My apologies for losing my voice at the end of the last show. As I recorded this episode, I couldn’t help wondering how that doesn’t happen more often. You’d think after an hour of whining anyone would destroy their vocal cords.
Hudson joined the school robotics team. Yes, that’s right, it’s as geeky as it sounds. Luckily, this is the 21st Century and geeky is good (see: Zuckerberg is a kajillionaire). They had a friendly competition at The Windymar School last weekend. I told the story of the competition to explain that I some how gave myself a four day back ache by simply videotaping the proceeding, but forgot to mention it. Oh. Luckily I did remember to mention how happy I am that my daughter is already talking about joining the team next year. GO CHICKS!
I needed to get a quick bag of trail mix before my daughter’s spring music concert. Due to some selective blindness, I think I overpaid. Greatly.
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I am the king of falling asleep on the couch. Case closed! The most annoying thing is when I wake up on the couch (OK, I wake myself up snoring!) at about 3-4am, forcing me to try to sleep again before the usual 6am getup.
Just on Dickens, have taken to listening to a few on Audible (Martin Jarvis is the best narrator by the way) and have REALLY enjoyed them, just the language is amazing, but I think it is far easier to listen than to read. Man, if there was ever a guy who could take 20 words to say 5! Still, 150 years ago, peoples diction was way better than now and there is no doubt the guy was a storytelling genius. Here’s a great example, from the start of David Copperfield, describing how David’s father had died 6 months before his birth. He described him as a “posthumous child”. Genius!