Jay About to collect social security

I turned 37 this weekend and it is kind of brutal.  I am certainly in middle age territory. My son helped me celebrate by not sleeping all night.  Thanks buddy. My gift to myself was a brutal pre-birthday hangover. My wife was nice and let me sleep in, that was a pleasant gift.  We had good friends up and it was a lot of fun but 3 newborns and another small child made us all feel like the inmates were running the asylum. That many small people instantly turns the tide.  You realize there is a 98% chance at least one of the kids will be fussing, or hungry, or napping at all times. Trying to get out of the house is like trying to escape a maximum security prison. We did have a nice pizza from Folino's? To go of course.

The new ice cream counter at the Charlotte Brick Store is a nice feature.  I suggest the root beer float. The ice cream is apparently some sort of organic local thing.  Whatever... the consistency is not as good as the fake shit but the flavor is nice and it works well w/ the local root beer which is actually quite good.

So I have been watching the new season of Arrested Development on Netflix and I am not a fan.  The show always revolved around a silly family in turmoil and on the brink of disaster but it was just that, silly and cheeky and the jokes were solid.  This recent season is really just tragic. The actors all look haggard, the jokes fall flat, and I find myself just feeling bad for everyone involved. Please do not make another season.

On the flip side of that I watched Expendables 2 over a couple evenings and it is fabulously terrible. Stallone can't move his face but it has been frozen in a crusty beat up Stallone pose. Arnie looks like he is done in CGI, and Bruce Willis is in full on mail it in mode.  I am not sure when Dolf Lundgren forgot how to speak English? Van dame is an amazing cheesy villain. He nails the camp.  Chuck Norris is well, Chuck Norris... w/ a fake black spray painted beard.  The whole thing is so over the top it is like a SyFy movie but w/ once real big actors who all seem to get the joke.  Jason Statham (or however you spell it) is great. Overall two thumbs up then shot off and shooting fake CGI blood in my face!

BTW this summer is a mess.  It rained non stop for 2 months, now it is hot as f*** w/ 100% humidity.  You may ask hot hot f*** is?  REAL F*ING HOT CHIEF!!!!  My kind are going bonkers.  They are like little space heaters covered in a sheen of drool.  Can't strip them down enough to get comfortable.  Even in diapers they are at 125 degrees... and chirping. I meanwhile have infinite patience for this at 3AM. I am like a skinny very attractive Buddha in that way. Needless to say, I walk around during the day like a zombie from the Walking Dead.  I am sure more than one coffee barrista has thought me stoned when I stare through them for several seconds pondering how I will compensate them their $1.75.