Category: miscellaneous

Kendall racked up quite the awards at her art show today. Best of show overall: 1st in Pencil: 2nd in Watercolor: There might just be something to this whole genetics thing.

Tonight I shredded 115 lbs of documents. Nearly 20 years of receipts, paid bills, report cards, pay stubs and medical records dating all the way back to our first year of marriage. Each year accumulated in a box. Each box accumulated on a shelf. For 20 years. I’m not sure when I realized I didn’t…

Yeah, I know I’m a month late.  But I wanted to make sure I was going to actually keep up with them before I posted them.  I know what you are thinking: shouldn’t you post about them before you start to hold you accountable?  Sure, that’s one way to do it.  I’m doing it a…

We went to see The Revenant last night (small spoiler alert for below).  It was the third movie in a row we’ve been to that was packed, so we ended up having to sit in the first few rows.  A few weeks ago we saw the recent Star Wars film in similar conditions and a few…

I’ve gained a lot from listening to the Tim Ferriss podcast over the last few months.  I will admit that when I first heard of his breakout book, I thought it sounded a little like snake oil sales.  After reading it, I changed my mind though and subscribed to his podcast.  It has been one…

I developed my addiction to pro football and cheering for the hometown Bengals later in life, somewhere in my mid-twenties.  Count it among the number of ways that I was a late bloomer.  Since then, I’ve gotten deeper and deeper into it.  Scheduling my Sundays so I could watch games (it’s never the same if…

I finally remembered to take my GoPro to this past weekend’s IDPA match.  Unfortunately I remembered about 20 minutes before I left so I only got about 30% charge, which means I only capture two of the four stages.  I shot pretty well on these two, although I bobbled on the tactical sequence at the…

Yep, I voted.  I broke my self imposed lifetime ban and voted in the special session called on a single issue for just my county: should it be legal to sell alcohol in Grant County. I voted yes, of course because I would like to drive less when I am out of wine or bourbon,…

I ran across a small quote from Four Quartets from T.S. Eliot.  Looking up the whole thing, I found the opening of part III to speak to me.  Amazing how poetry can do that through the ages. Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after In a dim light: neither daylight Investing…