Tantrums
How low into fatherblogness this blog has sunk. I’m now going to write about my wonderful daughter throwing tantrums. What is a little unique is that she is only 15, and not in the ‘terrible twos.’ I’ll take that as her being advanced for her age.

I was reading how Dooce’s kiddo threw a tantrum at Chili’s and she made a good point. When you’re childless, you have this ideal of how you’ll have kids. You see some demon child in the Mexican restaurant throwing crap all over the place and screaming while the parents stoically eat their food and then shuffle out with the hellbeast in tow and you think, “My child will never be like that.” I had a version of that thought, but it was “I’ll try to keep all potential projectiles away from my little beast so as not to overtax the wait staff.”

Tantrum 1
I don’t have the full details and I’m sure that Alison will email me with corrections, but the short version is that when they were at the doctor’s office to have Nina’s hearing checked, something set Nina off and she hit Alison in the face. Twice. Hard. And this isn’t back in some exam room, this is just waiting. I think Alison took a “fine, sit on the floor and freak out” stance.

Tantrum 2
This happened at home. I honestly don’t remember what caused Alison to offend Nina so badly, though I think the phrase was “No, Nina” delivered in the softest tone possible without it being just plain stupid. But, Nina didn’t want to hear the word “no” at that point in time, and thus freaked out.



Theory About Sleepy Parents
When you don’t have kids, and especially when you have a kid on the way, people will make the same lame comments like “Enjoy your sleep, because you won’t get any later.” But, really, I wouldn’t be so sleepy if I hadn’t stayed up past Nina’s bedtime watching Family Guy, Venture Brothers, X-Play, Judgment Day, and one of Alison’s shows which I kind of already purged from memory.

Oh, that Darn 8811
Another thing I did last night was try to reprogram the All For One 8811 remote that we have. It’s a learning remote, but it’s learning the 30 second skip forward of the Replaytv wrong. It’s putting out too long of a blip, so rather than skipping forward 30 seconds, it skips forward a minute. Not too irritating, as the skip back 6 second button still skips back six seconds, but hitting it 4+ times to get where the show actually resumed is a tad irritating. But, it seems that most of my shows have 4 minutes of commercials at a time, so no biggie. I need to research this at their website.

Another thing I want to research is those pet quality birds that look like crows. I think they are actually ravens. I think this because a random bystander at a pet store told me this. Sure, it would be killer to have a raven, but since they live like 100 years, I’m not so sure I want to be an old dude and take care of some cool bird. All the punk kids would be saying, “Cool bird, Grandpa.” And I’d be all like, “You kids get off my yard.”

- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 8:20 AM