Watched: Blank Check 🍿
The kids put this on last night and it was so delightful to revisit. Best of all, the kiddos loved it.
My birthday still hurts without Paco but the kids did their best to make it a good one. Here’s to 46.
🎥 Did Emily Wilson Rewrite The Odyssey?
Excellent and even handed assessment of Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey. I’ve read her translation three times, the first two back to back. I much prefer the translation by Robert Fitzgerald, but Wilson’s is worthy of any bookshelf.
Eating her donut this morning my 5 year old started sobbing. When my wife and I asked what’s wrong, she said the chocolate glazed with sprinkles was Paco’s favorite. She misses him so much it breaks my heart.
Watched: Mary Poppins 🍿
Been ages. Introducing the kiddos to classic Hollywood. Five stars all the way. I am still dumbfounded at some of the effects.
Reading Rosemary Long Ears by Susie Ghahremani to my daughter and it broke me. Paco would have loved this book. I sobbed. My little girl ran to get her brothers so they could all hug me.
I entrust our desire to the Mother of Christ, to the Woman of the Magnificat, that she may guide our steps through this time of change and preserve in each of us true faith in the Gospel, so that we may bear witness to the grandeur of humanity, in which God has made his dwelling.
That title was not a coincidence.
Finished reading: Mathematica by David Bessis 📚
A terrific read and worth the time. Not an ounce of “math” as you might expect. If you’re skeptical (or even if you’re not), listen to this interview of David Bessis on EconTalk
🎥 Surfing with Orcas, YouTube
Finished reading: Prayer as a Political Problem by Jean Daniélou 📚
Excellent book, extremely prescient. Finished this a while ago but forgot to update.
Finished reading: Fair Play: Reese’s Book Club A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky 📚
Good stuff. Definitely written for a narrower audience (wives, mostly), but most of the advice and the game/system incorporates a lot of relationship advice from a broad array of resources.
It’s all fun and games until your kids are literally screaming at each other over Animal Farm on the Nintendo Switch.
For the first time in years, perhaps since before the pandemic, my podcast queue is empty.
Watched: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 🍿
re-released in theaters for the 40th Anniversary. It holds up so, so well.
Based on the crying and genuine heartbreak from my 5-y/o, you would be forgiven for thinking I violated the Geneva Conventions. Nope. I gave the baby raspberries to make her giggle. Big sis never saw me do it anyone else. She thought this whole time it was just a special thing between us.
My old colleagues did a Lincoln-Douglas style debate over the resolution whether we should repeal the 2nd Amendment. The Student Paper at ASU did a very good coverage of th event and its signifance for teaching civil discourse.
Well it took most of the morning and afternoon but I finally got DEVONthink syncing between my iPad and Mac. (After battling my university IT for several months to let me us iCloud Drive on my computer.)
Finished reading: Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir 📚
First book I read with my kid. He listened to the audiobook this week while I read it on Kindle. A nice experience to bond over the rich story.
I buried my father today.
Watching Artemis II launch with my kids on the TV was way cooler than I expected. Quite surreal to live the kind of moment I’ve seen in movies and documentaries.