Category: Thoughts
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Office Pack-up
It’s the last day in this office building. Next week I’ll be working remotely, like everyone in Denver, and then it’s time to set up in the new building. For whatever reason, I expect it to be kind of not great. It looks like I’ll be near a window, facing southeast over the interstate. And…
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Sorry for the silence
My last post here was on May 1, a relatively standard update on my goals. But in a lot of ways things kind of went to crap after that, and I haven’t really felt inclined to write. But Sam’s been on my case for a while, and so here’s an update. My silence this summer…
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Fall update
I haven’t written in a while, so I thought I’d give a general update of what I’ve done so far this fall. I traveled far more often than usual in the last two months, and wrote less often than I intended. South Carolina Although technically still summer, I’m going to count our post Labor Day…
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Keeping a journal
Over the years I have tried repeatedly to keep a journal of my daily life. I may never be Samuel Pepys, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t value in capturing my thoughts, even though they never leave my possession. I used to consider this website a journal, and I guess in a way it still…
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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…