Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Kushner
A quick family photo after the Mass. (Note the water all over one of the kiddo’s shirt. He totally wasn’t playing in the fountain.)
Some personally news—“Daddy” is officially 4/4 the first word for the babies. My wife conceded earlier this week. I’m clearly not the most loved (that title goes to her big brothers, who she adores), but I’ll take it. I remain undefeated.
🖖🏽 Unpopular opinion: Star Trek Discovery isn’t very good. It suffers from too many emotional-psychological gesturing rather than real character development. Too many subplots per episode. Acting is great, scripts are good. But it doesn’t hold together and lacks coherence.
Wrapping up day two of my annual sinus infection. Hoping it clears up so I attend my friend’s wedding tomorrow.
“… reading on a smartphone elicits fewer sighs, promotes brain overactivity in the prefrontal cortex, and results in reduced comprehension.”
🔖 Nature
Read, yes, on a smartphone.
When your son asks you to wear a tie “just because,” you put on that tie. Like a boss.
Some times you do get a beautiful, well composed, two hour nap on a Sunday. It isn’t all the time, to be sure. But yeah. 🤙🏽
She loves her biggest brother.
(Taken at Mass—a rare exception to my no phone policy at church.)
Kids soccer, yet again.
It was a warmer start to our weekend soccer games than last week when the reported 55 degrees was warmer than it felt. This week is quintessential Arizona winter. Highs in the 60s, sunny.
Little brother had the first game. He loves it more and more each week. I didn’t get any shots of the big kiddo’s game but he also did well.
The difficulty now is the two babies are more mobile. Number 3 wants to play soccer so so bad. Baby sister loves running around. And those are both great but it makes it harder to focus on the kids when they’re playing.
Earworm courtesy of a YouTube suggestion, which I did not watch, for the 1812 overture. 🤙🏽
The Inestimable Mrs. Perez has been working on her tortilla game all week.
In my professional, Mexican-American opinion, 💯!
And with that… my Instagram is deleted. (Well, it’s staged for deletion for 30 days and I suspect IG will try to get me to re-activate it before then.)
Yesterday a student admitted to not knowing the meaning of “ripping” a CD.
To be clear—not “Oh, yeah I heard of it, but never knew what it meant.” Rather, “Uhm, what is ripping and why would anyone ‘rip’ a CD?”
What are folks’ best alternatives to Dropbox?
Occurs to me, many of the reasons I’ve paid for pro for years have been obviated by advances across lots of hardware and software platforms that maybe I don’t need it.
Having a deaf woman acting and interacting completely naturally and normally with the rest of the cast was beautiful, and … I really enjoyed the character as a character — even for as relatively little as we saw of her.
Full day of teaching, office hours, and students already worried about writing papers. Nature is healing. We’re getting there, folks. Slowly, but steadily.
Early last summer, in a fit of a desperation, I read the first few of Shakespeare’s Sonnets to get my kids (then 5 and 3) calmed down for bed. Tonight we just finished our second run through and began our third.
I’m not ready for her to be a beautiful toddler. But she runs ahead to her future anyway.
📷: the inestimable Mrs. Perez