Max and Tyler’s blog

What a week. Max is insanely busy, work went nuts for me, etc etc. We’re both pulling multiple 12,13,14, …. hour days. Weather this weekend sucked – cold and dank – which was almost nice because after a week like that you just want to hibernate and icky weather is a good excuse.

Friday night (after a 7pm work night for me) we went out to Bar Abilene with Sarah J to thank her for shoveling for us during our last few trips. They make guacamole right at the table, and it was fantastic. Then yesterday Max had to work (event was “multicultural graduation,” a special grad ceremony for multicultural students). I wandered down into the basement to do some laundry and check on the water situation — it has been really wet here, rained for two straight days, and our basement got a bit damp — and had one of those “hrm” moments that turned into 6 hours of woodworking and a new hanging corner shelf. Pics to come once it is fully stained and polyurethaned. I have no idea what I’m doing so it certainly isn’t perfect but it was fun. Then last night was Wendy’s 40th birthday and so we trekked out to the burbs to a party thrown at Julian’s parents’ house, who have a big rec room with all the fixins’ … pool table, ping pong, slot machines, PS2, poker … etc. As always, Julian’s mom Pam had a big spread of awesome food (I’ve had the pleasure of having both Thanksgiving and Easter dinner with their family and it is not to be missed!)

Max was featured in an article in Lavender Magazine!! What a cutie. Yay Max.

Today has been a day of napping and cooking for me. Max did some napping too then went to the musical instrument museum with two of Max’s piano students, and is hanging out with Max’s mentee (the U of MN has a mentor program) later on, likely to go see Coyote Grace. I like Coyote Grace but I just can’t make myself leave the house today. I like to cook a big vat of something on Sundays that we can eat all week when we don’t feel like cooking. Today’s vat is vegetable fried rice and just went into the fridge. I’ve done enough cleaning and cooking (“work”) now that I feel justified in cracking a beer (Molson Golden, old man’s beer, ha!) and playing some WoW.