It’s Mother’s Day today. Life is good.

Yesterday Elsa had her final track meet of the year, this time in Moroa-Forsyth. It’s kind of frustrating to watch her run because we all know she is capable of doing much better. But I’m happy that she’s in an organized extracurricular event. Jack did not do track this year. He just comes home every from school instead of staying there and practicing for some team or event. Granted, he’s a good kid. He doesn’t just come home and play video games or watch TV or hang out. He will work out in the basement or go outside and take care of the yard. Still, I wish he would be in some school event. I realize now how important these school-age years are and that it’s important to wring out as much activity as possible during this time. Sooner than I know it, Jack and Elsa will be out of High School. Then the next phase of their lives will begin. There will never be another opportunity like High School, where everyone dotes on you and treats you like a special child. Then it’s all work, all the time.

We’re getting the house ready now for Emma’s graduation party in two weeks. I know Emma has gotten as much out of high school as she possibly could. It will be interesting to see the path she takes from here on out.

We got new granite countertops and tile backsplash for the kitchen. And we had the popcorn ceiling removed and redone. The kitchen looks like an AirBnB house now, which is great. I guess I’m lucky that all of my wife’s hobbies are those build equity, as opposed to mine that don’t lol. Actually I take possible resale value into my hobbies, whether they’re guitars, Legoes, 3D Printing or whatever. I like to think that if we ever really needed the money I could sell some of my belongings for a decent price.

Emma’s last track meet was Wednesday in Metamora, out past Peoria. It sucks that our school is in a different classification now. We have to drive 1.5 to 2 hours to get to these meets because of that. It was much better when we just drove over the bridge to Rushville.

I got the Tigers design back from the guy who I commissioned it from. I love it. I know it’s probably a little out there for everyone but that’s ok. I was going for something that was different from all the other boring schools’ designs I would see around. Now I have to see about getting it printed on shirts and a hoody. I never thought that I’d be paying someone to design something like this for me, but what’s the point of having money if you can’t change the world in some small way with it? Also, I know I could have fed a description of what I wanted through an AI machine and probably gotten something close to what was created. But for something like this I like paying real people to create real designs. It’s going to be a different world, with all this AI stuff coming along. Ultimately I think it will be good for humanity but it will be very disruptive in the meantime. AI will definitely weed-out all the low hanging fruit type of jobs. Maybe subpar graphic designers will be out of jobs. And those who would normally think about going into the graphic design field will change their minds and go into other professions. But by letting AI do what it does, it will force humans to think about and realize the essence of what it means to be human.