Dated Approach

Someone mentioned in passing that it is now July. How the hell did that happen so fast!!? I guess I should have been paying attention when all the 4^th of July talk started cranking up. I was having so much fun in June which probably more than explains why it departed in such explosive speed. On the last day of June, I squired my Favorite Panamanian out for weekly date night. I decided to splurge by adding dinner out to the usual movie. No matter what you may hear from biased observers, this decision was not based on the fact I had made my way in my usual inevitable fashion into the doghouse for husbandly behavior. All married guys know that means your wife is suddenly angry with you and you are trying to figure out what you did. It’s part of the manual they issue wives shortly before the wedding.

My Very Cute Date

At any rate, we had a very good time and, miraculously, I emerged from penalty status intact. I’m not sure where my atonement was achieved, but it was certainly assisted when I additionally agreed to go shopping with her after the movie. This is something of a last resort type tactic, usually a fate I would only attempt if I had broken something really expensive of hers. After consultation with her, we also decided to go forward with the Mohs surgery for the skin cancer spot on my temple area. Some very nice friends and acquaintances reached out after my blog post last week and said I should consider pinpoint radiation. I sought out an opinion on it and while it is certainly less invasive than Mohs, it doesn’t offer the 99.95% cure rate that Mohs does. Also it’s in an aera without any underlying structures that might be compromised. It’s not as if my looks (never an area of strength) will be compromised by another scar (my story will be it was from yet another knife fight). I go under that knife on July 14^th, which I thought was a long way off until June abandoned us.

Finally Got a Photo from Son's Disney Adventures
BRS and BR3 Made up for their Dinner in the Castle

The movie we saw was Supergirl. I was interested to see which way the DCU was going to head with this movie. It’s not great but it’s certainly entertaining, in a summer blockbuster kind of way. They didn’t go after the sweeping, earth shattering goals of the usual superhero flick and kept it close to the title character’s search for meaning in her life. They expertly wove her back story into the plot, which in some ways explained why she was such a total loser at the beginning of the film. She grows on you though, which is a tribute to Milly Alcock in that title role. She is fantastic in a role that required her to carry the entire movie, which she does effortlessly, or at least made it seem that way. Jason Mamoa showed up to provide some testosterone, suitably clueless of course, since this her story and not his. Supergirl reluctantly helps an orphan girl track down her family’s killers because they have an antidote for her superdog, Krypto (great CGI comedic timing there) whom they poisoned earlier. It’s a movie about looking for a vanished home which I could identify with, and I truly enjoyed this flick. A definite win for the DCU.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------RECURRING CHARACTERS:

ABFA – Amazing Best Family Athlete – my daughter in law; BR3 – Blog Reader #3 – granddaughter #3; BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel - second granddaughter; Cantankerous Friend – friend since grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to attract women; CRC - Connecticut Riverboat Captain – another close friend from high school, renowned sailor of the big river; Curbside Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her single days in Brooklyn; Czech Connection – Czech couple who’ve become good friends along with their daughter (the Czech Shadow); Deckzilla – our backyard deck which grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Favorite Panamanian - the wife (of course); FBR - First Blog Reader - first granddaughter; First Friday – celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Keene Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene, NH; Kindergarten Friend – friend since kindergarten whom I reunited with after many years; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3^rd Musquetera (musketeer); Namesake Nephew – son of Great Aunt and Soxfather named after me; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia member; 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; PCR - Pittsburgh College Roommate – high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; PCR+1 - Pittsburgh College Roommate’s wife; Riggins - also known as the Grandpuppy, son's dog; Seis Amigos - two couples from our condo complex and my wife and I; Soxfather – my brother-in-law (whom I miss more than I can ever explain); Tia Loca – wife’s younger sister; Wingman – my son in law; Upstairs Neighbors – American couple and great friends who live in condo above us in Panama; Wingmom – Wingman’s mom, of course