6/52
We’re re-arranging the house a bit. We’re moving the family room to the main level, then the library moves to the basement and the extra room becomes my office. We have a handyman installing some shelves in the basement and…
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5/52
Starting to get a grasp on my task list at work. But it feels like for every one thing I cross off, three things get added. Light week of schoolwork though, fortunately. Unfortunately, that just means the professor has more…
4/52
Another busy week of work. The spring semester has kicked off and my information science class is going to be a decent amount of work. It’s been cold. It snowed a bit. It’s fox mating season, so the locals have…
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…
3/52
It was a busy work week this week. Tons of meetings. I guess with the MLK Jr holiday and coming back from Christmas/New Years, a lot of people had to catch up on stuff. That worked out to less time…
2/52
Last time I shaved was the day before the fire in Colorado. So, I guess I’m growing out a beard. The girls are having a Jane Austen day and watching all the shows. I took the opportunity to knock some…
1/52
We’re home from our very eventful trip to Colorado for Christmas and New Years. If you haven’t been following, my brother-in-law’s house burned down in the Marshall Fire outside Boulder. We were staying with them. As horrible as the day…
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,…
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.…
America, land of the free
America. “Give [us] your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” Written on the Statue of Liberty. I *idea* of America is that it’s a land of opportunity. Anybody from anywhere in the world can come here…
Accidentally Device Free
I completely forgot to grab my phone this morning. I mean, I have it now, but when I walked the dogs at 0600 I had no mobile device with me. I was completely disconnected from the entire world for 30…
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…
Random People in Our Lives
I visited a Peet’s Coffee the other day. I hadn’t been to that particular store in ages. The wife and I used to stop in to that store at least once per week for morning coffee. Enough times that we…
Milty Fresh
Every day I walk to my office past a plethora of offices. Mostly people I don’t know because I just don’t interact with them. There’s one name plate that catches my eye consistently: Milt Smith (last name changed to protect…
Bear
I did a thing …
Annual Training
Performing my annual security and ethics trainings required at work.
Backing In
Why to people back in to a parking spot?
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…