Sunday Funday is here.

My eldest daughter has a three hour long outdoor birthday party to attend today at mid day, so I haven’t decided if I am going to stick around there, or go home to putter around cleaning up my garage shop. I suppose it will depend on if any other parents I know stick around to chit-chat or not. I think now that my eldest is ten years old she probably doesn’t need me to stay, but if she wanted me to I would do so. Maybe I’ll take my book and reading glasses just in case. I don’t know. I need to pop out later this morning to buy his present. I feel bad just handing over cash, but that sort of becomes the norm at a certain age. It allows them to buy whatever specific expensive item they were hoping for. I was never mad at receiving cash money for a present.

It looks like we will have much better weather today for an outdoor event. Yesterday was cold, grey, and incredibly windy. Not conducive of a tree top ropes course out in the woods, that’s for sure. The dust swirls at the farm were wreaking havoc with my eyes. Pummeled my cornea with sand and left over bits of salt debris. Uncool dude!

We had our last climbing session yesterday before the next one starts up in two weeks or so. I had some good clean 5.9 climbs, and I had some bad 5.9 climbs. Fell off a whole bunch and couldn’t get more than half way up the two routes that vexed me the most, both yellow. Hmmm… A conspiracy! No, no. Just weak hands and not enough shifting of my weight to suit the climb. I am still very much a novice. No formal training of any sort as of yet. I could do with some right about now. I think that once we get to July that will be it for a few months at least. Might lose all my strength training but I don’t see myself going much during the summer, not when I can go swimming, biking, long boarding around here, for free.

I should go eat breakfast and find a present for my daughter’s friend. Or maybe cash is the better bet, he is turning eleven and likes tech, so he could buy himself some Raspberry Pie Arduinos, or chips, or breadboards, or whatever.