Hey there.

So that was certainly a weekend that happened.

On Saturday we went out to run some quick errands for a theoretical small business venture that Jen and I are tinkering with. (And by “errands” I mean going out to buy a file folder as a convenient place to hold documentation for said potential business.) This necessitated a trip to that renowned mecca of commerce, the Staples office supply store in Littleton. Which was as uneventful as you might imagine.

Unfortunately, on the way home (and without any provocation other than a, “hey kiddo, how you doing back there?”) Daphne decided to bite her brand new talker and once again broke the glass.

And so, for the second time in as many days, I spent several hours on Saturday updating an iOS, transferring downloads and TouchChat profiles, and filling out forms with Apple Support to have yet another iPad shipped to us.

I did get a chance to talk to an Apple support person for a bit, though, as I’d run out of available devices that were permitted to download purchases and had to get a service monkey to fix my account. I took that time to also discuss the problem of my daughter routinely breaking the glass on her communication device.

As it turns out, the answer to, “is there, like, a military-grade version of an iPad?” is laughter and a resounding, “no, there is not.”

She did, however, approve of my strategery involving the purchase of 2 iPads, with Apple Care on each, so I can simply rotate them out when this happens. Now it just costs $65 per incident, which is significantly less than the cost of replacing iPads on repeat. (Ask me how I know.)

For those keeping score, this would be the 7th iPad in the past year.

On Sunday we opened a few Easter gifts that our family sent up for Daph…

And afterward we went for a drive, mostly just to get out of the house for a bit.

Inexplicably, we ended up driving by the chapel on Darling Hill and, it being Easter and all, we hopped out and spent some time introducing Daphne to what turned out to be an open and entirely empty church.

We pulled down a tuffet to show her how they work for praying…

Which she seemed to be quite into, as she stayed there, quite and pensive, for at least a few minutes.

And she was certainly feeling the spirit afterward…

See you tomorrow.

j.s.