Today is Ally’s fifth birthday.  It’s also her last day at her Montessori school since she starts kindergarten on August 11.

Here is my absolute favorite picture of her.  She couldn’t have been more than a day or two old in this one.  We had put sock ...

I’m curious what other parents’ policies are on other birthday parties.  Nothing is more sucky than having to take your kid to a party for a kid you don’t know and parents who you also don’t know.  You hope that you might recognize another kid’s parents at the party so you can at least have idle chatter with someone while your precious seedling gets hopped up on sugary confections.

This has been a real stressful week for all 4 family members, thus the lack of posts.  I can’t get into specifics for now but let’s just say there’s a special place in hell for vindictive and petty people.  I’m so fucking mad right now that, instead of making lemonade out of lemons, I want to take the uncut lemons and shove them in these peoples’ orifices.

Even though it’s the middle of summer, I’m going to relay yet another story of why hockey players are tougher than any other athletes when it comes to pain tolerance.  A buddy/ex-coworker of mine plays in a hockey league down here and this past weekend he suffered a rather gruesome injury while playing.  Rather than try to rehash the story, I’ll include snippets of the email conversation he had (with his permission). 

Green – Orange

Green – Orange

Green – Orange

Red – Yellow

Yellow

What if Dr. Robert Atkins, founder of the (duh) Atkins Diet, actually was a carboholic so much to the point that he tried to file a patent for a breadmaker with the US Patent office, only to find out he was beaten to the punch by someone else?  In a fit of revengeful rage, he invented a diet that basically stripped bread out of one’s daily food intake.  Thus his master plan to make the breadmaker inventor go out of business during the low carb rage would become complete.  Just to make clear, I’m purely speculating here.  The last thing I need is the Atkins Estate charging me with slander even though I’m sle ...

I’m going to expand upon some of your comments from my post yesterday and also add some more about the All Star Game last night.

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Here’s what the steroid issue in baseball has done to this lifetime fan.  Instead of fully enjoying what was truly a wonderful story in last night’s Home Run Derby with Josh Hamilton and his unbelievable comeback from his self-inflicted personal problems, I couldn’t help but think what kind of masked drug he was taking that allowed him to hit so many 500+ foot long home runs. 

Periodically I’ll encounter a driving maneuver that is so insanely dangerous, illogical and ignorant that I interrupt my regularly scheduled blog posts to recap the scene of the crime.  Today was one of those days.  You can follow along on the crudely illustrated Google Map + MS Paint illustration below.

Ally and I wer ...