This is not an in law thing but I talked to my Dad and he said his PC was going slow and asked me to check it out. I have started to believe in Moon landing conspiracies because my dad was responsible for the numbers and engineering of putting satellites into space and when I turn on his computer 4 browsers open up, 2 of which I have never heard of and he had 5 'anti-virus' programs show up so I am not sure how he was capable of running programs to put things into the sky that actually give information that is useful back to Earth. Uninstalled everything and got to his primary browser and decided to check his browser history which was a risky proposition. He is a sweet dude but is obviously computer illiterate so I was checking to see if my entire view of him could be destroyed. His browsing history was mainly: Agrarian Colonial policy, Notre Dame's Women Basketball, Cute Golden Retreiver videos but then I finally caught him with some nasty ass shit. He had went on youtube and looked up 'Pretty woman in bikini'. World view of him obliterated.
This reads like a run on sentence and even after reading it a few times I'm feeling like your dad isn't a bad guy
He is not at all, he is a saint, I think it is funny that the nastiest thing in his browsing history is 'pretty woman in a bikini'
You’re going to be surprised to learn that “pretty woman in bikini” ends up being some really hardcore group stuff.
It appears the annual Myrtle Beach summer vacation may be coming to and end after that overpriced shit show last year. We were having dinner with my MiL/FIL and SIL and her husband and kid. MIL says to me (at a table with everyone like I am the decision maker) how I feel about going to Maine instead of MB next year. Kind of odd so I said why is that the option after putting me through 20 years of this shit. She says she’s just bored of MB and wants something different (total lie). My SIL honeymooned in Maine and it was all there idea now that they have a kid. im not saying im against it but to have all eyes on me was quite amusing. They will all hate it. Age range from 2 year old to 70 year old FIL. He likes to sit in the condo and use his super zoom on his phone like a paparazzi taking pictures of the family at the beach below. He won’t ever Airbnb/Vrbo and not up for anything adventurous…couldn’t even get him to golf in MB other than Topgolf. Only thing they would like is probably the food. Fml
7 day Thanksgiving cruise with my wife's family. Flying to New Orleans Saturday morning to set sail on Sunday afternoon. Sounds awesome but who can say.
We bought my FIL a new cell phone for Christmas last year. My wife was setting it up and resetting the old phone. She opened the internet browser and there were 100s of tabs on porn sites. Guess he didn’t know how to close tabs. My wife was in complete shock. All I could do was a laugh.
A good instant read thermometer is essential for cooking. I can't imagine life without it. With protein, don't cook for a certain time, cook to temp. That goes for everything but especially BBQ
Last time I went on a cruise was a decade ago. I was in my mid 20s and got the all you can drink package. it was perhaps harder on my liver than any single week in the frat great time though. Open bar all day every day. Wake up hungover. Go to the buffet and eat as much fruit as possible for breakfast. Maybe a mimosa. Good times
Last cruise I went on was when I graduated high school. We have all the included stuff, so it will be a long week.
My Dad is on tiktok somehow and once asked why all he gets are videos of hot girls that he definitely does not want to be seeing...his likes were full of them. The other day I was with him he was reminded of a tiktok and I guess nowadays instead of liking them, favoriting, etc. he texts them to himself. So with his crazy zoomed phone it takes him forever to scroll through all these texts. He never did find the video he wanted to show me.
My FIL routinely falls asleep at his computer chair at night. He likes to play real time strategies so anytime we visit you can find him fast asleep with whatever obscure historical RTS he's into at the time. When they come down and visit us they stay at an air bnb because they can't stay with us with their shitty dogs. FIL usually sets his laptop up on the kitchen table. My wife told me when they were here a few weeks ago he fell asleep at the kitchen table, slid off the chair and slammed his head in to the table and ended up with a huge gash on his head and a black eye. He didn't want my wife and I to know this happened but my MIL told my wife anyways. I'm hoping this was just some freak thing and not an indication of something wrong. He really doesn't give a shit about his long term health. His left foot is permanently pointing to the left and he refuses to go to the doctor to get it looked at. It's painful to watch him walk.
My mom has dementia and is in a memory care facility. I got a call a few months ago that they were doing bed checks and found my mom having sex with another resident in his room. So I got to talk to my mom to make sure that she had wanted that to happen and wasn’t being taken advantage of so that was a fun convo.
I’m still laughing at the whole post. That might be the most absurd horror comedy bit ever imagined. Truth is stranger than fiction. Good god.
They move to KC in nine days. Today this two foot piece of pvc pipe arrived at our house, addressed to him. I imagine he has plans for it, but what they are is unclear.
update — we also just received a six pack of toe socks addressed to him I also have their new dining room table and a few other things in my workshop, he is building quite the pile in my basement
My FIL recently fell like love with French press coffee at our house and decided to start making his own but he doesn’t understand that it requires a particular grind so he’s using regular old Folgers
GFA, are you cool if I ship you some stuff so you can store it until I can pick it up? You've basically become Jones Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage.
I also picked up two TVs from Best Buy for their new house today but to be fair that was my idea so he could get them on sale