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I've been putting things on my calendar for September.  We're only halfway through precollege, but it is seriously time to be thinking about the fall...  The Olympic Opening Ceremonies are tonight - well on TV tonight, they were actually this morning.  I caught a snip of some real cool drones...  I should have made myself the instructor for Applying to College.  As it turns out I wind up sitting through every session.  Might as well have gotten some dollar bills...  Ripl3y has decided she is a fan of Blue Slide Park.  We live like right around the corner from the new Wightman park, but when I say "do you want to go to the park?" she says "Blue Slide Park!"  So we go to Blue Slide...  If I were making book on the return to school this fall I think I would judge there to be a 30% chance it isn't going to happen the way people are currently planning.  I hope it lands on the 70% side...  At some point I am going to have to move back into my office.  I was there the other day and suddenly realized how much stuff I had brought home.  It is functional, but there's a lot of stuff I need in my basement...  Fetterman emails and asks for money like every day.  It still feels early for that but I guess they know what they're doing...  Now that we struck the patio from the backyard we're going to try to improve the drainage.  That's making an unfortunate trades coordination project for me.  I think I finally got it sussed out today.  This way I can worry about what will go wrong rather than worry about not getting it set up...  I bought a new car, well a 2020 but that's a big step up from the 2009 I've been driving.  In my head I think this is maybe the last gasoline car I'll probably own...  The neighbor's house got hit by a falling tree.  All of a sudden clear cutting all the trees starts to make sense.  It is more than two weeks later and there are still dozens of roofers and gutter guys and tree service trucks in the neighborhood.  Trees are pretty when they aren't falling on your house...

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Long time no type...  It is the second child's birthday today.  I think a good time was had by all.  There was singing of "Happy Birthday" well into bedtime...  I think the CFO is going to take the hit.  He would have rolled by now if he were going to...  So far, rainy days at camp don't seem to be any worse than sunny days at camp - at least if you listen to our camper.  That's a real achievement for a camp...  A donor endowed the grad program I attended so as to make it tuition free in perpetuity.  Briefly I had the thought: "would it have been so hard to make that retroactive for 20 years?"  But then I realized that wouldn't be long enough.  I am old...  It would be nice, when ordering a half sheet cake that they would tell you that the printed graphic frosting is formatted for a quarter sheet cake.  Then maybe you could tell them to fill in the empty space.  Just saying...  The garage looks better than it has in months - maybe years.  If anyone asks, that's what I did with June...  I've finally joined the ESTA TSP Rigging Working Group.  I probably should have done it a decade ago.  I guess I had other plans (that didn't come to pass)...  You would think a year's worth of free PTM magazines would be a large pile.  It really isn't...  It occurred to me yesterday that my relationship with rain really changed at some point.  I think it was when I bought a house...  I need a series of YouTube videos or something to teach me the features of the car that replaced the Xterra.  I feel like I am not making proper use of it...  I've been to campus twice this week.  It is really sleepy.  The vending machine in the student lobby is empty...  I though they told us that Citizen's United made it so there was more money in the system than anyone could need.  But they still keep sending emails looking for my $3...  Maybe tomorrow I will post a birthday photo...  I don't remember how long these posts need to be to be worthwhile.  Let's guess this long...