Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2009

Start of Summer

For Mike and the kids, this weekend was the start of summer vacation. My summer officially starts on Wednesday, kind of, sort of.

To celebrate the start of vacation, I started the weekend by picking up my new BeBook from the FedEx drop off site.

(Shown with the road atlas for size.)

It came loaded with 150 classics and, after an hour or so of patient fiddling (during which came a point where I almost returned it), I figured out how to read library ebooks on it. That means that I can load trashy novels on it in addition to those mind expanding classics.

I also figured out how to format pattern PDFs and other pattern types so that I can load knitting patterns on it and be able to actually read them.

We did other things this weekend, besides play with my new toy. On saturday we found a geocache that had been eluding us (we have now found over 100 caches thanks to Little Squid and friend) and on Sunday we took an, unintentionally, long walk and then went kayaking in the Hudson River, right here in Manhattan.

No pictures of the kayaking because I did not bring my camera -- didn't want it to get wet.

The road atlas is out because we are trying to figure out our vacation route for this summer. With labor day being late, we get almost all of August for a change -- a full extra week! Possible destinations include: the ever popular Lancaster, PA, the newly popular but still unvisisted Pittsburgh, PA and possibly Toronto, Canada.

For now, however, it is time to put on some sunblock and pedal off to work. Mike will schlep the kids to camp later and we will all reconvene somewhere around dinner time.

Ahh summer!

Sunday, June 17, 2007

The End is In Sight

You know the end of the school year is approaching when:

  • You look at the last set of concert tickets after your babysitter has canceled and don't start looking for a replacement sitter. Just too tired.
  • Camp packets arrive (one with sheet music, one without)
  • Religious school report cards arrive ("It's been a pleasure getting to know her not only as a student but as as committed musician and cyclist." and "I will truly miss him.")
  • A certain Squidling starts thinking about the decorations on her birthday cake.
and our number one reason ...
  • You can now use your fingers to count down to the end! 10 more days for me and 8 for the rest of them!