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Lookit that water just a shimmering in the hot early morning sun. Whoo boy, gonna be a hot one, fer sure, fer sure it is bud. Roast the nuts off a squirrel if it sits too long on the car hood. Singed hairs and everything bud. Best to stay indoors with the ac, or go float around in the pool with a cold one.

Summer has arrived, and brought the wet bulb temps along with it, just about over night. The humidity done dropped down on us from out of the south, and slapped us all in the face with it. Hot, sticky, oppressive heat. Nasty stuff. Dehydration, sun burns, heat stroke, and overly hot heads abound. Hope you have a decent hat, because you don’t want to be straight heading this shit. No sir. Burned scalps, ear tips & noses for err’y body. Yuck.

At least at the lake you could just walk out into the water to cool off. Even at the farm you could go sit in the stream while it’s still flowing. Cool you right off. Might grow a sixth toe at some point from all the chemicals and shit people pump into the ground, but you’d be cooled off as you mutate. Going to be some long hard days spent weeding & watering over the next two months, that’s for damn sure.

I bruised my rib and arm yesterday doing someone a favour, and it hurts like the Dickens. Serves me right for leaving my whole body weight on a quarter inch thick piece of steel to extricate myself from a tight spot. I didn’t have the arm strength to just do a muscle up. My starting position was too low, with my arms too high above me. I don’t typically work out at those extreme positions. Serves me right for going easy with the weights I guess. Plus if I lost some weight it wouldn’t be as hard to move myself around either. I need to find a good place to go ride my bike. But without all the technical damage to my nether bits that usually accompanies such a hobby. Squashed urethra and all that.

Man I miss going out and doing crossfit. I was never in fantastic shape, but I didn’t have all this excess weight while I was doing all that cross training, running and Olympic lifting. I don’t miss the too tight ham strings or back pain though. Gotta find a reasonable inbetween. Happy Tuesday. Ciao Bella.

Took my oldest daughter to go see Elemental by Pixar yesterday. It looked lovely. Was touching and heart warming, if a tad long. My daughter cried. I’m glad I didn’t bring my youngest as she would have been bored to tears. The fart jokes were funny enough. I’m not certain there was enough meat on that bone to warrant nearly 2 hours of film. I think if they had whittled it down to 90 minutes that would have been their sweet spot. I did not pay attention to any of the marketing for this movie. I had heard a few people on twitter say it was good but the marketing focusing on Clod was weird, since the wee “boy” doesn’t really factor in for more than perhaps a minute of total screen time. If I hadn’t of heard about that, I would not have had any thoughts about it one way or another. I’d say wait for Disney+ to show it in October, if not sooner. I used my Scene Points, so technically I did not pay cash for us to see the film. Just opportunity cost for potential other uses for those 2400+ points from Scene. After driving, bathroom breaks, concession stand and the movie itself, it was a nice air conditioned way to occupy 3.25 hrs with my daughter.

The most striking thing about the Carl & Dug short at the start was how photorealistic the backgrounds were. The story itself was a waste of time. Though I like the dog. The squareheadedness of Carl is off putting, and he looks oddly out of place against such beautifully rendered backgrounds, objects, and environment. Pay those folks more. Their portion, or contribution was notably better in almost every aspect.

It began at 5:00am, and ended with the kids going to bed around 11:00pm after the town fireworks were delayed beginning until almost 10:00pm. It was hot, and sweaty, and expensive, and disjointed. A bit too hard going to be a manageable pace to maintain all summer long. It was Canada Day, so a bit of grace shall be given. Next up, after lazy sunday, is Domestic Duties Monday, with laundry, dishes, grocery shopping, sweeping, vacuuming & mopping the floors, cleaning the sink and kitchen counters, cleaning the bathrooms, and a general tidy up of our main living spaces (work schedule permitting). They can either help me, or go find something to do for 2-3 hours so as not to interfere with my progress.

Which reminds me, I need to run a few errands today. I think some places will make Monday a holiday since July 1st was a Saturday. Might have to bump some items to Tuesday if that is the case. Either way, I’m sure that today is Sunday. I was under the impression the weather was to turn stormy today, and I was going to kill some time this afternoon taking the kids to a movie. But if it’s not raining we can be outside instead.

The humidity settled in from out of nowhere yesterday. While we sat in the grass watching a formerly famous clown, the sweat was just rolling down my back, and soaking through my t-shirt. No shade was provided near the children’s programming section. Could have done with getting hosed down every do often. The grass made me itch, and the sticky heat didn’t make me very receptive to the comedy stylings of Doo-Doo the clown, “The clown from Billy Madison”. That’s his claim to fame apparently. He was ok. Needs a better sound tech, as his mic’s eq levels were ear splittingly loud.

Part of the errands I need to run are picking up a new desk calendar for 2023, and a new day planner, printer ink for my Canon, and possibly a new office chair, as my current one gives me leg cramps for some reason. I can’t blame it, the chair was free. I dug it out of the trash pile at the Guelph Mercury sometime around 2007/2008, so it doesn’t owe me anything. Except for the whole leg cramp thing, that sucks, and I hate sitting for long periods of time. Makes doing precision work that much more challenging. Would prefer to eliminate that particular obstacle. I guess it will depend on how expensive the office chairs are. I do tend towards cheapskatedness when confronted with spending more than I had been planning on. Is that a moral failing, or an adherence to my budget requirements? Hard to tell.

Going to be another busy one today. Peace out peeps of the world. Check in with more to say tomorrow.

While we’ve been a couple for 21 years, it was our 13th wedding anniversary yesterday. A rainy, stormy, muggy hot & humid day. We’re still both exhausted from our youngest’s birthday party from the weekend so we have opted to celebrate between ourselves at a slightly later date. Like next week, after all the school stuff is complete. My wife has her school’s Graduation Ceremony tonight, so it just makes sense for us to push a dinner & night out to a time that better suits us. Which is great, no need to be under the gun to perform on that day, which was a very busy Monday after all. I know – so romantic! My skin is still singing from the weekend sunburn, so I’ll take a welcome respite while I can get it.

I know that right out of the gate, like midway through this saturday morning my kids will be hollering “I’m bored!”, expecting us to have an action packed schedule set for them with things to do. But, ace in the hole, I think we’ll be far more inclined to go bowling, to the movies, wander a far away mall, hit up Wonderland, or find a glow in the dark mini putt, or rock climbing place this year, than any other year before. I realize COVID is still very much a thing, but with suitable respirators on, there is no reason we can’t go and do stuff this year. Plus the kids are older, ever so slightly more self reliant, and we can do more adventurous stuff every now & again. Not every day, mind you, but we can do something out of the ordinary before swimming lessons pick up in mid or late July. I for one am pumped! Go team!

Take it easy, it’s only Tuesday!

Comes from running a childrens party that lasts for more than four hours, with tie dyed take home shirts, arts & crafts, swimming, trampolines, a tire swing, and a lengthy patch with a pinata. Add in mid day sunshine, heat and a fair bit of humidity, and a bunch of kids six and under, and you have absolute mayhem, chaos, and madness. Went off without a hitch, besides my own sunburn, and the burn with wife had too. So attentive to keeping the festivities rolling along we didn’t reapply sunscreen after each session in the pool, and we are singed.

But now I don’t have to think about parties again until December, so heading into the summer months on solid footing. I’m going to take it easy today. Our last gymnastics block is today, and that concludes this school years extra curriculars for a few months. What a year it has been. Book reports, school trips, clubs and activities. Next year they’ll be in grades 1 & 4. Homework will be a big part of both of their lives moving forward. That and staying on top of reading! Math homework, counting, and all that follows. Lots of colouring, gluing, and using scissors if I remember the first borns time in grade one at all.

Take care.

We had just over 1.5 inches of rain fall yesterday, which is alot. Calling for even more rain and storms today. I’m hoping we can get through our outdoor event or atleast 2/3rds of it before we see anything that would take us indoors. We have a pool party, tie dye t-shirts, and arts & crafts for the birthday party, and I’d really prefer to keep that all outdoors if I can help it. So here’s hoping the weather holds, and all is well.

This party has 90% of my focus today, but the reality is once it’s done, and we clean up I will need to come home and work for a few hours to put some oversized posters together. I put almost 2 hours in on late Friday night, technically extremely early Saturday morning before going to bed. So I’m not starting from scratch, thankfully, but I am also not done either. It’s a bit of a rush, so I need to get to like 90-95% approval rating on the first pass otherwise this won’t make it to press on time for the event. Going to need to be methodical, and do it by the numbers. Perhaps go a bit overboard so no small additional tweaks come back early Monday morning.

I need to head over to our event to set up balloons and streamers and what not. Have a great Sunday June 25th, 2023. Ciao Bella!