(More from the past: The Aliens's famous "Dr. Amar Budarapu" email) RE: There will be NO K at K's this R

Although not well marketed, last night was "Bring Your Kid to Work Day"at Karol's. Since drinking is a full-time job for most Karol's patrons, you can imagine the number of "kids" there - kids who could easily pass as brothers, sisters, or cousins of their own parents. Jimmy, Jr. was there - beer in hand, happy to be back behind the bar. Little BikerBouncer was there - he must have been at least thirty. Same beard, still needed to work on building out his gut.

I was pretty sure they weren't going to let Alec in without a bit of "disguising." So I fitted him with the fake beard ("Daddy, it's so scratchy") and outfitted him with appropriate ID (Dr. Amar Budarapu, 37 yrs old). He looked good, albeit a little short at 3 ft. tall.

Biker Bouncer gave us the once-over, put his glasses on to re-check the birthdate, and let us pass. I wasn't so sure that he would, since the picture was a rough resemblance of Alec, but thank goodness it gave us the opportunity to spend some quality father-son time together.

I'm not going to go into all the details, but let's just say that Alec - or should I call him Dr. Alec? - now has a new godfather: Biker Bouncer. He mentioned that he wants to get a "hog" but I'm not sure I understand what that means. Chris pointed out that it's nice that Alec will finally have a male role model in his life. I couldn't agree more. I just hope that I don't lose him to the cutthroat back-of-the-trunk-lingerie-sales-to-nudist-colonists industry. It's easy to get caught up in the high-flying fame and fortune that comes with setting up a business at an Indiana gas station. I'll need to make
sure it doesn't affect his kindergarten studies.

Btw, Shaida doesn't know anything about this, so let's keep this between
us.