Category: Thoughts
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Jeff and Diana’s Wedding
My brother got married last weekend. It was a small, informal family wedding, and everyone on both sides made it. Even me. I wasn’t going to go at first. We only had a few weeks notice of the date, and it was on the weekend I had bought plane tickets to visit Ben in Minneapolis.…
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I’m Clearing Out Some Old Files
It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m in the office. That’s very unusual, despite what you may have been told. My group moved last week from a space on the west side of the building to a space on the east side. It’s your standard cubicle space, with one major exception: the cubes are right up against…
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Tossing Stuff
How do you live a simpler life? How do you keep a mountain of stuff from burying you? I’ll tell you: I have no idea. I spent part of the afternoon listening to Merlin Mann talk with Dan Benjamin about getting rid of stuff that doesn’t bring you pleasure or utility. And of course he’s…
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Please Bring Me Spring
For such a short winter it feels never-ending. Once every week or two we get a day that hints at a spring to come, and then vanishes. Low of 20. High of 40. Every day. Then it snows. Have I grown weak since moving to Denver or is it that to me a good winter…
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I’m Being Lazy
This bicycle tune-up thing is showing how I can get stuck and be a bit lazy. I now have all the parts I need to rebuild the bike. This includes a new bottom bracket, new chain, new brake pads, new brake and shifter cables, and new tires. I’ve cleaned up most of the frame, including…
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Hey Look, it’s January!
No words of great import will be found here today. But that’s OK, not a lot going on. We had some warm days after I got back to Denver, and I got a good chance to get the motorcycle out of the garage for a while. Last night gave us a reminder that it is…
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The Last Weeks of 2011
I’m sitting here listening to Back to Work, drinking RoS, and thinking about how nice it is to sit at the table on a weekday morning doing exactly what I’m doing. I’m very glad I took this time off and just hope everything is going smoothly back in the office. But I’m not going to…
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The Year is Ending, But Not Winding Down
I feel overwhelmed. I look at my list of tasks to get done in the week I have before I leave for a two-day workshop and then a long Christmas break, and they seem doable. At least on paper. But every day I feel like the list gets a little longer while I get less…
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