Tagged: parenthood

The Coward’s Price For Sobriety 0

The Coward’s Price For Sobriety

Six months.  31.5 times six.   93 days?   I’m not particularly mathematically adept at this time. Nevertheless and irregardless– off the wagon. First, it was the party for a friend of my lover.   Strong through an hour, maybe two.  Then anxious.  Then was asked to get a drink for her.   Hers were weak.  I nod and smile.  To the bar.  Drop a twenty.   “Double vodka.” It was downhill from there.  Down into “Proud Mary in the...

Bullets For the Curious 0

Bullets For the Curious

No time right now for a detailed update, so here’s a few of the highlights since my last major life update back near November of 2012. 0x01: Met a wonderful woman at work.  She wore a poncho one day.  I said, “It’s impossible to be unhappy wearing a poncho.”  It’s a Mighty Boosh reference.   Next day she left an orange juice bottle on my desk wearing a little poncho.  We are still together, despite my sometimes difficult personality.  She’s the best...

Uneasy on Sunday Morning 0

Uneasy on Sunday Morning

An account change notice from Verizon inspired a brief and generous presumption that my bill would be lowered due to a large chunk of monthly payment having been extracted. That was, of course, a ridiculous notion. In any case, friendly advice to the genital pubic: if an exing-relation wished to extract eir service from a shared martial{sic} account, said relation could get an independent line and tether Internet access to eir house over 4G, getting faster speeds than what s/he...

The Final Cut 1

The Final Cut

Through the fish-eyed lens of tear-stained eyes, I can barely define the shape of this moment in time. And far from flying high in clear blue skies, I’m spiraling down to the hole in the ground where I hide. If you negotiate the mine-fields of my mind … … and if you beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eye … … and if you make it past the shotguns in the hall? Dial the combination. Open the priest-hole....

The Verdict 3

The Verdict

Opposing counsel accused me of being an alcohol and marijuana abuser.  How did she come up with any marijuana abuse?  Apparently she subpoenaed ECMC.  Can they do that?  Isn’t there some kind of doctor-client privilege?  Oh well.  In any case, I was presented in quite an unflattering way. So, I arrive at nine-twentysomething and the hearing finally commences at sometime after noon.   All this after (a) having my fucking Droid lose its GPS connection, (b) driving around the labyrinthine streets of...

Fuck You 5

Fuck You

All of you. All your fear. I lie, inasmuch as I don’t know the truth.  Inasmuch as everything I say is some dialogue of script I’ve written moments before, seconds before, split microframes of life before speaking it.  And I mean it.  At the time.  But it all fades.  Truth is ephemeral.  It’s a whisper misheard and repeated with mutations and twisted with prerogatives and turned into hateful resentment. I’m drinking now, and I’m posting publicly.  Now, I know this...

Gonna Wash That Grey Right Outta My Head 1

Gonna Wash That Grey Right Outta My Head

No. Not really. It ain’t going anywhere, is it? It’s part of me. To “cure” myself would be to kill my self, and I don’t want that now, do I? MAOI is done. See the log up top for the final entry. Next up is “Viibryd.” As noted there, WTF? That’s one hell of a random-number-generated space-name. Sounds like something my character would be smuggling in my Star Wars campaign. I haven’t bothered to look it up. What’s the point?...

Everybody Hurts 1

Everybody Hurts

I pick the girls up on Friday around 7PM and bring them back at 2PM Saturday.  Friday usually goes awesome.  We get something to eat, bring it home, and watch some movie or two. Saturday, not always so well.  It starts good, but as the leaving time draws nearer, the Elder will start to get grumpy, and sometimes go into a full-on tantrum.  Every parent knows what this means.  They’re hungry.  They didn’t get enough sleep.  Something is wrong and...