The kid is counting down the days til the school year ends. We’re both looking forward to the end of 6am alarms. Maybe we’re morning people, but not that early in the morning. When summer camp begins we’ll be able to sleep in until 7am and that little hour will make a big difference. Just eight school days left and one of them will be spent at ValleyFair. Hard to believe we’ve already blown through Memorial Day weekend when the weather has been this lousy. But if that means a milder summer, instead of the heatwaves of last year, I can live with it. This past Saturday we enjoyed the Walker’s new Mini Golf courses under gloomy skies. Sunday we did the same for the Saint Paul Saints game. But I bundled up in SmartWool and boots and a jacket, and took a blanket along with us. And I still froze my tits off. We coped with hot mochas and hot chocolate. Somehow we endured until the end for the bits I was most excited about - after the game - with the monster food truck rally and picnicking on the baseball field with my son, the boyfriend and our friends, followed by fireworks. Memorial Day itself was more subdued. Lounging at home. Catching the newer Miyazaki movie - Up on Poppy Hill at the Riverview Theater, and then starting ShinichirÅ Watanabe’s Kids on the Slope, also set in 1960s Japan, on a hill, with jazz music.
Now five good things, that I intended to post last week…
- Random tech news…comparing the quality of iphone cameras over the years.
- This Radio-Book Was The Future of Education: “The November 1924 issue of Science and Invention magazine included a photo of a young girl wearing headphones — her book filled with the gadgetry that would allow her to capture her daily lessons from the ether.”
- This Arizona lawmaker rules so hard. When tasked with delivering the opening prayer for the afternoon’s session of the House of Representatives, the openly atheist Juan Mendez instead spoke about his “secular humanist tradition” and even quoted author Carl Sagan. Yes. More of this, please.
- This is another notion I can get behind. Don’t Go Back to School: How to Fuel the Internal Engine of Learning
- I didn’t think I could love her any more than I already do, but I was wrong. “Helen Mirren Has Tea with Dying Boy After Actual Queen Says No” She’s so much cooler than the Queen anyhow.
Have I mentioned that the Outlet Series, round 2, has been announced? I thoroughly enjoyed the first series and attended each performance. This time around I’ll have to miss a few, as it is wedding season (and I have a few to photograph and/or attend).
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