…meaning that both Hannah and Clare have accepted offers to play with the Midwest Juniors volleyball club this season. Hannah played with this club last year and gained a ton of experience while improving her game tremendously. With no basketball for the first time in a long time, this will be Hannah’s only sport during • Read More »
Gymnastics, too
November 18, 2008 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: CMS, Gymnastics.With all the volleyball action, we must not forget about the competitive gymnastics season in which Clare is participating this fall. This is her first year in level 6 (last compulsory level), and, bluntly, it’s been a struggle. The new skills have been tough to master and put together in a meet in front of • Read More »
Text totals
November 13, 2008 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: CMS, Geek, HKS.The girls each received an early Christmas present of a cell phone and they were added to our family plan. US Cellular also offers a reasonably-priced family-wide unlimited text messaging plan so we signed up for that, too. We hadn’t really used text messaging before, but the girls used it a bit on their previous • Read More »
Marshall HS fall awards
November 6, 2008 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: HKS, Volleyball.We just returned from the Marshall High School fall sports awards and recognition night. There was much to be proud of as the football team was conference co-champions, the boys and girls cross country teams both went to state, and the volleyball team, um, played their hearts out all season. It’s for the final sport • Read More »
Freaky aerial view
November 6, 2008 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek.Thank you, Google Maps, for reminding us that the works of M.C. Escher are alive and well. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.758156,-73.977664&spn=0.002913,0.005997&t=k&z=18 The magic Google elves stitched it together quite well. Obviously, the angles just don’t work. But it looks really cool! For context, here are a few of Escher’s works: