This glorified doorstop with plastic wheels? Oh, it only took me about 900 hours to construct. Don’t worry, I’m going to write about it in excruciating detail … so you have that to look forward to. (Listen, don’t roll your fucking eyes at me; you know you love it when I take what should be a two-sentence story and use 1,800 words to tell it.)
Daddy's Briefs
- Dear Apple: Your failure to provide an option for me to disable the "Faces" feature in iPhoto makes me want to punch you in yours. about 1 day ago from Twitter for Mac
- No, seriously: I'm selling my #Dad2Summit ticket for $150 under current official price. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? about 1 day ago from web
- The hideout where you'll hold me for ransom should be someplace tropical. With an ocean view. And you have to split the ransom with me. about 1 day ago from web
- I will willingly cooperate with the first one of you who kidnaps me from this cubicle and holds me for ransom. about 1 day ago from web
- This hurts, but: I'm selling my #Dad2Summit ticket for $205. Current full-price cost: $350. So, yeah: It's a good deal. For you, that is. about 2 days ago from web
- RT @HowardStern: Cory Booker Nails Marriage Equality In 5 Minutes http://t.co/vbORSEvC via @moveon @corybooker about 1 week ago from Twitter for iPhone
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Greatest Hits
- The time I almost became a highly paid insurance mascot.
- The time I built a car … I mean, a high-tech doorstop.
- The time I committed the most embarrassing social gaffe in the history of embarrassing social gaffes.
- The time I couldn't free my daughter from a bath seat in which she had become trapped.
- The time I did my best to completely sabotage a dream vacation.
- The time I finally used my passport.
- The time I got a vasectomy.
- The time I hung out with Van Halen.
- The time I nearly burned down my house.
- The time I partied with all the cool mommybloggers and saved The Bloggess's life … sort of.
- The time I thought my son was going to get his ass kicked by a girl.
- The time I was forced to deal with an incontinent doll.
19 Comments
Hey, I’m grown up. That was my post office box number until I downsized from jumbo box to teeny-tiny.
This kind of makes me laugh. My own dad actually spent a good amount of time making a pinewood derby with my brother. He was all excited when he realized that, if you make the front of it “skinnier” and longer… then you get like an inch head start because it can roll forward before the fatter cars. Or something like that. Don’t quote me. Good luck in the races!
Pinewood Derby flashback.
69? Seriously? Can’t wait to read this one.
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Nanananananananananananana… BATMAN!
Can’t wait to hear the epic tale.
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69, *chortles*. This should be good.
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I love the Batman logo on the black paint. Very sleek looking!
Good luck in the races!
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For serious? My daughter made one when she was 8 it only took her a couple of hours. She is a gifted child.
Snort.
My kids have always taken 1st or 2nd at those things but that is because they take after their father (Physics/cello major).
I would probably show up with one wheel missing and the body would be rusted out.
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What??? That’s it?? Jeez….I’da gone with the 1800 word version….
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My brother took 1st place and grand prize every year. My dad was an engineer. Cheating? You be the judge.
Is that really a big thing in the USA? Pinewood derby races? I never heard of it. Is it a boy scout thing?
Can’t wait!!! Love your style!
OH, yeah, my son has done the Pinewood Derby the last two years. Won 1st and 2nd place and his Dad is an Engineer, I wouldn’t call it cheating, just helpful tips.
Also, if you are in Indiana, take a trip to the Indiana State Museum where they set up the longest track in the world. It’s really cool!
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Good Luck Zan!!
By the way, LOVE the number!!! LMAO
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We are blissfully not in the school or cub scout project phase. I don’t like this handy-man glimpse into the future.
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Hope to see you at the 3rd Annual Indiana State Museum Pinewood Derby, where we have the world’s fastest track…and probably the tallest and longest, as well! There is a giant screen showing cars’ converted speeds, up to 240 mph, and scouts from all over the midwest come to compete!
Saturday afternoon is when we host true finals; Thursday – Sunday are “fun runs”. Cars must be officially weighed and registered between 9 and 1 p.m. Saturday.
See you at the races!
Remember that line from Bill & Ted’s? I didn’t know it was bad until I repeated to my mother… “Guess what my favorite number is, dude?”
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Nice ride, Batman.
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