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Fatherhood Friday twenty-eight! Holy smokes. Where does twenty-eight weeks go? I'll tell you where a lot of mine went--the summer break. I love my kids and we had a blast this summer, but I was looking forward to them getting on the bus and giving me a breather. Speaking of school and summer--how about that theme? Good stuff right? Not only have we been hard at work on the theme, but we've also been working hard around the site. Here are some of the latest developments:
- A convention post is under construction
- We upgraded the look and feel of the homepage because we care
- At 2:00pm we are doing a live giveaway for great band MilkShake's CD called 'Great Day'
- We are annoucing on August 31st the start of a huge contest and the remaining details of the upcoming convention
Pete got jiggy with his post last week and I think we are at around 50% of those who post links for Fatherhood Friday actually read the FF posts. Pete thinks it is more than 50%, I on the otherhand think it is less. So, I will take this weeks test and run with it.
Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really.
For me, that pretty much sums it up. Now onto the links...
For all you new folks wondering how this whole Fatherhood Friday thing works--relax, it's easy. First, write a post on fatherhood. Next, link it here using the Mr. Linky widget. Finally, read the other posts on the list. Check out the guidelines below for the complete 411. Thanks for being a Fatherhood Friday participant! We look forward to Friday each week, not just because it marks the weekend, but because of the Fatherhood Friday posts.
Our easy to follow guidelines:
- Do post a Dad Blogs badge on your blog and watch your popularity grow exponentially
- Do link to awesome posts on your blog (link directly to the post, not the homepage)
- Do link back to Dad Blogs and Fatherhood Friday
- Do not link to something unrelated like the differences between viral and bacterial pathogens
- Do visit as many other contributors as possible
- Do tweet about your post and add the hashtag "#FatherhoodFriday" to the end of the tweet
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written by Buck Daddy Rogers, August 28, 2009
Happy Fatherhood Friday
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written by PensivePapa, August 28, 2009
I hadn't perused it in years. And no, I have no financial interest in it (or otherwise)!
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written by DevotedDad, August 28, 2009
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PEACE OUT DADS, AND HAPPY FATHERHOOD FRIDAY!