Ken King
07-04-2003, 08:35 PM
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God bless America, and please protect the men and women overseas liberating people suffering from decades of tyranny and persecution. My prayers and thoughts are with you and I wish you safety, success and a rapid return home.
Susan and I are doing absolutely nothing special for this holiday. I’m sitting at home this fine Friday afternoon, enjoying the solitude of a middle-age kid-free couple for the first time since we started our relationship 13 years ago. All the kids have their own plans and we are left to our own for the first time ever on the 4th. Right now Susan is running a spades tournament and I’m hacking away at the keyboard.
I think I’ll just talk about the kids that aren’t here. Sort of ironic, but I love them and miss them as well as enjoy the fact that they aren’t here underfoot anymore.
Susan’s son is 28, he will be getting married in August and has just taken a job up around Baltimore to be near his sweetheart. Can’t blame him for wanting to be with her, a real cute young lady he met while attending St. Mary’s College, after a tour in the Army as a Russian linguist. Slueth14, college girls, St. Mary’s City, dating potential of intelligent females is high, they ain’t going to come find you, hint, hint. Take a class, hint, hint. Use their library, hint, hint. You have to go into the forest to find the deer. Check into other activities at the school.
He’s going to be a great man in some way or form. I just feel it and I have some pretty good instincts about things. He has a strong desire to learn like I do and isn’t afraid to change his opinion. He is a talented musician (guitar and piano) and a great natural artist. He is a lot like I am in quite a few ways (not the art, but I can play several instruments) even though we aren’t biologically linked. Him and I can drive his mom insane during some of our debates. The way we are you would think we were biologically connected, it’s eerie.
My oldest daughter is 26 and lives in Charlotte Hall with her husband and two of my three grandkids, unique relationship here as I didn’t meet her until she was 22, DNA says she’s mine and the looks confirm it. One night stand with her mother and never knew about the baby. We haven’t really gotten to know one another and I don’t know what I should do, so I don’t push and every time she has asked for help I’ve been there.
The next daughter is 24, my female equal in many ways, lives in the Park. Like some of you out there, she is trying to find herself too, but I think she’s having way much fun for the kind of luck she has. She kind of reminds my of the way Migtig talks about kicking arse. She has the arrest record to prove it as she has pounded some jerks pretty good when they have gotten rough with her. She was young when I was into martial-arts and she would work out with me. Trust me, she knows how to inflict damage. Pretty and tough, Sleuth14, stay away, she’d call you a “pretty boy” or “preppie”. I wish she was interested in a guy of your character and potential, but I don’t think you could ever deal with her strength, stubbornness and attitude. She didn’t date much in school because I told her that I had to meet and talk to any boy that was taking her off in a car for the evening. I know that she would sneak off with girl-friends to be with the boys, but I also know that she would use that to get away from geeks hitting on her. For some reason none of them had the balls to come have that little talk with me. Imagine that. I see her when she needs something, want her to call more often, but she is just too hardheaded to do it.
The baby boy, who just turned 22, lives in Hollywood with his wonderful lady and my third grandchild. He comes by just to come by. We wrench on cars together, he was an airborne combat engineer in the Army until medically discharged. Learned to blow stuff up, another thing we share, and he is a fair marksman too. He knows no fear and has excellent parental character. He knows what “family” means. When I need him, he’s there. Just like I am for all the kids.
The best part about him is that he brings the baby by and lets me spoil the crap out of her. She and I are the best of buddies and I hope we always will be. When she comes into the house and hears or sees me, it’s right into the arms for snuggling and play time.
You can bet I’ll meet and interview her dates too or my son will insist on that father to daughter’s suitor conversation. You got to get them in control early (the date, not the daughter). They need to know that she isn’t a chunk of meat or a trophy for their shelf and what might happen to them if they do treat her that way. Note: remember to tell him that this is an excellent time to be cleaning firearms, he has some time to figure out how he will handle it, though I will insure that he knows it will be something that he will need to do. I’m pretty sure his thoughts on this are already like that, but no problem reinforcing its importance.
Any man with a daughter should insist on this because as a man we know what is on that boy’s hormone overdosed mind and how the bodies blood flow changes when in the company of a female resulting in brain failure. This impact on the thought process is nothing but pure animalistic behavior. Hell, that’s how I got the daughter that I first met 22 years after the fact.
Anyway, I hope all of you are enjoying this day of independence in your own way as much as I am. I’ll probably be on and off the net all weekend. Happy holiday to all. Be safe.
God bless America, and please protect the men and women overseas liberating people suffering from decades of tyranny and persecution. My prayers and thoughts are with you and I wish you safety, success and a rapid return home.
Susan and I are doing absolutely nothing special for this holiday. I’m sitting at home this fine Friday afternoon, enjoying the solitude of a middle-age kid-free couple for the first time since we started our relationship 13 years ago. All the kids have their own plans and we are left to our own for the first time ever on the 4th. Right now Susan is running a spades tournament and I’m hacking away at the keyboard.
I think I’ll just talk about the kids that aren’t here. Sort of ironic, but I love them and miss them as well as enjoy the fact that they aren’t here underfoot anymore.
Susan’s son is 28, he will be getting married in August and has just taken a job up around Baltimore to be near his sweetheart. Can’t blame him for wanting to be with her, a real cute young lady he met while attending St. Mary’s College, after a tour in the Army as a Russian linguist. Slueth14, college girls, St. Mary’s City, dating potential of intelligent females is high, they ain’t going to come find you, hint, hint. Take a class, hint, hint. Use their library, hint, hint. You have to go into the forest to find the deer. Check into other activities at the school.
He’s going to be a great man in some way or form. I just feel it and I have some pretty good instincts about things. He has a strong desire to learn like I do and isn’t afraid to change his opinion. He is a talented musician (guitar and piano) and a great natural artist. He is a lot like I am in quite a few ways (not the art, but I can play several instruments) even though we aren’t biologically linked. Him and I can drive his mom insane during some of our debates. The way we are you would think we were biologically connected, it’s eerie.
My oldest daughter is 26 and lives in Charlotte Hall with her husband and two of my three grandkids, unique relationship here as I didn’t meet her until she was 22, DNA says she’s mine and the looks confirm it. One night stand with her mother and never knew about the baby. We haven’t really gotten to know one another and I don’t know what I should do, so I don’t push and every time she has asked for help I’ve been there.
The next daughter is 24, my female equal in many ways, lives in the Park. Like some of you out there, she is trying to find herself too, but I think she’s having way much fun for the kind of luck she has. She kind of reminds my of the way Migtig talks about kicking arse. She has the arrest record to prove it as she has pounded some jerks pretty good when they have gotten rough with her. She was young when I was into martial-arts and she would work out with me. Trust me, she knows how to inflict damage. Pretty and tough, Sleuth14, stay away, she’d call you a “pretty boy” or “preppie”. I wish she was interested in a guy of your character and potential, but I don’t think you could ever deal with her strength, stubbornness and attitude. She didn’t date much in school because I told her that I had to meet and talk to any boy that was taking her off in a car for the evening. I know that she would sneak off with girl-friends to be with the boys, but I also know that she would use that to get away from geeks hitting on her. For some reason none of them had the balls to come have that little talk with me. Imagine that. I see her when she needs something, want her to call more often, but she is just too hardheaded to do it.
The baby boy, who just turned 22, lives in Hollywood with his wonderful lady and my third grandchild. He comes by just to come by. We wrench on cars together, he was an airborne combat engineer in the Army until medically discharged. Learned to blow stuff up, another thing we share, and he is a fair marksman too. He knows no fear and has excellent parental character. He knows what “family” means. When I need him, he’s there. Just like I am for all the kids.
The best part about him is that he brings the baby by and lets me spoil the crap out of her. She and I are the best of buddies and I hope we always will be. When she comes into the house and hears or sees me, it’s right into the arms for snuggling and play time.
You can bet I’ll meet and interview her dates too or my son will insist on that father to daughter’s suitor conversation. You got to get them in control early (the date, not the daughter). They need to know that she isn’t a chunk of meat or a trophy for their shelf and what might happen to them if they do treat her that way. Note: remember to tell him that this is an excellent time to be cleaning firearms, he has some time to figure out how he will handle it, though I will insure that he knows it will be something that he will need to do. I’m pretty sure his thoughts on this are already like that, but no problem reinforcing its importance.
Any man with a daughter should insist on this because as a man we know what is on that boy’s hormone overdosed mind and how the bodies blood flow changes when in the company of a female resulting in brain failure. This impact on the thought process is nothing but pure animalistic behavior. Hell, that’s how I got the daughter that I first met 22 years after the fact.
Anyway, I hope all of you are enjoying this day of independence in your own way as much as I am. I’ll probably be on and off the net all weekend. Happy holiday to all. Be safe.