Kayak update: Saturday was a much better day, weather wise.

It also paid to go out in the evening, as the tide was high & the breeze was calm.

Which now has me at the usual loggerhead of every summer I’ve spent as a teacher – the part of summer vacation where I’m having to decide where the rest of the time will go. Sure, I can be a grown-up & begin planning for the upcoming school year: improve lessons, redesign courses, take teenaged emotions into account. It also makes sense from a “It’s hot for Vancouver” standpoint, where it’s going to hit 30 degrees Celsius this coming week, and will likely stay that way from now until late-August. Best to stay inside, drink my tea, and plan to make my life easier when the school year resumes.

But with no baseball season to provide me with enjoyment, there’s also the desire to just say “Fuck it!” and not do anything until Labour Day in terms of preparation. The school district has no idea what “opening” will look like yet, so I’m not sure I want to devote a great amount of time planning for an eventuality I may have to change because of an intense lack of planning on other peoples’ part. Plus, I’ve enjoyed making day trips to local breweries & cideries – all under the guise of “supporting local business”, which is an excuse for getting out but apparently not for my BAC. Well, excuse me, officer!

Anyway, this is what I ponder when my brain has five minutes alone from the tinnitus. It also might explain the drinking issues, but that’s for the coroner to eventually declare.

Tonight’s … entertainment?:

• MLB Baseball: Exhibition:
  • Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs – 8:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
• MLS is Back Tournament:
  • Chicago Fire vs. San Jose Earthquakes – 8:00PM | FS1 / TSN
  • Seattle Sounders vs. Vancouver Whitecaps – 10:30PM | FS1 / TSN

• America: Our Defining Hours – 9:00PM | History
  • Episode 3: “Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself”
    • As the 20th century continues, America faces perhaps its most daunting challenges yet:
      • The 1930s brings the greatest economic crisis in its history;
      • Pearl Harbor is a lightning bolt to the American soul;
      • the U.S. elects its youngest commander-in-chief, 46-year-old John F. Kennedy; and
      • on a bridge over the Alabama river, Martin Luther King’s fight for equal rights will face its fiercest test.
    • Then, on a September morning in 2001, America faces a new crisis.

And it’s been perfect ever since!