Yesterday we all went to St. Louis to do some shopping. The weather has been too cold for the past 3-4 weekends to go out an do anything but yesterday was around 50 degrees. So we had a plan to get up early and head out to buy some stuff we’d been wanting. We piled into the… Read more

Today is January 25th already. It seems like we were just celebrating New Years Eve in Florida, now this month is almost over. I took Mom to the audiologist Tuesday morning. He did a check of her ears and saw wax on her eardrum. He could not do the hearing test until this wax was removed, so… Read more

Today is the one year anniversary of my first post here. It’s been good for my brain, to type out what’s on my mind and also for record-keeping of our adventures. There’s been times that big pressing philosophical or social questions have been swirling around, and when I come here and post it helps sort things out… Read more

We had a perfect start to our Christmas break here at home that we kinda didn’t want to leave for our trip to Melbourne. But we went anyway. I got up at 3AM and we all left at 4AM to head to Lambert Airport. I charged the car up to 99% battery and we ended with 48%… Read more

Yesterday the alarm went off at 5:30 AM. I woke up Jack and drove him to school to take the bus for his wrestling match in Lincoln. Then I came home and later got everyone else up to go. We left for Lincoln and got there around 9AM. We saw the final schedule and saw that Jack’s team wouldn’t… Read more

The wife and I went out Saturday evening for a Trivia Night at the local opera house. We ended up on a team that a couple of older people who knew a lot of stuff. That, combined with what I and the wife know, led us to victory. There were 6 teams altogether. It was good to see support… Read more