As I was playing Destiny 2 this evening, I got a hateful text from Tiarra.
“Where is the blog I need to edit?”
My stomach dropped and, yes, we did lose the match because I was trying to think of a lie to tell her about how I had skipped blogging for a moment to play The Crucible… (The player versus player mode in Destiny 2)
I had nothing.
So, I fessed up.
I said I have plenty of content.
Tiarra said she didn’t give a frak.
So I told her I was busy. Do you wonderful folks know how she threatened me? She typed, and I quote, “do I need to call Haley?”
So I am here typing a blog post at 12:15a, or else I’ll have an angry Viking woman on my ass about a missed blog post. NO one wants that.
And in case you can’t already tell, I chose to let you good people know the current show I am watching. You guessed it. I am halfway through season two of Battlestar Galactica. The 2004 version. I watched this already, back in 2010, but I had an appropriate draw to it, seeing as how my novel starts very similarly to how this story does. Also, it is very character driven and hits me in the soul every time I watch it.
This evening, I called my mom, because I am a momma’s boy, and we caught up a little. At the end of our conversation, I told her to tell my dad that I missed him. I am also a daddy’s boy. And I think I missed him a lot because Commander Adama, (later admiral, I am aware) has had three of those very heartfelt moments with Lee, his son, at the end of the world and it always makes me REALLY miss my father.
In my eyes, the Admiral, played exquisitely by Edward James Olmos, reminds me a lot of my dad. Strong, confident, with a soft side that everyone feels but may not know it, he is the best example I can share with you about my dad. He is a leader and has been for decades. One of the best examples of my dad is how deeply he cares for everyone, and how he would throw himself on the “train tracks” for anyone. It was around this time I realized, “Hey! That’s where I get that from!” As anyone who reads this or has had the ability (curse) to know me personally, that is one of my better qualities, and it is very funny how we see traits about ourselves in things like old Sci-Fi channel TV shows. But it happens.
So, if you have seen this show at all, my dad is Admiral Adama.
Enough said.
And I am also binging the first season of True Detective, and Stargate SG-1, and
Jackie and I need to start Skin Wars: Fresh Paint because I have a strange affinity for RuPaul for some reason.
I’m still a nerd, and a weird one at that.
Jonathan Dominguez 