It's been a busy enough summer that I haven't been able to keep up on the writing side (save for a Catalinapost) so here's a mega-synopsis.


With season passes and weeklong gaps between summer school/camps, Dani has done a few laps of the zoo. The 9:00-10:30 timeframe is perfect - no crowds and most of the animals are actually doing stuff:

• The cheetah trotted laps
• The rhino played with a 50-gallon drum
• The polar bears walked around
• The cougars crunched on bones and came up to the edge of their pen

Of course, the splash pad is great too.



Chrissy, Ted, and Mom came down for some beach time and a trip to Legoland. We've done every coaster now and the little one finally got to drive on the renovated racetrack.



There have been a few birthday parties and a Derrick BBQ



Jack and Jon came down for a few days. We did beach trips, pool time, and a full loop of the Safari Park.



Between events and outdoorsy stuff: making submarine crafts, Legos/Duplos, and - of course - some technical analysis ͥ .



Chrissted, Jes, and I pulled off an unlikely win in the final month of Pandemic Legacy S2. We hadn't unlocked Oceania so we didn't have a ton of red city cards. We managed to get one and cycle it between the discard pile and Sasha who was tasked with performing the delivery (vague for spoilers). Even so, without some excellent shuffle luck with our improved infection cards I don't think it would have ended well.

Dani inherited the leftover stickers. The colorful character pictures weren't all that impressive but she really loved the city population stickers that could be used to enumerate her various animals. When she asked what the game was about I dodged the zombie/death parts and explained that because of a sickness everyone has to move to floating cities on the water to be safe. Her response, "So it's like the cat game?", referring to Stray where a global pandemic forces everyone into giant domes.


The work crew finished up our Scythe campaign. I've done well with the Legacy games but I was complete trash at this one. Next up is Elder Scrolls, followed by Clank Legacy 2 when Chase gets back.


I rambled enough about video games last time but had a couple cute pics of the kid organizing PS5 boxes and walking around a nonviolent part of AFE.


I did not jump at the opportunity but it looks like this year I'm moving up from AC to Head Coach. The US Soccer coaching license material was not horrible but mostly targeted at U8s and above.

Moment of unzen: the instructions were to click back to the previous slide to see an arbitrary cone layout, then drag each cone to match it.

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