Day 63 of the 47th year of my chronology

I woke up feeling more or less rested. My wife made a delicious breakfast. It is great that we have started having breakfast together every morning as a family :) I took Leia to kindergarten. The teacher asked me whether we wanted Leia to attend their group on a permanent basis. I was a little thrown off, but then Masha and I decided it would probably be better if she grew up among the older kids. She communicates with them quite well, so let her be the younger one.

I realized that I have now been keeping this diary steadily for two full months without missing a single day. I like it. It is especially cool to reread later. I do not know whether it will ever interest my children, but I think it certainly will not be useless. I remember reading my dad’s logbook — he kept it in the car and every day wrote down the main events: where he drove, with whom and why, how far he drove, how much gas he spent, and how much he filled up. It is amazing to watch myself and realize that in some ways I am my dad’s clone.

In the evening I had a brief meeting with a former colleague and we discussed plans and achievements. Later I tried to teach Leia a board game about frogs, but she does not want to understand rules and just wrecks things and throws everything around. The moment something does not go her way, she starts flinging things. I hope that is not a character trait but just a phase of growing up. While putting Leia to bed, I talked with GN; she is anxious about the upcoming trip to see her grandchildren. The grandmothers have not seen their grandson in person for more than three years. Crazy.

I started watching the 1962 film Cheryomushki — a Soviet propaganda movie about the construction of an experimental Moscow district with the first panel Khrushchyovka apartment buildings. You watch a film like that and realize how much we have that we simply do not notice because we are used to it. I did not finish the movie — I fell asleep.