what’s shakin’ bacon

You do know there’s entire vids of baby Gordo winning his medal on t’internet? Here is a screengrab of such a video. How to live with your teenage face plastered across the global web 🙂‍↔️

Wait, no. It’s me.

Seventeen anon, I was a baby faced teen.

What has been your favorite date?

If you were planning the perfect date, what would it be?

Huh, I guess it’s been a while since we’ve been down this path… so alright then.

Uh… well I guess… uh… reasonably recently. Was just a casual thing, just drinks, barely even a date to be honest, was just chatting and a glass of wine and finding out a bit about each other outside of a work context. No big deal but I suppose most people would say it was a date in a technical sense.

If you mean purely the date activity rather than the meaningfulness or the person then… Heh, probably the time I went to a theme park with a girl from high school. She’d won these skip the queue passes and it was epic - we went on The Mamba six times in a row and both got so dizzy that I walked into a fence and fell on my butt and she was sick in a trash can. Fun times 🤣

Two degrees rat loving city girl will not be when I find her 🦑

What has been your favorite date?

If you were planning the perfect date, what would it be?

Huh, I guess it’s been a while since we’ve been down this path… so alright then.

Uh… well I guess… uh… reasonably recently. Was just a casual thing, just drinks, barely even a date to be honest, was just chatting and a glass of wine and finding out a bit about each other outside of a work context. No big deal but I suppose most people would say it was a date in a technical sense.

If you mean purely the date activity rather than the meaningfulness or the person then… Heh, probably the time I went to a theme park with a girl from high school. She’d won these skip the queue passes and it was epic - we went on The Mamba six times in a row and both got so dizzy that I walked into a fence and fell on my butt and she was sick in a trash can. Fun times 🤣

Two degrees rat loving city girl will not be when I find her 🦑

What has been your favorite date?

If you were planning the perfect date, what would it be?

Huh, I guess it’s been a while since we’ve been down this path… so alright then.

Uh… well I guess… uh… reasonably recently. Was just a casual thing, just drinks, barely even a date to be honest, was just chatting and a glass of wine and finding out a bit about each other outside of a work context. No big deal but I suppose most people would say it was a date in a technical sense.

If you mean purely the date activity rather than the meaningfulness or the person then… Heh, probably the time I went to a theme park with a girl from high school. She’d won these skip the queue passes and it was epic - we went on The Mamba six times in a row and both got so dizzy that I walked into a fence and fell on my butt and she was sick in a trash can. Fun times 🤣

What has been your favorite date?

If you were planning the perfect date, what would it be?

Huh, I guess it’s been a while since we’ve been down this path… so alright then.

Uh… well I guess… uh… reasonably recently. Was just a casual thing, just drinks, barely even a date to be honest, was just chatting and a glass of wine and finding out a bit about each other outside of a work context. No big deal but I suppose most people would say it was a date in a technical sense.

If you mean purely the date activity rather than the meaningfulness or the person then… Heh, probably the time I went to a theme park with a girl from high school. She’d won these skip the queue passes and it was epic - we went on The Mamba six times in a row and both got so dizzy that I walked into a fence and fell on my butt and she was sick in a trash can. Fun times 🤣

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂

Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.

Okay, so Brains, we need us sized floaties first, and then the baby sized ones.

Meh, kinda. But also not kinda. Especially when the little aquanaut does what he wants…

Humanity’s greatest gift? Us lot? Oh sure, yep. Absolutely. That’s exactly what we all think - you know us so very well.

It’s must be why your witty replies are so very devastating y’know? The many many truth bombs… I could cry, honestly.

The world will survive plenty well without us when we go (although if someone could arrange things such that we get a straight week off of having to save it at some point between now and then that’d be great).

But at least when we do go we’ll be able to say we spent our lives doing our best to make it a better place for as many people as we could.

Will you?

Last I recall you couldn’t give a damn about the people who live in the world, you merely wanted to own it.

What about your team, Scott Tracy? A gaggle of younger brothers you forced to toe the party line? That you send into danger? What choice did they have really?

What about your Air Force team? Were you a shining beacon of hope and love when you were following orders there?

It’s pathetic. You’re being pathetic.

Imagine where the world could’ve been if you put this much effort into doing anything genuinely good for humanity. Instead you run around in circles screeching flaws both real and imagined, you know we’re human, right? Of course each of us is flawed is our own ways, and we’ll admit to it because it’s just a fact of life.

But you don’t get to insult the memories of those my son holds dear. You don’t get to insult the memory of anyone.

You can drag us through the mud until hell freezes over, you can call us hypocrites, arrogant, but it won’t change the fact that you’re no different. You’re just a jealous, spiteful man.

Jealous? Of you, Jeff? Ha!

What is there to be jealous of? Living the rest of your life, tortured by your own failures? Everything you do touched by the shadow of your own guilt at letting her die.

At least I got the time I had with her. Years of memories I can cherish for the rest of my life, the privilege of seeing a different part of her every time I look at each of the beautiful sons she gave me.

…

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂

Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.

Okay, so Brains, we need us sized floaties first, and then the baby sized ones.

Meh, kinda. But also not kinda. Especially when the little aquanaut does what he wants…

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂

Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.

Thunderbird 2 lilo

Thunderbird 5 ring floatie

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂

Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.

Okay, so Brains, we need us sized floaties first, and then the baby sized ones.

Meh, kinda. But also not kinda. Especially when the little aquanaut does what he wants…

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂

Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.

Okay, so Brains, we need us sized floaties first, and then the baby sized ones.

Meh, kinda. But also not kinda. Especially when the little aquanaut does what he wants…

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂