Based on my recent delving my Favorite
Panamanian has decided I need to change my food and beverage consumption
protocols. As I’m getting older I’m starting to think that may not be a bad
idea. Wingman put it pretty succinctly a couple days ago, “You’ve had a good
run, now’s the time to decide if you want a lot more years or just a few”. The
primary target of my wife’s dietary campaign will be the amount of red meat I
devour which even I will admit is excessive, maybe even impressive. Dead animal
flesh has been a staple of my diet ever since I escaped my mother and the requisite/hated
preponderance of vegetables. More to follow as we explore options.
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| FBR Created her Own Tie Dye Shirt! |
My wife is more than a little
distracted right now which is good news on the subject of the preceding
paragraph. My mother in law is due in tomorrow night so my Favorite Panamanian
has been on a month long cleaning binge scouring the already clean house to
antiseptic levels. I’ve learned not comment on this because I usually get my
head handed to me while simultaneously questioning my priorities in life. It
will settle down once she arrives and my wife will unconsciously adopt a more
circumspect approach because my mother in law loves me. It’s not what you know,
etc, etc.
Date night yesterday so we somehow
ended up at the movie theater and saw Spiderman Far From Home. The action takes
place shortly after the events of the Avenger Infinity War and there are some
very funny bits about the five years half the population went missing. Tom
Holland really inhabits the part now although he can be a bit whiny at times.
Luckily he has Zendaya around to give him a needed edge. The plot is timely as
it explores deceptions within illusions as to what people think they’re seeing
both in the news and directly in front of them. Who can you trust to tell the
truth could be the defining lament of the current era. Peter Parker is on a
school trip to Europe and trying to avoid responsibility as any self-respecting
high school senior would. This follows the well-worn but still immensely entertaining
Marvel formula of well-paced action and sneaky bits of humor liberally laced
throughout. In the end this felt more like a resetting of the Marvel universe
following the climatic events of the Infinity War and they did it with their
usual aplomb. Marvel has lost nothing off their fast ball, loved it.
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RECURRING
CHARACTERS
BRS
- Blog Reader the Sequel
- second granddaughter; FBR - First Blog
Reader - first granddaughter, ABFA –
Amazing Best Family Athlete = my daughter in law; Wingman – my son in law; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great Aunt = my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since
grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to
attract women; Pittsburgh College
Roommate – high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two
close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd musquetera
(musketeer); Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog, surrogate grandchild while awaiting arrival of the
BRS; PanaGals – female
relatives/friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin
Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife accumulates wherever we
have lived & their spouses; Neighborhood
Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia member, Favorite Panamanian - the wife (of
course); First Friday – celebrations
to mark the First Friday of the Week; Deckzilla
Dude – senior citizen carpenter/contractor; Voices of Inappropriate Worth - members of public who come to every
Worcester public meeting to complain, all are on public assistance along with
demeanor issues
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