National History Day state competition in Des Moines today. Event center buzzing with teenagers who have spent months researching, writing, and polishing their presentations. My daughter goes on in an hour. 🤞

2024 Reads: Sun Wolf by David C. Jeffrey 📚

I like this guy’s ideas, and the sort of grand scope of his universe. His story just needs a better writer to really make it amazing.

Today’s challenge in adulting: paying attention at the tail end of a 3-day class when it’s getting pretty slow. It’s been a good class, but we’ve got diminishing returns at 3:30 on day 3.

Mandatory post.

Gah, Cody Bellinger has a cracked rib. This is not the way I hoped to see Pete Crow-Armstrong in the bigs this season. #Cubs #MLB

“Tom Cotton has never seen a left-wing protest he didn’t want crushed at gunpoint.”. Brutal and accurate assessment from Adam Serwer.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/columbia-national-guard-tom-cotton/678163/

Well, hard to see how this could start worse for the #Stars. Gave up a power play goal in the first 2 minutes, got a goal overturned on an offside review, then gave up a second goal.

Vegas up 2-0 within the first 10 minutes of the game. Ugh.

Great: the Dallas Stars are the #1 seed in the Western Conference.

Not so great: their first round matchup is against Las Vegas, who they failed to beat in any of their 3 opportunities this season.

Here goes nothin’, I guess!

We have attended an Episcopal church now for a few months, enough times at least to get sucked into volunteering for small roles on a Sunday morning. A month ago Becky and I served as greeters/ushers for the service, which she noted might be the first time we’ve ever signed up for a service task that we did together. (Usually I’m the musician and she’s working in the kitchen somewhere.)

Then a couple weeks ago I did the musician thing and played the piano for a service. But we have a regular pianist on the payroll who’s not me (which is a good thing!) so this upcoming Sunday I’m trying something else: I’m gonna be a reader.

I have been assigned the Old Testament reading and the Psalm. I will be practicing ahead of time so that we can avoid any “banana” moments.