Wisdom is the retention of innocence through adversity.

Well that must have been a fun time. I have a post about about my night breaking into the Madison Zoo but apparently it wasn't tagged. My friend jumped in with the bears. He got arrested and his bro and I ended up opening the restaurant ourselves and making omelettes at like 4am. I think my friend got off easy because his father was in toilet paper or something important. He would later put his fist through the window of the restaurant right where I worked - but I wasn't there. I always wondered if he was mad (drunk) at me for some girl stuff.

Anywhooooooo

I'm sure I've had Olympia beer although maybe that's not even technically possible. I used to collect micro-brew beer bottles as an excuse to say that I was a connoisseur, (aka, kinda-sewer).

Too bad our paths never crossed or we would definitely swam in the same circles until we got very dizzy and drowned or fallen off of buildings.

I do wonder how you feel now that your daughter is approaching that age where she might potentially burn down the Tea House again...

btw - do give me credit for my psychic ability to envision you there - I did find this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Japanese_Garden

I still don't know why people plant boulders...

We got our jollies from Huber beer. This was a trashy beer we laughed about, but fucking better than Miller, etc. They did produce a really good beer called Berghoff. Both of these names have coincidental allusions to Hitler and the NAZIs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Huber_Brewing_Company

Your daughter is hilarious making me do the happy dance yet also terrifying.

Is this just because everyone is different? Or did something weird happen? A lot of times, kids resemble one of their grandparents. Frankly, if I were you, I would prefer that over the prospect that your daughter is opposed to everything you value because there is some kind of sublimated war going on.

I do think this is funny and sweet. I think you are so lucky to be allowed to burn out without having another lighter punk following you around setting off firecrackers, etc.