Category: Blog
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Dad Day
To Shepherd: Yesterday before leaving for school, you asked if we could have a Dad Day. You meant, “Can me and you go do stuff?” You made me feel quite special at this request! We ended up going to Town Hardware to get a beamo (big flying frisbee) and going to Pisgah to throw it…
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“Dad, what’s your plan for the day?”
Getting Greta (4 years old) ready for school this morning: Greta: “Dad, what’s your plan for the day?” Me: “Ummm, I’ve gotta work.” Greta: “Ahhhh, not again!” At 4, and in three words, she has delivered a devastating critique to the routine and the man and all of it, daring me to act as if…
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A cold, caught.
It seems like every time I begin a new round of training, I get sick. Usually, it’s only a day or two, but this time I’ve had some sort of significant chest cold since late Tuesday this week. I’ve been pretty disciplined with the scimune and dayquill/nyquill + coconut water and pedialyte, but it has…
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Cache of Recent Tweets I’ve bookmarked
— — — — — — — — — Really connected with this one. It’s hard to remember what living in the pre-Covid world felt like. Such is the rapid firing of the immersive technology pistons. —
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Looking Silly in Order to Learn
This picture just popped up in my iPhone memories and is giving me an appreciation for how far I’ve come since my first real endeavor into running. What a fun memory! Plus, Shepherd, you’re like two months old here. And now you’re almost 6! During the Covid-19 pandemic, I discovered the Salomon YouTube channel and…
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Note to self: Skills I’m Interesting in Learning
Believe it or not, there are better ways I could be spending my time than waiting on the world by scrolling Twitter. Here’s a list of things to learn that come to mind: It almost feels childish to have to write about this, but I’m recognizing there I need to start doing more and learning…
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Why Smart Money Seems Dumb Right Now
What’s that Warren Buffett quote about when the tide goes out you’ll see who’s been swimming naked? Seems to me like we’re about to see a lot of willies. Every day since the Iran War started, one opens Yahoo Finance, or whatever your app of choice is, and sees one of two headlines corresponding with…
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I’ve Been Thinking About the Strait of Hormuz.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Strait of Hormuz recently. What would you do if it closed? That’s probably not even the primary question: you didn’t even know it existed a month ago. How many layers, then, do you pull back to start trying to understand what you would do if it closed when…
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Tour de France: Drinking Raids
Have been thinking about why it feels like learning about things like this promotes a sense of other-world-ness. I just think, “this kind of charm and uniqueness is gone.” I’m not sure it really is, and one could choose to live this way, but the culture does something to enforce or not enforce a belief…