Happy anniversary, Dina

On April 18, 1998, I married the love of my life. Now we're celebrating 10 years of marriage. I'm a lucky guy.

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ANIMAL! A quick story in captioned media...

So the other day, I happily wore my new "Be Kind to Animal" T-shirt for the first time.

My older son Alex said that the shirt was "embarrassing." How could it be embarrassing, I wondered? It was cool! Then it turned out that he thought that the shirt had Elmo on it. How embarrassing! Not that my son thought I'd wear an Elmo shirt--stranger things have happened. No, embarrassing that my own flesh and blood had no idea who Animal is!

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A quick YouTube search, and that was quickly alleviated by this:



And further alleviated by a little bit of this (isn't Harry Belafonte awesome?):



That resulted in this:



My firm belief is that my son will no longer diss my Animal shirt!

Bonus Animal footage (Look! Rita Moreno!):



? AWESOME!

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Medieval Times

Our family went to Medieval Times last night to celebrate a buddy's birthday. This is like the third time I've been there (once for my birthday, once for Alex's, and this time for my friend's) and I always enjoy the experience. This was Zack's first trip there, and even at age 3 he really seemed to take to the whole experience, enjoying the swordplay and the food and the spectacle. He compared the knights to Power Rangers, which I guess isn't much of a stretch, come to think of it.

The experience reminded me of an anecdote my father-in-law shared once. He teaches court reporting at a local school. One of his students, who worked at Medieval Times, came into class one day. "Mr. Don," he said, "I made knight!" And that was pretty much the last time he came to class.

I don't know--if I made knight, I might drop out of school, too.

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