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| Mother (l) and Daughter |
This is my last weekend of geographic
bachelorhood and I am spending it in typically married fashion. I am bemused at
my wife’s friends’ concerns about leaving me unsupervised for such long stretches
of time because I’ve discovered I’m totally harmless. Even a few years ago this
would have served as a severe blow to the old male ego but I find nowadays I’m
much more excited about an upcoming FaceTime call with one of the granddaughters
than anything untoward.
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| FaceTime Follies |
My relationship with the wife has been
reduced to those same FaceTime calls over the past month and I snapped a few
photos which I’m sure will endanger my continued existence when she discovers
that I posted them here. She was meeting with our bank yesterday and keeping me
advised of her progress on that front as well as her quest of new stovetop for
our condo. It will be so good to get her back into these colder regions. She
was none too pleased when I showed her the back deck yesterday morning coated
once again in snow but it had the added benefit of not having to hear her
complain about Panamanian heat.
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| Deck Saturday Morning |
Her very good friend, the Neighborhood
Mafioso, celebrated her birthday yesterday and I was called upon to deliver her
birthday present which my wife had left explicit instructions about prior to
departing. It’s so cool having such a good friend just a couple houses down the
street. She and her husband, lifelong Worcesterites, are the main reason we
decided to put down roots here in Worcester because we discovered how much fun
it was around here. It does have a financial impact on both families though as
the two ladies are definitely shopping enablers for the other. Happy Birthday Mafioso
– well worth whatever it cost.
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| Birthday Girl |
I posted the picture above of my
daughter and the FBR side by side because I got out of bed this morning and saw
the picture of my daughter and immediately though it was the FBR. While others
will immediately jump to the conclusion of my approaching senility I put the
photos next to each other to show how much they resemble each other since the
FBR is now the same age as her mother was when the other photo was taken, doppelgangers
indeed. The FBR is fully stoked for her upcoming stay with us although she did
accuse me of being “silly grandpa” last night.
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| Riggins Guarding the BRS |
I also saw the vision that is the BRS
yesterday as she walked around the house with my Favorite Son addressing her
latest bout of hiccups. During my retreat into the Man Cave last night I ran
across a movie with a lead actress having the same name as the ABFA and the character
she played in the movie had the same last name as my son and the ABFA. While
that was strangely coincidental the character gets possessed by ghost and kills
her husband so hopefully the similiarty ends there.
I was MoviePassing again yesterday and
saw Death of Stalin. This may be one of the funniest movies ever made taking an
incredibly dangerous time and just lambasting it. While the director took some liberties
with the actual events a lot of the craziness depicted actually happened. The
plot revolves around Stalin’s cronies hovering around his mostly dead body
jockeying for position while the fear of Stalin still permeates all aspects of Soviet
life. The main contenders are Nikita Khrushchev, played by the fantastic Steve
Buscemi, and Beria, the hated director of state security. The one liners and
absurdities fly in unrelenting manner throughout and I found myself laughing
out loud too many times. The most interesting aspect of this is the obvious parallel
to our current president and his disinterest in nothing that doesn’t aggrandize
himself. It would be interesting to see his sycophants scrambling around for
spoils in a similar situation. A very funny watch.
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