Regular Dad

Guess I'll Need a Pee Bucket in Our Room

The baseball seems to never end.  But at least this time I wasn't sitting in a hot-ass field all greased up with sunscreen watching the kids lose for 6 hours.  Oh wait...
And yay, summer camp has started.  And the other wants to do tennis clinics.  It's okay, I don't mind getting up every 90-120 minutes to drive kids around.  It's not like I'm trying to work and maintain my sanity or anything.
Oh boy did I miss a major issue with the new bedroom/closet/bathroom reno.  And it's far too late to do literally anything about it.  So enjoy these episodes while you can, cause my days may be numbered...
Enjoy!

Please Stop Taking Me Out to the Ballgame

Well I'm once again broken by a week.  Nothing tragic, it just walked me right down little by little.  
We had hours and hours and hours of baseball.  All victories, but it's still A LOT of hours at various fields.  
We had a middle school graduation.  On a Tuesday morning.  Followed by a nice lunch.  And then an on-line barrel pick from Copper & Cask
Then more baseball, a friggin HOUR FROM HOME, followed by going straight to hockey and taking a slapshot to the bottom of my thigh where there's virtually no padding.  
So yeah, this episode isn't my most energetic, focused, coherent ones.  But not everything is a line-drive to the gap.  Sometimes it's a HBP to your elbow.  
Enjoy!

A (Late) Trip Down Memory Lane

Well, this has been a week of multiple screw up.  I somehow recorded this and then just never editted and published it.  I kinda see how that happened given how the week went, but it's weird that it never crossed my mind.  
And yeah, if you were confused about a couple things last episode, here is the background that you were missing. 
But we take a walk down memory lane for a bit, and then discuss some of the early renovation issues, and a bit more about Myles's struggles with his impending break-up. 
Enjoy!

Boys and Girls and the Vet

It was yet another weekend of unexpected minor chaos.  The dog acted up, Myles blind-sided me with a rediculous question, and Hayley took off back to Long Island.  
But I was still able to get some mental healing time by my firepit and everyone got to everything they needed to get to.  And I got some chores down.  
That said, weekends for the rest of the summer better find some damn chill, or this isn't going to end well for me.  
Enjoy!

The Bathroom Reno Hath Officially Begun

Draining weekend over here.  I did get to serve my peak baseball role; substitute bench coach.  Yell out batting order, positions, then just hype up the kids and yell basebally things.  Unfortunately for 6 hours. 
The long-awaited master bathroom reno has officially begun.  It was a long weekend of last-minute emptying of our bathroom and closet.  Lots of donations, lots of Buy Nothing, but lots of jamming things into every corner of the rest of the house.  And being home for 2 days of demo wasn't the most fun I've ever had.  
The PGA championship is right in our backyard, so I grabbed the Elijah Craig commenerative bottle.  Better than just regular EC?  
Enjoy!

I Hope That Deer Wasn't a Mom

Well, it finally happened.  We have a ton of deer around us.  And I spend a lot of time driving during deer hours.  And telling my MIL she shouldn't be so paranoid because no one actually hits a deer.  And so I hit one.  Well, it kinda hit me.  Either way, front 1/4 panel, bumper, headlight are all done. 
And right before Mother's Day, no less.  Which was definitely not our best Mother's Day.  Both kids had games and the wifey was on call.  So everything got crammed night and there was lots of running around. 
Pursuit United dropped a bourbon aged over Sakura Bloom staves.  Are they ground-flooring the next big trend?  Or is this just hype. 
Enjoy!
 

A Fun Fest of an Odyssey of a Brake Job

Of all the car maintenance I have to perform, I've honed my brake job skills quite a bit over the last 8ish years.  But for whatever reason, Jaws decided it wasn't going to go down without a fight.  A big fight.  A break multiple tools kinda fight.  
And really that was the gist of the week.  Other things happened, but they all got over-shadowed by the Tragedy in the Driveway...edy.  
Enjoy!

I'm The Wizard Of Bearing Replacement

That title might be over-stating it a bit, but I realized in editing that I reference wizards twice.  So it must be a sign.  
Anyways, I feel like I'm magically back to full power again.  Or at least as full power as I can get.  I'm motivated, I have energy, ready to take on everything and crush it this summer. 
Which is good, because it was a full weekend.  Wizards bball, soccer tournaments, baseball games, hebrew names, definitely no time for love for Dr. Jones.  
But we got some awful news from our good friends.  They had a terrible choice to make last weekend with their dog.  But we're here for them and we'll help them through it.  
Enjoy!

That's the kind of bold flavor I enjoy in...Phoenix!

Another fantastic Boys Baseball Weekend in the books.  Now hopefully I didn't really dive into the history of these trips last year, because that's what I'm doing again.  If I did, well there's probably different flavors this time around. 
We golfed, we pickelballed, we day drank, we baseballed.  We had multiple first-time-for-thats.  And really, there was a clear loser both times.  Huh.  
And I just realized that I've also missed a week.  Didn't mean to do that.  But I traveled from Thursday-Sunday, and I'd normally record in that window.  And I just wasn't aware enough to cut the episode monday and rush it out.  Whatever, I'm sure the week I missed wasn't anything to talk home about. 
Enjoy!

From The Valley de Muerte to the Week de Muerte

Remember a couple weeks ago when I woke up Monday and felt super happy and energetic and positive?  Then the day just slowly wore me down to normal?  Yeah, this was like that, except it was an entire week.  And it didn't wear me down slowly.  I strolled into the room all happy and post-vacationy and just took a sock full of quarters to the face.  And nuts.  
Whiskey review!  aka The Bit That Never Ends!  A quasi-unique offering from Heaven Hill is up this time.  What brand is it and how did it do? 
That's really all I got.  
Enjoy!