I am trying to figure out what to do here now. I don’t know the answer yet. Times are very different than they were 9 years ago when I started blogging, and it doesn’t fit the same way into my life anymore. So I need to come up with some way to use this, and [...]
I have never in my life been on a diet. I was blessed for many years with a metabolism that kept me very skinny without requiring me to do a lot of work. I was pretty sure that this would be the case for my whole life. Wrong. Somewhere around 25 things started slowing down, [...]
Is this thing still here? I totally have been neglecting it. I know. But it comes from a different time in my life, I feel. Am I past the blogging age? I don’t know. It could be that my life is just supremely boring right now. Or I am busy. Or lazy. Or some combination [...]
Of all the ridiculous things that I chose to spend my time on, I think that my roller skating probably tops the list if that list were to be ordered by ridiculousness. I am a grown man, and I spend many hours and many dollars roller skating around in figure eights, and doing silly little [...]
Somehow I ended up forgetting that I have a blog for a few months. I really didn’t mean to do that. Life has just been busy, and overwhelming. And update on things in a few days. I promise.
Now don’t get me wrong. My youth was not wasted in total. But in one very specific part that I am now very aware of. My musical instrument playing. From the time I was in 4th grade through the start of college, I was playing one form of instrument or another. And I had a [...]
Let me start off by saying that this is not meant to offend. The quasi-fake/quasi-real MLK quote that was going around the other day really got me thinking. And it got me looking into a lot of other quotes that MLK wrote. And then it presented me with a real problem. Here was a guy [...]
Rest assured, I have survived the kitchen fiasco. While it isn’t completely done, it is mostly done, and we are cooking in there again, and it is amazing. In other news: – I have started playing classical guitar, and I love it. – At the end of April I am going to California for four [...]
Still working on it. I hope to be done soon, but I think that is probably wishful thinking.
We are in the middle of doing a gut renovation of our kitchen. We basically took it down to nothing, and are now putting everything back. So I am extremely busy. The concept of free time no longer exists for me.
As promised, a year end letter. But as I have mentioned in the past, it is getting harder and harder to write these things. I did the “completely absurd” a couple of times, but you can really only go so far with those. And then I tried sort of a mix, and that kind of [...]
It is after Christmas. Whoops. I’ve been very busy. So let’s say I’ll get you an “end of the year” letter in the next few days.
Not yet. Sorry. But I’ll have it done before Christmas. For the 2 of you that even still check this regularly. No, the purpose of this post is to talk about salesmen. And I say this with the knowledge that one of my best friends is a salesmen. But besides him, I really, really hate [...]
Happy Birthday, Mom! You deserve it! (I don’t really fully understand what that means, but it sounds good.)
I am not gone. I am in the process of preparing the Christmas letter. The problem is that this has actually been a really good year. I went to Europe, Kelly moved in, we got married, I had my first roller skating competitions. So it is hard to think of bad things to write about. [...]
I really hate to think of myself as the kind of person that loves a certain piece of technology. You know the type. Always fooling around with/talking about/showing off their little gadget that no one cares about. Well I’m afraid that I have become that person, at least for one blog post, about one piece [...]
I posted this on a big aviation website that I read. I figured I’d repost it here. Some background – I am a type 1 diabetic, and to treat that condition, I wear an insulin pump, which is a little machine that is plugged into the side of me and literally keeps me alive. I [...]
So at that skating competition a couple of weeks ago I came in 2nd place in both of my events. And I’m pretty happy with this, considering that I had not put in much effort towards getting read. I think that it was even more impressive because before my dance event, while warming up, some [...]
I have a skating competition this weekend, and I’m actually not very excited about it. It is just a little local competition, and I’m a little burnt out on skating right now. Oh, and I have to skate at 6:00 in the morning. So I have to be there at like 5:00. Which means I [...]
And today you make it one year closer to 90. Congrats on truckin’ along! Happy Birthday!