{"id":2882,"date":"2011-08-17T14:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2011-08-18T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T16:35:11","slug":"tom-julian-cemente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/08\/17\/tom-julian-cemente\/","title":{"rendered":"“Tom, Julian, & Cemente”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>‘Tis better to give than to receive, right?<\/p>\n

With that in mind, on my birthday I\/we gave the boys a pretty great treat: front-row seats to the Exxxtreme Destruction<\/strong><\/em> of our driveway via a team of workmen, followed by its re-paving. For months we’d been meaning to repair the damage necessitated by our sewer line work, and last week we finally made it happen. Finn & Henry were *thrilled* to pull up chairs and watch a jackhammer-wielding Bobcat lay waste to our concrete, then scoop up the shrapnel, after which workers laid rebar & finally poured new cement. Check out our gang enjoying the show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For me Finn’s verbal inventions were the best part. Some months ago we started making up stories about a cement truck driver named Zeke. Our barber Tom has three sons named Tom, Julian, and Clemente. Finn decided that Zeke’s boys must be named Tom, Julian, and Cemente<\/em>. Thus we loved playing name-that-dude, assigning names like “Zeke” to the workers. Oh, and Finn (often aka “Blackbeard”) dubbed the hairy, heavyset foreman “Chubbybeard*’–though not to his face! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

* He’d previously dubbed his pirate Mom-O “Curlybeard”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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