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Stretch spoke with Gary Spivey today, and he is going to be a guest on our CRN show…  Maybe as soon as tonight!  Gary is great, if you believe or not he’s still amazing.

Went to Tomas’ local watering hole last night… I give a full review on the Pod, so I won’t bore you with repeating it here, lets just say it was eventful.

Spoke with Lucy and Bing last night, Lucy can never remember if she learned anything at school (See, she does take after Dad) and Bing and I had a nice conversation about Mini Coopers, Smart Cars, PT Cruisers, Buggie Cars and Limos (His favorite cars, we play a game spotting them anytime we drive somewhere)…  He did crack me up when he stopped speaking with me and said “SHHHHHH, I’m talking on the phone” to his Mom.

Things have got a little better around the apartment building… The Wi-Fi is back, but the hot tub is still a cold tub.

I’ve been lazy, the weather got cool and my motivation to workout has dwindled…  I need to get off my a** and back into the gym.

This guy shot his wife and dog and he gets to go back and work in radio?  This did not happen in Sun-Land.  That’s one long dog.  It’s OK with me if this guy gets the death penalty.  Maybe he dropped an Oreo and was just frantically looking for it!  Is this really news?  Don’t show this to Lucy, she’ll want it!  Stretch needs one of these! He was just drawn to it. Return the lung!

Rock On, Jack

This year is flying bye… Slow down, what’s the hurry!?!? It’s always kind of empty the day after the kids leave, you go from noise and craziness to quite and loneliness. I did get a nice long walk in and spent some time sitting at my table at Panera at Chandler and Lankershim watching the valley walk past. Kanye has been the talk of the town… Let’s just all agree, he’s a douche bag! Did you watch the new primetime Jay Leno? Stretch and I stayed at CRN to watch, it was good, although not really different from the old tonight show and I think in a few weeks the novelty will fade and people will want to watch scripted shows… Although, I could be wrong? I have to admit, I’m still enjoying Conan, I find him very funny and witty.

You may want to skip that shower.  Terror raid in NYC.  Congrats Colin.  Another good line-up for the Bridge School Benefit.  What a weird, gross story.  Where did I leave that kid?  That was a big fire!  Even Obama hates Kanye.  Don’t steal bikes.

Daddy's Big Girl - The First Day Of Kindergarten

Daddy and Lucy on Day 1 of school

Rock On, Jack

Life is unfair… We’ve all heard it, heck we’ve all experienced it.  In the past year and a half I’ve had more disappointment than I care to recount, but you hate to see your kids realize this is how things go.  You don’t want them to be spoiled, but you also don’t want to see their little hearts broken.  So you try and handle the big ones as gently as possible… “Why can’t you and Mommy live together?” “Why did your Grandma in the wheel chair go to heaven?”  And trust me, I’m not perfect, I answered them the best I could.  But it seems lately there have been a wave of tiny disappointments, the type that put a damper on the fun you were looking forward too.  Oddly, they have really surrounded food.  I told you all on the CRN (and Twitter… and Myspace) how Mc Donald’s screwed the kids on the Happy Meals the other night…  The toy is the draw for those otherwise boring meals, so when they leave the kids with a box only containing the crappy food it’s a let down.  Then we went to Denny’s and they changed their kids menu, no more mini-hot dogs (Lucy’s favorite) or grilled cheese (A Bing must have), they were bummed, but I explained that sometimes they need to change the menu.  Then last night, Bob’s Big Boy… The Bob’s that has been Lucy’s favorite place to go since she was old enough to have an opinion, the place she and I would go for a “Daddy and Me” dinner while her Mom worked, the first real place she recognized on sight (Which ended our meals at Mo’s, it’s across the street within eyesight of Bob’s, so Lucy would have no part of being in the hood and not hitting BBB.)  When I asked them where the wanted to go eat last night the vote was 100% Bob’s.  We walked in, Lucy and Bing requested different color balloons and then we were sat by the “Bob” inside.  Two kids menus and one breakfast menu (I like their eggs)…  And no more hot dog on the kids menu.  I know hot dogs are unhealthy and generally full of gross stuff, but it was what Lucy ordered there for the last 4+ years.  She was really bummed, but I think I was more upset… I know things change, we get unmarried, we grow older, we lose things, but why this?  Why ruin the thing my children and I look forward too, an evening of laughs and full tummies at our favorite place.  Lucy was a trooper, after quizzing the server on where the hot dogs were she ordered plain noodles she looked at me and said “at least we can have fudge cake.”

We will have other favorites and menus will continue to change, but on that Monday evening on a warm August day we lost a tiny family tradition.

Rock On, Jack