To balance out a little of the sadder news we've shared, here's some good news that's going to look completely ridiculous on paper, but hell everyone needs a laugh right? At age 36 I'm going to become a grandfather.

... I know. I think this means I'm going to have to move to Alabama. For my Canadian friends not in the know, that's like having to go to the Maritimes. For everyone else, sorry I don't know your regionally geography well enough to make an appropriate reference to where the trashiest people in your country live.

Anyway it's not quite as scandelous as it first sounds. This is my step-daughter and she's 23. As you may remember my wife is a little older than me, and she had her oldest daughter when she was 21. So sure they're a little young, but not day-time talk show young. All that aside, it still doesn't change that I'm going to be in my mid thirties and be a grandfather.... wow that still sounds weird.

We're happy though. She's not married, but she's been with a good guy for the last 3 years and they seem to have been headed down that road anyway. My wife is fucking thrilled. She's always semi-baby crazy and for us that's been a biological impossibility for a while (god bless modern medicine), so this gives her a chance to have a baby... and then give it back. And I look forward to hanging out with the kid and when everyone asks if that's my son I get to drop the bomb on them and watch them squirm.

Plus I get to start wearing those "foxy grandpa" t-shirts. How cool is that?