Squirrel (v)

The verb "to squirrel" - to lose focus of something and pay attention to something more interesting.  As in the dog on "Up", talking about something, and "squirrel!"

Infinigrudge

Okay, I'm going to list all the new words that we come up with.  This one just happened a few minutes ago....

Building a playset - delayed

So my wife likes to build stuff, and next on the list is building a playset.  We were supposed to start yesterday - we have all the wood delivered and bought most of the parts.

Yesterday we had a fun run in the morning (the 10yo thought she won, but at the last minute we realized she was registered for the 5K and not the fun run, so she won the "5K" in 12 minutes, but really ended up being around 8th in her division).  I mowed the lawn - didn't take 2 hours like last time, and spent about 1.5 hours removing obstructions from the sprinklers (yes, I should have done that 2 months ago).  I had to whip out our new chainsaw for a bit of it, and while I was at it I took out a lilac.

So we were tired and lazy and didn't do the playset yesterday.

But we did see "The Avengers"!  About time.

Divergent and Insurgent

"Divergent" turned out being a pretty good book.  My wife and I read it together driving 4 hours and back with the kids to see the eclipse (which was pretty cool).  Too bad we didn't try using the camera with the solar glasses...

The sequel is "Insurgent" and we've read a bit of it, but it's been a few days, since I guess we get tired of reading aloud.

I'm also supposed to be reading "Son of Neptune", but I haven't wanted to start, perhaps because that was the book I brought to surgery and didn't read it there either.  I am a bit into the 3rd book in the Kane Chronicles ("The Slithering Serpent"? The <something> serpent?)

Week's running record

I ran a 5K at work in 28:39 about 2 weeks ago.  That means that I've lost 4 minutes since surgery.  It's weird - every other physical activity I'm back up to where I was before (even pullups).  Oh well - we'll get it back.

My wife, our 10yo, and I were supposed to run another 5K the weekend after the work one, but the 10yo got queasy and we left.

This week, I did 3 runs:
The treadmills 20 minute hill workout (I walked about 2 minutes of it)
a 2 mile easy run in the middle of the week
5 miles yesterday, at 6mph.  I walked 30s in the middle.

Zombie Dice

So, we bought a game called Zombie Dice.  It's a quick dice game made by the same people that made Munchkin.  Sweet game.

Our 2yo is now "brains? brains? zommie?"

(Edit: originally called it Zombie Brains, whereas it actually is Zombie Dice)

4 yo says:

Can I have more soil milk?

(Should be soy milk.)