DaveA wrote: Fri Nov 07, 2025 9:49 am am on my second Duvel, and don't GIVE A FUCK.

I presume you're not on Florida time right now, maybe Europe? (sorry, I may have missed that part somewhere else)

Or, if you're on your second Duvel at noon, no judgment from me. Well done. I'm a little envious.

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jfv wrote:

DaveA wrote: Fri Nov 07, 2025 9:49 am am on my second Duvel, and don't GIVE A FUCK.

I presume you're not on Florida time right now, maybe Europe? (sorry, I may have missed that part somewhere else)

Or, if you're on your second Duvel at noon, no judgment from me. Well done. I'm a little envious.

Yo! How's it going? Am on Eastern Standard time here, but got up around 5 p.m. "today." So, around ten a.m. is well past "happy hour." But I get most of my stuff down while painfully sober. I don't drink much at all under normal circumstances. Fucks up the work. After getting something done, though, sure. Sometimes.

Cheers.

DaveA wrote: Fri Nov 07, 2025 11:41 am

jfv wrote:

DaveA wrote: Fri Nov 07, 2025 9:49 am am on my second Duvel, and don't GIVE A FUCK.

I presume you're not on Florida time right now, maybe Europe? (sorry, I may have missed that part somewhere else)

Or, if you're on your second Duvel at noon, no judgment from me. Well done. I'm a little envious.

Yo! How's it going? Am on Eastern Standard time here, but got up around 5 p.m. "today." So, around ten a.m. is well past "happy hour." But I get most of my stuff down while painfully sober. I don't drink much at all under normal circumstances. Fucks up the work. After getting something done, though, sure. Sometimes.

Cheers.

Oops! Sorry about that.

Chatting with my little humans the younger one says something about hell. The older one starts explaining what hell is and then I cut in, "But hell's not actually real."

I guess I'm indoctrinating my kids in my own way.

Our youngest is spending her junior year of high school abroad as an exchange student. She’s living with a host family in a village in northern France.

We had a FaceTime call with her yesterday, and about ten minutes into it, we noticed a massive spider appear on the wall behind her.

She’s terrified of spiders, so she summoned the dad.

They spoke in French for the next several minutes. We had never heard our daughter actually speaking conversational French before. Frankly, before she left for France a couple months ago, she probably couldn’t.

I want to bottle the feeling I got watching and listening to that.

Last year I semi-promised my son a trip to Comic-Con in San Diego without knowing how badges are distributed or really anything else about the process. Ended up not being able to go. Got up early this morning and was able to secure badges for 2 days for next July. Feels better than the object dad failure I felt last year.

That's a solid little run of beautiful dadding posts. Salut!, dads.

While walking the dog last night through a neighborhood park (just south of downtown Chicago), I saw what had first appeared to be an off-leash dog.

Nope.

Coyote.

We live nearish a creek, and there are coyotes all over the place here. See them at night a lot if I'm out near the lake or the creeks that feed it, and our oldest dog was a rescue from that creek when she was about 6 months old in 2018 - I see some of her behaviours and I'm pretty certain she hung with some of those coyotes when she was a pup based on the way she plays with our other dogs (it SOUNDS like she's killing them, but she's not at all), her reaction to threats, etc. She's a very bright animal.

Coyotes - not crap.

There's a good book by Dan Flores called Coyote America I read a few years ago.

Considering all the animals we've managed to decimate or wipe out, he argues the coyote is likely the only one who has expanded its range and flourished over years of negative efforts by humans. Remarkably adaptive and tenacious species.

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/title ... asic-books