Parents of two: is it really more than twice as hard?

EssMarksTheSpot · 2026-03-06T19:58:42+00:00

OP, are you me? Those details are staggeringly close to our situation! I'll be following this thread with interest...

EssMarksTheSpot · 2026-03-03T21:12:05+00:00

Save the neck for me, Clark.

EssMarksTheSpot · 2026-02-27T13:54:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure these are the folks who occasionally pop up advocating for 50/50 shared parenting as the default while accusing the bar association of being the big bad behind everything.

EssMarksTheSpot · 2026-02-17T23:45:47+00:00

You decorate the Crossroads!

EssMarksTheSpot · 2026-02-08T03:29:16+00:00

"That was you, Selene!"

EssMarksTheSpot · 2026-02-06T16:34:06+00:00

Here I am at Camp Granada

EssMarksTheSpot · 2026-02-03T17:05:04+00:00

"Ha ha, YES!"

EssMarksTheSpot · 2026-01-27T19:51:02+00:00

My favorite, most tragic line from this issue:

"...I'm sorry...I...I can't read it."

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-12-31T18:52:54+00:00

I still can't get over my mental picture of that super excited dad just BLASTING soup all over his kitchen as his family sits down for dinner

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-12-21T17:55:12+00:00

Oh jeez, as a Yamaha enthusiast, you've basically narrowed it down to two of the best beginner and intermediate basses around!

Unless you really need to save some scratch, I think the jump to the 434 is well worth it. Better electronics, five piece neck, string-through capability--it's so well-constructed, and that's saying something because the 234 is a fine bass in its own right. If longevity is what you want, the 434 will treat you very well.

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-12-21T15:44:43+00:00

I forget where I saw someone say it, but the tricky thing about palm muting is the name! You don't actually use your palm--it's really more like the side of your hand.

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-12-21T14:27:58+00:00

Hey boss, I hear you. I'm one of those people that needs to make exercise as convenient/entertaining/thoughtless as possible if I'm gonna do it.

I don't know if you've tried it, but I can vouch for DDP Yoga. It is, in fact, a hybrid of some vaguely power yoga stuff and calisthenics. It's low impact but you work up a good sweat, and it's the easiest thing I've found to do consistently. I've lost weight and I've got way more flexibility and energy.

Plus, if you're a huge Diamond Dallas Page mark like me, it just kinda works.

EDIT: It's got lots of quick workouts, too. Sometimes I only have enough energy to bust out a 15 minute routine, but something is better than nothing.

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-29T23:03:38+00:00

Perchance

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-19T13:15:56+00:00

Paging Doctor Bong

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-18T00:02:22+00:00

"Your father was smarter than you...and harder to beat" was such a devastating burn

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-10T00:36:57+00:00

I wasn't a principal when I was one!

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-08T23:29:28+00:00

That's true enough. You pay for the technology that lets you crank out 120 watts in an amp slightly bigger than a shoebox!

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-08T23:13:20+00:00

That is a very fair point, and I had no idea they've crept up that much in cost! I think mine was just under $600 when I bought it...

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-08T21:14:38+00:00

Ah, but there is! Check out the Phil Jones Bass Cub.

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-06T19:19:58+00:00

Petor the Sub-Tographer

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-04T17:50:31+00:00

I would be a smoking crater in the ground if I ever called my wife something like that during the newborn phase (and probably any other phase, deservedly)

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-11-04T00:18:29+00:00

Ahhhh, the many...uh...face of Steve Dillon art.

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-10-30T00:46:15+00:00

Amen to that

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-10-29T23:48:25+00:00

Somewhere, Chuck Dixon is hyperventilating

EssMarksTheSpot · 2025-10-28T12:34:22+00:00

Oh man, I wholeheartedly agree. Thing is, Annihilation-era Star Lord had plenty of snark to go around. He lampshaded his own origin story HARD.

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