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So the first portion of our trip - which was staying with two couples our age at a really good venue - has morphed to staying at my dad's for a couple days, which is difficult *mostly* because the woman nearly 20-years older than him that he decided to shack up with a couple decades ago is a nightmare from a place at least an order of magnitude worse than the usual hell of other people Satre referred to.
On top of that, he's very much "losing it" mentally, so communication is slow and painful, many detours, retrograde motion, and etc.
Tomorrow should be interesting, though. He's taking me to play a card game I played much in my mid-to-late teens (a game played almost exclusively in this locale) with some woman his age. For real money. *Little* real money (nickels), mind you. But, still. The tight take nickels seriously, so I best be on my best behavior and paying attention - not to mention counting cards/points as best as I can.
I reviewed some basics with him so as not to come off as a total doofus, and it was the proverbial "like riding a bike".
My poor wife needs to find a way to avoid spending that time with his woman. She think she can, she think she can....
We never watch news (and I never seek it out online), so having to sit through solid "Fox News" had me wanting to hang myself. I'm admittedly closer to the conservative end of the political spectrum, but not a psychopath lunatic like basically everyone I heard in the 90 minutes we sat there captive in the living room. Extreme "right" leaning media is clearly as lunatic as "left". Sheesus H....
Just gotta ride these next couple days out somehow....