I love, love, love it.

New to me this week

This China conference in Florida today is going to be a shitshow. They're going to flatter him and tell him how great they think he is because that's a game the Chinese diplomatic corps likes to run on insecure, soft-headed, tin-pot dictators. And he'll give them everything.

Yes, I do feel lonely sometimes even though I'm married with kids and have many friends.

I had to google "filk." I'm still not quite sure what it is. Sci-fi inflected parody songs?

People stopped asking me for advice when my answer to everything was "burn the em-effer down."

No, it just has ground up splinters of wooden shoes baked in.

If you can see it, something is definitely wrong.

Hyperkinetic metal headaches.

Mine let me put her hair in a ponytail today. It was quite the milestone.

Yup. Maddening, ain't it!?

No, I just caught whatever my daughter had and it settled in and I can't shake it. I think I'm going to use her nebulizer and leftover steroids tonight because I'm desperate. It came with an adult mouthpiece too.

I had some huge raw oysters in Fells Point on Sunday while out with the family. The guy had some deal with this bar and had his stand there, buck a shuck, cash. Bought a half dozen that covered a disposable plate and got some sliders and a beer from the bar to round out the meal.

I've been too damn sick and avoiding mixing alcohol with what is already double the recommended dose of codeine cough meds every night, so I finally had a beer saturday for the first time in weeks. I was feeling decent and was out with the family in the city on a gorgeous day, so we had lunch at the outdoor seating at…

A potato!

The rise of the cream ales will bury your bitterness!!

WAFFLES!!!

100+ yards from a water source, 100+ feet from the trail, dig a 6 inch deep cathole with your pack trowel, cover and mark with an upright stick.

Alllll the time. It's usually that I look at my semester schedule on the last day and realize, oh my god, what is this class here on Wednesday! I never went to that class! I completely forgot about it! It's Novel Writing 207 and we have to have our novel finished today?!?!? I'm going to be in trouble!!

I had a dream that I was sleeping on the couch because I was sick and my wife came out of our bedroom and said the alarm had gone off and I needed to get up.