As the kids’ Highlights magazine made known to us, yesterday was National Pizza Night. I’ve made pizza in the electric pellet smoker a few times now and, together with the kids, I was looking forward to observing such a fun event. Having the meal on the calendar, it was also a good opportunity for me…
Category: Gratitudes
02/09/2021: children’s singer-songwriter Tim Kubart
For Christmas, Santa brought Matteo his first guitar, a cool little acoustic uke-like thing made by a Kickstarter’ed company called Loog. Like seemingly everything else these kid/music-related these days, it’s not only a physical instrument, but a complete learning system including an app and all the requisite social properties. The YouTube channel features a bunch…
02/08/2021: the Yamaha SK100
I re-activated my Facebook account Saturday to post a couple of things to Marketplace. Glad to report that while the working SONY stereo w/ turntable that I brought in off the curb is still not gone, the double stroller is GONE–another step forward. Whilst on FB Marketplace, I came upon an ad for a free…
02/05/2021: the teachers in the middle
There’s an ongoing struggle happening between the people who want teachers and students to be back in classrooms and those who want there to be much more progress in our fight against COVID-19 before schools safely re-open. This week, the city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against its own school district in a desperate…
02/03/2021: Vaccines!
This afternoon, my mother got the first of her two COVID-19 vaccines. She was happy to show off the Band-Aid on her arm during our Facetime. This evening after dinner, my wife got a proactive ping from her doctor to let her know that school administrators were up and ask if she’d be available to…