Spring Break

This week Cara & I were both here, and Maxwell & Zara were home from school. Spring Break it's called. Although it wasn't much of a break for the adults. Cara's thesis defense is coming up fast and I'm back in the deadline driven business world. It's good to have goals.

While Cara was on her second trip to Norway the kids really embraced their heritage and, with the help of the Duolingo phone app, took to speaking Norwegian. They continued this week, allowing the 3 of us to converse without Cara knowing what we're saying.

From my vlog last weekend, you know that I intended to run a 25K. What I didn't find out until afterward, when I looked at my finisher glass, was that it was actually a 27K. Tricksy Hardin & Goodwin are. Also, there was no appearance by William Wallace this year. I guess that schtick got old. But the race being 27K means that my 4 hour time was a PR, my 5th straight of the year. But only because I haven't run that distance before. As a 25K it would NOT have been a PR! Hopefully next month I'll make it 6 in a row with my 2nd marathon. But my May race will be an obstacle course with Zinny, so it'll be fun but definitely no PR.

Brittan passed through Nashville earlier in the week on her way to Chicago, but we didn't have a chance to see her. She deftly uses buses, trading time for precious coin she cannot afford. It's ironic that in youth one feels the pinch of money but an abundance of time.

It's been nice have Maxwell & Zara fixing some meals this week, as we'd kind of gotten out of the habit. Well, Maxwell feeds us pretty regularly, but it's generally pretty spontaneous and unplanned. We now have a dinner schedule again, something we've been neglecting since last year.

Raising a family is tough. It's nice to do a reset. And tonight we're on #2 in The Matrix trilogy.