Anniversary and Other Items

Well, it's the middle of October and just a few days before our Anniversary. It's hard for me to conceive that we've been married 11 years, or more precisely that Cindy has put up with me for 11 years, but as I tell her I have much better taste than she does--just look at who we married.

Abby's soccer season is drawing to a close, but last week she showed signs of finally "getting it". She played her best game yet and was instrumental in stopping at least 3 scoring chances for the other team and setting her team up for their first score. She won't be confused for Mia Hamm anytime soon, but she showed definite improvement over her first few games. With 2 games remaining in the fall season I'm hopeful that she'll get her first goal. But regardless she seems to be having more fun now, which is the intent after all.

We got her first report card and for the most part were fairly pleased. She got high marks in virtually everything, though we were a bit surprised that she didn't do a bit better in math. I suspect it may be that she simply got bored when they were testing, which was something of an issue last year. In fact we found ourselves in the very odd, and frankly ludicrous, position of lecturing a kindergartner on the importance of giving her best effort on tests, but that's a slew of other issues.

Sam is doing well and is liking pre-school for the most part. Evidently, there comes a point in the day when he's had enough of it and lies down by himself on a rug and does his own thing while the class is going on. I'm not sure what's up with that, but admittedly there are times during meetings where that seems like a tempting idea.

Last Friday Cindy and Sam spent the whole day at the zoo and had a blast. And then Cindy, Abby, and Sam went again on Sunday while I got some stuff done at home. Needless to say a grand time was had by all, well by them at least.

A few random thougts:

• I know I'm not hip, but every now and then I come across posts on other blogs like this that remind me of my lack of hippness. Incidentally, the author (Kevin Carey) and I pretty much had the same life for a year in grad school. I'm not sure I've met a better writer than him.
  
• Lately I've been into southern rock and country rock bands, and recently discovered the Drive by Truckers.
• Ringo Starr announced that he won't be acccepting fan mail after October 20. Is this really an issue?
• I looked at the kid's college funds and my retirement fund and laughed to keep from crying. Good thing time is on our side.
• I decided to kill the other blog since I hadn't added anything to it in 5 weeks. I may resurrect it some other time.