Hello! Been a short while...I meant to just take a month or two off from crosswords after Westwords 2024 & well, time flies when you're having fun! Been busy with the kiddos, gardening, reading, still e-biking all over, and just...life in general. A few highlights:
- We built raised beds in our front yard! I don't have much of a green thumb but am pretty happy with how they turned out!
- We went to approximately 800 youth soccer games, cross country races, basketball games, baseball games, and whatever else. The kids love it (and so do I) and so far (knock on wood) we've mostly avoided the insanely competitive parents!
- I brewed an IPA with my Dad at our neighborhood's brewery! I am pretty basic when it comes to beer tastes and this was a tasty, citrusy, piney, west coast IPA. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!
- After 27 seasons of LearnedLeague and getting a total of 7 perfect days across that time...this past season I got three 9(6)s in a row!! That'll probably be the pinnacle of my trivia career, but what an exhilarating few days!
Anyways...found myself solving some crosswords over the holiday, and then the boys joined in to help me out...and the itch was back! I'm not a big resolution guy but I made 3 this year! Construct at least one puzzle a month, keep my garden alive, and hit the gym 2x a week. On pace for two of them now, and nothing can grow right now anyway, so here we go!
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