Still tracking prices on a bundle of three items: store-brand butter, Chex cereal and ice cream. The big excitement in the second quarter was when my main grocery store was reorganizing its products and therefore sold ice cream tubs and novelties for $1.50. I should maybe not count it in the index, but then I wouldn't get to tell you how exciting it was to buy ice cream sandwiches and Klondike bars and rocket pops for $1.50. Interestingly, some of the name brand ice creams exceed the store brand in instances in the first half of the year in which they have been the cheapest offering. Perhaps that's not interesting. Perhaps I'm writing this only for myself.
Well, none of us thought that the Pirates would exceed - or even meet last year's win total. It turns out that after a very inconsistent first half, they didn't even meet the lowest prediction a member of our family made. Here's to a better second half with young gun starters, the real Andrew McCutchen and continued magic from All-Starling Marte.
The name of this blog is a political statement about fatherhood. Regardless of the progress toward gender equality that has occurred over the last several decades, one stereotype persists and may be getting worse: moms are good parents and dads are incompetent boobs who sometimes babysit. Poppycock, I say. Or an excuse for dads who would like to be viewed as numskulls so that they don't have to parent their kids. Dads are parents too, and I know some who are very good at it.
I'm neither a stay-at-home dad nor do I work full time. I work part time, and I'm the primary parent for the foreseeable future. The primary competent parent, I hope it is not presumptuous to say.