Decision Time Coming
Our trip to Cincinnati was good. We drove down with one of M’s long-time friends, A, who was planning on confirming her enrollment at UC on our visit. At check-in we ran into one of their CHS classmates and her mom. When the parents were comparing notes on the college search process, I mentioned that M was waiting to hear…
Weekend Notes
An early weekend roundup, as M and I are headed to Cincinnati early Monday for an admitted students orientation. We will likely do the same at IU in March as she continues to gather information before she makes a final decision. Kid Hoops L’s team played a sixth grade squad Saturday. That always worries me because if a sixth grade…
Friday Playlist
More older music than new this week. And, sadly, another rather important In Memoriam entry. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Lj7VY0Mnaa8fe2xmOlaj8?si=d49293b53f8b49be “It’s Just A Bit of Blood” – bdrmm Normally by now I’ve already dropped several songs into my running Favorites list that will be the basis of my year end list in December. I had only added one through the first seven weeks of…
Car Chronicles: The Loaner
I had the pleasure of driving a loaner car for the past week. All the excuse I need to dust off the Car Chronicles series! My Audi Q5 has been great. I’m nearly two years into my lease and other than a few annoyances, I have been extremely happy with it. Late last year I received a notice for a…
Jayhawk Talk: Streaking
A few brief-ish notes about the Jayhawks, who are suddenly in a three-way tie for first place in the Big 12 after a very good week. Tuesday’s win at Oklahoma State was terrific in many ways. It capped a week in which KU got better over the three-game stretch, beating two very good teams relatively comfortably. It was a fantastic…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 82
Chart Week: February 9, 1980 Song: “I Wanna Be Your Lover” – Prince Chart Position: #20, 11th week on the chart. Peaked at #11 for two weeks in January and February. It started here. This was the very first Prince single to crack the Top 40. It took a few years, but eventually just about everyone around the world who…
Weekend Notes
HS Hoops I ended up going to the Cathedral game Friday night after C and a friend decided at the last minute that they wanted to go. Amazingly this is the first boys game I’ve attended in my four years as a CHS parent. We only stayed for three quarters, as C’s back started acting up around halftime. We saw…
Friday Playlist
I have a couple appointments in the morning, so posting this late Thursday night. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54bCK34ThJRJpNUJZhZwhW?si=73b6918dd6e14396 “Anyway I Find You” – The Men A pretty solid song on its own. But the vocals remind me of an old-school classic… “Old White Church” – Arthur Dodge & The Horsefeathers One of the most distinctive, if not necessarily famous, voices that came out…
NBA Trade Deadline Insanity
I have a couple posts in various states of readiness that I figured I would focus on for today. Until I turned on the local news at 7:00 AM this morning to catch the weather – storms were blowing through at the time – and saw a blurb on the crawl at the bottom of the screen saying Kevin Durant…
Jayhawk Talk: Bouncing Back
I admit I was dreading Monday’s KU-Texas game. Normally, coming off a terrible loss like Iowa State’s destruction of the Jayhawks Saturday, I would be fired up for a Big Monday home game. It would be a chance to wash away the bad taste of the loss with a big, loud crowd and a W. But I also watched a…