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| Returned Wife With Gift from Appreciative Progeny |
My Favorite Panamanian, hale and
healthy after her New Jersey health travails, was safely extracted from the maw
of Connecticut yesterday afternoon. Wingman drove her into New York to Grand
Central where she caught a train to New Haven. I was in charge of the
Connecticut extraction and had to time my arrival to coincide, which is not as
easy as it sounds when you factor in the Connecticut highway system, with her arrival.
I thought I had it wired when I finished off my last meeting and hit the road,
leaving an extra thirty minutes for whatever Connecticut threw at me.
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| FBR has a New a Doll House Which has Completely Captured her |
I got through the Hartford vortex with
a minimum of problems and thought I was home free; fantasizing what I would do
with all the extra time in New Haven. Connecticut must have picked up on that thought
because traffic quickly drew to a halt. If nothing else Connecticut has
invested in a number of traffic message boards which politely informed me I was
in a traffic jam; good to know. One lane was closed ten miles ahead and as we
inched along I watched my thirty minute buffer time evaporate in conjunction.
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| The Sunday Birthday Party |
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| Lunch with Abuela - Healthy Dose of Ketchup, Of Course |
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| Wife and Daughter Deployed their Power Washer I May Have to hide Mine - Fairly Addictive |
After a much needed stop at a rest
area I dove into New Haven to find all the construction I used to deal with had
been completed. The roads were still jammed and moving slowly but less
obstructions – so good. I used to make this trip all the time when my daughter
lived in New York City but it had been a couple years. I guess all the years we’ve
been married has led to a certain synchronization of our karmas because I
pulled into the train station, there was a rare parking spot right out front,
and one minute later my Favorite Panamanian walked out the door. As it is wont
to do in her presence my world clicked back into place.
On Dateless Date Night Tuesday I went
to see Dark Phoenix which was kind of “ehh” which for a Marvel movie is akin to
disaster level mediocrity. If this was supposed to Sansa’s big coming out party
she may want to rethink her options. She’s an anchor to the plot and not in a
good way. The rest of the very talented cast can’t rescue the movie from the
leaden, totally unsympathetic portrayal of Jean Grey. There was entirely too
much angst thrown needlessly into what could have been a very entertaining
action flick. I may be a victim of being blissfully unaware of the whole X-Men mythology
and this may have been some sort of ode to those fans. I hope it was because outside
of a couple of exciting donnybrooks this was a downer. Are chinks appearing in
the Marvel cinematic armor? It’s more likely this story has been run into the
ground and it’s time to move on.
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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 3rd musquetera
(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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