Picking a Twins Alternative

John has gotten very into following MLB over the last few years. He and I of course follow the Twins religiously through ups and downs. Every morning while getting ready for school we watch MLB’s “Recap Rundown”, expanded highlights of every game from the previous day. On weekends and evenings he’s playing MLB The Show: Road To The Show, guiding his created player through the minors. And what…

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April Update

After a relatively quiet March, things are picking up around here. In fact, as I write this, we are currently at Kalahari Resorts in Round Rock for a quick one-night stay, just a twenty minute drive from home. Kalahari is the nation’s biggest indoor waterpark (235,000 square feet). We’ve heard such great things from local friends, but it’s so damn expensive most of the time. It’s actually cheaper…

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2024 MLB Predictions

My annual MLB predictions are back, and after two astounding years of exactly predicting the World Series outcomes Braves over Astros in 2021, and Dodgers over Rays in 2020, I came back down to earth with a very incorrect Brewers/Blue Jays guess in 2022, and another poor prediction in Astros/Padres in 2023. I did get over half the playoff teams correct last year, at least, including the Rangers,…

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Subscribe to New Photo Blog

Good news for people who want more posts from me. Starting today, you can head over to rcglanzer.wordpress.com and enjoy a new daily photo from the past! Be sure to find the “subscribe to email” box and sign up so you can receive a photo in your inbox every morning at 8am central until the end of time. As you may not be surprised to learn, I have tens of thousands of photos that will otherwise…

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Happy Leap Day! House Turns 40 & Other News

Today we celebrate Leap Day, and for just the third time in his life, John’s half-birthday! We celebrated last night by getting delivery from a restaurant of both kids’ choosing, which is no easy task. Edie said “Five Guys at Freddy’s”, confusing the restaurant and the movie, to which John happily agreed. For me and two kids to have burgers delivered was $70!! Seems insane. Anyway, onto a bigger…

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Baxter P. Glanzer (2011-2024)

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2023 Year in Review

This blog is 15 years old now—and if you count the previous iteration on the old ryanglanzer.com, it’s actually 20! But the days of having the free time, energy, and willpower to regularly write on daily happenings is unfortunately a thing of the past. Luckily, I am in the midst of 10 straight days off work, so I think I may actually have a spare moment this morning to do a proper…

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Late Summer, Early Fall '23

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New England/Canada Trip Recap

Canada Trip 2023 We’ve been back from our biggest trip ever for over a week. I had been attempting to put together a video recap, but I got into it a bit but a) my computer ran out of hard drive space, b) the script I recorded was 47 minutes long, and c) I began to realize that was a giant waste of time and no one would ever sit through something like that. In lieu of that video post (at least…

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Carpenter Trip 2023

While I may be midway through our New England-Canada vacation, I mustn’t forget to post about the Carpenter trip, which was a few weeks ago. I had written this recap on the plane at the time but never got around to posting it. So, for posterity’s sake, here it is. BTW—for anyone reading who thinks all we ever do is go on trips…. you’re right. But for most of them, I was still on the clock…

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Summer Off to Looney Start

From May 26 to June 18, the Glanzer Fam has been going non-stop. This year, Lauren and I sat down and meticulously planned out every single day of the summer, so everything that happened during these dates was in fact planned. Jam-packing a schedule to the brim may have sounded fun at the time—and it was fun—but it was also mentally draining. Take a look! Fri, May 26 – Edie last day of school,…

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Marlins Season Recap

The 2023 spring season at Balcones Youth Sports was my fourth time coaching a team, and John’s sixth time playing on a team. As the head coach, I chose the Marlins as our team name and drafted a solid squad and even wheeled and dealed and made a big trade on draft day. Well, it isn’t so much a draft as much as it is the head coaches getting together and trying to make six very even teams. And…

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House, Florida, Baseball

House Renovation Homes built in the 80s are certainly highly lauded for their exquisite craftsmanship, but I guess even they need some TLC eventually. I kid, the houses in this neighborhood all look like they were cobbled together over a 3-day weekend. It was time to finally put some money towards making sure this place holds up for a while longer. Prior to all of this, we also replaced the…

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2023 MLB Predictions

My annual MLB predictions are back, and after two astounding years of exactly predicting the World Series outcomes Braves over Astros in 2021, and Dodgers over Rays in 2020, I came back down to earth with a very incorrect Brewers/Blue Jays guess in 2022. I managed to predict 8 of the 12 playoff teams, though. As a Twins fan since the age of 11, it has been a bumpy ride. I’m now 40, and the Twins…

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Austin Ravaged by Furious Ice Storm

The Entire Month of January Can Be Summed Up in a Few Words… I’ll start off by recapping the fact that January was unbelievably boring. We did almost nothing all month. I literally took more photos in the first 5 days of February than all of January. That’s mostly because I went back on keto, which canceled out a lot of fun stuff. And, in Austin, all fun stuff revolves around food and drink. On…

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Playoffs, Keto, Dog

Since returning from New Mexico and getting back into the old routine, it’s been pretty boring around these parts. Our January calendar is basically wide open with almost nothing at all planned on any night. I like having a few of those types of nights a week, but not every single night. Lauren has been bogged down with allergies and in bed earlier than the kids almost every night of January so…

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Trip to New Mexico

Winter break trip to New Mexico recap!

We have returned from our relatively budget-friendly family trip to New Mexico over the holidays! While Santa Fe was really the focus of trip, we explored a ton of the state, including Roswell, Bottomless Lake State Park, Santa Fe, Bandalier National Park, Albuquerque, White Sands National Park, and Lincoln National Forest. The kids were of course on winter break. At work, we had back-to-back…

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