Kallisti's Journal

Easter was cheerful. We warmed up our traditional Greek takeout and had a nice lunch with my mom after church, and then spent the afternoon watching baseball. She brought me some more new baseball cards for my collection, which I need to get around to organizing at some point. She's mostly feeling better now, but her blood pressure is still kind of all over the place.

Connor had a meeting with his advisor a week ago, and was talked into registering for one or two classes over the summer. I still need to get the pertinent info on those and remind him to register for fall classes as well.

I've made a good dent in the pile of book boxes in the spare room, unpacking them for Will to go through. Some books he's shelving in his room, some are being reboxed for organized storage in the library, and a few are being donated. Unfortunately, my prize for finishing with the book boxes will be the task of going through the boxes of photos and miscellaneous memorabilia that are taking up the rest of the space in the spare room. But at least it's progress.

Most of my mind lately has been taken up with D&D. We had game sessions both of the past two weekends, and on the second one, we finally lured Robby into joining in. I spent most of my spare time over the preceding week poring through source books to help him build his character, and he seemed to have a really good time.

Of course, the Artemis II mission was also top of mind over the past two weeks, and I'm glad that it was so successful. There are so few things these days that make me feel good about the possibilities of the future. And their views of the eclipse were breathtaking.

Like a lot of people, I've been recently sucked into the music of Angine de Poitrine. I also received an early release of the new TMBG album coming out this week, and it's very good.

This past Saturday night we got to see Empire Strikes Back with the symphony, and they did a fantastic job. That movie was everything to me growing up as a kid, and I still have all of my toy action figures packed away in one of those Darth Vader-shaped cases. (I still find it hard to believe that my mother sold my Millennium Falcon at a yard sale. It was the only one of the Star Wars spaceships that I ever owned.)

I need to buckle down and finish the books I checked out of the library this month so that I'm ready for the new Murderbot and Dungeon Crawler Carl books that are coming out next month. I also just saw that the final book of the Alvin Maker series is finally about to come out. I started reading those in high school and didn't think it would ever be finished.