Happy Russian Orthodox Christmas!

Dad Day 2020

A longer tale will be in my Mandatory Basketball Rant for this week, but the womenfolk have all piled into the car with other friends and decided to travel up I-81 to Syracuse to watch the Notre Dame Women's Basketball team play.

That leaves good ol' Dad at home by his lonesome.  I've got a few small projects to do around the house, but I foresee some time clearing off the painting bench and clearing up the blog backlog.  My Project 350 goal of behind-the-scenes posts and game ideas has become swollen nearly breaking 500!  

A mid-afternoon nap followed by some take-out might be in order.

Happy Birthday Millie!

Almost eleven years ago I became a father.  None of that prepared me for nine years ago, when my daughter Millie came into my life. 

She is stubborn, she is stronger than her height lets on, and wiser than her years at most points, and the sweetest kid in the world.  She keeps us on our toes. 

Maja is my gamer girl, but that doesn't mean Millie doesn't want to grab some figures and throw in some cocka-manie secondary storyline that's so good I just have to roll with it.

And with me coaching her, it's her show this year in basketball that's dominating a lot of our attention (and I think Maja's okay with it most of the time), and hence, cutting into gaming time. 

By mid-March, Winter Basketball is over... who knows what the Spring will bring (probably more basketball).

(Kickstarter) The 7 Dwarves 28mm Sci-Fi Minis by Macrocosm

Macrocosm Miniatures has started the New Year off with a bang with a Kickstarter for The 7 Dwarves 28mm Sci-Fi Minis.

I'm Okay With Resolutions, So Long As They're Dice-Based

Mandatory Basketball Rant - Week 8

The holiday break for community sports is usually a time of chaos, just not sports chaos.  The schools are closed for everything but official school events, so went to one.

Monday was ViscountEric Household alma mater girl's basketball game:  Easton Area at Crestwood.  I had the game as part of my team's holiday homework, to watch actual live basketball.  The only player to attend was my daughter Millie, and that's because she got to tag along with the Varsity girls and the rec league's travel team for introductions.

As it should be, ViscountEric's alma mater destroyed the home team 62-20.

The rest of the week has been a nightmare of scheduling.  School (and practice) starts up again on Thursday, January 2nd, and every coach with a practice Mon-Wed is clamoring for the four open practice spots.

It took all my effort to hold off decisions until this past Sunday, and it was worth it  One of our coaches, who has suffered without a practice since before Thanksgiving, finally spoke out.  Even the coaches who normally clamor for a second practice during the week backed off when I told them that tale of woe.

Sunday ended with a rash of cancellations at the league Maja's travel team plays for, an a yo-yo-ing of schedules.  At the end, we played the same team we were supposed to, only 30 minutes earlier. 

The lackadaisical travel team lacked, well, everything fundamental.  They deserved the 39-21 loss.... and I hate to say, reinforced all the other coaches in the rec league demanding practice time. 

It's going to be interesting getting the lead out of the 3/4 Spurs this week. 

Happy New Year!