Category: Personal
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I’m finally on the road, what next?
I keep hearing isolated phrases from music that don’t really make any sense in context, just feel like phrases that makes sense to my life right now. From Hamilton… We’re finally on the road, we’ve had quite a run… We get the job done… of course that doesn’t actually make any literal sense in context,…
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In memory of Megan Thompson
Today is the anniversary of our friend Megan Thompson’s untimely death on the Oconaluftee River in the Smokies last winter. I almost forgot the day but a news story reminded me – the one year anniversary of war beginning in Ukraine, which happened actually at around the same time. In fact my last message to…
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Just kind of a general long-overdue update
It’s been a while! How embarrassing, it looks like my last post here was as I was wrapping up my first van life experiment, almost two years ago. And it really wasn’t fair of me to ghost the page because there really was a lot going on over that time. I never really recapped the…
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iPhone Xs vs Pixel 3: An observational review
The iPhone Xs I loved the design of the new iPhone X when it came out in 2017, but after trying one out for a week in early 2018 I decided to hold off for the next one. My iPhone 7 was perfectly adequate at the time. Then Apple introduced the iPhone Xs with a…
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Update: Who’s Ready and other happenings
Every time I come to update this site I’m disappointed in myself for how far behind I’ve fallen. So this post might be a bit of a belated catch-up. Who’s Ready My major new project for 2019 is a new social networking app called Who’s Ready. I’ve got a whole web site set up about…
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Birthday in Yosemite
What a long strange trip it’s been! Some of you may have heard of GoRuck. They make backpacks, and to sell more backpacks they invented the sport of “rucking” and started hosting “GoRuck challenge” events in various cities. So they’re known among the adventure/obstacle racing circles and have been on my radar for years. Their…
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Business travel essentials, part one: Packing
The frequent flyer’s handbook part one: The business trip packing list. One part of my work that I really enjoy is traveling to cover cases all over the country. This is usually a service I perform as a contractor for other attorneys when their clients move to a different area, but I sometimes encounter the…
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Called myself out in a bar
2017 10 10 I’m sitting in a bar in Palm Beach where I just had a conversation with a lovely young woman who claimed to be a writer but admitted she had no real reason not to be committing to her writing except she’s afraid to take the plunge. I told her about what I’d…