One of my criticisms of Portlanders is that they have no fucking idea what a real storm is like. Sure, they get a lot of rain. But so does Minneapolis. Almost the same amount, in fact; Minnesota gets it in huge summer storms instead of the constant dribble that we get in the Pacific Northwest. [...]
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Hey. My first raging guest post. Check out my post over at Discovering Dad today, “Surviving Two Weeks of Family Vacation.”
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First the bad news: Connie has caught strep throat from Raging Mom. I am writing this post with masticated grape children’s Motrin all over my shirt. It is kind of amazing, the level of craziness that a child can employ when they are delirious with fever. She went completely Linda Blair on me. I was [...]
Filed under: bad daddy, raging thoughts | Tagged: anger, Minnehaha Falls, Minnesota, strep throat, The Exorcist, vacation | 9 Comments »
Today I took Michael and Connie to the Como Zoo for a private penguin viewing. How did I get this unprecedented clearance, you ask? My Raging Sista, who is a teacher and worked at the zoo this summer, of course. She hooked us up. Sonny was crabby and decided to stay with Raging Mother-in-law, henceforth, [...]
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On my shitty luck: I will admit to reading my Blackberry while sitting on the toilet. Usually I am cruising through blogs and news from my RSS aggregator, or catching up on my what my tweeps are doing. Yesterday, I walked into the john—my mind foggy from taking a nap—and promptly threw it straight into [...]
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