Foster and adoptive parents: the new Marvel movie Black Widow is pretty great fun, but there are some heavy abandonment elements in the plot. Your kids may or may not pick up on them, but they are talked about outright. You may want to see it before they do to be sure.

I will have more to say why later, but though I didn’t serve, I feel like @TheJasonAnspach and @RealNickCole wrote Forgotten Ruin just for me. Great, fun read, with more than meets the eye. Thanks, gents.

This little girl turned one year old yesterday. Like the federal holiday, we observed her birthday today. (We hosted some friends for a pool party yesterday.) She has made quite an impact on our household in just a few months. ❤️

If only…

It’s good when a weather AI recognizes not just a true American hero, but one of the entire planet.

And tonight I learned of this little collaboration between @2CELLOS and @SteveVai: youtu.be/qfGggAGIT…

There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out today. It’s part 2 of our discussion on parenting teens, and we are joined once again by my lovely bride. empoweredparent.podbean.com/mobile/e/…

Order shirt from @lifeisgood. Receive correct shirt, but wrong size. No biggie, just set up return/exchange. Keep it, says customer service, our mistake. We’ll send out the correct size.

Awesome.

Or is it? Because now I’m in danger if a twinsie situation with my spouse…

It’s what we do.

Whoa. John McAfee hanged himself in prison in Spain today.

It’s always a treat getting mail from overseas. I wonder what this could be, @ZubyMusic? 😉

While Dad reads thrillers, Stella attempts to prove no dog toy is indestructible.

Just finished @bentleydonb’s first foray into the Clancyverse, Target Acquired. Holy. Freaking. Crap. Don just umped the ante for all the authors blessed to continue the adventures of Tom’s characters. Well done, sir.

Rambo?

Let me get this straight: Ayatollah Khamenei can make outright genocidal statements against the state of Israel, but those aren’t considered “threats” or “incitement” by Twitter. But @ATVSPoseur playfully quotes SONG LYRICS and gets permanently banned for a “threat”? What a joke.

This wasn’t the way any of us wanted to see @LSUbaseball’s season end, but then few of us thought they would get this far.

Arguing the stats and ins-and-outs of Paul Maineri’s career will be for others far more versed in those arguments than I. For me, he was very gracious with his time when we met once outside Alex Box Stadium, while my oldest was on the field for the 2014 baseball camp, when he said hello, asked how I was doing, and how my son was enjoying camp. And he was gracious in posing for photos with all the camp participants as well.

Thanks for your time then, Coach, and with the Tigers. All the best.

Okay, I’m ready. Let’s #GeauxTigers! Beat the Vols!

In tonight’s edition of “Chris randomly selects songs in his iTunes library”:

There are lots of great music videos. Then there are a select few that are absolutely perfect for the song and singer/band. This is one of those.

Everything about this is great, and then Rouhier takes it up a notch by adding Shaq to the mix. youtu.be/AAQSve4Ra…

At long last, I have made it to Rivendell.