College visits.

We’re doing college visits.

That’s a song I wrote just for you, my dear, your Daily Lex listeners.

Your Daily Lex.

Thursday and Friday, we visited a bunch of colleges, a quartet of colleges, two per day.

The first day, we were out of the house for about 15 hours.

The second day, a mere 11 hours.

But we looked at the University of Delaware, the University of Maryland, which is here as first choice.

We looked at Wagner and Vassar, which are two very small schools that I really liked.

I’m a small school person.

Sierra is so far not.

But it was so much driving.

I drove the first day, and Lauren drove the second day, and that was awesome because it meant I got to work on my iPad the whole time, and I did a bunch of my day job work and a bunch of my Lex on Tech work, and it was all very satisfying to get all that done while somebody else drove.

I love driving, but I also love feeling productive and, like, unadulterated sitting-in-a-car time while I had an internet connection and a full-size keyboard.

It was great.

I enjoyed it.

Very bittersweet to me to look at colleges, and also exciting.

Like every single school, my wife and I were like, I’d go back to college.

This would be fun.

And I totally legitimately would, except for, you know, having to go to class and stuff.

I much prefer not having to go to class.

That’s the dream.

But yeah, college tours were fun.

It was just so much driving, and we had some, like, insane pouring rainstorms to drive through and all that.

But we were able to do our tours dry, which was good.

It’s also remarkable how much the tour guide influences one’s take on the school.

We had two separate tour guides who were full of ums and likes, and I had said to Sierra ahead of time, like, we can’t judge schools by the tour guides, but it’s so hard when, like, they’re, um, you know, like, um, this, um, is like the— There was one two-headed tour guide thing where they would throw it back and forth, and each time they would each start with um.

And you know what you’re going to say.

You’ve rehearsed this.

All of us say like and um sometimes.

I just did it just there.

But I’m fully improvised, where they are scripted and rehearsed, and they know what they have to cover and get through.

It just was crazy.

We also, the self-guided tour, Sierra and I really liked.

I can’t remember if I already said this because I recorded and then paused for many hours.

But at University of Maryland, we knew we weren’t going to get there at a time where we could take a tour, but there’s a self-guided tour you can do.

And Sierra and I were like, This is the best.

Like, I said it because now we didn’t have to deal with slow walkers, which are the worst, and we didn’t have to deal with terrible questions.

Questions from other guests on tours, other potential applicants on tours, are so insightful as to the caliber of student a school attracts.

By which I mean, when I was touring schools with Ani a couple years ago, and the tour guide said, You must live on campus for the first two years, and at the first stop somebody says, I have a question.

What if you don’t want to live on campus at all?

Well, that wouldn’t make sense since you have to attend campus and live on campus for the first two years.

What if we live locally?

Well, the fucking policy is— I don’t drop a lot of F-bombs on this show, but there’s one.

Frustrating, frustrating.

So stupid questions make me worry about the caliber of student at the school.

And luckily, we didn’t have too many of those.

We had a couple small schools where they even met with the applicants one-on-one after the tour, and they had enough staff to meet with each tour person, which was cool.

So yeah, Sierra’s already been accepted to one school, the University of Pittsburgh, and she got a scholarship there already.

It’s not her first choice or second or third or fourth or fifth or sixth or seventh.

It is her eighth choice out of eleven.

But she’s very gratified and reassured and calm to have an acceptance on her plate, which I get.

I cannot believe that next year I’ll have two kids in college.

It still continues to blow my mind every day.

I saw a production of the musical Parade over the weekend.

I had never seen that show before, and it was very moving and powerful and good.

Not a show I need to do because, wow, what a downer of a true story.

And I also did a paid improv show at a synagogue on Saturday night, and it was really fun because I was on a team with two Jews, of which I was one.

The opposing team was two Gentiles, and I kept on prompting the other team to have to do Jewish things that they didn’t know how to do, and the audience loved them struggling to try to figure out how to do those Jewish things.

It was a delight.

Anyway, speaking of the F word, I have a profane ad campaign running on my site, lexontech.org, this week, and it’s making me laugh so much.

And some people think it’s like this big controversy.

Am I being mean to John Gruber?

And no, I’m not.

Obviously, because the ad says mean things to Gruber in a tongue-in-cheek way, we got his okay first because we’re not monsters, that you know of.

Also, I finished the TV series Red Oaks, and it was great.

I highly recommend it.

It’s on Amazon Prime, and it was delightful and fun and sweet.

That’s all I have for this Monday.

Happy Monday to you and yours.

Goodbye.