… but I did write this piece “When Husbands Go to the Ends of the Earth for Their Pregnant Wives” for the WhatToExpect.com website about My Love and her completely absurd demands on me, the man who knocked her up.
And, if you clicked that link and read the intro – yes, I am the blog editor for the NYC Dads Group these days. Even though I live in Connecticut. Hey, everybody is outsourcing these days.
If you do not find Excitable’s name on your sixth-grade class list, it's not for lack of trying.
And in two languages.
When the forms arrived in our mail this spring, I diligently verified the home address and phone numbers printed on them as instructed. They were correct, according to the phone book, as that's where I needed to check since I received the forms for someone else's boy at a different school.
In all fairness, the school also sent me a form with the right information on it. Behind the other boy's sheet I found one addressed to my son. In Spanish.
But that's why we have Google Translate.
You probably noticed, assuming you are still here, that I’ve taken some extended blogging breaks this year. Where was I?
Well .. I was in rehab.
For bad beer consumption.
Thank heavens, my taste buds were saved by Hangar 24 Brewery, a very generous craft brewer based in Redlands, Calif.
Out of the blue this year, they sent me this ginmorous insulated case of some of their many fine, fine brews for me to sample. See:
And sample, I did. Not a bad one on in the bunch. In fact, one of the tastiest, most consistently good batch of diverse beers from one brewer I’ve every had. Here are some of my faves:
