Daily Adventures

The plant shut down for the week, so it's been very good. Only twenty emails when I get back, and we did a ton of stuff during the week.

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Carl lent me the first several volumes of Shonen Jump's Whistle! and I took them home with me, and I'm devouring them. While I was in the midst of volume 4, in the big match against the super school, Jet grabs the book and says, "READ this to me!!"

So, for his story time, last night, we read that volume of Whistle! and he loved it and now says he wants to play when he gets in to Kindergarten, or, literally, "When I get into Tanner's school." Tanner is the son of the owner of a professional team and the owner of an indoor soccer rink, he's part of a five-year-old soccer team that, I think, could run circles around nearly any elementary school team in existence. His whole family's life revolves around soccer in many ways. Not a terrible influence, at all, in my sight. Tanner's sister, Macy and Mikayla often go to a Saturday morning open floor for tykes at 9 am, and they play for fun. Jet's gone a few times, but he's always hung back, but when John and Tanner and Macy and Jet and Peter get together in the backyard Jet will go and kick away, happily.

Anyway, the books definitely gave Jet more incentive to try harder.

I, on the other hand, had several mountains of memories dug up by the books, bone deep, muscle deep memories.

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