Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6OCp6yw9LPdxZBOwWIDB00?si=47017d6a6b5b46cb “Keel Timing” – Manchester Orchestra Their new album drops today, and it is getting excellent reviews. I’ve really liked each of the advance singles. Perhaps an early contender for album of the year? I will give it my first listen as soon as I post this. “The Right Thing is Hard to Do” – Lightning Bug I was reading…
Car Shopping Chronicles, Part 4
We’ve made it! After three entries of background bullshit about my search for a new car, we’ve finally arrived at my first test drive! As previously noted, I am focusing on the luxury compact SUV class. While there are a ton of cars in this space, I have pretty much whittled it down to five I want to compare first…
Mid-Week Kid Sports Notes
I mentioned that this would be a very busy kid sports week. That has proven to be true. As there were a couple big developments, I’m going to go ahead and get you caught up on what’s gone down the past two days. Tennis Monday M played her second tennis match. We never heard why, but they mixed up the…
Car Shopping Chronicles, Part 3
Crap. I realized in part two of this series, I left out one angle of my car search. It’s not terribly important to the big picture, but I figure if I’m writing about the process, and some of you are actually reading about it, I shouldn’t skip anything that happened along the way. At the end of my last entry,…
Weekend Kids Sports Notes
We are about to embark on our busiest week of the spring sports season: three tennis matches, four kickball games, one soccer game (two games missed because of kickball), and trying to squeeze in at least one track practice per girl before next weekend’s meet. Here’s how they did last week. Tennis No tennis matches for M last week. She…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qREdz89fkV6DauQsLLwK0?si=c38f73c847154fd0 “How the Race is Done” – Smile This feels straight out of some 1986 College Rock compilation tape. Mostly because of that Peter Buck-like jangly guitar, which recalls early R.E.M. (with a lot more energy than R.E.M., though.) It has nothing to do with ’80s college rock, but the bass sound and style reminds me of Pearl Jam’s Jeff…
Mother Nature’s Fury
It was some 24 hours we experienced from roughly 5:00 pm Tuesday to 5:00 pm Wednesday. On Tuesday we got hit by that freak, spring snowstorm that blew through the Midwest. Both C and L had kickball games scheduled, and both games were cancelled. C’s was actually cancelled on Monday night when their opponents all went into quarantine. With kickball…
Car Shopping Chronicles, Part 2
This is the second entry in my collection of observations as I search for a new car. In part one I listed every car I’ve owned. You can read it here. Today, I’m going to set up some parameters for my next purchase. If you look through that list of past cars, a trend is obvious: the last four were…
Weekend Kid Sports Roundup
We have a very busy sports week ahead – weather permitting – and my plan was to hold off on another kid sports update. But it turned out to be a fairly significant sports weekend, so I’ll go ahead and share our girls’ latest accomplishments on the fields of athletic battle. Friday was M’s first-ever tennis match. I had not…
Friday Playlist
Another Friday, another list of fine musical products for your ears. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1wptdmoCDiBXp2YMzDQp28?si=6edc7b1cd26245f8 “Hot & Heavy” – Lucy Dacus Dacus was responsible for my favorite song of 2018. She may have released my favorite song of 2021 this week. This is just so freaking good, and she is a total treasure. “Complex” – Tristen Tristen also had one of my favorite…