To balance out a little of the sadder news we've shared, here's some good news that's going to look completely ridiculous on paper, but hell everyone needs a laugh right? At age 36 I'm going to become a grandfather.

... I know. I think this means I'm going to have to move to Alabama. For my Canadian friends not in the know, that's like having to go to the Maritimes. For everyone else, sorry I don't know your regionally geography well enough to make an appropriate reference to where the trashiest people in your country live.

Anyway it's not quite as scandelous as it first sounds. This is my step-daughter and she's 23. As you may remember my wife is a little older than me, and she had her oldest daughter when she was 21. So sure they're a little young, but not day-time talk show young. All that aside, it still doesn't change that I'm going to be in my mid thirties and be a grandfather.... wow that still sounds weird.

We're happy though. She's not married, but she's been with a good guy for the last 3 years and they seem to have been headed down that road anyway. My wife is fucking thrilled. She's always semi-baby crazy and for us that's been a biological impossibility for a while (god bless modern medicine), so this gives her a chance to have a baby... and then give it back. And I look forward to hanging out with the kid and when everyone asks if that's my son I get to drop the bomb on them and watch them squirm.

Plus I get to start wearing those "foxy grandpa" t-shirts. How cool is that?

Awesome explanation, and news. Congrats Paw.

Yeah I'm finding more and more people who are sharing stories with me, and it's not really super uncommon. And hell our family dynamics with age and such are so bizarre anyway that this really hasn't made anyone blink yet. If nothing else it guarantee's that I have one more young mind to steer towards quality gaming and away from crap that Zenga makes.

I'm reading what you are writing, but all I can think of is this...

Cranky Kong is the current DK's Grandfather. He was the original (arcade Donkey Kong), so that would make Donkey Kong Jr. the current Donkey Kong's dad.

Yeah. I knew all this before. It just came to mind as you were describing your family circumstances... Congrats! By the way!  

I remember when my mom wanted to go by " Mee-Maw."  I thought that was the most Godawful grandmother name that I had ever heard.

Just came up with a totally original game idea:

It's called Matterhorn Country:

Poppio Kong is back with a new sidekick Aspro Kong in a crazy Orlando adventure! Challenged by the crazed tribe of reptilian Katz' they endeavor to get back their stolen Candy Corn Oreo horde! Armed with lightning-quick moves chest pounding muscle and awesome aerial acrobatics our duo is ready to face their cunning adversaries. With the help of Poppio Kong's quirky family and his wild bathtub mounts they squabble and scamper their way through unending Floridian mayhem!

travo said:

I remember when my mom wanted to go by " Mee-Maw."  I thought that was the most Godawful grandmother name that I had ever heard.

My mom chose to go by that when my one nephew was born because that was what her favorite grandmother was called.