Dad, Sailor, Programmer, Traveller
School for Mark and Warren got out today. Warren was pretty emotional about it. He kept saying how much he would miss everyone. They relaxed almost of the evening, and played some Roblox. I got the missing crib board piece added, but not much else on the boat. I started
Today Nikki subbed at the elementary school. It's the second to last day of school, so it should be pretty easy. I think they are having field day. Warren and Mark are pretty excited to be done for the year. They are camping at Lagoon this weekend to
Today Warren had Kindergarten Graduation. He did so good at his singing and dancing. He had a solo song, and a small line. We are all so proud of how well he has done this year. We went out to eat at Red Robin for dinner to celebrate. The food
When I woke up my eye was really bothering me. It just felt sore. My nose was running a bit and it felt like my sinuses were a bit stuffy. With all the sanding and drilling this weekend, I decided to head to the urgent care in case something else
Today Warren and I ran to the store to grab bolts for the winches and for the crib board rails. Then we went to McDonalds so Warren could play I redrilled the winch holes and Warren helped me get them both mounted. They look really good, and I am happy
Today was a full day of boat projects. I started out by sanding things down a bit and repainting. There was a lot of sports to cover up. Like a lot.... Then I repainted and pulled the tape. It came out pretty decently. I sanded down the overfilled epoxy from
Today we painted. I taped off everything and made sure it was all roughed up with sand paper. Warren helped me paint, he wasn't great at it, but he had fun and it's only the first coat. I let that dry a bit and then sanded
Today Warren and I redrilled the holes for the tiller on the boat. I made sure they lined up right and looked good. I filled in all the cracks I had ground out with a filler compound. It shouldn't expand or contract so it should work good. It
This evening Nikki and I had our second day of Pickleball lessons. We learned a lot and both really improved during the lesson. We played on a team for our first game after lessons, and we won that game. The second game we swapped partners around, and I played against
Today after work Warren and I worked on the boat. We pulled off the two winches. I cleaned up the surface as best I could, , and filled the holes with epoxy. The new winches are only 4 holes, I will need to redrill for those. They likely won't
Today we had Warren's Kindergarten field trip to the zoo. I signed up as a chaperone for the trip, and took PTO. Warren had a blast. The best part was the polar bears were super active in the water. One kept swimming a lap and sliding up against
The pork butt took 24 hours to finish. I actually slept later than I wanted too. Through all my alarms. It pulled really easily. It was moist throughout but a little less so on one side. We took it up to my mom's for mothers day. We had