Today’s accomplishments: Fed, dressed, and delivered kids to school. Did dishes. Took out trash/recycling. Load of laundry. Worked on personal consulting site. Had grueling two-hour nap. Signed up for Khan Academy, started working through the “Pixar in a Box” series on storytelling. Gave “Grand Tour” a look on Amazon — watched the first episode. Soaked … Read more
1. Books-and-coffee (Barnes & Noble). 2. There’s no such thing as worthwhile incense. 3. Seriously. Shut up. 4. It doesn’t matter if everyone in college does it. 5. You don’t have to do it, too. Be your own person.
1. Five Ways in Which I Just “Mailed It In” 2. Five Ways in Which I am Awesome 3. Five Ways in Which I am Not Awesome 4. Five Reasons Google Should Hire Me 5. Five Reasons I Live in Minnesota Even Though I Hate These Miserable-Assed Winters That Make Me Want to Commit Seppuku
Hey, look, a rare two-posts-in-one-day double header! I’m going to do a bunch of blog posts Monday through Wednesday of this week since most of my readers will be absent on the 3rd and 4th of July to celebrate our nation’s birthday in the traditional methods of explosives, alcohol, and emergency room visits. Expect 2-3 … Read more
Saw houses. Made offer on house. Accepted offer on house. Worked at bike shop. Had dinner at mom’s. Scrabble. New wireless computer mouse. Framebuilding. Relaxation.
This weekend is going to be almost entirely about the bike. On the agenda I have: a shift at the bike shop on Saturday riding fabrication work blueprinting placing tubing/parts orders placing welding supply orders — 56% silver, plus some more bronze flux beginning prep for Minnecycle
cleaned up cat puke vacuumed office cleaned kitchen emailed A-train re: Mac apps two loads of laundry soaked silver flux off a frame cooked and ate dinner, cleaned up afterwards set up subdomain for Pallas Athena mobile website did some work on the next email newsletter for Pallas Athena did some work on nailing down … Read more
Friday: Had lunch with Bob. Kate and I looked at houses in Bloomington with realtor. Unpacked the fixture and other cool stuff. Saturday: Worked at the bike shop until noon, cut loose due to shitty weather. Went to Nels’ place for the semi-annual beer fest. Drank. Did not get drunk. Sunday: Woke up, went for … Read more
1. Because you totally played football in high school and you’re still, like, totally in-shape and stuff. Never mind that beer gut, never mind that you get winded walking up a couple flights of stairs — you could totally go out and play with the high school kids now. Even if you’re too out-of-shape to … Read more
So today, I have the day off. I’m so busy that I refuse to understand why I’m thinking of it as a “day off”…I’ve been up since 0530, and thus far I have accomplished the following items: woke Kate up cleaned screens on iPad, iPhone, and computer updated all the WP installs I’m responsible for … Read more