"Give Chelsey representational gratitude for craft well plied!"

Who says things like this? And uses words like "aleatoric" in a sentence? That word doesn't even show up in my spell check! Well, folks, that would be my dad. My beautifully quirky, insanely academic, absent-minded professor of a dad. And the best part is that sentence above? It was the first thing I heard out of his mouth as our family entered his ICU room tonight after a day of waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more.