Yes, yes indeed.  This is a picture of current Lance Corporal Scotty Tirman USMC, although I do confess that it is a pre-Marine one.  And clearly he has come a long way from this debonair and alluring character that a woman could just not resist.  I mean, come on girls, a lot of you want that “man in a uniform,” but perhaps it is just because you never considered the attraction of a diluted child of mine dressed up like Luigi.  This one however, is spoken for (my deepest and sincerest apologies to our soon to be daughter-in-law Kenzie – but we are keeping YOU!).  I do however have the newer model available, who is undeniably just like this prototype, but as I said available.

But tonight neither prototype or our “spare boy” (definitely twins born 14 years apart) are here tonight. One is still stationed in California at Camp Pendleton defending our freedom, the other is here in Indiana, but has put aside defending our freedom tonight (he ALWAYS professes to be some type of good-guy superhero) as he is at a birthday slumber party.  And of course I do not remember when those end, because they are different for boys and girls.  Boys give those up sometime a few years down the line, whereas girls could do slumber parties well into their 50’s.  We men do not question why, we just say okay.  But when Steph is home she and her friends who are also home seem to travel in a “group” (older groups of women are often known as “packs”) and they are all almost always staying somewhere, sometimes here.  All the parents of her friends are used to it and all seem to serve as surrogate parents, or “hosts” as it is most likely uncool to say parents when describing this.  But boys just dont’ do this.  Oh sure, we will hang out all night and maybe get in trouble, but there is never sleep involved.  We just do not get the concept.

But that’s why we can wear things like tonight’s picture and live in the world of delusion (like super-heroey things). We never get enough sleep or proper socialization, REM sleep evades us, and our brains do not rejuvenate.  But we are MEN and it actually helps.

It’s what makes us comfortable in our own skin, able to wear what we want (which OFTEN baffles and irritates our mates) and live in the world of heroes and that of which the sane, well-rested women only dare to dream.

Goodnight my friends and God Bless!

Tommy+