Regular Dad

Football, Facebook (again), SA Founders, In-House Fast Food

Well, both my football teams officially stink.  Badly.  Like week-old sushi left on the counter.  Purdue will likely go 1-11 this year.  1-11!!  Yeah, that's going to win us some recruits and keep existing talent from hopping into the portal.  And the Bears...just when you think maybe it won't be a dumpster fire, they find a way.  So we're back to chaos and coaching changes and player grumblings and all of it.  
And somehow I got lured back into discussions on facebook and was immediately reminded of why it's like pissing into the wind.  Best case is people just say wild things to rile you up.  Realistically they just try to gas-light you.  
Smooth Ambler Founders Blend is up for a review.  This has to be the best thing in West Virginia.  It's really good, and I can't think of anything else in WV that's good.  
If you could have any fast-food restaurant in your house, Davonte Adams-TacoBell style, what would it be?  
Enjoy!

Election Results, Grizzly Beast, Birthday Weekend, Iron Maiden

Democracy hath spoken, and the democrats took this one on the chin.  Lost every swing state, saw their percentages shrink everywhere, and lost the popular vote for the first time since 2004 and only second time since 1992.  Really disapponting showing.
But I rage-bought a delicious whiskey for drinking during Bears games.  Redwood Empire Grizzly Beast.  Does it help the Bears win? Nope.  But it's still a delightful pour. 
And it was my birthday weekend!  Got some very nice presents, and we all went out for a nice (but expensive) steak dinner.  But had yet another incident to navigate.  Really just highlighting that I'm not Head Coach material.  
Finally (not chronologically) Myles and I got out to see Iron Maiden!  Wells Fargo Center.  It was an awesome show.  Really impressed with how well they did.
Enjoy!

Bears HeartBreaker, 2XO Review Sick Kid

Just as I was feeling really good about the Bears and the direction they were going, they have to go and rip my heart out and remind me that sometimes nothing changes.  That was a rough way to head into dinnertime.  
But I picked up a bottle of 2XO American Oak for a review.  Does it live up to Dixon's lofty reputation?  Or just another bottle of generic double-oaked sourced whiskey?  
Oh yeah, Duncan's sick again.  Not COVID, not pneunomia.  Just generic viral infection.  Except Duncan always gets the LONG version of that illness.  So instead of a couple days, it's a whole week.  
Who wants some Econ 101 talk?!  How do we make more goods here in the US, pay all the workers more, but still make things cheaper?  
And my basement receiver broke.  Even the TV didn't want to experience the Bears game.  So my santuary was invaded by chaos.  
Enjoy!

Black-ass Tie Wedding, Knob18, Wife Birthday Day

I'm a tux-owning son of a biscuit!  Cause no, this is probably not the last time my wife or her fancy-ass associates are going to have a black tie event.  The wedding was actually very nice.  Except for the open bar selection.  Would it have killed them to have 1 good whiskey back there?!  
And it was my wife's birthday!  Who is second only to my father on the list of people impossible to buy gifts for.  
Did I fall into a Knob Creek 18?  Perhaps I did.  And perhaps it's delicious.  Listen and see...
Details are sketchy, but an issue as old as time has reared it's not-conventionally-pretty head once again.  But I think I've got more pieces to this puzzle, which maybe helps us bring this ship to shore.  Or just crash it on the rocks.  I don't know.  
Enjoy!

Funeral, Stroganoff, Weller FP, Pie, Sacks

We had some really tough news in the local community recently.  Another of the 3rd grade dads was killed in a car accident.  So it's been a tough week and change dealing with the shock, consoling his closer friends, fully gasping the effects on the kids, and everything else.  
And of course there was another...issue...with me handling a situation with the kids.  This time over dinner again, which can often be a touch-and-go time of day for me.  
But look at this!  I found a Weller product that I really like!  And will likely never get another bottle of.  Stupid Buffalo Trace and their manufactured scarcity.  Weller full proof FTW.  
Pie and scrotums to finish it out.  You know, totally normal stuff.  
Enjoy!
 

RoshHashanah, Newphew Visit, Frey Ranch, Duncan Things

Yup, the Chiefs just keep rolling.  And maybe I (via Chris Canty) identified why there's so much hate on them.  And it's probably not what you think.  Unless you also listen to Unsportsmanlike and/or think like we do.  
Hayley's mom got back in the hosting of holiday dinners with a Rosh Hashanah dinner at her new house.  And it went pretty much the way I thought it would.  But that's okay; I go in prepared and just go with the flow.  
Frey Ranch is up for a review this week.  Little farm-to-glass distillery out in Nevada that's been on the rise.  And spoiler alert: they have a weaponized bottle. 
Did Duncan make the travel baseball team?  Listen and find out.  But in unrelated news he had another moment of vulnerability one morning.  Except I'm not really good at helping him through it.  Hugs and humor is all I got.  And brutal logic.  
Enjoy!

Kids' Toxic Relationship, Willett Rye, CyberTrucks Suck

My wife is totally going to have a sit-down with me after this, but I really get into our kids' toxic relationship and how it makes me feel as a parent.  You know, cause I raised these 2 and much of what's going on is influenced by my skills (or lack thereof) as a parental unit.  TLDR, I don't give myself a solid B-.
Then we review a Willett rye!  From Christmas in Chicago!  Yelling!
Do you own a Cybertruck?  Will you admit it was a huge mistake to make that thing and an even bigger mistake to buy it?  Cause you should.  
Enjoy!

Sports Failures, Bad Haircut, MIL Work, Nulu BCB Review

Well, both football teams went out and failed me.  One in an embarassing failure on every level imaginable; one just not living up to the potential we wrongly assumed they had.  
Who has a bad haircut?  In a shocking twist that was easily predictable, this guy.  Just history repeating itself.  
Did I finally get a bottle of that Nulu Black Currant Brandy finish?  You bet your sweet bippy I did!
And guess what, did some more work up at Hayley's mom's house.  
Enjoy!

Another Tough One but...Jane's Addiction!!

I had another tough week of my own mental doing.  And we discuss it, because that's the only reason this exists!  We talk about problems through gritted teeth and then try to be better.  And fail at it.  
But I got out of the house for 1.5 days!  To go to Atlantic City and see Jane's Addiction!  Somehow Hayley let me just go to multiple casinos with my degenerate friends.  And I came back!
Review of Holladay Soft Red Wheat BIB.  A brand I've been looking to try out.
Then just more random things and a gun control rant.  You know normal American stuff like hearing a school got shot up and then just going about your day and never doing anything to fix that problem. 
Enjoy?

SummerVaca Season2 15 Stars Clarification

Season 2!  Who thought this would really happen?  Not me!  But it's happening.  Like when someone was dog-sitting Bob Kelly's dogs, had to crap REALLY bad, but Bob Kelly's bathroom's down 1 flight of stairs, and they shat their pants on the way down.  That's the only story I hear in my head when someone says "this is happening".
Anyways...summer vacation's over and it was good.  Just like me; flat B.  Well, with the amount of Treehouse and Trillium I have at home right now, B+.  
Chiefs win, my recording plan goes awry, and I have to make a correction to something I said that came out misleading.  And water is wet. 
Enjoy!