This weekend Jack played four games in Jacksonville. On Saturday morning he pitched a great 6 inning complete game, only giving up 2 earned runs and a few walks. The wife and I were on pins and needles the whole time watching him pitch. He didn’t do so well his last outing but this time he totally redeemed himself. The boys lost the second game. Sunday morning the boys won the first game and again lost the second game. I don’t blame them for losing though. It was almost 90 degrees by noon, and sitting around waiting for the next game (and actually going out there to play it, just standing around in the outfield) is punishing. I was beat down just from sitting in the heat, and I didn’t do anything more than that!

Because these were long, tiring days, I didn’t feel much like doing anything around the house to get ready for Emma’s graduation party. But I did what I could. Jack and I really got the yard looking nice last night. We got the mirror hung up in the living room. The kitchen area looks freakin’ fantastic now, with the flat white ceiling, white tile backsplash, and white granite counter. I’ve made really good progress on getting the basement cleaned up and reorganized. All I have left to re-org are the Christmas decorations. Since there’s a chance for rain Saturday morning, I’m thinking that we may have a ton of people inside the house. Maybe we can stick a group in my office and in the basement. It’s going to be a Graduation Party and Family Reunion all in one shot, so that will be interesting. Plus my friend John said he will be here, so I’ll have to find some way to keep him entertained.

The wife and Jack will going on the school-sponsored Washington DC trip next week. I’m trying to find something neat for Elsa, Emma and myself to do. Both the Cardinals and the Chiefs are out of town. I don’t want to do a big ballgame trip, like go to Pittsburgh, Cleveland or Detroit. Pittsburgh will be a short family trip someday, to see the ballpark and Fallingwater. Cleveland and Detroit, eh, maybe we could drive there, see a game, then drive back. I’d have to take a couple days off of work though.

There was a lot of interest on the cup holder/ball holder/helmet holder chain-link display during Jack’s first ballgame. I had his name and number printed on it, which I think signifies that someone (mainly me) has created this by hand. I didn’t design the object but I did make some modifications to it to make it stronger. The fence-holder part broke so I printed another one Saturday night with a reinforcement bar on it. I still need to make some modifications to it to get it to a point where I could sell it. But all of my time has lately been consumed with getting everything ready for Emma’s party. Like, I haven’t worked out in 3 days just because I’ve been busy. I need to finish putting the gutter guards on the garage gutters. Those are turning out to be pretty cool looking.

I’m just about done reading my book on the Art of Logic. It’s okay, I guess. There’s some interesting points the author brings up. But some of the examples she uses, like white guys automatic have privilege, are kinda head scratchers. There’s a lot of weird socio-economics brought into this book about math and logic, a lot of examples that are just presented as fact. So it has taken me out of the subject and forced me to read it now with a critical eye. I’m not saying that there’s no room to debate and pontificate on socio-economic-racial-class issues, but I didn’t buy the book for that reason. I bought it because I thought there would be an intersection of Art, Logic and Math. 1/5 stars, would not buy again.