Places like Taco Bell and McDonald's are just beyond my abilities for food consumption. I don't know what I have a bigger problem with the industry that runs the place or the kids that serve the food. I once worked a summer as a grill cook at a pizza joint. I was 18 years old and I remember exactly how I handled food. My filthy hands were all over the food. I mean I would bet that 50% of teenage boys don't wash their hands after they pee. Teenage boys are gross.

I've started playing basketball again, twice a week during lunch. I'm glad I started up again. I had missed enough games in a row, do to work, that I had started to forget how much fun it is to play.

The kid is getting funnier every day. Last night we had a fork fight for the last cube of watermelon. She was cracking up and then when we let her win she stuffed the piece in her mouth, pointed at me with her fork, looked me in the eye and said with a big stuffed face smile "Daddy's piece." My favorite thing that she is doing currently is her suggestions. We'll may ask her if she wants to read a book and she might say "how about.... go to swings and slides, how about that."

In the recent past I would look at the slides at a playground and think how boring. Not able to give the slide any perspective. Now when I see The Kid on a slide I think how exciting. The slides may be about ten feet long that is like five times longer than her. If I could go to a park with fifty foot slides I think I would have fun too.