Between not being able to truly commit to a book this month and going on vacation with no desire to read anything at all, I was cutting things pretty close in the end. But here’s how my reading went…

That is all. 

For about five minutes yesterday, my house was getting pelted with hail. And probably the most limited scope hailstorm I’ve ever experienced, to boot.

Nate is officially an elementary school graduate!

It was bad enough years ago when I started hearing music that I loved as a teenager playing in so-called “Classic Rock” radio stations. I could handle that despite it making me feel older.

You know the movie Blade Runner, right? Doesn’t matter if you’ve seen it, you have an idea what it’s about. If you have seen it, then you know it even better.

Last night, as I finally got around to watching The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, I realized I had watched two consecutive days of Henry Cavill films.

And here are some random photos from in and around Vancouver this past week.

Here’s a load of photos from the various stops we made in and around Seattle this past week.

On these annual company business trips that I just wrapped yesterday, we do a big group activity on the workday where we split into teams and play along with some fictional storyline that is developed by an outside company intended to promote team building.

We’re currently in Vancouver and it’s the evening of game seven of the second round of the NHL playoffs between the Vancouver Canucks and the Edmonton Oilers. It’s a home game for Vancouver and they just lost.

I guess there really wasn’t anything to worry about. Crossing the border into Canada at Blaine, Washington, was a breeze.

On Slack earlier today, we were discussing the weather in the Pacific Northwest and, more specifically, Vancouver given that our annual conference is there in a day or so.

This is how my son thinks…

Why do I feel so much more anxious about this trip we’re leaving for today than any of them in the past three years?

I know Apple has been working pretty hard to integrate apps on their devices so that they communicate back and forth and share information.

The first full trailer for Wicked is finally here and, dare I say, it looks wicked!

As noted in my April goals recap, I went to the gym to workout every weekday that month.

Mister Nathan’s Dad. That’s me.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, stepmoms, mothers-in-law, guardians, and all the others I’m unintentionally leaving off the list. You’ll never understand how important you are to all of us.

Today, while building a Space LEGO set he just bought with some of his giftcards, Nathan announced that he wanted to watch a space movie.

As she promised, my wife kicked me out of the house to see Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Just me since neither she nor Nate have seen any of the original trilogy of films that came out from 2011-2017.

There actually is some value to commercials these days. Tonight, for example, I discovered the trailer to Apple TV+’s upcoming Dark Matter, the adaptation of Blake Crouch’s book of the same title that I read a couple years ago when I was going through a hard sci-fi phase in my reading.

Kristi Noem…

… that is all.

A week or so ago, I re-upped Sirius/XM for Katie for Mother’s Day.

My beloved Keurig K Supreme brewer died last Wednesday.

Star Wars Day yesterday… Cinco de Mayo today… it’s a good weekend!

May the Fourth be with You!

This was placed in our front yard this afternoon by forces unknown…

At the bus stop the other day, one of Nate’s friends was trying to razz me. She’s been doing it for a while now calling me “crusty” and “dusty.”

Four down, eight to go. Let’s see how numero quatro went.