So i walk into a bar in St. Catherines Ontario and ask the bartender "what do you have on tap that has a lot of hops in it", and she looks at me and say's "what's that?"... so i dumb it down a bit and ask for an IPA and she say's "never heard of it, I have coors light, Molson Canadian, Rickards red, Rickards blond and Budweiser".
Holy ^&$^$*!
You see this is why i go on "vacation", it is just an actual exercise in reminding myself how good i have it. Did i mention 3 Rickards Blond, because they were actually out of the red, cost $23, and came with a chance to witness an incredibly painful bar staff banter. Mind you when you are staying in a shithole Motel your local options are perhaps not the best... My wife and i take shifts running to the watering hole while the kids toss and turn to avoid the bed bugs (joking i hope).
I got wise today, Ice bucket full of candy assed expensive beers, and I'll hold the fort down while my partner sucks back a few Ceasers in the clown show lounge next door. I have a hard time looking at a bartender who doesn't know what an IPA is...
It's the problem with moving away from home and having parents and children... the good thing to do is to spent your time bringing your kids back to see the family, and all in all we have it pretty good... not too many totally insane family members with weird ideas about what we should be doing... perhaps we are getting wise... we are in a motel which gives us some control over our situation and when we wake up.
We are a sleep in family... we sleep in until we are no longer tired. Most say we are lucky and can't believe our fortune... i believe we just trained people properly. In fact many have commented on how good our kids are, one even mentioned "where do you buy kids like that"... Obviously you can't buy that, you have to raise it, and i could tell you how but you would hear things you wouldn't like and make an excuse for why you can't do that and we would be back to your problems...
Perhaps i should write a book on child rearing, but i might run into the same problems i had when i tried to teach people how to teach themselves how to play guitar. You end up talking to people who don't speak the same language as yourself and so your methods don't apply to their situation. Me, I'm not big on sales or trying to change people and those are the two things i would have to focus on for this venture to work. Sales pitches irritate the shit out of me... a custom designed set of words placed to start a conversation that will separate a sucker from his money. And changing people... do people actually really want to change? or do they just say they do to get attention? I believe more the latter, and that is a horrible belief for sure, but i have it.
Good news is kids are getting to see some cousins, and they are getting along quite well.... two sets of girl twins all cute as hell, just don't try to photograph them all together or your brain might collapse... you might have better luck filming 4 peaceful cats in a bathtub full of water.
Sometimes kids just don't give a shit about being photographed... and who can blame them? All of these fucking idiot adults with their rules and their cameras trying to micromanage the next game you are in the middle of playing. At some point you have to stop and say in your head screw this.... i have already stopped and smiled for thousands of pictures in the last few days... enough is enough we are going to play our game and if you can't be a good enough photographer to slip into the reeds ad get your shot then screw it. Hell I'm with the kids on that one... isn't that why God invented Photoshop?
It must be a real disadvantage to childhood to live in the digital era... back when we were kids every picture cost money to have it developed and buy the film... nobody cared about the environmental cost of film development chemicals.... but that's another one. But as a result there would be one moment for big staged photographs and often the person with the best camera and a little ability might take the photo and then get prints for the family.
Now everybody has a digital camera and 1 photo costs the same as 1000 unless you are a damn fool and try to print them all out. But as a result, kids are constantly being called over for staged photos... it has to be annoying as hell.
I'll tell you a story about my dad... he took great group photos, and his secret was thinking he knew hot to operate the camera and then explaining to the posed crowd how the sequence was going to go down only to have it go wrong on him. Usually by about the 6th time he was able to set the timer and run into the crowd and smile by the time the picture was to be taken. Of course, by then, everybody was in hysterics over the previous failed attempts and dad's reaction of shock to what went wrong after explaining to everybody how he solved the problem. Classic dad shot... family laughing bug smiles dad in frame smiling sweating slightly.
Good times, good times
Holy ^&$^$*!
You see this is why i go on "vacation", it is just an actual exercise in reminding myself how good i have it. Did i mention 3 Rickards Blond, because they were actually out of the red, cost $23, and came with a chance to witness an incredibly painful bar staff banter. Mind you when you are staying in a shithole Motel your local options are perhaps not the best... My wife and i take shifts running to the watering hole while the kids toss and turn to avoid the bed bugs (joking i hope).
I got wise today, Ice bucket full of candy assed expensive beers, and I'll hold the fort down while my partner sucks back a few Ceasers in the clown show lounge next door. I have a hard time looking at a bartender who doesn't know what an IPA is...
It's the problem with moving away from home and having parents and children... the good thing to do is to spent your time bringing your kids back to see the family, and all in all we have it pretty good... not too many totally insane family members with weird ideas about what we should be doing... perhaps we are getting wise... we are in a motel which gives us some control over our situation and when we wake up.
We are a sleep in family... we sleep in until we are no longer tired. Most say we are lucky and can't believe our fortune... i believe we just trained people properly. In fact many have commented on how good our kids are, one even mentioned "where do you buy kids like that"... Obviously you can't buy that, you have to raise it, and i could tell you how but you would hear things you wouldn't like and make an excuse for why you can't do that and we would be back to your problems...
Perhaps i should write a book on child rearing, but i might run into the same problems i had when i tried to teach people how to teach themselves how to play guitar. You end up talking to people who don't speak the same language as yourself and so your methods don't apply to their situation. Me, I'm not big on sales or trying to change people and those are the two things i would have to focus on for this venture to work. Sales pitches irritate the shit out of me... a custom designed set of words placed to start a conversation that will separate a sucker from his money. And changing people... do people actually really want to change? or do they just say they do to get attention? I believe more the latter, and that is a horrible belief for sure, but i have it.
Good news is kids are getting to see some cousins, and they are getting along quite well.... two sets of girl twins all cute as hell, just don't try to photograph them all together or your brain might collapse... you might have better luck filming 4 peaceful cats in a bathtub full of water.
Sometimes kids just don't give a shit about being photographed... and who can blame them? All of these fucking idiot adults with their rules and their cameras trying to micromanage the next game you are in the middle of playing. At some point you have to stop and say in your head screw this.... i have already stopped and smiled for thousands of pictures in the last few days... enough is enough we are going to play our game and if you can't be a good enough photographer to slip into the reeds ad get your shot then screw it. Hell I'm with the kids on that one... isn't that why God invented Photoshop?
It must be a real disadvantage to childhood to live in the digital era... back when we were kids every picture cost money to have it developed and buy the film... nobody cared about the environmental cost of film development chemicals.... but that's another one. But as a result there would be one moment for big staged photographs and often the person with the best camera and a little ability might take the photo and then get prints for the family.
Now everybody has a digital camera and 1 photo costs the same as 1000 unless you are a damn fool and try to print them all out. But as a result, kids are constantly being called over for staged photos... it has to be annoying as hell.
I'll tell you a story about my dad... he took great group photos, and his secret was thinking he knew hot to operate the camera and then explaining to the posed crowd how the sequence was going to go down only to have it go wrong on him. Usually by about the 6th time he was able to set the timer and run into the crowd and smile by the time the picture was to be taken. Of course, by then, everybody was in hysterics over the previous failed attempts and dad's reaction of shock to what went wrong after explaining to everybody how he solved the problem. Classic dad shot... family laughing bug smiles dad in frame smiling sweating slightly.
Good times, good times
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