We are hoping to get tickets to a Tottenham Hotspur football match in London when we are there in April and Dylan is pretty pumped up about it. He brought this home for me the other day and he is watching all their games on You Tube now. We also watched them lose to Arsenal on Sunday. He gets funny when he gets something in his head.
Beautiful day for tennis, baseball, soccer and football at the park. With the basketball season over, it's time to start preparing for the next team sports, maybe even tennis.
We were the 4th seed in the tournament and we played the 3rd seed and we were pretty evenly matched. The boys played hard and we took them into overtime where we lost by a point. Sam had 10 points and Dylan had 4 but it wasn't enough to beat the annoying little team. My only real regret was that I should have kept score like in most games. It's supposed to work that one parent from each team is at the scorer's table to kind of keep each other honest. One does the book and one does the clock. They had two people doing it and I figured it would be fine. Big mistake, they didn't calculate fouls correctly (in their favor) and the clock was suspect. It actually could have been the difference in the game and I'm kicking myself for letting it happen. The good news is we don't have to play a team tomorrow that beat us twice this season by and average of 20 points and even if we beat them, we would have to play a team that beat every team in the league by and average of 40 points.
It was a good season, we went 4-5 including the playoffs and I think all the kids got better. Next year the boys will be the older kids on the team and hopefully we get a couple talented 3rd graders joining us.
I snapped this photo by accident while in front of St. Mathews the other day and for some reason I like it. I'm not sure what it says but it caught my eye and it is now part of my blog.
This had to be the earliest these have ever on up in the yard. I bet they are a month early. I sure felt like spring out there today but we still have a decent chance of snow or really cold temps in the next few weeks. I just ordered some more wood.
St. Mathews is between my office and the gym and it was a mad house at lunch time with all the ash being placed on people foreheads. It the same every year, i want to inform the first person I see with a big black blotch on their head but quickly realize it was on purpose. I must have seen 200 people with ash on their forehead on the short walk to the gym. It just amazes me that so many people believe that's an important task on ash Wednesday. I put in 45 minutes on the elliptical because I'm a deist and I know that nature is catching up with me.
Adam made it down for the basketball game and dinner in Old Town yesterday which made Grandpa, the boys and Nicole really happy. I was happy to see him too but it wasn't my birthday and I wasn't playing basketball. The boys did well on the court and won their second game of the weekend 19-16. It was a defensive struggle with a horrible ref that was equally horrible to each team. He just never let the game get going. He blew everything, including a beautiful layup by Sam in the last few seconds that gave the other team a chance at winning. Sam came away with 6 points and 28 rebounds, and 6 steals. Dylan had 4 points, 8 rebounds and 8 steals. Dinner was good at Virtue Feed and Grain.
Everyone is gone now and school and work start up again tomorrow. Good times.
I played Monopoly with them last week and I came in last. Dylan won which is why I think Sam wanted to play today. I'm just the banker in this game but they are learning some valuable capitalist lessons which is good.
Planet Hollywood tries really hard to distract you from the gaming table but it didn't work. I killed at Blackjack tonight.
Bruce with his new bag piper friend on the strip. Great dinner at the Social House and o. To the blackjack tables soon. The panel I was on at the social media conference went well. Rume to do the Vegas thing.
The boys readied their valentine cards for their classmates today. You bring them for the whole class or not at all.
Since I'll be in Vegas on VD day, we are doing a valentines day dinner today.
We saw the Wings of Icarus Jackson at the Kennedy Center today and the boys liked running around that giant building. It was a very nice quick show in the family theater. Out to dinner in oldtown now.
The boys like hangin in bed with me when Nicole is gone. They had a good basketball practice tonight, they worked hard.
Kids these days celebrate Chinese New Year, learn Chinese songs and are taught to speak and read the Chinese language. The only thing I learned about China as a child was that I needed to finish my dinner because their were starving children in China.
The team getting some reminders during a time out in today's game. They ended up winning 33-4 with many of the boys having good games. Dylan had 8 points and Sam had 6. It was good to get back in the winning bracket after a couple loses an the whole team is playing well. The coach is doing a good job.
The President is in one of these two limo's heading to the back door of the Jefferson Hotel across the street from me. They shut down M Street and 14th a half hour ago and cleared everyone out for his arrival. It's unfortunate these days that he couldn't just walk the four blocks from the White House on a nice day like today but I guess even that would be dangerous. This was taken from my office window and I was being watched by a bunch of guys on the rooftops as I took these pictures. I waved but they didn't seem amused.
The show was a lot of fun and George Hamilton was very entertaining. I think one of these wigs, the boots and boa are calling my name for Halloween. Nicole informed me that we are heading back to the Kennedy Center next week with the boys. Lots of culture in a short amount of time.
