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Today is the last day of school – well, sort of. Tuesday was the last day for August as he graduated 8th grade, Wednesday the last day for Xavier as preschool ended, then today for the other kids. Laura isn’t done yet as public school still has two weeks to go. Sunday was the Baccalaureate…
Every year for 8th grade the students make a number of music videos. Each person gets in on the action with varying numbers from 2 to 6 classmates working on a song. They get a song, record new lyrics, and create their own music video. This year was no different and some were better than…
Shut up, I know this isn’t going up on a Friday. Life happens. Let’s start with a few of the last pictures I’m going to share from the Washington D.C. trip. Here is August at Monticello next to a stature of “Tommy Jeff” (as the kids were saying). At the University of Virginia they have…
Instead of a travelogue of my trip to Washington D.C. with August’s 8th grade I am going to present a few highlights. Perhaps the most surprising was how little time we actually spent in Washington D.C. There were days when we barely did anything in the city, if anything at all. One of the days…
First, I want to make mention of the Dungeons & Dragons live streams coming to Twitch this weekend. If you are a fan of the game you might want to check out twitch.tv/dnd, Starting June 1 at 4pm Pacific Time there will be a tour of the studio, then a roundtable conversation about the new storyline…
This past week I was in Washington D.C. with August’s 8th grade class. It was extremely fun, wet, exhausting, and well worth it. It is not my intent to give a complete rundown of our itinerary and impressions of each location we visited. However, there are a few things I did want to highlight. In the…
This past week I was in Washington D.C. with August’s 8th grade class. It was extremely fun, wet, exhausting, and well worth it. It is not my intent to give a complete rundown of our itinerary and impressions of each location we visited. However, there are a few things I did want to highlight. Firstly, it…
I have been dealing with some computer issues for the last couple of weeks. Those are always fun, right? Euphemism. Alright, so I have two computers, both laptops, both from Lenovo, and both running Windows 10. Actually, we have three laptops, one “larger” one we have as the house computer, then the other two are…
The last couple of weeks have been busy, as you might expect a family with 7 kids would be. Xavier continues with his baseball season, birthday season is in full swing, and a lot more going on – much of which just doesn’t get documented. Let’s start with Grace who loves putting other people’s shoes…
This week has been… let’s just call it interesting. How about Tuesday? Lets recall that day for starters. The day started on a high note. My usual 5:30 a.m. spin class was a highlight as the first song of the set was by Huey Lewis & The News. I rather enjoyed that quite a bit. By…