Year: 2022

“Smash your guitar during the 17th bridge of ‘Oceans’: Looks cool, and you never have to play ‘Oceans’ again.” 🤣
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Really, though, please don’t ever play “Oceans” again. Ever.

Oh noes. The replacement battery on my OG iPod may have finally died.

#GeekDad win: I have successfully sucked the middle child into the Dune-verse. We finished the 2021 film tonight, he is appalled it will be another year before part 2 is out. We shall soon commence the reading of the tome.

(And since there are NO OTHER DUNE BOOKS, it will be fine.)

The levels of hatred these folks manifest toward people trying to show there are options beyond abortion.

I pity them.

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The fact that I can use the Command key on the Mac for both cool-switching between apps, and Cut/Copy/Paste, whereas I have to switch between Alt and Control on Windows for these same functions, the latter is such a real pain, figuratively, and some times literally.

This popped in my head earlier, so you can share in the earworm, too:

Bonus: Milton Berle, and . . . Milton Berle.

Over the past couple of days, I have rediscovered the joy of my Takeya hydro-flask. The ice retention capabilities of this thing blows away my Yetis. I need to order a smaller one, though; the one I have is the 32-ounce monster.

With the youngest at a sleepover for a friend’s birthday, I introduced the original #TopGun to the two teenagers tonight. Their verdict: despite some moments of “cheesiness,” it is “alright.”

I’ll take it.

Do your kids love doing chores? If so, count yourself blessed. Otherwise, check out the latest episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast: empoweredparent.podbean.com/e/2022060…

I’ve been to the Sheldrick center in Kenya. Fascinating place, and had a baby elephant* lean on me while it was getting loved on by complete strangers.

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*Being leaned on by a baby elephant is still propping up an enormous amount of weight.