Holy keystrokes! He's back!
Enough already. I just flipped through my site and realized I was averaging one post a week. That's bad. So, armed with some inspiration -- somebody actually reads this! -- I'm going to bat out some stuff.

I'm in Day One of semi-voluntary single dadhood. The wife and the Young Daughter extended the trip to Missouri for several days, which meant the Old Daughter and The Boy and me are left to fend for ourselves in Texas. This is how I'll spend Days 5 through 10 of the Thirteen-Day Holiday Break. We got through Day 1 basically unscathed; the Old Daughter stayed home from school with a mild cough and major fatigue (driving through Oklahoma will do that to you.) A three-hour nap from The Boy and a little bit of spaghetti and by golly, everybody's happy. This parenting thing isn't so hard after all.

(That last sentence, I'm sure, is a chapter heading in the book. Words that Will Come Back to Haunt You.)

Also among the inspirations was getting to see the cousins from RER and Code Orange, if only for a few minutes. Always good to see the guys who dove head-first into the smart end of the gene pool. Gives me hope for my own progeny.