Today, I spent the day with my dad. Oh, we didn’t go anywhere: I think we spent the entire day in his office. I installed some stuff on his computer (he now has Mozilla, but knowing him, he’ll still use IE and Outlook Express). I showed him my LiveJournal (and he put it in his favorites, so I expect him to be reading this). We went over some financial stuff that you need to discuss with parents as they get older; we talked politics; we talked old times. Most importantly, we spent the time talking. <\/p>\n
It was good for him, and good for me.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how many folks out there watch Penn & Teller: Bullshit<\/a>. But they usually get it right. On a recent episode on the subject of Death, Inc.<\/a>, they pointed out your loved ones can’t see what you do for them in the funeral. That’s for you, and a lot of folks choose austentation to assuage their guilt. Better not to have the guilt in the first place: Show your folks you appreciate them, and love them, while they are still here to see it. That’s what I did today, and I think both my dad and I are the better for it.<\/p>\n So, call your mom or dad.<\/p>\n Oh, and P.S.: I know your card. It is the 3 of clubs<\/a>. And yes, I said “clubs<\/a>“. You never saw the word “spades” there. Trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, I spent the day with my dad. Oh, we didn’t go anywhere: I think we spent the entire day in his office. I installed some stuff on his computer (he now has Mozilla, but knowing him, he’ll still use IE and Outlook Express). I showed him my LiveJournal (and he put it in his Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,106,442],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-dear-old-dad","tag-family","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}