A Sense of Doubt blog post #3971 - Letter to Dad #17 - New Year's Day - Why Everybody Loves Raymond is so special

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3971 - Letter to Dad #17 - New Year's Day - Why Everybody Loves Raymond is so special

Hi Dad, 

Because I can't count, all the posts were off by one. Luckily, I caught it right away so it just affects the planned posts that are set up in draft form ahead of time.

This is not going to be a long post because I really invested a lot of time in yesterday's post examining 2025 through my blogging for the year both in views and what was viewed but also in what I posted about.

Holidays were good, though like with Thanksgiving, I seemed to miss you and Mom more than usual.

One experience that provoked a swell of grief was watching the 30th reunion program for Everybody Loves Raymond. I have not yet watched the second part that they put out a week or two after the first.

If you recall, I convinced you and Mom to watch this show after watching some of it while visiting Tom. And you two fell in love with it. We had so much fun, so many laughs, watching this show, sometimes watching multiple episodes in a row.

So many lines, jokes, elements of that show became part of our family lexicon, like the "and I think it's been longer" line from All in the Family that I mentioned back in Letter Fifteen.

I laughed, I cried laughing, and I just cried watching that reunion show. So many great memories with you and Mom. And we're not the only ones. So many families had similar experiences with that show. It's a blessing. It truly is.

That's all I want to share today, really. I am kind of spent from yesterday's HUGE post that took three days to write!

I love you, Dad.

More next week.

I hope there's episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond where you are.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2601.01 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3835 days ago & DAD = 490 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.