I am sorry I have been away. My glamorous life of academics, being entered into The System yet again, and riding on the MBTA has kept me far away from Dakota the Computer and too occupied to write.
This should not be a surprise to any of you, but of the four members in my nuclear family, I am not the funniest. Yeah, I was taken aback, too. What will really shock you, however, is that I am not the un-funniest either.
Today, because my life is a non-stop party, I had lunch with the parents and a few of their friends from church. The conversation shifted to a certain anecdote that Father had told during one of his sermons. One lady recounted how funny it was that her husband immediately laughed at the joke when no one else did. Following his own guffaw, the husband instructed everyone to laugh along. "Why aren't you guys laughing?" he had asked, "it's a joke!"
One of those un-laughers was also at lunch today, and defended her choice to abstain.
Dedendant: But Pastor Lee, joke telling is a talent, it requires a gift for it!
Father: Thank you, thank you very much.
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