0705: wake up to the sound of Matt talking into his baby monitor. Too bad he was speaking Ukranian.
0730: head over to Mom & Dad’s with the baby and my laptop. Upgrade the firewall firmware so I can VPN to my mail server.
0815: breakfast with David, Matthew, and Arlene. Atypically, Tom was still asleep.
0845: start cleaning the garage. Today’s mission: clean up enough so that the cars can be parked inside.
1005: done cleaning the garage. The car and the van are both neatly parked right where they belong– a major milestone. As a bonus, I found several tools that I had feared were lost forever. Begin hauling stuff that used to be in the garage down to its proper basement location.
1040: finish hauling; throw on my coach’s shirt for the Perrysburg Soccer Kick-Off.
1050: arrive at the soccer field and begin sweating. Continue sweating through two hours of picture-taking, soccer-playing, child-herding fun. Our team played well, if a little too close together. After the game, the two big boys and I headed out to get tickets for the Toledo airshow.
1425: get off the Ohio turnpike at the airport exit. (Note: turnpikes still strike me as deeply strange, since I’m used to Southern-style interstates where each little town has a cluster of gas, food, and lodging. Not to mention the whole concept of paying tolls. But I digress…)
1435: walk up to the airshow gates just as the Blue Angels begin taxiing for takeoff. They put on an outstanding show; it was well worth the price of admission. Matthew even liked it; he pointed each time they passed by and made his raspberry-sounding “airplane” noise.
1630: thoroughly sweated out, get back on the shuttle bus and come home. Matt fell asleep before we even pulled back onto the turnpike; Dave and Tom are a little lethargic, as you’d expect after such a full day.
Now we’re going to have a tasty dinner and Arlene and I will prepare our talks for tomorrow’s sacrament meeting at church.
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