Sep 07 2009
Dad’s Scatterbrained Thoughts (Part One)
Just a few thoughts on my week…
Not a good idea to grill chicken on a new grill. I knew the hot spots on the old grill and I had my grilling down to a science.
Not this bad boy. The hots spots were completely opposite. We were sporting inadvertent blackened chicken for supper tonight. That recipe won’t be making the cut.
On the other hand, thanks to the plumes of thick, white smoke, the exterior of the house will be sporting that, Someone’s grilling!” smell until the next rain.
Why can I go night upon night without seeing one single thing worth watching on TV and then suddenly be nailed with eight programs, all at the same time, that I want to see?
Yeah, I know…Tivo or a DVR.
Two problems with that…..1) too cheap and 2) too lazy with an attention span of a gnat.
‘Tis why I can’t watch rented DVDs with my wife. Massive urge to dump the movie to flit from this rotten tomato of a TV channel to that ripe peach on channel 40.
That is why the wife shakes her head and leaves the room when I am roaming channels, listening to a ballgame on the radio and thumbing through a magazine, all at the same time. I’m here, I’m there, I’m everywhere.
Do you rejoice because you finally found a solution to the slugs that were attacking the tomatoes in the garden or do you weep because you had to sacrifice some of your favorite beer to hasten their demise?
I, and the tomatoes, salute you Corona. You may not have satisfied my palate but you were the catalyst for my slug genocide. I’ll throw in a lime next time.
How can we spend all day running all three kids into the ground and watch them devolve into blubbering, cranky, eye-rubbing puddles but when we even think the word ‘bedtime,’ they tap into some unknown reservoir of energy?
Oh yeah, I forgot. Tomorrow, we go back to school, so we must huddle and formulate a plan that makes dad pull his hair out trying to get us out the door.
That means I should probably go to bed myself. Wonder what is on TV?
