Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

From a (Chesire) cat: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”

Yesterday I married my best friend in the whole world. Today we celebrated our 20th anniversary. I don’t worry about tomorrow so long as I get to spend it with her.

One of the pieces of advice I gave my children early on that I wish I could take back is: “when you grow up (and get a job) you are going to have to learn how to deal with boredom.”  My thinking (and experience) at the time was there are times when I am bored…

Fascinating post from James Altucher on Techcrunch yesterday where he shares the answers he gave to his daughter about what he does: My daughter Mollie had a homework assignment for her guidance class that had her ask me what I do for a living. This put me in a weird position. I do a lot of…

I need to break a bone or something so I can have some time to work this down.

I am a lazy beekeeper. Despite my best intentions it’s about all I can do to crack open my hives and do a deep check once a month. Some of it is time scarcity, but more of it is just a lack of knowing what I am doing. As a result of not checking my…

I finished reading Zealot by Reza Aslan last night.  The book claims to be a look at the historical Jesus (as opposed to the theological or christological Jesus) and it does site a few other sources outside the gospels and epistles.  It mostly consists, however, of the author’s projections (or imaginings) of what was likely…

I’m in the market for a Sauna and may go all in and get a wood fired barrel sauna.  I’ve researched the options and a steam sauna seems to have many advantages over the dry / infrared models.  And wood fired just seems to make sense to me from an operating cost perspective- and seems…

I took my own advice and invested in a firearms training class this past weekend, attending the 3 day partner tactics class at Tactical Defense Institute in West Union, Ohio, courtesy of my awesome wife who had dinner waiting for me (dessert too) each night when I got home.  TDI has been on my “wish…