Vacation pics of cottage country, Ontario (56k avoid)

[Chardok]

yeah, his oldest boy. Damn me.

[Darth Wong]

Michael has this look about him- like he is ready to just kick the holy howling hell out of whatever he's looking at. Don't know why - but whatever it is he is looking at, he's just daring it to try some shit.

Did you mean Matthew or Mike? If it's Mike, I don't buy it - the guy may have a reputation as a grit-chewing hardass, but gosh darn it if I just can't take that dimpled grin seriously.

I'm told that I used to look quite dangerous, and I had a genuinely intimidating scowl, but I can't seem to replicate that any more, not without considerable effort. To be totally honest, I suspect that I'm entirely too happy with my life to generate that kind of implied hostility any more.

If you meant Matthew, well, all teens look grumpy to me. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Matthew does tend to have a scowl on his face, but as you say, teens often walk around looking like that. He's actually a reasonably cheerful kid if you get him to relax, but in public he seems to default to a sort of "don't talk to me" body language unless you actively engage him.

[Broomstick]

I'm told that I used to look quite dangerous, and I had a genuinely intimidating scowl, but I can't seem to replicate that any more, not without considerable effort. To be totally honest, I suspect that I'm entirely too happy with my life to generate that kind of implied hostility any more.

Well, Mike... I hate to break it to you... but between age, fatherhood, happy family, and judging from your waistline sufficient funds to eat on a very regular basis you're moving from "dangerous" to "happy chubby Buddha".

It's OK - we still fear and respect you. Even if you're starting to look cuddly.

[aerius]

And he doesn't have a Mercury Grand Marquis anymore so he can't intimidate other drivers on our roads these days.
No one's going to be scared by a Subaru station wagon.

[Broomstick]

Hard to Be Cool in a Minivan

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[Col. Crackpot]

Amazing how they grow up so fast, isn't it Mike? My guys turn three this week and i swear i just brought them home from the hospital. Time flies.

[Darth Wong]

And he doesn't have a Mercury Grand Marquis anymore so he can't intimidate other drivers on our roads these days.
No one's going to be scared by a Subaru station wagon.

Yeah, there was a certain advantage to having a car that looked like it might be an unmarked cop car.

[Darth Wong]

Amazing how they grow up so fast, isn't it Mike? My guys turn three this week and i swear i just brought them home from the hospital. Time flies.

It's funny how, when I close my eyes and think of my son, I still see the little boy with the cherubic round face, but I open my eyes and I see a gangly teenager who's just finished his first week of high school.

[Lagmonster]

Amazing how they grow up so fast, isn't it Mike? My guys turn three this week and i swear i just brought them home from the hospital. Time flies.

It's funny how, when I close my eyes and think of my son, I still see the little boy with the cherubic round face, but I open my eyes and I see a gangly teenager who's just finished his first week of high school.

I have to admit, I'm very happy to have my little toddler of a son running around right now. There are things you know you're going to miss as your children grow up.

My father tells me that when I was very young, I would sprint to the door every night when he came home and leap into his arms. Then as I was in elementary school I'd just come downstairs and say hello. By the time I was thirteen, he'd only see me at mealtime before I'd run out the door or back to my room. In retrospect, with my father in his final years and me far too old to get any of that lost time with him back, I was a giant fucking idiot.

[The Yosemite Bear]

Amazing how they grow up so fast, isn't it Mike? My guys turn three this week and i swear i just brought them home from the hospital. Time flies.

It's funny how, when I close my eyes and think of my son, I still see the little boy with the cherubic round face, but I open my eyes and I see a gangly teenager who's just finished his first week of high school.

my baby sister whose still the teenager I last saw when I left home, is now raising a head strong teenager, whose already broken a boy's hand for touching her....

Mind you all this talk about them growing up, and the way they steal our traits and not always our good ones, has the Late Harry Chapin playing in my background.