Talk about your day thread

[doug rr]

I probably still would have grabbed a cob of corn..

[E.H. Ruddock]

In Athens today (our last full day of our month long travels) and my wife is keen on grabbing a cooked corn cob from a street vendor. We walk up to have a look-see at the product and the lady cooking is sitting back with her legs spread fully showing off her full Greek bush for all to see. It was obviously a non washing day as she was out of knickers.

Location in Athens please

[daft twat]

One of my friends at work today told us his wife left him. Got almost no details because a student came into my room to make up a test, but it’s all I’ve been able to think about. He’s 55. His son just passed the bar and became an attorney. His daughter is in her sophomore year at university. I taught them both. I’ve been to Europe twice with this guy, chaperoning school trips. He’s a good man. He for sure didn’t cheat or anything. I feel awful for him.

My wife and I have a senior and a freshman now. We could be empty nesters in just 4 years. I think we’ll be okay, but this kind of shit rattles me. We fell in love 25 years ago when we were young. What has followed for two decades has been amazing. We’ve raised two kids, and I love her more than ever. But what happens when it’s just us again, and this time we’re not young and infatuated? In my mind, it’s going to be great, and I’m looking forward to it, but this shit today scares me.

[The Argonaut]

It'll be great, don't worry. That guy probably saw it coming for years or should have but is too oblivious and selfish. Or, third option, his wife is just truly terrible. And it doesn't seem like any of those three are true for you. Rest easy

[Chris_H_2]

I’m having trouble getting past this …

His daughter is in her sophomore year at university.

[The Argonaut]

I’m having trouble getting past this …

His daughter is in her sophomore year at university.

What's difficult about that? A 55 year old man has a 20 year old daughter

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[daft twat]

I’m having trouble getting past this …

His daughter is in her sophomore year at university.

What's difficult about that? A 55 year old man has a 20 year old daughter

He means that I didn’t write at college. I was clearly showing off. I learned that phrase at the cinema.

[Chris_H_2]

I’m having trouble getting past this …

His daughter is in her sophomore year at university.

What's difficult about that? A 55 year old man has a 20 year old daughter

He means that I didn’t write at college. I was clearly showing off. I learned that phrase at the cinema.

I hope Argo went to hospital when he got mugged.

[The Argonaut]

I did. My nose was all fucked up from when my face bounced off the ground, thanks for bringing it up

[wease]

My wife and I have a senior and a freshman now. We could be empty nesters in just 4 years. I think we’ll be okay, but this kind of shit rattles me. We fell in love 25 years ago when we were young. What has followed for two decades has been amazing. We’ve raised two kids, and I love her more than ever. But what happens when it’s just us again, and this time we’re not young and infatuated? In my mind, it’s going to be great, and I’m looking forward to it, but this shit today scares me.

We have a university junior and high school sophomore. I have the same thoughts often.

[Higgs]

My daughter is 21 and working and is literally moving out of home this week for the first time. My son is 24 and living and working 2,500kms away as he also studies part time to finish his degree. Technically we become empty nester this week.

My advice if you are concerned? Take a long arse Euro trip, just the two of you. You all know I just have done so and it was the best thing ever for our relationship, even 30 years later. We got to just be us again, total freedom. It was amazing. I truly believe we are stronger and more together as a couple now than ever before.

(I also appreciate we went through some pretty tough health shit these past few years that certainly had an impact too. Being beside my wife day in day out through surgery and chemo and radiation has changed our perspectives on our relationship a lot too. I always said in the end we'd only have each other. Being able to be there for her through that was a pretty huge thing for me, although tbh I probably can't put that experience into words that would do it justice).

Communication is everything. Honest communication.

You'll be fine daft. You seem like a really good bloke and pretty grounded too.

[bart]

i think it's only a matter of time before he gets divorced

[daft twat]

i think it's only a matter of time before he gets divorced

Damn, RM. Thought I was pretty clear I think life as an empty nester will be great. I’m just a little rattled by my colleague having the rug pulled.

[bart]

It’s too late, might as well get on one of those gold digger sites and find a 25 year old to spend your twilight years with

[daft twat]

It’s too late, might as well get on one of those gold digger sites and find a 25 year old to spend your twilight years with

Like Belicheck? Man, that shit creeps me out.

[bart]

fine then get a membership on OurTime

[Self]

hey, Rebar

I haven't been able to text you lately about the Patriots. Sorry.

probably for the best, Ruddo

[Self]

how are things?

good. I'm old, though. what're you guys up to?

[96583UP]

so much cleaning today

back is sore

did manage a little beach time

was warm

caught a ton of bonito yesterday and cooked them for dinner today

was pretty good