Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Schooling vs education and the quest for happiness
I’ve spent a lot of time over the last year trying to figure out the best advice I can give my kids to help them figure out what it is that they want to do with the rest of their life. A lot of the advice lately is use the time you have now wisely.…
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Walk in the woods
I spent last weekend in what will undoubtedly be our next national park, Red River Gorge. The weather was perfect, the scenery was beautiful (as always) and there was even a meteor shower on the first night. But the real wonder was the group I went there with: 15 young adults and 3 other…
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The divine right of kings, voting and other fictions
This will probably be an unpopular post with most of the people that read my blog, but it’s something I need to get out. I think I have discovered a few previously unknown (to me) truths. I am sure that what I’ve discovered is true, but perhaps my current understanding doesn’t yet represent the whole…
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Moving day
I’ve spent part of today packing up my office. No, I’m not leaving Siemens. I’m not changing jobs. I’m simply changing where I work from: I’m going to start working from home a majority of the time. It’s just a trial for now, but I’m hopeful its going to work out long term. I do…
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Summer "break"
Despite the nasty winter and all of the associated snow days, both of our kids are scheduled to finish school as originally scheduled, which means they only have a few weeks left before the are on summer break. It should be a pretty fun, albeit busy, summer. The pool is open and almost ready to…
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Getting things done…in bizzaro land
Sometimes you can’t get done what you need to get done, but you need to get something done, so you do something you don’t need to do just to get something done. Today is one of those days.
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Another trip around the sun
Today marks another trip I’ve made around the sun (outside of my mother’s womb anyway…did you know Koreans celebrate their birthday 9 months before they “emerge”? Fascinating…). I’ve done a lot of long posts here, so I’ll keep this one short. This past year has been a great one. Way more good than bad to…
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Ponderous, really ponderous…and trascendent
A few quotes that have my attention today. The first an from an old, dead, smart Greek guys. The middle on from an old, dead, smart nun. The last one from an old, alive, smart (but scary) American guy: And what is my sort? you will ask. I am one of those who are very willing…
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Three way on tax day
(Note: I had every intention of getting this post out on “Tax Day”, which of course is not today…life got in the way, but I think it’s interesting enough to still post today…the “Day After”) I was admittedly a little grumpy today. For a second year in a year in a row I owed…