happy um-birthday
Oct. 15th, 2013 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateToday my father would have turned 65. We've managed to cobble together enough website so you can see the shape of it here, though a lot of things kind of got shelved at the last minute. Also grauwulf's and my working relationship regarding web design is that I say/ask something that I think sounds totally reasonable, by which he is convinced I'm a complete looney, and then I wave my arms around a lot. This... leads to less than ideal productivity. But, there's this thing. And there will be more.
And I've been thinking about the ways we wear down under stress that show off just what it is that we're terrible at. There are some things I'm no good at because for whatever reason I just never learned them, but I think there are also a couple things I'm not any good at because my father was good at them. And so one of the reasons I'm terrible at giving compliments is that a lot of how to do it got filed under "vaguely irritating parental habits" when it probably shouldn't have.
And I've been thinking about the ways we wear down under stress that show off just what it is that we're terrible at. There are some things I'm no good at because for whatever reason I just never learned them, but I think there are also a couple things I'm not any good at because my father was good at them. And so one of the reasons I'm terrible at giving compliments is that a lot of how to do it got filed under "vaguely irritating parental habits" when it probably shouldn't have.