After weeks of training, Westley busted out his moves at the Dance Daze performance at the California Honey Festival. Despite the constantly evolving choreography and dizzying turns that led to his head dive on stage, he remained a good sport and made us incredibly proud. Before the show, we tried the ramen and boba at I-tea near UCD campus, but was disappointed by the slow service. Melody volunteered at Paul Hom the next day, so I took Westley to Home Depot, Ross, and Ikea to check out toys and office furniture, followed by lunch over chicken tenders and Swedish meatballs a la mode. I also showed Westley off at our all-staff Rivercats game event last week, where he nabbed a baseball during practice while gobbling hot dogs and potato salad. After hours, we’ve been watching Denaerys go postal on the less-than-satisfying last season of Game of Thrones, and an even-less-satisfying Twilight Zone reboot from Jordan Peele. Melody left town for a conference this week, so I spent another father-son weekend assembling the elaborate Nintendo Labo piano kit, cruising around the neighborhood in his tricycle, and hanging out at the Roseville mall for Lego and Daiso shopping. However, things also took a turn for the worse this weekend when our internet service was abruptly disconnected, requiring hours of Comcast calls and troubleshooting before I deduced the cable modem AC adapter as the culprit. Davis’ Aquahawk also alerted us to a 30 gallons-per-hour leak which appeared to be coming from our landscape irrigation. By the time Westley found a mysterious new crack in his bathtub, I was beginning to suspect supernatural foul play. As if we had stepped into our own twisted dimension, we felt our household stress level reach a critical high.