Didn't make sense to amend the previous post--so I'm sure you all will put-up with a two-fer...
Tonight, C was downstairs working on a project (her design business activity comes in waves of activity), so I'm upstairs trying to suffer through the evening with the television. And even though TIVO records crap for me, I find myself getting more pissed as the evening drags on...
So out of morbid / disgusted boredom, I turn off the TV and listen to some piano sonatas through my tube-amp, and started back on the book that I'm reading. Within about 15 seconds, I wish the TV had never been turned on in the first place. I am so close to just chucking the thing out--and I'm not even being funny.
And for the Hobettes, this is what I've learned (from the book) thus far: (1) I am the most important man in my daughters life; and (2) I need to be her hero. And even when she rebels or otherwise tests boundaries, she's actually testing how much I love her. That--and that she'll lose respect for me if I waffle. Maybe I'll read this every year or so...
And as an aside, I have no idea how google can legally put up such a huge amount from a copywrited book as an online PDF. Makes me wonder why I bought the thing in the first place. Almost as bad as when I read Prozac Nation cover to cover at the Barnes & Noble.
Tonight, C was downstairs working on a project (her design business activity comes in waves of activity), so I'm upstairs trying to suffer through the evening with the television. And even though TIVO records crap for me, I find myself getting more pissed as the evening drags on...
So out of morbid / disgusted boredom, I turn off the TV and listen to some piano sonatas through my tube-amp, and started back on the book that I'm reading. Within about 15 seconds, I wish the TV had never been turned on in the first place. I am so close to just chucking the thing out--and I'm not even being funny.
And for the Hobettes, this is what I've learned (from the book) thus far: (1) I am the most important man in my daughters life; and (2) I need to be her hero. And even when she rebels or otherwise tests boundaries, she's actually testing how much I love her. That--and that she'll lose respect for me if I waffle. Maybe I'll read this every year or so...
And as an aside, I have no idea how google can legally put up such a huge amount from a copywrited book as an online PDF. Makes me wonder why I bought the thing in the first place. Almost as bad as when I read Prozac Nation cover to cover at the Barnes & Noble.
posted by Greg | 10:20 PM
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Hey, if you want to pass judgment upon yourself for reading books in bookstores, can you please choose circumstances that did not involve me reading the same book? I feel judged ... :-)
Looking back--at the very least, we could have picked a better book.
Sure it was all the rage at the time; but looking back, who the heck cares about a whining immature twenty-something? (Oh--wait. I already get that every day!)
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