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Quickly, here's where we are:
1) Back-to-School: School has been in session for one week, and we have already had a case of pink eye (Lauren) and strep throat (George). We cannot wait to see what Gracie contracts this week.
Other than that, last week was great, and the trio are truly excited about their classes.
2) George: As mentioned last week, William George is going to K2 two mornings per week. He had a fantastic first day on Monday (admittedly, after initially refusing to go), and then he tried to get his backpack each subsequent day - the days he wasn't scheduled to attend. By the time Thursday rolled around, he was sick and unable to go. Not only was he bitter, but now he will have to go through a first day all over again.
3) Parenting: One of my favorite blogs, A Cup of Jo, started a new series recently, Parenting Around the World. Seeing how families parent differently is fascinating.
4) Football: We have exactly five days until the Crimson Tide's first game. I'm going to posit to you something that may seem controversial or, at the least, unpopular. The Tide can lose every single game as long as they annihilate Texas A&M. They can lose to Auburn and all the rest as long as they have a scorching win against the Aggies. We need vindication more than another championship.
Watching that loss at Bryant-Denny Stadium may or may not have clouded my judgment.
5) Eagles: Last spring we watched a documentary about the Eagles. (Obviously, this was prior to our severing our cable relationship.) We aren't really fans and did not know much about the band. My knowledge was limited to having an older cousin wearing an Eagles' concert t-shirt for the last half of the 70's, a fact recalled anytime I looked through family photo albums. Oddly, we were sucked into the rise and fall of the Eagles and were surprised by scope of their success. (We knew they were big, of course, but we did not know their sales rivaled Thriller.)
Skip recently alerted me that Bill Simmons (of Grantland) wrote an article outlining his 20 favorite things about The History of the Eagles, Part I. If you are tempted to follow through the link, the language is atrocious, but Simmons' writing is forever entertaining. The "Tao of Joe Walsh" alone is simply hysterical.
My favorite sentence from the entire documentary is Walsh's explanation of the origin of "Life in the Fast Lane." His first sentence in the explanation is as follows:
"I was riding shotgun in a Corvette with a drug dealer on the way to a poker game."
To clarify, I'm not pro drug dealer, Corvette, poker, etc., but that is an unbelievably good sentence. The nerdy reader part of me is going to be captivated by that sentence every time. (Also, I have a weakness for anyone who calls "shotgun". Once, in the mid-90's, I was walking to my car with some work acquaintances when one of them called shotgun. I remember looking at her and thinking, "We are friends for life." She's one of my dearest friends to this day.)
6) Buzz: You know how you sometimes get too entrenched in social media? For those who do and feel the need to reconnect with the real world, there's a new buzz word: Meatspace. You have cyberspace, and you have meatspace, the world of flesh and blood.
And... that's it for us. What is happening with you?
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