4 December 2023

A lot happened this weekend, most annoyingly another car drove into my fence. It was the first rain we’ve gotten in awhile and they crashed close to 9 PM. Whenever I find out a teenage boy was behind the wheel, I sort of shrug, what am I going to do? I remember my dangerous driving as a young lad, though it did prepare me for combat driving. Cars are phenomenally powerful, the distances and speed they cover while the passengers rest sitting is unnatural. Getting a car is probably the first taste of power for a lot of people and it can be overwhelming. Mostly of the proudly bad drivers I’ve met have been physically underwhelming people, protect them in a metal box that goes 100 mph and suddenly they become Superman. The sentiment is one I stay on guard towards, control the ego. I am not the car, nor any of the possessions I own. The fence was the sad side of my weekend, but there was more good than bad, it was a beautiful case study in how we could have a day filled with joy only to have a slight negative at the end, despite best efforts my body wants to focus on the negative. Hopefully I’ll fix the fence tomorrow in a couple hours with spare wood I’ve already got. More importantly my baby girl met Santa for the first time this weekend. She did better than expected, usually it’s tears from the start, however Santa worked his magic with a little stuffed elf and a toy to bring the baby back. After that we got some food in the mall with my wife and her mom, my favorite moment was watching my daughter sitting in a high chair eating her food when she decided it was time for more and reached onto the table grabbing a nugget out of the box. She’s a rockstar.