TC the Terrible

It’s Monday and I’m back at the office. Things are feeling a bit calmer, but then they always have at work. Like so many other guys before me, my work has always been my refuge against the pressures of the world. Real life is always hard, work tends to be easy in comparision.

THE BOY is pumped. He got visited by both the Tooth Fairy and the Tooth Soldier over the weekend. The Fairy left him ‘folding money’ and the Soldier left him Army Coins. We use coins to tell a soldier that they have done a hell of a job. He’s been looking at mine and talking about them for months. It made me think that they would be good motivational tools with him too. So far it is working. He’s a good kid, growing into a remarkable young man.

Later.

has been an emotional roller-coaster here at the house.

THE BOY lost his bottom two front teeth. He’s now missing all four of his front teeth. Eating is going to require an entirely new skill set for him.

As I type this, I’m listening to Nickleback’s Photograph and thinking how easily it could be a country song. It reminds me how good a friend Scott the Scared is to me. After four decades he is still there for me when I need him. Thanks buddy, once again I owe you. Nobody means to me what you do and I don’t care how gay that sounds because you know what I mean.

Stay is a strange movie that could have been a lot better. Good Night and Good Luck is a good art film. It makes you think and has a really good point, but is not something that you are going to hate yourself if you miss it.

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien has always been on my recommended reading list. Now it is on the local high school reading list too. About time they put a solid piece of contemporary writing on it. Check it out, you’ll be impressed.

Give somebody a squeeze a remind them you love them. Odds are they need to hear it today.

Later.