@cinoclav@goldenthorn My dad would have been 103 this year... while I would love to have him alive, not sure he would rather be... except since his wives kept getting younger, maybe. lol My parents were 31 years apart... step-mom was about 40 years younger.
@PocketBrain Sounds like my mother-in-law. Even my conservative husband tells her to quit watching that station. (At this point, I don't much care for any 24 hour news stations, they have to have some sort of talking head opinion filler in that time. If I want opinions, I'll read my Facebook wall.)
Taking photos of wildlife or riding his motorcycle, but he does that with my mom a lot. They have adventures every weekend. It's great they finally get along now that the kids are out of the house and he's in therapy.
TInkering. He's a retired civil engineer. The 16-foot, tri-hull, electric-motored (solar-rechargable), remote-controllable pontoon boat he created is pretty epic. It's the best Halloween ghost-ship on their small lake. :)
Working on some random project on the house. Or at my house. Or my brother's house. Or somewhere. He's always finding something to repair/improve around the home. It's never finished!
Breathing. COPD from smoking cigarettes slowly diminished his quality of life until he was forced into a nursing home and eventually died. Not the life we imagine as were smoking cigs and being cool. If you value your quality of life, quit smoking NOW!
My Dad got sick as a baby and ended up with a bad heart. He liked Ham radio, model trains, working on his car and stamp collecting. Mostly Ham radio. He would build his own equipment. So....basically...he was a nerd before it was popular! He was an engineer up until it was decided you had to have a degree to keep the title. I bet most of the people who built the moon landing stuff didn't have a degree. They just liked to build stuff and went to the moon!
Playing poker
Alive. I'm fairly certain he'd rather be alive.
... Wah-waaaaah. :-P
@goldenthorn You beat me to it.
@goldenthorn beat me to it too.
@goldenthorn You beat me to it, too. My dad would also prefer to be alive, ...and using the copper beryllium putter that he got entombed with.
@goldenthorn Yep. And flirting with younger women if he was.
@cinoclav @goldenthorn My dad would have been 103 this year... while I would love to have him alive, not sure he would rather be... except since his wives kept getting younger, maybe. lol My parents were 31 years apart... step-mom was about 40 years younger.
@goldenthorn I think this would have been the most popular answer if available. (btw, same for my dad)
@goldenthorn yup. Me, too
@todaresq Mine would be 101! They can hang out together!
@goldenthorn Yup, alive.
doing anything besides being a father...
why all the father shit, meh? how about 1 day of father shit a year?
Generally, making holes in paper targets. Although I don't think he shoots competitively any more.
@kensey This is what I call masturbating.
Alive.
Watching robo-cop or starship troopers
He needed background noise to sleep properly, so he often liked to use those films for that purpose.
This taking second place to being alive, of course.
How about "Playing video games".
Sleeping.
My dad would rather not be in a memory care facility.
He would rather be sailing.
My dad would rather be at home on his 20 acres instead of that bitch, his ex-wife.
woodworking
@dmanchee agreed
@dmanchee Same here. Every day is the perfect day for the smell of sawdust.
flying
An ostrich, with his head in the sand. Is everything all right dear? I tell him yeah , and he says good, good, good. He is 82 years old. So I lie .
Watching fake TV news with the volume at max.
@PocketBrain So, Fox news?
@PocketBrain Sounds like my mother-in-law. Even my conservative husband tells her to quit watching that station. (At this point, I don't much care for any 24 hour news stations, they have to have some sort of talking head opinion filler in that time. If I want opinions, I'll read my Facebook wall.)
Taking photos of wildlife or riding his motorcycle, but he does that with my mom a lot. They have adventures every weekend. It's great they finally get along now that the kids are out of the house and he's in therapy.
Not dead?
TInkering. He's a retired civil engineer. The 16-foot, tri-hull, electric-motored (solar-rechargable), remote-controllable pontoon boat he created is pretty epic. It's the best Halloween ghost-ship on their small lake. :)
I guess nobody's dad really goes bowling anymore.
Working on some random project on the house. Or at my house. Or my brother's house. Or somewhere. He's always finding something to repair/improve around the home. It's never finished!
Breathing.
COPD from smoking cigarettes slowly diminished his quality of life until he was forced into a nursing home and eventually died. Not the life we imagine as were smoking cigs and being cool. If you value your quality of life, quit smoking NOW!
My Dad got sick as a baby and ended up with a bad heart. He liked Ham radio, model trains, working on his car and stamp collecting. Mostly Ham radio. He would build his own equipment. So....basically...he was a nerd before it was popular! He was an engineer up until it was decided you had to have a degree to keep the title. I bet most of the people who built the moon landing stuff didn't have a degree. They just liked to build stuff and went to the moon!
@smilingjack hey! My dad didn't have a degree and he worked on the moon landing stuff as an engineer!
@AnnaB I bet most of them were self taught!
sleeping
Playing online poker. I was going to say losing at online poker, but that not really what he'd RATHER be doing so much as what he actually is doing.
I was "grown" in a lab from synthesized DNA. It only had a few typos.
I really needed to be able to check both fishing and drinking.
@caddylikescake I would have to be drinking A LOT in order to tolerate fishing.