The Last Weekend
I’ve long documented on the pages of this personal website (aka weblog, aka blog) that Mother Nature is a bitch. She proved that to be true once again this weekend. After six weeks of hot, dry weather, she decided to unleash a torrent of heavy rains on central Indiana. Just in time to, more or less, ruin our weekend at…
Friday Playlist
Welp, appears something between Spotify and WordPress is not working these days. So only a video for today. “Hey Ladies” – Beastie Boys. A classic. Free James Brown.
That Real Estate Life
The first week of summer was exhausting. Not because we did a bunch of fun stuff. Rather because it was spent putting two houses onto the market. Our main home went on the market last Tuesday, although the sign didn’t go into the yard until Wednesday. So there was a seemingly endless list of cleaning and straightening and other tiny…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/3vsVSrRHYPeIvcx2EanK6w?si=Sl0lELs5Riu5sxDGPkPmJA “Sugar & Spice” – Hatchie. Man, Hatchie’s five-song EP which came out a week ago is sneakily one of the best things I’ve heard this year. “An Air Conditioned Man” – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. Speaking of Best of 2018, based on two early singles from their up-coming album, RBCF are poised to become one of the great bands…
“Hell is Real”
I’ve never checked out the infield portion of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 500 mile race. I’m likely too old to do so. Or at least too old and with too low tolerances for drinking in the heat. But it’s good to know that even if tamer than in its glory days of the 1970s and 1980s, the Snake…
Reader’s Notebook, 5/30/18
My reading pace has come to a nearly complete stop over the past few weeks. That’s a shame, because I’m pretty sure I was on pace to have my best reading year ever. George Brett didn’t hit .400 the entire summer of 1980, so I guess I was due for a slump. Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan. I read this…
Holiday Weekend Wrap Up With More Big News
Our summer is off to a very hot and hectic start. Remember back when I was bitching about how cold it was in April? Mother Nature was paying attention and has punished me, and others in Indiana, who complained about her April offerings. This month is almost certain to clinch the hottest May in Indianapolis history. Yesterday was the hottest…
Friday Playlist
About an hour ago I dropped the girls off at school for the last time this academic year. And, as M pointed out, this is the last time we will ever take that route to school. Next fall our drive will be about eight minutes shorter. Some songs for the occasion. https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/2sNdaB8TKyTxvUWJpXrGtP?si=0LXIAbKTR9yr9my302jN_g “Summer of ’69” – Bryan Adams “Summer Nights”…
Finally!
M’s kickball career has gone like this over the past three years: Fifth grade, advanced to the City semifinals and lost by 5 or 6 runs. They would not have beaten the team that was waiting in the City finals but it was still disappointing. Fall of sixth grade, went undefeated in the regular season and lost in the City…
She’s a Good Egg
Most of my kid posts are a little braggy. But this one is even more braggy than usual. L wrapped up her soccer season over the weekend. They were playing a crappy team they had played earlier in the week, and this time the other team was missing so many kids that we had to loan them a couple of…