Category: Microblog

  • Writers’ Block

    I wanted to write something today on my Real Site™ but alas, didn’t want to go to the effort of putting together that made sense.

  • New Shirts

    I’ve come to admit that I’m a big guy. I’ve always been a larger guy, but I’ve been slowly gaining weight over the past few years so I needed to adjust my wardrobe up to the next size. I’ve been seeing all of these ads for Fresh Clean Tees and True Classic which my demographic…

  • Soup

    My kid is turning three on Saturday. In our family, the birthday person can choose any meal for their birthday. What does my 2-year-old pick? Soup.

  • Cars

    Since the weekend, I figured out how to replace a side mirror on the Transit and change a battery in a Town and Country. This is as close to being a mechanic I’ve ever been.

  • Running Them Off

    Mental health professionals are hard to find. Too hard. Had a psych NP throughout most of the pandemic. She moves out of state this past summer so passed to another in the practice. He told me today he’s leaving the state and time to figure out if I go to yet someone else in the…

  • Scheduled

    We scheduled COVID vaccines for our four middle kids that are now eligible under the new 5-11 year old authorization. It feels so close to the end. Just the littlest one without a vaccine and the one least impacted by any precautions we may continue to take with her.

  • Another semester registered

    I just registered for my second semester of MBA coursework. Cost Control Analysis and Model-Based Problem Solving.

  • His tent may be rebuilt in you

    Praise the Lord for his goodness,and bless the King of the ages,so that his tent may be rebuilt in you with joy. Tobit 13, from today’s morning prayer.

  • ‘Ran for Our Lives’: How the Deadliest Ultramarathon Claimed 21 Runners

    A brutal cold front and poorly organized event in China left participants begging for rescue and freezing to death on the trail Source: ‘Ran for Our Lives’: How the Deadliest Ultramarathon Claimed 21 Runners   This is horrific. Races should be equipped to handle situations like this with staff who put the safety of participants…

  • Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?

    Is limitless clean energy finally approaching? Source: Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change? This New Yorker piece makes me sad, not because of the hope of fusion, but that we’re still so far away from it. How incredible could that be?