Typical Conversations: Don’t Bite the Baby

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Henry probably plotting Rina’s demise…

When Henry was around one-year-old he, as some kids around that age do, bit Rina.

Rina: “Joshik just bit me!”

Matt: “You have to bite him back so he knows it hurts and doesn’t do that anymore.”

Rina stared at me blankly for a moment.

Rina: “Really?”

I stared back at her for a moment.

Matt: “No, don’t bite the baby.”

Rina: “Oh, okay, I thought you were serious.”

Typical Conversations: Bocelli

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Andrea Bocelli accepting what I assume is his usual award for destroying relationships…

Rina and I both like opera and classical music, as well as some operatic pop. One performer we appreciate very much is Andrea Bocelli, who occasionally goes on tour and comes to our area but we’d never managed to catch his show. During his last tour, I bought tickets as a gift for Rina and we anxiously waited for the concert date. A few days before we we were scheduled to go, we were both upstairs in the bedroom and I started cleaning out the night stand next to my side of the bed. One of the things I pulled out was an old pair of Bochelli tickets from a few years before. I suddenly remembered that we’d seen him previously, and I even recalled the venue, the SAP Center in San Jose. I chuckled and held up the tickets and we commenced to have one of our typical conversations: Continue reading