Asides

Muzak in Market Basket

Van Halen’s “Yankee Rose” playing in the supermarket.

I’m getting old.

Getting rid of Dad

Beta: Dad! If you go to work, you get to socialize with grown ups, get work done, and I get to finish out my turn on the computer! adorable poop-eating grin

Quinn and I: die laughing

Quinn: I think our children are trying to get rid of me!

Beta: Yup.

Sam

[The kids are watching “How To Train Your Dragon 2”]

“Hiccup looks like Uncle Sam.”

“… Oh, yeah.  A very young looking Uncle Sam.”

“Yeah, when he shaves.”

Fortune

“The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect ‘domestic security.’ Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent.”

— quotation from a 1972 Supreme Court ruling, and redacted from a US Supreme Court document by the Ashcroft Justice Department in the name of national security.

Alpha Child Calls It Like It Is

That’s why they call it Windows — because it breaks so much, like glass.

— Alpha, age 10

Chicken Parmesan

Chicken Parmesan is the ultimate insult.  You beat a piece of chicken to a pulp, then dip it into the guts of it’s unborn young before roasting it.  Alpha as fuck.

I’m gonna hide under the covers

I made bacon and eggs for breakfast on our awesome cast iron griddle. It works wonderfully well, and the eggs are delicious.

I had an egg flow right over the side of the griddle. My stove is now covered in raw egg. I can’t clean it until the griddle cools enough for me to move it. sigh.

Not an auspicious start to the day.

Cash

Quinn: “Did you take out cash when you deposited that check?”
Megh: “Yeah, I wanted some in case you asked if I had any cash.”
Quinn: “I ask you if you have cash so I can buy something off-the-books, which I shouldn’t do.”
Megh: “I get cash so I can buy things off-the-books, too.”