Major Event Summary 2024

 January 2024 - Trip to New Buffalo with Jennie. Hike at Morton Arb in the snow, learn about Elmhurst Bike club; Karen Page insists on psych visit for dad; first Bavarian Lodge/Bubblehouse with Todd and Jeff; steady running -2 or 3x/ wk; occassional smell of the underworld coming from the sump pump pit (again after lots of laundry in Nov); 1/21 - CCL in Virgina for XC; 1/28 some red TP; 1/13 hear water dripping behind plastic in basement... water proofing working

February 2024.  Property Tax appeal. Toxic vortex with CCL/tuition. Tulips (22), Snowdrops (23), Sandhill Cranes (24)

March 2024. 9534 days left.  Working on blog index project. lunch with J at Marche. Massive RWB bird calling (16) at Fullersburg Woods, Get threatening lawyer letter, a new low (17) Spring Break Trip to Asheville.

April 2024. Drive home from Asheville.  Bubblehouse Brewery with Todd and Jeff. Prep and Plant garden. 90% solar eclipse in courtyard of school. See Marc Ribot and Alejandro Escovedo with T&J; Begin daily haiku; add "accelerations" to runs.  J hosts Carol Jago at Naz for CMEL; Continue indexing blog; send CCL $1000; 

May 2024. buy Priority 600 commuter bike. buy panniers; begin exploratory rides in different directions; garden: Cover 3 trees in netting for cicadas; plant garden; build plywood desk organizer work: articulation mtg with middle schools goes well; proud of complex book order spreadsheet I make for new we-buy-all-books process family: J struggling with dad relationship, KBL emails, wants $1K for HDL summer class; CCL home 5/9 for wisdom teeth removal; Hannah pregnant (born in Sept? early Oct?); Diane puts in for retirement; HG sleepwalking 80% of nights

June 2024. Door County trip (stay in Sturgeon Bay), bring bike for rides to Jacksonport and Potowatami, visit Bill and Susie, go to Washington Island; Woodwork- make 3 fan trellis, make 2 diplandia trellis, House: wash windows inside and out; recaulk many windows; Office; organize all old tax docs, make spreadsheet;  first time to CH pool; Moorings to help set up new printer, garden: trim maple, cut a couple limbs from junk tree, edge grass, clip branches, pull clover; HG bday leads to 2-day JG headache; HWx5; Dinner with Andy Jones and PQ; HG golf; see SG Goodman at SPACE; Anniversary dinner at Petite Vie, harvesting peas and beans, buy new running shoes; family: JG upset at Matt @ not rdg emails and missing golf event; JG continues to struggle with Harry; JG remakes HG's room to update for 12 year old; HDL says he's coming to visit G&G at Moorings (tells them, not me); (6/14) invites me to graduation, I decline; I see CCL stay in hotel near AllState Arena; I continue to be hopeless; first Geneva bike  bike ride

July 2024. Two trips to Wisconsin - bring bikes to Madison in early July (Taliesien, Catfish music fest), then to Driftless Area in late July. Pretty Zinnias in the garden. Get new entryway furniture from friend of M&D; Dad gets COVID again, sealcoat driveway, make kitchen storage cookie sheets; 

Passing.  Jeff's dad died ?

August 2024.  Trip to Madison. established guitar habit again -- a couple weeks 7 days/week.  Get lower left crown at dentist.  Raspberries ripen. Handful of tomatoes each day; De-ice "broken" basement freezer.  See Sarah Shook & the Disarmers in Forest Park. Super high dew points (75-78); begin UC flare-up; Running 3-4x/week. Running 6 miles on Sundays; Guitar #19-43; BTW #1-9; car in for 150K checkup; Andy Jones goes to Japan; begin the year review in here; UC flare up 8/23+

September 2024. UC flare-up; Guitar #44-66; BTW 10-22; Run 4x/week; left knee soreness; Morton Arb walk on Labor Day; Gillian Welch Concert in Evanston; Skeleton Crew brewery for Tu night jazz; text clash with CCL who shows no interest in regular communication; help parents a couple time move a piece of furniture to Moorings and set up stereo; HG volleyball;  HG tells Clare he's "afraid" of JG after she's frustrated with him; Hurricane from FL hits North Carolina; watch Moonflower Murders (veggie burgers, chickpea caesar salad, orchiette with tom and beans; reading Master of Senate, under the Dome, You are Here, How to know a person, Cartographers, Northwoods; 9350 left

October 2024.  9320 days left. Guitar 68-87. BTW 23-39.  Run 4x,3x,3x,4x. Trip to Verona and Gov Dodge over Columbus Day. Rash on flank.  Jennie has been fighting bloating by doing FODMAP diet.  She gets a colonoscopy in Oct.  CCL traveling with team - Madison, Loyola, Champaign, Nationals in Champaign.  Lots of XC and volleyball for HG.  Get shingles and Covid vax. Furnace needs repair - new board and igniter.

November 2024. 9289 left. Guitar 89-106.  BTW 40-46.  Run: total of 7x; Basement weights: 1. Donald Trump wins in landslide. Present at CEL in Boston with Jennie. Thanksgiving at Julie's, mom and dad come. Jennie gets new tires on her Jeep.  I sort and audit pantry.  My left knee is sore -- from running.  Out for after-work drinks with Myles.  Do first basement weights.  Excellent Indian-inspired tomato, chickpea soup.

December 2024. 9259 left.  Guitar: 107-120.  BTW: 47  Run:  Weights: 2x, 4x, 1x, _x; Colonoscopy gets good report on 20th.  Take m & d to Botanic Gardens lights.  Christmas at Anita's; mom and dad come. Lots of year-end reflection.  Start making bread again.  Start another sourdough starter. HG sick both weeks we have him.  Morton Arb walk with J.  Good soups: black bean, mushroom barley.