Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • Tech Upgrades across the board

    I have made a number of tech upgrades in the last month or so. I happened to wander into a Apple store the day the new MacBook Pro 16″ launched…and walked home with one. I ended up getting far more machine than I need (the upgraded standard model with the core i9, 16 GB of…

  • Photo dump from Foothills Trail Through Hike – Sep 15 – Sep 20 2019

    I may or may not do a write up on the hike later on….but for now, here is a photo dump of the pics I took over a 6 day through hike of the Foothills trail in SC/NC. Highly recommended trail if you are looking into getting into backpacking.

  • Sheriff

    We said goodbye to Sheriff today.  He seems to have been bitten by a brown recluse more than a month ago.  DeAnna gave him amazing care since then but he had been getting a little worse each day for the last week, so we made the call.  Who’d have thought something as small as a…

  • Makes me wonder…

    What am I doing that is thwarting my own attempts? Everything you?re trying to reach?by taking the long way round?you could have right now, this moment. If you?d only stop thwarting your own attempts. If you?d only let go of the past, entrust the future to Providence, and guide the present toward reverence and justice.…

  • One Small Step: the lost art of conversation

    A few months back I was lapsing on my commitment to stay off of social media and scrolling through my Facebook feed (<side note> if Apple really want to give people control over their lives again, they should add a feature to screen time that limits the number of scrolls you can have per day…

  • On the dawn of being a parent to adults

    On this day 20 and then again 18 years ago, I became a father. ?So as of today, officially / legally I am a father of adults, rather than children. ?While I expect it might take me a while to stop talking to people about how my “kids” are doing, the fact is that you…

  • Missing

    We started watching Murder Mountain on Netflix last night. Only a few episodes in, so not sure I’d recommend it yet, but so far so good. One of the central themes is the large number of missing persons from this one county in California, which also happens to the the same county that supposedly produces…

  • My questions for Story Corp One Small Step

    I saw an ad for Story Corps One Small Step program a few months back and filled out an application. ?I’ve always enjoyed Story Corps, but the OSS program struck me as important with its focus on building bridges across divides and proving that people with different beliefs can engage in civil dialog and perhaps…

  • Over the rainbow