Dad turns 63 today and still acts about 25, thankfully.
17 thoughts on “March 5, 2018: Dad”
It's been a trying visit from Dr. Chop's dad. I may write up a father doesn't know best post in a day or two.
I'm not that far from 63, and my wife says I do well with the K-2 kids choir because I'm in the same age group.
Runner daughter has been in Dominican Republic on a trip she won from her work. She and a few others from her work (including her boss and wife, and company owner and wife) spent Thur-Sun there, and were supposed to come home last night. Apparently a passenger on the return flight cancelled/got cancelled between when they checked their bag and when the flight was supposed to leave, so there was an "extra" passenger on board -- the whole shebang took 1½ hours and made her miss the connection in Ft. Lauderdale. So, instead she gets home later Mon. afternoon instead.
Still, it was a paid vacation, she got travel vouchers and frequent flier miles, and even found a $20 bill, so we don't feel that badly for her.
I guess if you’re going to miss work because of flight delays on the way back from vacation, getting stuck in the airport with your boss & the owner of the company makes it a pretty iron-clad excuse.
Not intending to have a theme of sixty-threes, but a few days ago former Orioles pitcher Sammy Stewart passed away at age sixty-three.
On the good side, Mrs. A is sixty-three and is feeling fine.
So far today I have experienced rain, sleet, thunder, thunder while sleeting, snow, thunder while snowing.
I had the great fun of driving 20 miles on unplowed roads through this stuff. I'm hoping the rest of the Nation has been able to avoid it better than I did.
I just stay away from the mountain roads. No problem.
Ichiro is returning to Seattle. Trey and Mrs. SoCal will definitely be happy about this.
I'm hoping against hope that he can fend off Father Time for a little longer and have a halfway decent season as a fill in. The game is better with Ichiro.
Father Time caught up a decade ago. He hasn't reached two (r)wins in a season since 2010. fWAR puts it at 2012 but still.
Well, obviously, but....I mean more in the "sorta kinda appearing like a major leaguer" sense.
As a onetime Washingtonian, I’m happy about it as well. Get this man another thirty year contract!
ID the AU
Well, the shoe is dropping: you guys have had enough creampuffs -- whose up-and-coming (?) signature is this?
Someone send that rookie to the Killebrew School of Penmanship.
If baseball really wants to do something about pace of play, how about doing something to discourage managers from making pitching changes with 2 outs and nobody on base, especially in the ninth inning.
dude, it's Spring Training, all bets are off
That made it worse. The pitcher had faced 3 batters and they had to make a pitching change with 2 outs and no runners on base. Not that I was paying that much attention to the game, but it still seemed pretty ridiculous.
It's been a trying visit from Dr. Chop's dad. I may write up a father doesn't know best post in a day or two.
I'm not that far from 63, and my wife says I do well with the K-2 kids choir because I'm in the same age group.
Runner daughter has been in Dominican Republic on a trip she won from her work. She and a few others from her work (including her boss and wife, and company owner and wife) spent Thur-Sun there, and were supposed to come home last night. Apparently a passenger on the return flight cancelled/got cancelled between when they checked their bag and when the flight was supposed to leave, so there was an "extra" passenger on board -- the whole shebang took 1½ hours and made her miss the connection in Ft. Lauderdale. So, instead she gets home later Mon. afternoon instead.
Still, it was a paid vacation, she got travel vouchers and frequent flier miles, and even found a $20 bill, so we don't feel that badly for her.
I guess if you’re going to miss work because of flight delays on the way back from vacation, getting stuck in the airport with your boss & the owner of the company makes it a pretty iron-clad excuse.
Not intending to have a theme of sixty-threes, but a few days ago former Orioles pitcher Sammy Stewart passed away at age sixty-three.
On the good side, Mrs. A is sixty-three and is feeling fine.
So far today I have experienced rain, sleet, thunder, thunder while sleeting, snow, thunder while snowing.
Stupid Smarch weather.
I had the great fun of driving 20 miles on unplowed roads through this stuff. I'm hoping the rest of the Nation has been able to avoid it better than I did.
I just stay away from the mountain roads. No problem.
Ichiro is returning to Seattle. Trey and Mrs. SoCal will definitely be happy about this.
I'm hoping against hope that he can fend off Father Time for a little longer and have a halfway decent season as a fill in. The game is better with Ichiro.
Father Time caught up a decade ago. He hasn't reached two (r)wins in a season since 2010. fWAR puts it at 2012 but still.
Well, obviously, but....I mean more in the "sorta kinda appearing like a major leaguer" sense.
As a onetime Washingtonian, I’m happy about it as well. Get this man another thirty year contract!
ID the AU
Well, the shoe is dropping: you guys have had enough creampuffs -- whose up-and-coming (?) signature is this?
Someone send that rookie to the Killebrew School of Penmanship.
If baseball really wants to do something about pace of play, how about doing something to discourage managers from making pitching changes with 2 outs and nobody on base, especially in the ninth inning.
dude, it's Spring Training, all bets are off
That made it worse. The pitcher had faced 3 batters and they had to make a pitching change with 2 outs and no runners on base. Not that I was paying that much attention to the game, but it still seemed pretty ridiculous.