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Saturday
Saturday Aaron, IL5, and I went to lunch with my friend Liz. Then we went to the bookstore to buy 2 Minecraft books for IL5. They are way above the level I’ve been reading to him, and he didn’t even ask for them to be read to him in the evening – he was excited about the next Desmond Cole book I had out from the library. But he had requested Minecraft books, so there you go. The rest of the day was spent with a couple chores and reading.
Sunday
Sunday I deep cleaned the kitchen, including junk drawers, played Spore with IL5, and read. In the evening, the family played D&D. IL5 was especially wound up Sunday night and was very recalcitrant at bedtime. I was beginning to despair by about 12:30am.
Monday
Monday I accidentally slept through swim lessons for IL5. I turned my alarm off at 9 and fell back asleep till 11:15. Oh well. D14 helped out at the middle school library. M12, IL5, Aaron and I went to the pool and had a lot of fun, though IL5 threw a temper tantrum when we left. Then we all went to Buffalo Wild Wings with D14. By then, we didn’t have enough transition time to get IL5 cheerfully to soccer, so we skipped that too. M12 went to Boy Scouts. Freyja, one of the kittens, dashed out the door when I left for work, and I had to chase him down. So I ordered a tag with our phone number on it, and hope it comes before he escapes longer-term. People around here tend to grab up kitties.
Tuesday
Tuesday I did chores, had a virtual appointment for myself, and then an in-person appointment for IL5. I played LEGO with IL5 when we were done – I had some LEGO I had intended on giving him when we were visiting his grandma, but we didn’t go, so I gave them to him Tuesday. Then my friend Liz came over and D14 & Aaron joined us as we watched a little Doctor Who. We discovered dad has better without-glasses bision than me. I’m going to be so blind at his age!
Wednesday
Wednesday I got home from work at 9:20am, left for my second job at 9:55am, got home at 5:30pm, and left for work again at 9:25pm. That gave me 4.5 hours of non-work time, some of which was spent doing necessary tasks instead of relaxing. Aaron took IL5 to soccer, then played Spore with him when they got home.
Thursday
Thursday, I repeated Wednesday’s schedule. So by the time my shift is over on Friday morning, I’ll have had 9 hours off work in a 60 hour period of time. D14 watched the last episode of Monk. Dad and I watched the first episode of Queen’s Gambit.
Friday
Friday after work I mainly relaxed until the afternoon, when IL5 was ready to go on a bike ride. I had carefully picked a park with no playground, so that he’d actually ride his bike, but there was a lake beach, and he wanted to play in the sand after only a short jaunt on his bike. I’ll have to find another park for biking.
Week’s Photos
Letters Written
- 1 letter Massachusetts
Reading to myself
- Behave, by Robert Sapolsky
- Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan
- Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
- The Week: Good Catch?
- New Scientist: Oceans in Chaos
- Mr Ballen podcast
- Newsweek
- Nurk, by Ursula Vernon
- Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges
Reading to IL5
- Night of the Zombie Zookeeper, by Andres Miedoso
D14 reading
- Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- Everblaze, by Shannon Messenger (I’m reading this to her.)
Media Completed
Andres and Desmond go on a field trip to the zoo, and run into a zombie. For second or third grade. Loki loves these books and chooses to read them ASAP.
Nurk wants to go on an adventure like his grandmother, but is afraid of getting his socks wet. For third or fourth grade. Very cute and mildly funny. (Read it to myself, not IL5.)
Hibernator's Library 