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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 06/03/18 > Can public figures have private lives?
Pleasure is mine! It isn't that long until the 15. of this month, so I won't have to wait for that BBQ post, that's great!
Still in the process of finding my own posting style and taking some inspiration in here and there while trying out things. I like the thing you do with the salt and pepper picture at the start of every post quite a lot.
I like that you are searching, and congratulations on landing the new job. The salt and pepper pictures have more or less become my "trade mark" although I haven't registered it as such, it just works better than my old crusty mug staring people in the face everyday.
I think I have a general idea of what I would want for that, but I actually need to think about that some more.
Just grooving into these kind of things ain't so bad. Not every solution needs to be searched for, some just come and act like they always have been there.
My name I use comes from my pronunciation of salt and pepper, my kids like to point out that I pronounce it incorrectly. So I like to point out my uniqueness to them, and then it made sense to just use the picture so that others wouldn't need to ask, they could figure it out on their own.
I only use that thumbnail though for the "Daily Dose", occasionally I have been known to write some short fiction story or some other post and when I do that I always use a picture of the flag of Texas. That way it just keeps them separate and makes me feel like I am organized. Plus the Texas flag is a beautiful flag and I'm a proud Texan.
I actually had to look up the texan flag for reference. It shares the same color scheme as the french, I wonder if there is something to that.
I actually gave the name of Papa Rodin to myself. One might expect that the story behind is interesting, funny or deep aaaand one would be disappointed!
It's just a combination of the names of two fictional characters that I liked at the time. I still like how it looks and sounds.
Texas was originally an independent nation and our flag was a plain royal blue field with one big 5 pointed gold star in the middle, only after we relinquished are status as a nation and became a state did the flag change, I don't believe that there was any French influence to the color scheme as most of the early settlers to Texas were German and Czechoslovakian. My wife's family settled here in 1847 and they were from Germany. My family was Irish and Ukrainian but I honestly don't know when my family ended up here, I think it was in the 80's or 90's.
When I saw your name and the small picture I thought you were much older and the "pappa" of the Rodin family, it does sound cool and it seems to fit your appearance.
Haha, well, there is no Rodin family - yet. Maybe one day. I am 28 years old, so I do have a bit of time when it comes to these things I'd say.
It is interesting that your wife came from Germany. Does that mean you have been here at some point as well?
My wife's ancestors are from Germany and moved to Texas in the mid 1800's , neither she or I have ever been to Germany. You have plenty of time for a family, get all your running around out of your system first and then just married a girl that is a lot younger , it worked good for me. My wife is 16 years younger than me, I didn't even get married until I was 38. You have plenty of time to decide on what you want, even if you want kids, you just get a newer model oven so to speak.
Now that sounds like a plan I can get behind.
My father was actually a bit older than my mother as well, now that I think about it.