Merry Christmas, everybody! Or, if that seems politically incorrect, happy holidays! Sure don\u2019t want more war on Christmas in these hyper-partisan times, right? Well, it\u2019s been a long year what with the Covid Plague still with us and the tariff inflation but as usual us Daddles have adapted! For the most part this has been a fine year for the Daddle family and as always we like to share our good news with everyone. Wife Linda\u2019s depression has pretty much been manageable with the help of prescription pharmaceuticals. Thank god for the drug companies, eh? She spends a lot of time on the internet, but then, don\u2019t we all? Sometimes I think she\u2019s looking at the same thing for hours on end but I\u2019m just happy she\u2019s found something to do instead of stay in her room crying. <\/p>\n
Daughter Brenda is enrolled in the local community college for studies in Business Accounting. She realized her degree in English Renaissance History wasn\u2019t going to pay the rent, even though England seems to be hurtling back to those merry olde times, ha ha. That year flipping burgers at Burger King convinced her to get a trade with something that might pay more than minimum wage. Kids, they never listen to you when you give advice, do they? <\/p>\n
Son #1 Jeremiah has slipped a few times following his Narcotics Anonymous program last year but he\u2019s back once more in the basement where we set up an apartment and keep a surveillance camera so we can help him maintain his sobriety. With the Covid Lockdown Linda and I figure this is for his own good in more ways than one. Lately Jerry never leaves the room and no one visits. He doesn\u2019t have much to say at meals with us, but then, he never really did before.<\/p>\n
Son # 2 left that religious commune he joined down in Santa Cruz. Brian refused to talk to me after my little meltdown with the \u2018guru\u2019 in charge that time we drove down there to see him and the blankety blank geek wouldn\u2019t let us past the guard gate. Apparently, judging by his blogsite, Brian\u2019s a Qanon believer now. I guess you have to believe in something. Nobody said raising kids would be easy, but good god almighty, these boys could try a saint\u2019s patience. Linda says it\u2019s just a phase but that\u2019s what she said about the All Seeing Commune of the Holy Waters too. That worked out swell, didn\u2019t it? Oh, I know, I should be glad Brian found conspiracy theories and not drugs, right?<\/p>\n
Me, I\u2019m doing okay. We didn\u2019t travel much this year on account of Covid still a threat and the inflationary costs so it looks like we won\u2019t again this year. Linda is afraid of contaminated hotel rooms and nothing I can say will convince her otherwise. Maybe if she agreed to get her vaccinations, she\u2019d feel more at ease. She says she doesn\u2019t want to infect Jeremiah bringing back the virus from some Motel 6. I say whoa, what about me? But she knows I\u2019m only kidding. I took that horse dewormer so I\u2019m pretty much protected. Jerry, well, the last thing we want Jerry to see is another syringe.<\/p>\n
So \u2026 hope all you out there are doing as well as us Daddles! Merry Ho Ho!
\nLove, Linda, Jerry and Skeeter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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