When I was much younger, I remember a Miller Lite ad that featured football star LC Greenwood crushing a beer can flat with just one hand.  It was followed up by Baltimore Colts quarterback Bert Jones “replying” and then failing to crush a can of his own (I believe his can was still full, while LC’s was empty), and then a third one where he ( Read more... )

Just to put down *something* - a second of my children has been returned to "the system" via the Children's Aid Society.  This has been coming for a while - Sir Goobs did not adjust to the move at all, utterly refused to accept that we'd left Strathroy, and demanded to be returned there at every chance.  He told us many times that he would be ( Read more... )

Neither of my sons went to school today.

They didn't have to.  It's March Break, after all.

Once upon a time, I'm sure this week had a far more meaningful purpose, such as getting farm equipment ready to plant or, by gosh and by golly, actually planting, but not this year.  This year, the so-called "Spring Break" is a tease, a vile and verminous ( Read more... )

I'm having a hard time getting going on anything meaningful this morning - thought perhaps a bit of writing here might clear the air (and my mind as well).  It's going to be an interesting week, I think.

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I guess I should put this down in some sort of ordered form so that, at some point in the future, I can look back and shake my head at the last two weeks, hopefully remarking how much better things are.  This is a story of Sir Goobs, who is not a completely innocent party in this war, by any means, but whose part in this is, in my opinion, being ( Read more... )

( oughta come with warnings and flashers! )

( That time already? )

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( *facepalm* )