Author: chris

Awesomeasaurus?

I’m so out of touch that I didn’t know young, hip people said “awesome” anymore (or again). Do they really? Maybe they do; I did recently witness a person who looked just about grown up call out to a similar specimen: “Dude, I haven’t seen you in ages!” If dude endures, perhaps awesome does too.

I find it more amusing to imagine that they actually wouldn’t touch the term with a 10-foot pole, like I wouldn’t have considered using the word “hip” when I was a teenager, and that this ad was dreamed up by somebody born in the `70s and approved by somebody born in the `70s, and that it’s being snickered at by the 15-year-olds waiting for the bus.

Rad.

More likely, the ad is aimed at people born in the ’70s and the ad creatives and the 15-year-olds are snickering.  Notice the skateboard…I’m probably being paranoid…right? Kids do still skate…

(Train of thought continued from here.)

The previous occupants of this house are green-thumb types, and I’m a complete botanical ignoramus, so when new things appear in the garden at various points in the year, it’s a nice surprise for me.

Well, not that pile of feathers and a beak the other day.  G was standing in the middle of it when I recognized what it was (could have been worse; it was literally only a pile of feathers and a beak). But I’m pretty sure the previous occupants didn’t put that there.

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