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On Memorial Day we visited the DC Mormon Temple (which is actually in Maryland) for their open house. They recently did renovations and before they reconsecrate the temple they open it to visitors. Very interesting. A lot of animal related…
Category INTERESTS
20/52
A mostly uneventful week of adjusting to a normalish schedule again. After a curve, I ended up with a B in my Algorithms class. Huzzah! We went to Cobbler Mountain Ciders this weekend. It was hot, but still fun to…
Muse is my muse
My last hour physically in the office has found me with no emails to answer, no IMs to answer, nobody knocking on my door, and no phone calls! I’ve actually been able to focus on completing some actual work. Crazy,…
Urban Chipmunk
When I was a kid, I mostly listened to my dad’s music. ELO, Little River Band, Billy Joel, etc. But I did somehow get a record that was all mine, Urban Chipmunk by the Chipmunks. Being as young as I…
16/52
Work. School. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Coming into week 6 of 8 of this class. Wish me luck that I pass and never have to deal with it again. I purchased a new (to me … it was used) fountain pen…
Pet Peeves: Gas Station edition
A couple pet peeves I didn’t realize I had reared their ugly heads this morning in the Costco gas line. People who get back in their car after starting the pump. I know the chances of static electricity sparking the…
Happy Anniversary and Merry Holidays
Hey! Welcome back. I know it’s been a while. I’ve been pretty busy. How about you? The wife and I took a train up to New York on Nov 20th to celebrate our 25th anniversary. Lots of walking, shopping, eating,…
25th Anniversary in NYC
Honoring Those Who Serve
First and foremost, thank you to all who have served in our armed forces for your service. Thank you to the families who support them and the sacrifices they’ve made as well. My father was a POW in Vietnam. His…
Psychology, Prosperity, Politics, and Productivity, oh my.
I took an “intelligent risk-taking” course through work. One of the topics discussed was the “availability bias” when trying to determine risk of something we don’t know. The way our brains work, we try to recall examples of that thing…
Mask Mandates Make Many Mad
The past week or so has been a busy whirlwind of life getting in the way. Busy at the office. Busy with schoolwork. Busy at home. So some things just had to go to the backburner, like posting a blog.…
Fall Finally Found Fairfax
It’s been quite a week, which is why I’m posting this later in the week than I want. Anyway, the wife, the son, and I went apple picking this past weekend (the daughter was out of town or she would…
Fed Up With Facebook … Again
Like most people on the internet, I go through phases in which I’m sick of social media. It doesn’t do anything other than make me angry. Everybody is wrong and I can’t do anything to prove they’re wrong (or they…
Catchphrase
Testing out a new “newsletter” style format for this post. I’ll try compiling all my thoughts, updates, links, etc. and posting them once per week (or so). So, let me know what you think of the format. Maybe it’s stupid.…
Strangelove
A Depeche Mode song popped up in my shuffled playlist this morning. My mind wandered to when I first heard Depeche Mode. I remember it vividly. It was the mid-80s and I was visiting my mom in Santa Rosa, CA.…
Brushing up on Stoicism
I don’t even remember how I was first introduced to Stoicism a few years ago. In that time though, I’ve read all three of Ryan Holiday’s “The Way, The Enemy, The Key” series, Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations”, and last year read…
Books I Read in June 2021
I track what I read in Goodreads, but I wanted to start writing a little more about each book and keep track by the month on this blog. Goodreads is nice for the annual challenge, but I don’t really use…
YouTube Music Finds
I’ve subscribed to YouTube Music (previously Google Play Music) for years. One of my favorite things to do is ask my Google Home device to play a specific song that I want to hear, then it creates a playlist based…
Things I Would Buy
Something I would buy, but don’t need, if money were no object …
Book Review: Leviathan Wakes
I left my book at home when we went on vacation a while back. We stopped at a bookstore and I picked this up on a whim. I hadn’t watched The Expanse on Amazon Prime, but had it in my…
Todoist vs. TickTick – round 2
To-do list showdown … revisited! I did a comparison between Premium Todoist and Premium TickTick a couple years ago just to document some of the differences between these two task list applications and give my opinion or observation of the…
Jon Stewart NY pizza rant
Diving down the YouTube rabbit hole today popped up this classic. Jon Stewart goes on a rant about NY pizza
My Productivity Process – part 2: Physical
Intro: I moved back to using a notebook daily for my tasks and events. I also use a digital todo list to capture long-term items and a digital calendar because it’s always available and easier to add/search events. I wanted…
My Productivity Process – part 1: Intro
Intro: I moved back to using a notebook daily for my tasks and events. But I also use a digital todo list to capture long-term items and a digital calendar because it’s always available and easier to add/search events. I…