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May 29, 2008

The escalator

I had one of those “dad moments” (for lack of a better term) the other day. I was with K-Man and we were enjoying an afternoon of parks and play. In the midst of all of this, I realized that I wasn’t exactly in the moment as I should have been. I was distracted. My mind was wandering. K was chattering away about this or that (and probably fire trucks), but I wasn’t altogether “there.” That’s when I looked up to see that he was riding an escalator. [more]

May 21, 2008

The little flirt

Went out to dinner with the kid the other night and ended up eating by myself.

K-Man was nowhere near our table. Instead, he was hanging out at the next table over – trying to make some kind of move on the 30-year-old elementary school teacher sitting next to us. When a plate of fries came to her and her boyfriend – K-Man took one. It was tremendously embarrassing in a way, but alternatively kinda funny. It was perhaps the pinnacle of K-Man’s early career as a major flirt. [more]