they say that the road ain't no place to start a family.

[dan_estrin]

three weeks is a record for me, and i was having trouble coming up with anything to update about, but a few things have come up that i can talk about before i forget to mention them. i certainly not have been very social lately with 99% of the people i normally talk to, which really means i have had a conversation with maybe one person in the

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[elisha_cuthbert]

i don't think any parent ever really gets over the empty nest phase. i think that now you're raising your own kid, he's more in touch with his own mortality now and that's a big deal for any middle aged man. you could be fifty years old and you'll always be a baby to them and when sean is fifty he will still be a baby to you.

on your birthday, i will call you in tahoe and scream happy birthday at the top of my lungs. 28 isn't old at all, 30 is the new 20.

[dan_estrin]

it goes hand in hand with never getting used to flying the coop. i still come over with a basket of laundry when piper is out filming because she still has to show me how to do it every time. i put the colors in hot water and the towels in cold and somehow it matters, search me. my mom is happy to help and i never mind staying for dinner. my dad has always been how i imagined myself to be when i was a kid, and we are so alike it's frightening. it's good to know i'll be as hip as him in a few decades.

when i come back i am throwing a party for your other half. make sure he survives until then. you know what though, i made a typo there because i'm going to be 29 not 28 OOPS

[j_robinson]

i recently moved out of my parent's house (which i still think of as home and i probably always will) and i know that my room is exactly like i left it. it will probably be the same in 5 years or even 10. the whole food rotting thing started me wondering if i'd left any half eaten pizza around. now i feel like i need to call my mom.

[dan_estrin]

i'm sure that all the food i'd left is long gone and biodegraded, but i'm sure the smell might have been interesting for a few years.

[piperperabo]

sigh, you. i worry sometimes that you don't give yourself enough time to just be, that there's so much going on and you do so much to take care of everyone else in your life that you forget that you're a part of that, too.

i think this is the first father's day i haven't gotten a tie for the father in my life. although it would have been amusing to see the look on your face.

is it weird to think that in twenty years, we'll be like your folks? with our kids stumbling home from wherever, half duty and half because they want to? i don't know, i felt totally different this year, watching how your parents reacted. not a bad thing.

i miss you.

[dan_estrin]

i'm trying to reply to this and i keep coming up short.

[anonymous]

Well I read it before obviously but I'm fucking lazy. Faithfully wins. I'd help you put your clothes back on ;) ;). Sigh, fathers. Mine drove me nuts for most of my years and still does until this day.

Hah that's it, I don't know. I don't comment.

PS. WHY DID IT BAN ME FROM COMMENTING i am so lost.

[nat_appleton]

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wtf :(

[dan_estrin]

sob i fixed it

[nat_appleton]

haha yes, thank you!

[amanda_latona]

hey, happy birthday

[dan_estrin]

thanks, i hope all is alright with you