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Many school districts here have fall break. Mine is on a modified year-round schedule: teachers started in mid-July, students started a week later. By the end of September, the first quarter is over, and we get two weeks off. The Kid’s district has a one-week break that coincided with the second week of mine (same … Read more
About a month ago, we learned that we can rent the climbing gym for a per-person fee (with a minimum number of people). We agreed that it would be fun but that acquiring enough people would be challenging. The Climbing Daddy’s birthday was last month and mine is in a few days. We decided to … Read more
In the media, and in conversations with believers of said media, you will learn that anyone can be a teacher, that “those who can, do; those who can’t, teach,” that passive learning from a video is the same as learning from a dynamic teacher. Basically, teaching is not a skill. I’m here to tell you … Read more
Have you heard the advice to “shop the perimeter” of a grocery store to find the foods that are more likely to be “real food”? That the highly processed stuff tends to be in the aisles (and there are so many aisles!), but produce and the like are around the edges? Seems like good, simple … Read more
I know this has 8 tons of application in computer/tablet/phone software, but that’s not where I’m going today. What was this post inspired by? Hotel bathrooms. The lead photo is from our bathroom at a hotel we stayed at in California over the weekend. Two bath towels had already been used, so at presentation, there … Read more
A while back, I was listening to Akimbo by Seth Godin and something really stuck with me. He’s said this in previous podcasts, but, like most things, it took repetition before it hit. It’s about sunk costs—things that you’ve invested time and money into, but that the time and money shouldn’t be part of a … Read more
I hate planned obsolescence. I hate cheap shit. I hate the “everything disposable” mindset. I hate WalMart and the Dollar Store. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to pay tons of money for everything, necessarily, but we need to find a way back to well-made things that can be kept for a long time, … Read more
This week, I messed around taking still life photos. Some of The Kid’s Lego, flowers from The Climbing Daddy, etc. I also messed with a setting in this post with regards to the size of the photos. If you notice a difference for better or worse, please let me know.
A few years ago, I was driving, The Kid accompanying in the back seat. The weather was nice, the windows were down, and he was singing. It didn’t matter that the windows were down. It didn’t matter we were stopped at a light and the people next to us could hear him. He was just … Read more
In this corner, we have Be Yourself! Supported by “everyone else is already taken,” “an original is worth more than a copy,” and “people don’t have to like you,” Be Yourself is solid advice in a culture where following the crowd and keeping up with the Joneses are shouted at us any time we are … Read more