Musing, Tinkering, Open Source

Glad we have the familiar interim minister starting next week. We had to listen to the Gideons today. But Robby was able to attend the service, so I didn't have to run the music two weeks in a row.

I told my Hiddleston-obsessed local friend that The Life of Chuck was finally on at the theater, so we went to see that this afternoon. It was strange but good. Happy to see [name redacted] on the big screen for the first time in something like 30 years.

Then I came home, turned on ESPN and started screaming when I saw that the Red Sox had traded Devers to San Francisco. No one saw that coming.

1. Robby got his catheter removed yesterday and was given another three days worth of antibiotics in response to the on-and-off low-grade fever he reported. So far so good. His dad has been through the same recovery process and is offering helpful advice, which is a blessing.

2. Connor completed on-campus orientation for his first term of college classes starting in a couple of months. He really likes his advisor, which is great. (Apparently they are both M:tG players.) Connor wants to pursue a major in data science and a minor in creative writing, with a long term plan of getting an MILS degree. Unfortunately he left today's registration session extremely discouraged because it wasn't possible to schedule both EN 101 and CS 100 with the slots available. So he didn't register for EN 101, and we need to meet with his advisor again to get things sorted out. Personally, I think 13 credit hours is still an adequate course load, so it may be more of a matter of whether there's anything he was hoping to take this spring that would require EN 101 as a prereq. But first I had to talk him down from his knee-jerk reaction of "I guess I have to change my major???"

3. We had the opportunity tonight to see John Green speak in promotion of his new book about tuberculosis. He managed to both acknowledge the dismay and frustration of the current state of affairs in the world and also cultivate optimism about our ability to solve hard problems. The kids walked out feeling inspired, which made me hopeful in turn.