August 5th, 2021
Summer, we hardly knew ye. You gave our family vacation (a road trip to New York and Illinois, a weekend with friends in northern Michigan, a wedding weekend in Ohio) multiple rendezvouses [rendezvise? rendezesvous?!] with far flung family members, a wild march to the NBA Finals with the Phoenix Suns, multiple hospital visits for our daughter who remains resilient if a bit more particular about everything than she used to be, a very expensive but so far effective fortnight of obedience training for the dog, a seemingly never ending chain of free coffee offers from a certain fast-casual bakery cafe chain restaurant, and a wealth of PTO days coming due after holding back on travel for most of the last year. Oh, and still, as ever, so much podcast listening. My ears are slowly weaning themselves from a firehose of NBA content, but even in that stream I managed to land on a slew of (mostly) non-basketball content to promote. THE LIST 1. 99% Invisible - "Mine!" This pod tac