stuck, you were just stuck. Sometime in the early 90s, I found this Nintendo Power magazine at K-Mart and used…
Backyard Camping 2024
Backyard camping. It’s one of those activities that sounds really simple but always ends up being more of a pain than expected. The kids have been begging to “go camping” ever since last fall. Besides being the wrong season, Dear Wife keeps things planned out months in advanced and I…
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