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Beyond the Fog
Aug. 13th, 2024 07:23 pmI've been so long without writing and don't know where to begin.
The last few weeks have been day-camp weeks for Erica, with two weeks of arts camp at Parts and Crafts on either side of one week of climbing camp at Boston Bouldering. Erica had a lot of fun with both.
Last weekend, I took Erica to Baltimore for a weekend visiting my sister and meeting up with my parents. Now she's off with my parents at Cascade of Music & Dance, then back to Cleveland for more grandparent time. I'll go there to pick her up after.
Baltimore trip was a ton of fun. Erica really loves spending time with her cousin Simon. We went to Chesapeake and Allegheny Live Steamers at Leakin Park (an adorable little 1/8-scale model rail that the kids can ride), spent some time at the pool, and took the water taxi shuttle across the harbor.
I flew Southwest to Baltimore, which was perfectly on time on the way there (despite warnings of bad weather) and then an hour delayed on the way back. Still was pretty nice. I'm always struck by Southwest's odd efficiencies. For example, their snack choice was these onion-and-monkfruit pretzels, which is a distinctly less middle-of-the-road choice than I'd expect for a one-option snack (compare, for example, with Delta's Biscoff cookies). Southwest does kind of have a bit of a "you'll do things our weird way and like it" attitude.
I enjoyed watching some of the Olympics coverage with Erica over the past weeks. The Tahiti surfing was especially spectacular.
I've also been enjoying the new Magic: the Gathering set, Bloomborrow. Set in a world of critters, it's a bit Magic meets Redwall (presumably also Whitewall, Bluewall, Blackwall, and Greenwall). The delayed rotation of the most-recent-sets Standard format has freshened the experience up a bit, though I still feel like the wider window on Standard makes it less fresh than it could be.
Julie's been extremely busy with newcorp stuff, but seems like something is getting off the ground.
I finished reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow on the trip. Thought it was pretty good, though I felt it had a bit of a period-piece-syndrome in the early parts (i.e. like it was trying to crowbar-in 80s references a bit too hard for realism). But I really liked the surrealism of some of the later bits. Overall a good novel, an interesting story.
The last few weeks have been day-camp weeks for Erica, with two weeks of arts camp at Parts and Crafts on either side of one week of climbing camp at Boston Bouldering. Erica had a lot of fun with both.
Last weekend, I took Erica to Baltimore for a weekend visiting my sister and meeting up with my parents. Now she's off with my parents at Cascade of Music & Dance, then back to Cleveland for more grandparent time. I'll go there to pick her up after.
Baltimore trip was a ton of fun. Erica really loves spending time with her cousin Simon. We went to Chesapeake and Allegheny Live Steamers at Leakin Park (an adorable little 1/8-scale model rail that the kids can ride), spent some time at the pool, and took the water taxi shuttle across the harbor.
I flew Southwest to Baltimore, which was perfectly on time on the way there (despite warnings of bad weather) and then an hour delayed on the way back. Still was pretty nice. I'm always struck by Southwest's odd efficiencies. For example, their snack choice was these onion-and-monkfruit pretzels, which is a distinctly less middle-of-the-road choice than I'd expect for a one-option snack (compare, for example, with Delta's Biscoff cookies). Southwest does kind of have a bit of a "you'll do things our weird way and like it" attitude.
I enjoyed watching some of the Olympics coverage with Erica over the past weeks. The Tahiti surfing was especially spectacular.
I've also been enjoying the new Magic: the Gathering set, Bloomborrow. Set in a world of critters, it's a bit Magic meets Redwall (presumably also Whitewall, Bluewall, Blackwall, and Greenwall). The delayed rotation of the most-recent-sets Standard format has freshened the experience up a bit, though I still feel like the wider window on Standard makes it less fresh than it could be.
Julie's been extremely busy with newcorp stuff, but seems like something is getting off the ground.
I finished reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow on the trip. Thought it was pretty good, though I felt it had a bit of a period-piece-syndrome in the early parts (i.e. like it was trying to crowbar-in 80s references a bit too hard for realism). But I really liked the surrealism of some of the later bits. Overall a good novel, an interesting story.
