I never had much of a relationship with my dad. He and mom divorced when I was 8. He was around until then but was normally watching TV if he was home. He wasn't mean or abusive or anything... just distant.
Then after the divorce, I would go see him a week each summer and see him maybe a dozen other times throughout the year. He always bought me lots of things (or more accurately his new wife who had two sons and always wanted a daughter bought me lots of stuff... lol) and was nice to me but we were never close. We never argued because we didn't spend enough time with each other to disagree and honestly never knew each other all that well. He died when I was 30 and it was more like losing a distant relative than a parent.
I say all of that to say this... I love hearing the stories about you and your dad. You are blessed (as I know you know) to have such a close relationship with your dad... even if the two of you have some differences that make you not always see eye to eye.
