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…
Spring Sports, Pt. 1
We are about 10 days into the spring CYO sports schedules, which means we are at roughly the halfway point of those compact seasons. Here’s a quick look at how the family has done so far. Both C and L are two games into their kickball seasons, with a third game rained out for each team. L’s team is 2–0.…
Fun With Lists
This piece is from last fall, but I came across a Tweet that linked to it over spring break and saved it for a moment like now, when I’m busy and can’t generate any original #Content for you. Although I am a lover of pop culture lists, I can appreciate how they are often ridiculous. This “list” is a fine…
Current Status: Vaccinated
I received my second Pfizer vaccine shot on Friday. WHOOOO-HOOOOO!!!!! No issues, other than a sore arm. I’ve heard wildly varying stories from others who have already been through both shots. S and several other friends got wiped out by shot #2. In her case, she felt achy and sore and lethargic for about 24 hours. Another friend was out…
Friday Playlist
Let us continue our adventure through the flood of (mostly) new music that has arrived with spring. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0p5BL5JJKDbkyC7nykSFb9?si=a7d7274c69f347b0 “Understand” – The Cry The Cry are one of those un-searchable bands. There are albums named The Cry. A TV show. A movie. Books. Enough noise that search engines find it very difficult to spit out information about the actual band, which…