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Offline DREDIOCK

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Happy Fathers Day
« on: June 18, 2006, 07:25:27 AM »
Happy Fathers Day

Particularly to the new fathers here.

Enjoy it now while they are real little as the time will come when Fathers day means you get to eat cerial you dont like,, You'll get items you dont want or have no use for. And you will get to go places you dont feel like going.


LOL  Naaa its not always as bad as all that.

but there will come a time when the one thing you do want is the one thing you wont get.

to be left alone.

This year I get to take my daughter and my nephews daughter to the NJ State Aquarium.

Should be fun.

But I'd rather they go without me so I can get some work done around here without being pestered.

Actually I want to get my driveway sealed and would rather do it without running the risk of litle feet running across the wet sealer.

Either way I have to do it today as I have to have it done by next weekend and I am not going ot have time for much of anything during the week this week
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2006, 11:52:26 AM »
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Enjoy it now while they are real little as the time will come when Fathers day means you get to eat cerial you dont like,, You'll get items you dont want or have no use for. And you will get to go places you dont feel like going.


Ah... the good ole days, when I could actually keep food in the house longer than two days. :)
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2006, 12:07:57 PM »
Trust me... they really never leave, and even when they do they always seem to come back when you are cooking something really good. .....

they're a curse......I tell ya!



But I wouldn't have it any other way.

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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2006, 12:10:45 PM »
You sound like my dad, my mom invites me and Amber to dinner, my dad says,"I thought you grew up and moved out?"

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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2006, 12:19:52 PM »
Dred and All,

  Happy Fathers Day.

  I just got off the phone with my Dad.  He's not doing well. 2 years ago he lost his right lung due to Cancer... smoking...and he still smokes.

  He's 71 and I have this bad feeling like this is his last year.  We're going up to Toledo at the end of the Summer to see him and Mom.

  I'm at a loss for words right now.

  mac

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« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2006, 12:40:56 PM »
What is more important, sealing the driveway or spending time that will never ever come again with your kids?

Priorities, sometimes they need to be examined then re examined.

If you have a Dad, spend some time with him. This is the 43rd year that I haven't had one to spend time with. If you don't know how freaking important a Dad is to your life, I feel sorry for you.

If you ARE a Dad, take time to realize just how blessed your life is for having your kids with you. There are Dad's overseas, some of whom haven't seen their kid yet. There are others who suffer from an estrangement from their kids and dread this day knowing they are missing something totally intangible yet so damn important.

You pass this way but once. Don't screw it totally up, your family is just about the single most important purpose in your existance while you have kids. Realize it and act on it.

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« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2006, 03:18:57 PM »
Well, just got back from the Aquarium.

Was pretty cool and better then I expected it to be.

But after a while I got bored.
And as with anytime I get bored I find new and improved ways to amuse myself.

In this case I found something to amuse myself...and at least some of the people in the immediate area at anyplace where they show and talk about animals.
Zoo's, Aquariums etc
Im gonna use this one over and over again.

In this case they were showing a Parrot.
Why they were showing and talking about a Parrot at an Aquarium I'll never know but they were.

In this case the lady went on all about the parrot telling us all sorts of things (most of which I already knew)
At the end she made the fatal statement.

"If anyone has any questions I'd be glad to answer them"

I whispered to my nephew "Watch this" and spoke up and a loud and clear voice so all could hear.

"What do they taste like?"

LMAO!
The look on her and a bunch of other peoples faces was priceless
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« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2006, 03:20:10 PM »
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Dred and All,

  Happy Fathers Day.

  I just got off the phone with my Dad.  He's not doing well. 2 years ago he lost his right lung due to Cancer... smoking...and he still smokes.

  He's 71 and I have this bad feeling like this is his last year.  We're going up to Toledo at the end of the Summer to see him and Mom.

  I'm at a loss for words right now.

  mac

Sorry to hear of your fathers Ills
I hope he is around for you far longer then you are expecting
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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2006, 03:41:32 PM »
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What is more important, sealing the driveway or spending time that will never ever come again with your kids?

Priorities, sometimes they need to be examined then re examined.

If you have a Dad, spend some time with him. This is the 43rd year that I haven't had one to spend time with. If you don't know how freaking important a Dad is to your life, I feel sorry for you.

If you ARE a Dad, take time to realize just how blessed your life is for having your kids with you. There are Dad's overseas, some of whom haven't seen their kid yet. There are others who suffer from an estrangement from their kids and dread this day knowing they are missing something totally intangible yet so damn important.

You pass this way but once. Don't screw it totally up, your family is just about the single most important purpose in your existance while you have kids. Realize it and act on it.

<----- picks up soap box and exits stage right.


If you've read my posts on my kids in any of the other threads in the forums you will realize I cherish and place a very high value on the time I spend and have spent with them.

My comments were as much tongue in cheek as anything.

This morning I had a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast my daughter gave to me as parrt of Fathers day.
I hate cheerios But I ate them anyway.

Little figurine statues out the whazoo of an assortment of things
I have no less then 4 necklaces hanging on or around my desk all gifts from my kids.
I dont nor never have taken a liking to wearing jewelry especially necklaces. I dont even wear my wedding band and only rarely wear a ring my grandfather gave to me on his deathbed.

I also have virtually every fathers day card either of my kids ever gave me. and an assortment of pictures they drew for me over the years for whatever reason.

Last year for fathers day I got to go to a father daughter dance for my daughters girlscout troops where I was the lucky person to be the one holding the napkin when the music stopped and along with one father from each table got to suffer the indignity of dancing to the YMCA song.
My wife upon seeing this was laughing hysterically and said to my daughter "Kaitlyn your father definitely loves you because there is NO WAY he would ever do that for anyone else in the world even if his life depended on it."

I cherish each and every moment with my kids I realize it goes by wayyy too fast.
But sometimes. just sometimes a father would just like to be left alone for a day.

In this case the driveway needs to be sealed before next weekend as we are having a big blowout for my son for his graduation. I am simply not going to have time for it between now and Thursday ( when the actual graduation ceremony is) as I will be leaving for work very early and coming home very late.

Thursday is the graduation. Friday I have a bunch of cooking ( grilling and smoking) and getting ready to do for everyone coming on Sat.
It is obvious why I cant do it on Sat.

Couldn't do it yesterday as I finally finished up the sidewalk.
All 7,200 pounds of it (miscalculated amount of cement used at 3,000 pounds)

That leaves today.
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« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2006, 05:11:40 PM »
my daughters showed up with the grandkids in tow and a new complete CH rig for grandpa. :D

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« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2006, 07:16:14 PM »
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my daughters showed up with the grandkids in tow and a new complete CH rig for grandpa. :D


DAMNIT!!
 THEY STOLE MY GIFT!!!!
;)

LOL thats what I hinted at....strongly for what I wanted.

Havent received it as of yet but I sure hinted for it. LOL
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« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2006, 07:38:09 PM »
Woot!

I got a Revolution Blast. 9.5 feet of pull your arm right out of their sockets goodness.

Here's me getting a light tug.



There we go... easing up a bit.

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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2006, 08:00:17 PM »
So for fathers day they told you to go fly a kite? LMAO
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« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2006, 08:04:16 PM »
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So for fathers day they told you to go fly a kite? LMAO


I'm okay with that... four-line kites are a ball.
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« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2006, 12:08:07 AM »
I've got an old 2 line triple delta that was a real kick to fly. It's neat to be able to do something with the kite other than just let out string or pull it back in.
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