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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
Off for my third weekend of adventure in a row, after many months of no travel at all.
Taking the Vallejo ferry to meet my old friend, who flew into town to buy a 26’ Ryder truck for his shop. Then we are spending the rest of the day driving it to his spot in Portland.
He runs YMCA summer camps and this one is right on the Columbia Gorge. I’ll hike for a couple days in the rain and then fly home Monday.
Last weekend we visited my BIL in San Antonio. He sells tickets for the Spurs and got us seats in row 10, watching the absolutely historic rookie season of Wembanyama from close up. Good people and good food.
The weekend before that we drove furniture to Orange County to our daughter at university. 20 hours in the car. It’s been a whirlwind!
I usually don't have a whole lot of plans, maybe like two things a month. But on Saturday I went on a full day trip to Copenhagen with friends which was great 😊
One of them had their birthday and she wanted to see the mummies on display at Glyptoteket museum. Then we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant which was utterly hilarious because my other friend has a rice allergy - I mean who the hell gets a table at a Chinese restaurant if they have a rice allergy!? She had some noodles instead lol. After dinner we hit a cocktail bar which has a lot of drinks that look like chemistry!
But yeah great times, most importantly great company!
I got asked to step in at my daughter's school to chaperone a field trip. This is not normal for her school (the field trips are usually run exclusively by teachers), but a combination of illness and teachers being away at a conference made them very short handed, and I have all my clearances because I volunteer with the school in other ways.
Not really knowing what I was getting myself into, I ended up taking a group of ten 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders around the museum by myself. They are good kids, so it was not a problem, and my daughter was in the group and could help me keep track of the younger ones. I didn't really have any problems except one time I counted 11 kids in the group, and had to make sure the kid who had joined in went back to his mom.
It was a mixture of fun and terrifying responsibility, but I am glad I got to do it. It was a chance to do it while I am still "cool", and she was happy to have me there. It also gave me a chance to observe my daughter's interactions with her peer group. One of the things that I was not prepared for and that continues to surprise me as a parent is how much of her life is a black box to me.
I'm not sure what I am expecting by posting this, but I will say I can recommend getting involved with your kid's school if you are able. It has been very rewarding (even if it can be a lot of work). My therapist said that kids whose parents are involved in their schools do better in school, but I suspect that is correlation not causation.
I spent time at the reference library here, just discovering random books. I picked up Beyond the Occult for fun, and it had a rather interesting introduction before it dived into the irrational. The interesting bit was about how intentional thoughts can limit feeling a moment in its rawness (with emotions and some more primal instincts) thus filtering out some of it and making it a bit sterile.
Today I continue to read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time.