Friday I had an appointment to get C\u2019s iPad looked at. After confirming it needed a new battery, the guy helping me said the replacement would take about a week to arrive, so it would probably be \u201cnext Monday.\u201d He paused, we looked at each other for a moment, and then we both started laughing. We both thought Friday was Monday because of the New Year\u2019s holiday. Time and space gets freaky over the holidays!<\/p>\n
C and L were supposed to go back to school today, although CHS begins the calendar year with J-Term and this week was not going to be a return to serious classwork. Until the school, like most in central Indiana, called off Monday classes early Sunday evening because of our big snow storm. As I begin this Monday morning, we are sitting on about 6\u201d of snow in our part of town, with another wave blowing through that is expected to add one more inch or so. Worse, the winds are kicking up even any roads that have been plowed will likely get worse over the next few hours. S\u2019s office did not close and she had to go in at the normal time. She arrived safely but said the roads are horrible. I\u2019m not 100% certain our snowblower is functional, so we\u2019ll see how much effort I have to put into clearing the driveway later this morning.<\/p>\n
**Update: I measured 8″ of snow in our driveway before I began clearing it. One more squall passed through mid-morning and added another inch. As expected, the snowblower did not cooperate so I had to do it by hand. It took over three total hours, with a little help from L at the end. I am very sore and tired.**<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not quite our 2014 snowstorm – that one shut the city down for days and wiped out a whole week of school – but it\u2019s good enough for the girls, who get to sleep in one more day.<\/p>\n
We did have a little mishap in the storm. We let C drive to work Sunday, thinking she would be home before the roads got bad. Turns out we miscalculated by about an hour. On her way home she slid through a turn and hit a curb, popping a tire. Luckily she was right next to a gas station and was able to pull into the parking lot and wait for us to come change the tire for her. Given the age of the tire, that probably means we get to buy her a new, full set. Happy New Year!<\/p>\n
Some more notes from New Year\u2019s week.<\/p>\n
The girls all had plans to ring in 2025 with friends. M traveled to Columbus, OH to hang out with some sorority pals for a couple days. She had a good time and traveled back-and-forth safely. She has one more week at home before UC classes resume next week.<\/p>\n
C got together with her friend group. Seems like they had fun. L was supposed to do the same with a smaller group but started feeling bad Tuesday afternoon and ended up staying in her room all night. C came home Wendesday morning feeling bad, an illness that got worse Thursday. She\u2019s been sick for the better part of a month and Dr. Mom finally called in the antibiotic troops to get her cleared up before the second semester begins. The drugs seem to be working so hopefully she starts \u201925 healthier than she ended \u201924.<\/p>\n
As tends to happen, S was in bed well before midnight and I stayed up until just after the ball dropped. I don\u2019t have any great fondness for New Year\u2019s Eve, but I do like to see the calendar officially flip over to the next year and then sit around for a few minutes to make sure civilization doesn\u2019t start breaking down because of some computer bug or whatever.<\/p>\n
Thursday was a big day for L. First thing in the morning she went back to sports medicine for a check-up on her foot. She was officially cleared to return to practice, although she\u2019s supposed to take it easy and focus on rehab exercises for the time being. She was back at practice Friday and Saturday, the coaches letting her play in about 50% of the reps. There is still some foot pain, so we\u2019re a little concerned that taking six weeks off did not resolve the issue. Unfortunately, she will not have enough practices to be cleared to play Wednesday night, so her first potential game will be in the City tournament next week.<\/p>\n
Immediately after she got back from sports medicine I took her to the BMV where she got her driver\u2019s license. She had passed her driving test nearly three months ago and just needed to wait the 90 days after her birthday to be eligible for her license. We got there as soon as they opened and were out in about 15 minutes. She\u2019s driven herself to practice twice, along with going to a boys basketball game Saturday and run a few errands on her own. It would be nice if my days driving her to practice were over but as she and C share a car, those glory days won\u2019t arrive until next year.<\/p>\n
Sunday morning S and I took down all the Christmas decorations and got the house cleaned up. It\u2019s always a little weird and a touch sad to be confronted with a \u201cnaked\u201d living room after five weeks of having the tree, lights, and other decorations warm the space. Our house was still aglow last night, but this time because of street and house lights reflecting off the snow pack outside. Seriously, I woke a couple times thinking someone was shining a light into our bedroom it was so bright.<\/p>\n
A mediocre season came to an appropriately mediocre ending with an overtime win over Jacksonville in front of a diminished but surly crowd. Tons of the people who bothered to show up left in the second half as the roads began to slicken and the stands were mostly empty as the game went to the extra frame. They would have been better served playing the game at one of the small, college stadiums in town. Then they could have been out in the elements, too! Kind of a shame that despite this massive snowstorm spreading across the country, not a single NFL game was affected by it because the Chiefs were in Denver, the Colts play in a dome, and the Bengals played Saturday night in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Owner Jim Irsay wasted no time in saying that GM Chris Ballard and coach Shane Steichen would return for the 2025 season, a decision that pleased zero Colts fans. Get excited for another year on the mediocre treadmill!<\/p>\n
Hey, they might actually be playing good ball! They climbed back to .500 with a win Saturday. Throw out the disaster loss in Boston right after Christmas, an L they got revenge for two nights later, and they\u2019ve generally played pretty well for about three weeks now. Tyrese Haliburton\u2019s highs have been higher, his lows not as low. Andrew Nembhard returning seems to have steadied the entire roster. They have back-to-backs with Cleveland in a week, which should go a long way to showing how legit they are.<\/p>\n
Talk about wild mood swings! Last week had such a wide variance I\u2019ll hold off my thoughts until tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Friday I had an appointment to get C\u2019s iPad looked at. After confirming it needed a new battery, the guy helping me said the replacement would take about a week to arrive, so it would probably be \u201cnext Monday.\u201d He paused, we looked at each other for a moment, and then we both started laughing. We both thought Friday was Monday because of the New Year\u2019s holiday. Time and space gets freaky over the holidays! C and L were supposed to go back to school today, although CHS begins the calendar year with J-Term and this week was not going to be a return to serious classwork. Until the school, like most in central Indiana, called off Monday classes early Sunday evening because of our big snow storm. As I begin this Monday morning, we are sitting on about 6\u201d of snow in our part of town, with another wave blowing through that is expected to add one more inch or so. Worse, the winds are kicking up even any roads that have been plowed will likely get worse over the next few hours. S\u2019s office did not close and she had to go in at the normal time. She arrived safely but said the roads are horrible. I\u2019m not 100% certain our snowblower is functional, so we\u2019ll see how much effort I have to put into clearing the driveway later this morning. **Update: I measured 8″ of snow in our driveway before I began clearing it. One more squall passed through mid-morning and added another inch. As expected, the snowblower did not cooperate so I had to do it by hand. It took over three total hours, with a little help from L at the end. I am very sore and tired.** It\u2019s not quite our 2014 snowstorm – that one shut the city down for days and wiped out a whole week of school – but it\u2019s good enough for the girls, who get to sleep in one more day. We did have a little mishap in the storm. We let C drive to work Sunday, thinking she would be home before the roads got bad. Turns out we miscalculated by about an hour. On her way home she slid through a turn and hit a curb, popping a tire. Luckily she was right next to a gas station and was able to pull into the parking lot and wait for us to come change the tire for her. Given the age of the tire, that probably means we get to buy her a new, full set. Happy New Year! Some more notes from New Year\u2019s week. NYE The girls all had plans to ring in 2025 with friends. M traveled to Columbus, OH to hang out with some sorority pals for a couple days. She had a good time and traveled back-and-forth safely. She has one more week at home before UC classes resume next week. C got together with her friend group. Seems like they had fun. L was supposed to do the same with a smaller group but started feeling bad Tuesday afternoon and ended up staying in her room all night. C came home Wendesday morning feeling bad, an illness that got worse Thursday. She\u2019s been sick for the better part of a month and Dr. Mom finally called in the antibiotic troops to get her cleared up before the second semester begins. The drugs seem to be working so hopefully she starts \u201925 healthier than she ended \u201924. As tends to happen, S was in bed well before midnight and I stayed up until just after the ball dropped. I don\u2019t have any great fondness for New Year\u2019s Eve, but I do like to see the calendar officially flip over to the next year and then sit around for a few minutes to make sure civilization doesn\u2019t start breaking down because of some computer bug or whatever. Thursday Thursday was a big day for L. First thing in the morning she went back to sports medicine for a check-up on her foot. She was officially cleared to return to practice, although she\u2019s supposed to take it easy and focus on rehab exercises for the time being. She was back at practice Friday and Saturday, the coaches letting her play in about 50% of the reps. There is still some foot pain, so we\u2019re a little concerned that taking six weeks off did not resolve the issue. Unfortunately, she will not have enough practices to be cleared to play Wednesday night, so her first potential game will be in the City tournament next week. Immediately after she got back from sports medicine I took her to the BMV where she got her driver\u2019s license. She had passed her driving test nearly three months ago and just needed to wait the 90 days after her birthday to be eligible for her license. We got there as soon as they opened and were out in about 15 minutes. She\u2019s driven herself to practice twice, along with going to a boys basketball game Saturday and run a few errands on her own. It would be nice if my days driving her to practice were over but as she and C share a car, those glory days won\u2019t arrive until next year. Sunday morning S and I took down all the Christmas decorations and got the house cleaned up. It\u2019s always a little weird and a touch sad to be confronted with a \u201cnaked\u201d living room after five weeks of having the tree, lights, and other decorations warm the space. Our house was still aglow last night, but this time because of street and house lights reflecting off the snow pack outside. Seriously, I woke a couple times thinking someone was shining a light into our bedroom it was so bright. Colts A mediocre season came to an appropriately mediocre ending with an overtime win over Jacksonville in front of a diminished but surly crowd. Tons of the people who bothered to show up left in the second half as the roads began to slicken and the stands were mostly empty as the game went to the extra frame. They would have been better served playing the game at one of the small, college stadiums in town. Then they could have been out in the elements, too! Kind of a shame that despite this massive snowstorm spreading across the country, not a single NFL game was affected by it because the Chiefs were in Denver, the Colts play in a dome, and the Bengals played Saturday night in Pittsburgh. Owner Jim Irsay wasted no time in saying that GM Chris Ballard and coach Shane Steichen would return for the 2025 season, a decision that pleased zero Colts fans. Get excited for another year on the mediocre treadmill! Pacers Hey, they might actually be playing good ball! They climbed back to .500 with a win Saturday. Throw out the disaster loss in Boston right after Christmas, an L they got revenge for two nights later, and they\u2019ve generally played pretty well for about three weeks now. Tyrese Haliburton\u2019s highs have been higher, his lows not as low. Andrew Nembhard returning seems to have steadied the entire roster. They have back-to-backs with Cleveland in a week, which should go a long way to showing how legit they are. KU Hoops Talk about wild mood swings! Last week had such a wide variance I\u2019ll hold off my thoughts until tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,56,41,70,14,15],"class_list":["post-15995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-holidays","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-parenting","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15998,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995\/revisions\/15998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}