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This Morning, This Day, This Night
Oct. 19th, 2019 08:18 amWhen I walked downstairs, this sunny Saturday morning, and looked out the picture window in the front of the house, there was the gray shadow of the year's first frost spread across the front lawn.
I'd been reading From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars, by Virginia Hanlon Grohl. You know, Dave's mom. This morning, it helped me to get my best blood pressure reading of the week: 119/68/57. Thanks, Mrs. Grohl.
Anyway, I'm sure that'll be my low for the day, lol. Not a lot of stress anticipated but, as I've learned, it doesn't take much. The morning's plan is to record BP, hydrate, medicate, do treadmill at the Community Youth Center, and then meet my daughter at a local soccer field, just before noon, for her middle daughter's last game of the season.
Later in the afternoon, I'll be taking the grandson to his one-on-one coaching session out at the Jones Rd. soccer facility. After that, I'll be back home where I'll hopefully get in my last "old man" workout of the week with the scant equipment I've kept from a lifetime of such workouts.
But just before the grandson gets out of the car at his mom's house, I'm gonna give him something that I drove all the way across town to pick up last night at the Erie Boulevard Barnes & Noble.
It's a Meccano Engineering and Robotics kit for their "Race Buggy" which I'd seen in the toy section earlier in the week.
I wasn't sure, as I was driving home with it in the car, whether I'd actually bought it for Jason or for me, lol. But I've always told the kid that, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, you need a "Plan B" for your life.
I don't know if this little kit might be a window or doorway to his, but he was always good at these kinds of things--at 8 years old building large and intricate robotic creatures, called Bionicals, from kits designed for kids age 15-plus.
This one is only for 8-plus, but he hasn't done anything like it in a while and besides, like I said, it's intended as a window or doorway, not as a sidewalk or superhighway. I hope he likes it, I hope he builds it, I hope he understands what it might mean.
My "Plan B" is to go home and work out and heat the second serving of a dinner that I made a couple of nights ago--no worries, it's been in the fridge, lol.
Hope everyone has a good morning, good day, good night...
LPK
Dreamwidth
10.19.2019
I'd been reading From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars, by Virginia Hanlon Grohl. You know, Dave's mom. This morning, it helped me to get my best blood pressure reading of the week: 119/68/57. Thanks, Mrs. Grohl.
Anyway, I'm sure that'll be my low for the day, lol. Not a lot of stress anticipated but, as I've learned, it doesn't take much. The morning's plan is to record BP, hydrate, medicate, do treadmill at the Community Youth Center, and then meet my daughter at a local soccer field, just before noon, for her middle daughter's last game of the season.
Later in the afternoon, I'll be taking the grandson to his one-on-one coaching session out at the Jones Rd. soccer facility. After that, I'll be back home where I'll hopefully get in my last "old man" workout of the week with the scant equipment I've kept from a lifetime of such workouts.
But just before the grandson gets out of the car at his mom's house, I'm gonna give him something that I drove all the way across town to pick up last night at the Erie Boulevard Barnes & Noble.
It's a Meccano Engineering and Robotics kit for their "Race Buggy" which I'd seen in the toy section earlier in the week.
I wasn't sure, as I was driving home with it in the car, whether I'd actually bought it for Jason or for me, lol. But I've always told the kid that, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, you need a "Plan B" for your life.
I don't know if this little kit might be a window or doorway to his, but he was always good at these kinds of things--at 8 years old building large and intricate robotic creatures, called Bionicals, from kits designed for kids age 15-plus.
This one is only for 8-plus, but he hasn't done anything like it in a while and besides, like I said, it's intended as a window or doorway, not as a sidewalk or superhighway. I hope he likes it, I hope he builds it, I hope he understands what it might mean.
My "Plan B" is to go home and work out and heat the second serving of a dinner that I made a couple of nights ago--no worries, it's been in the fridge, lol.
Hope everyone has a good morning, good day, good night...
LPK
Dreamwidth
10.19.2019
