This year I’ve been doing more gardening than in previous years, and I think I’ve gone a bit overboard. In fact, I’ve been writing myself various notes about “holding back on planting too much” that I hope I’ll conveniently find sometime around February next year. And I’m still not certain that gardening has helped me destress and relax as much as I’ve thought it would. But that’s for another time.
The weather is heating up quite a bit, so we filled up the kiddie pool in the backyard today. After lunch, everyone hurried outside to play in the water, but the fun soon turned to tears and screaming when water was poured on an unsuspecting victim. I happened to be watching from the back door, and encouraged the offended sibling to “fight back”. This comment led to a full-on water fight, complete with laughing, screaming, and plenty of running around the yard.
Played a game of Rat Hot this evening with my wife. This out-of-print game takes a unique spin on the concept of tile-placement, where each player is attempting to pair up their color of “spices”, while trying to cover up any of their rats that might be showing. Expose too many rats, and you lose!
I captured a photo of some tulips in our backyard after taking a walk this afternoon. These are probably the last tulips of the season, which makes it feel like spring is almost over. Of course, we still have a week or so to wait until it’s safe to really start planting vegetables and stuff in the garden, just in case we get the usual Colorado “surprise” snowstorm.
The other evening, I really enjoyed reading through the “Coffee vs. Tea” article in the latest issue of Standart magazine. At the conclusion of the article, the author (Mike Riley) essentially states that coffee is the winner, providing the following evidence:
While driving to the Leadercast Live simulcast event here in the Denver Metro Area this morning, I finished listening to a podcast episode featuring journalist Tim Wu, the author of a recent New York Times opinion piece titled The Tyrrany of Convenience.
