End of the Sports Year
We wrapped up the spring kid sports season last night with the City track finals. C had a very good night. She first ran in the final of the 400. Looking at the preliminary times I figured her best chance for a high placement was in the 200. She was fighting a cold and coughing/sneezing a lot, so I told…
Curses
Yesterday was the fourth time one of our girls played in a kickball City Championship game. For the fourth time, we played our worst game of the year and walked away losers. L’s team got waxed pretty good, 20–4, and it really wasn’t that close. The team they played was solid at the plate and really good in the field.…
Weekend Notes
It was a pretty quiet weekend for us. Friday was the annual St. P’s eighth grade Mother’s Mass. All the eighth graders and their moms got dressed up, had a special Mass first thing in the day followed by a brunch at school. Then they were excused for the day to go do stuff together. The girls all went to…
Friday Vid
“Head Rolls Off” – Frightened Rabbit. It was a year ago tomorrow that, just after getting home from dropping my girls at school, the official news broke that Scott Hutchison’s body had been found floating in the Forth, as he had warned us about ten years earlier. It’s been a tough year for me as a massive fan of Scott’s…
Friday Playlist
Separating the playlist from the video this week, as I need to say a few things about the video. https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/5Czs1acMzgHCC7y541VHTT?si=37k6L2D_TtuYI9HNWL9IkA “They’ll Never” – Stef Chura. Oh hells yessssss! This is the perfect song to get the warm weather season kicked off right! (I say that when we have almost no chance of reaching 60 today). “Hello Sunshine” – Bruce Springsteen.…
Timeless Fashion (I Hope)
We’ve had a lovely run of weather lately that has kept me out of the house much of this week. Running some errands. Hitting some golf balls. Coaching and watching sports. Good stuff. Today the weather broke a bit. It is warm and muggy, but there are thick, ominous clouds racing across the sky as steady gusts blow. Storms are…
Weekend Notes
We had a big sports and family weekend. So some quick notes are in order. Friday L had a big kickball game. This was against the only team to beat them this season, a game we lost by three runs after giving up 12 runs in the first inning. Things were a little different this time. We held them to…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/637bsQ2MGWH7Mmn8db5UL5?si=cJSQubSyRGGu7UdGwyCZLQ “Datura” – GOON. I had to pick the order in which I listen to the various decade channels on SiriusXM the most, the two ‘80s stations would be first, obviously. Perhaps surprising to some the 70s on 7 would be second before Lithium, the 90s alternative and grunge channel. The ’90s just don’t connect with me these days the…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 26
Our Internet was out almost all day yesterday, so my web time was greatly reduced. Fortunately I had some notes pulled together for this post, which I was able to hammer out between other activities. Chart Week: April 26, 1986 Song: “West End Girls” – Pet Shop Boys Chart Position: #3, 7th week on the chart. Peaked at #1 the…
Kid Sports
We put M on a bus to Washington, DC at 6:15 this morning. So seems like the perfect moment for a kid sports update time! Kickball C’s team, which I am helping to coach, is 0–2 with one game rained out so far, another removed from the schedule because the team we were supposed to play could not play on…