Today marks the introduction of a new character to the strip!
He’s a fellow “Stay-At-Home Dad” named, Tony. He has been at the “job” longer than Dave and look for him to share his wisdom with his “protege” in the coming weeks!
A busy week for our household this week. We are at teh mid-term point for our kids in school and that means conferences! My wife and I had them for each of our kids at various times throughout the week. It also meant the kids were off from school-yippee! My daughter hit the jackpot with being off yesterday and today, while the boys had to “settle” for just having today as a “day off”! My daughter had a friend over for a sleepover on Wednesday night and it went well. Surprisingly they both fell asleep relatively early, but on the other hand, they were also up early yesterday!
Things I Learned This Week…
*I should get paid commission!
Judging from the tally of the first two months of my “count my loads” of laundry in 2010, I’d be rich if I earned a little something for each load!
*Jay’s back at 11:35 (10:35 in my neck of the woods)!
Good to see him back, he does deliver a better monologue than Conan. I can’t say I’m crazy about keeping the theme song from his failed 10 o’clock show along with the same basic set. I realize time was tight, but I think it would be a good move to get rid as many reminders of that show as possible! I was glad to see that they did in fact return those awful glass doors to whatever “Macy’s” store they took them from! His first week had good guests and the ratings were predictably strong, we’ll see how he fares in the long haul. Rumor has it that band leader, Kevin Eubanks may be leaving the show, which I believe would hurt. Hopefully, they can work something out, much like Conan did with Max Weinberg, that allows Eubanks to “tour” and still return to the show when he can. One final note…I loved the opening bit on his first night with the takeoff of “The Wizard of Oz” to explain Jay’s past few months. The whole thing was very funny but once again, Betty White stole the show!
*Be careful when you bring you kids to work!
I don’t have that problem, mine are always here, but if you are a air traffic controller at a major airport, it’s probably not a good idea to let your kids (yes, he did it TWO times) send out clearance controls to jumbo jets! Even though I think they did a great job and certainly provided a fair amount of comedic material, it’s would be a good idea in the future just to drive past the airport with the kids in the car, point at the tower and say, “Daddy works there!” or sadly in this case, “Daddy, WORKED there!”
By the way, who in the world spends hours upon hours listening to air traffic control conversations anyway?
Happy Weekend!