Today the younger cohort of the grandson army invaded the Compound with ruthless abandon and bottomless appetites.\u00a0 So basically, all writing efforts were abandoned and we settled into a format of games (chess, billiards and scrabble), junk food (chocolate chip pancakes, mac and cheese and ice cream sandwiches) and Dinotasia.\u00a0 And it was a lot of fun.\u00a0 The little guys are getting alarmingly good at pool and chess.\u00a0 I find myself feeling more and more like a trapped beast.\u00a0 Their mockery of my performance in these games of skill is becoming crueler.\u00a0 But I soldiered on pretending that I was just toying with them.<\/p>\n
Camera Girl spent her time in the kitchen whipping up breakfast, lunch and endless snacks to keep these ravenous locusts from attacking the woodwork and linens.\u00a0 When their mom showed up to cart them off, I collapsed into a pile of shattered nerves and vowed that when they show up tomorrow morning that I will shackle them to the wall of the deepest ancestral catacomb and promptly wall them up.\u00a0 Well, we\u2019ll see.\u00a0 Maybe we\u2019ll skip the Dinotasia.\u00a0 Tomorrow there\u2019s a local soccer game we\u2019re attending with the littlest guy and then they\u2019re back with their siblings for whatever weekend events their parents are presiding over.\u00a0 But I like when we get them in age groups.\u00a0 The older and younger cohorts no longer overlap in tastes and activities.\u00a0 In fact, I suspect I\u2019m no longer grown up enough for the older kids.\u00a0 They\u2019ve outgrown Dinotopia and I\u2019ve started to balk at some of the Marvel Comic Universe that is their staple diet.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to have to pick and choose to find stuff for us to watch together.\u00a0 But we can start thinking about ways to treat them as adults soon.\u00a0 College age grandchildren is something new for me.\u00a0 But we\u2019ll figure it out.\u00a0 Maybe I can get advice on computer coding problems I\u2019m having.\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of a return on investment for the forty-five years I\u2019ve invested in this social experiment.\u00a0 Am I asking too much?<\/p>\n
So, I\u2019m way behind my reading for the day and I\u2019ll see what\u2019s worth writing about.\u00a0 What is interesting is a sense of panic seems to be slowly oozing from behind the fa\u00e7ade of the fake news industrial complex.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if they\u2019re slowly signaling to the true believers to prepare themselves for the fact that maybe the abortion crusade isn\u2019t going to save them from the Mid-Term wave that seem to be regenerating.\u00a0 For all of the happy talk about Joe Biden\u2019s renewed popularity, inflation is ravaging the household budgets of the working and middle classes and urban crime is frightening the pants off of even the suburbanites who live within fifty miles of the dumpster fires that used to be our cities.<\/p>\n
Well, hang in there, folks.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be up to snuff soon and full of annoying opinions and outrageous pronouncements.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a new movie review and some other stuff coming up and I\u2019ll astound you with my sagacity and perspicacity.\u00a0 And if not those then some other -city words that I haven\u2019t looked up in the thesaurus yet.\u00a0 To be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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