The Pits: The rain from Hurricane Harvey arrived in Nashville today. The traffic was more evidence than the actual rain. The Peaks: Took a pleasant walk in the misty rain with the boys and Trek.
Harvey Rainbringers
Buy Your Own Tires, Kid
The Pits: Traffic was really bad this morning, so I worked from home for the first 1.5 hours of the day. The Peaks: I replaced Weston’s busted tire tube, then found a section of tire he’d completely skidded through. Hector
HoverPals
The Pits: Typical Monday shenanigans. The Peaks: I recently wrote a fictional tale of Weston riding on Hector’s futuristic hoverboard. Since Hector’s family will be moving back to Mexico soon, I realized that this was the closest I’ll likely ever
Parks and Pants
The Pits: Dealing with household chores. The Peaks: From a parenting perspective, the boys were only slightly more tolerable today than yesterday. After dinner, I took them to the park to try and expend some evident energy. We played football
Behind The Iron Curtain
The Pits: The boys lost their first flag football game against the Falcons. They were ahead through most of the game, but in the 3rd quarter, a few poor passes from the coach’s son resulted in interceptions and the Falcons
Dragons and Data in the Clouds
The Pits: I realized that CrashPlan, the cloud backup service I’ve been using for a few years, is changing their plan structure and sometime between now and February 2018 all of my cloud data will be wiped and I’ll have
Bend The Knee
The Pits: While Traci and I were beating the boys at basketball, Weston and I ran into each other and he scraped his knee. We all took a knee while he checked himself. Fortunately, he turned out to be fine.
Trouble Under A Brilliant Sky
The Pits: Turner tackled Weston during the making of the photo below. Weston was crying while I took it, and I had to convince them to stand that close by threatening Turner not to touch Weston anymore. Once Weston truly
Eggy McEggPants
The Pits: While cracking an egg this morning for my three-egg omelette, some of the egg white got on my shorts. I have the hardest time cracking eggs without making a huge mess. #EczemaProblems The Peaks: After work, I took
The Clipse!
The Pits: Within 2 seconds of the “first contact” of the eclipse, a huge cloud obscured the sky. Fortunately, it didn’t last long and the remainder of the eclipse was rather clear. The Peaks: I worked from home today because