NGL, dad probably totaly forgot about the event. If it’s one of many “blow ups” they seems to gloss it all over and it fades away.

My own dad separated himself from his family, ran off to California to “find himself” in the early 90’s and died there. Alone. I went out in 2018 to see him one last time and spent 4 days cleaning his filty cottage while he sat in front of his computer and played games. We went out to dinner one of the days I was there and I realized that I no longer knew the man sitting across the table from me. Odd feeling that.

All the love I’d had just had faded away over the years - even before he left, he was notorious for promising to spend time with me and then not showing up. It was always some excuse that he couldn’t make it… 9 times out of 10 it was him just forgetting. It was depressing to be on the end of that indifference, to say the least.

Said my goodbyes and knew that it was the last time I would see him.

Tried several months later to help him get admitted to the VA for medical care and even offered to go out and pick him up and bring him back east to a VA hospital nearby and he made all sorts of excuses. Oh well, I tried.

I miss the man I knew when I was little before my folks got divorced and my mom took me out west… THAT man was long gone by the time I went to live with him for the last three years I was in High School.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that it is okay to be ambivalent or have no feelings whatsoever about your parents after they die. It happens to a lot of people.

Of all my relatives now dead, the ones I cry over mostly are my grandparents. They were way cool and I spent time with them - into my 50’s - so I got to know them as adults, as peers and equals, which is an amazing experience.

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Fuck… I hate seeing this. My mom lost all her stuff to a fire decades ago,. including the cats. Totally feel for anyone that loses their home to a fire. Horrible.

OTOH, the brekkie sarnies look awesome.

Dude, he didn’t care and doesn’t care about the United States. He’s on track to become a triilionaire and that is all that matters to cretins like him.

TIL… Thanks!

Oh cool! I’ll show to husband - he’s the chef in the family, I’m just the one that came into the relationship with all the cookware.

I’d be interested in seeing how that works! When you do it, let us know how it came out.

I think a lot of people with cast iron would like to sort their Lodge pans in the same way.

Speak to me of this carbon steel cookware! I haven’t heard of this before… is it a new thing?

I really have no interest in AI. God knows, I can chat with a wall, a tree, a rock or even the air often enough on my own.

Sometimes I even surprise myself with the answers I get.

Regardless of how much it costs, it looks delicious.

…oh dear…

I think you can get an OTC cream for that.

I am no frogologist

I believe the term is herpetologist. :)

Here you go!

https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/167008/

't would appear so!

Oh noes! The dementia took over and he drew a pre-teen female figure with the magic sharpie and wiped out Mar-A-Lago instead…

THIS is going on a tee shirt!

Is that a dude? 'Cos the bright Peacock spiders are the males…

Whoo! I am gonna need a Retro Encabulator to work that one out!

Ignorance… it’s an apt word here…