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| Son and BRS Watching Game Yesterday |
The New England Patriots certainly
contributed to assuaging the beginnings of my isolated existence for the next
few weeks. They laid an absolute smack down on what was supposed to be a very
good Chargers team yesterday to advance to the conference championship game for
the 8th year in a row. Somewhere in western Pennsylvania yet another
self-important Steelers fan contemplates self-destruction. This was the Patriots
team we all thought/hoped existed somewhere in the frightfully inconsistent
2018 version.
This meant a full afternoon and
evening down in the Man Cave watching Phillip Rivers dissolve. I’d spent the morning
finishing up my spot painting project in the new addition. I finally connected
with my Favorite Panamanian just before game time. That turned out to be a good
thing on a number of levels since I wanted to show her the progress I’d made
(always in search of validation). As I walked up the stairs I noticed there
were several drops of white paint on the hardwood floors. She probably wondered
why I kept stopping as I surreptitiously cleaned up the offending spots.
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| Next Gen |
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| Loves Having Daddy within Climbing Range |
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| FBR Braving the Cold |
She finally arrived in her home town
after the flight delay and hotel stay in Panama City. She was safely ensconced on
her mother’s front porch telling me how beautiful the weather was while I told
her about our 14 degree weather. I heard Northern Virginia received over a foot
of snow which means that place in effectively paralyzed and not just because
the Twitterer in Chief has everyone out of work.
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| Not Too Busy to Hang with Buzz and Woody |
I connected with both granddaughters yesterday.
It was good to see the BRS is being brought up right and ably garbed in Patriots
gear. She invented a “new” game while eating which involved taking a big bite
of food and then spraying it as far as she could see. I don’t think my Favorite
Son and the ABFA shared my amusement of the results bt my daughter only nodded
sagely when I reported this, remembering the FBR’s similar meal time antics.
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| New Basement in New Jersey |
The FBR was entirely too bus to devote
any time to a mere grandfather as she was busy hosting some of her own friends.
Wingman recently completed his makeover of what had been a pretty desolate basement.
He even created a play area for the FBR which I’m sure will become a favorite play
spot. I’ll get to see it firsthand later this week as I report for babysitting
duty for the upcoming weekend, isolation be damned.
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| The FBR Area |
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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, formerly known both as MEF – Most Excellent Fiancé
& MEG – Most Excellent Girlfriend; 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 3rdmusquetera (musketeer); Buddy – AKA
the Wonder Pooch – family dog, a black lab – hates squirrels, died
in 2017; 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; Excellent Boss – my former direct boss at
work; 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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