u/superluminal

My father (who is dead)*, found a file where my dad had written out some of his history for what purpose we don't know. I guess it was saved on his computer and my brother, in the business of being the executor of our dad's will, found this file and sent it to the rest of us (which is myself, other brother, and two sisters-in-law).

It was titled "The Story of My Life" and was a whopping 2 1/2 pages, and written 12 years ago. It gave a brief sum-up of his childhood and some of meeting my mom and a little about how they ended up where they were at that time, which was on a mission in Russia. I honestly did not know some of the things he had written in there about his parents and childhood. He was a very gruff, closed off person on the exterior and any time I had ever tried to ask him about his life, he would give terse one or two word answers and never expound on any of it.

So it was nice reading through it and getting the scraps of info. And then I got to the third page and the last paragraph and the last line and I'm crying like a f'ing fool.

I'm 48 years old, still wishing for some approval from my parents I'll never get.

*I just looked up the "who is dead" thing because I wanted to make sure I remembered the wording correctly and apparently the church dropped that phrasing a few years ago? Wild.

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My brothers used to pull me around the yard in ours. When I got a little older, I helped them carry firewood from the side yard to the house with it.

I had an amusing misadventure with a pickup truck earlier in this past weekend, so for this rental I opted for the familiar Rogue, which is my car at home.

I have no interest or capacity for technical or performance aspects, generally speaking. But I'm very much a person who gets irritated with poor design features that don't seem to have been considered for the end user.

Red circle - the car has an Idle Stop feature, which makes it feel like the car is about to stall and die at low RPM, much like a neglected clutch at a stoplight. I thought there was something wrong until I googled and learned that can be shut off by a button to the left of the steering wheel. It is only off until the engine is shut off; when restarting the car the Idle Stop will be enabled again. It was fine once I knew it was a feature not a bug, but that will surely bother some people.

Blue circle - cheers to the physical buttons and knob, jeers to the blinding glare from the sun being at just the right angle depending on which direction I'm facing. (Minor cheers to the volume indicator not having numbers, which really causes my OCD some issues if the comfortable listening level lands on a number that "feels" wrong.)

Yellow circle - a common touchscreen complaint of fingerprints leaving their marks all over the glass

Other than that, it was comfortable and landed in the *would buy again* category.