Holiday Weekend Notes
A pretty good Easter weekend in our house. Family Weekend As happens when your kids are in Catholic schools, it was an extra-long weekend. CHS had a four-day weekend, while St P’s had early dismissal Friday and were out for Easter Monday. Throw in C being home sick and L having her annual school service day on Thursday and it…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bOTCe8GgyKEdyHV4sKxso?si=266c3bfd462b4f89 “Anti-Curse” – boygenius The supergroup released their first full-length album last week. It’s very good, or at least the high points are. I love how it’s a combination of songs where each singer takes the lead and songs that are collaborations with all three taking turns. Here Julien Baker is up front. Critic Steven Hyden liked this song so…
College Hoops Notes
Let’s wrap up the college basketball season. Jayhawk Talk Bill Self finally appeared before the media on Wednesday, his first interaction with the press since before his heart episode nearly a month ago. He looked and sounded great. In his recorded interviews with Greg Gurley during the NCAA tournament he always seemed half a step slow, either verbally, mentally, or…
Ranking Shit: Alternate Hoops Programs
As mentioned awhile back, I have a few of these in various stages of development. With the college basketball season complete, seems like a good day to dust off this one. This idea comes from a KU-centric podcast I listen to regularly. During the holidays they had a segment where they selected an elite program they would choose to be…
Spring Break 2023
A long week in the Dominican Republic to celebrate M’s senior class spring break. Not only did we take the whole family, one of C’s best friends came along with us. There was some drama, a few travel difficulties, but overall it was a pretty good seven days. Location We stayed at the Hard Rock Resort in Punta Cana. I…
March Media
Slow month between lots of basketball early in March, watching one show exclusively for a week, and then spring break. Movies, Shows, etc From Paseo To Pembroke: Kansas City’s Golden Era I had heard of this but didn’t realize it was on YouTube until KC buddy Newman sent it my way. A great look at the golden age of Kansas…
Thursday Playlist
I decided to go with a Thursday Playlist after noting the date. We are off very early tomorrow for a week in the Dominican Republic with roughly a third of M’s graduating class. Two other local high schools will also have large contingents at our resort, so it’s going to be Indy in the Tropics, I guess. Knock on wood…
Wednesday Quickie
It’s been a busy week. Our spring break begins on Friday and there is much to be done to prepare. Lots of errands, laundry, organizing, taking kids to appointments, prepping the house, etc. Much of my free time has also been taken up by trying to finish a show I’ve been watching that will disappear from Hulu next week. It…
Weekend Hoops Notes
Not a good weekend of basketball. Nope, not good at all. Jayhawk Talk Well, I feared playing Arkansas from the moment the brackets came out a week ago. Long, athletic, fearless, a little crazy. They resembled Texas and TCU, teams that gave KU three of their worst losses this year. Saturday afternoon I began to gain confidence. KU was more…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Qw78U51XJXHGMLZOT3HW7?si=b5cb83b4be204aef “Get Out of My House” – Miya Folick Folick described this song as an exorcism. Which makes it a perfect metaphor for the last weekend of winter, a time for throwing out all the unnecessary things that have collected over the past little while. “Tell Me To Go” – John-Allison Weiss This track is over three years old, but…