I hope you all had a good Christmas weekend. The holiday was very kind to us and very rough on pigs: we spent the weekend eating bacon for breakfast, roast pork for lunch, lechón asado (yes, grilled suckling pig) for dinner. It was less like Christmas and more like a pagan slaughter-festival. Through all of …
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Back to the Bench
The wife flew in last night. After four days solo with the kids–including playing nursemaid for my son, who, in a bit of Christmas magic, has pneumonia–I am now relegated to my usual position: second-stringer. Am I upset about being back on the bench, while the mom gets all the perks of being a starter? …
Ski Helmets for Kids (and for their Reluctant Fathers)
Earlier this month, I went snowboarding for the first time in a few years. Not much has changed for me since the last time out. I still suffer from the same heady mix poor depth perception and lousy risk management. I still have a strange talent for collapsing in a heap at the top of …
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This Week in Oddly Inappropriate Advent Calendars
Holmes over at DadCentric had me choking on my eggnog with this finely-illustrated Christmas conundrum: what the fuck do the prize-pieces in Lego’s Advent Calendar (which includes the Lego set pictured here) have to do with the holidays? With all the Kristmas Krap we’re drowning in this month, it’s always nice to see a toy company …
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