Slightly off day, yesterday. Had a two hour seminar in the morning about to write effective e-mails, where I basically learned I'm awesome. It was cool and all, but it messed up my work rhythm for the day, so I cut out early (4:30) to spend an actual evening with my family. Got home, and Tieraney asked if she could go out with her coworkers. You call that love?
Yes, go out with your coworkers. The lady deserves a night out with her friends, so I spent the night playing with the kids, feeding them, reading to them from Etudes sur Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche et Leibniz by French philosopher Martial Gueroult. After the kids were in bed, I played some Wii until Tieraney got home, then we did it.
Dudes, let your women go out on their own every chance you get. For some reason, they're always willing to do it when they get home, especially if their friends are all in their 30s and still single. I think it makes them appreciate having a man to come home to. Or maybe some other dude at the bar gets them all horny, and they couldn't do anything about it because they're married, so they come home and do something about it then. I don't know. I don't care. I just like doin' it.
While that was going on, though, my hockey team lost the first of their six game road trip, 4-1.
Good punt returned to the 40.
Life's ball: 1st and 10 on my 40.
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I'm good in a way that is entirely normal for me these days. There's food and sex and tv shows. Work doesn't take up so much time that I can't do my own stuff that I like to do. I have no money if something bad happens, but I'm good in good times.
ReplyDeleteNormal is good. My offense is conservative but flowing. 8 yard curl, wideout sits in a soft spot in the zone. 2nd and 2 at my own 38. I'm confident I can establish a rhythm and drive down and tie this up.
Let me pose to you the following question:
Absent children and religion - is marriage a good idea?
I mean, there are tangible economic benefits that we (mistakenly, in my view) confer upon married people (which is why we need gay marriage - or - or, to do away with marriage altogether outside of the religious context and instead have civil unions for everyone) so that makes it a agood idea - but are there countervailing downsides that cut deeply enough against the choice of marriage?
TV shows, I can do without. But food + sex is a good thing, although not at the same time. I don't care what freaky deaky thing people got going on, I enjoy both too much on their own to make a party out of it. It'd be like going to see Queen in concert but playing video games throughout the whole show.
ReplyDeleteMarriage is 93% good. Nothing changes, really, especially for the non-religious fellow such as you, except for the financial benefits (which you need to just leave alone, by the way...keep your freaky suggestions for a time when a brother doesn't need all the financial help he can get; in fact, married people need more tax cuts, and free cheese, and vouchers for upper tier cable would be nice, too). People who say getting married ruined their relationship were doomed to fail anyway. Likely, sooner.
Ain't nothing you're losing by getting married that you haven't already lost by getting into a serious relationship. All marriage does is make you say, "Know what? This isn't worth tossing out the window" when the arguments come along. But, of course, I'm bias. Ask a dude who's happily married, and he'll tell you marriage is good. Rather, you should ask me about renting vs. owning. There is where my opinion differs from popular convention, but where I'm totally right and the rest of America is dead wrong. 100% dead wrong.