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: Ready for a Miracle March! Goose's New Remix Album, Skiing, Dead by Daylight, and Huberman On Shitlist Oh man, I’ve been slacking on the blog! Still have more niche things to write about though! I’ll give more of a detailed review when I listen to it …
: Good News First: Passed Turnout Test, UA, Canada, Rush, and Everything's Right... Eh? First of all, my wife passed the practical turnout test! One not-so-little victory, eh? (My fellow fans of Canadian dad rock will understand the …
: Two Relatively New Book Recommendations on Good Communication Communication is so critically important. I’ve always been struck by the irony that humans developed language, and many types of languages over …
: FCC You, FCC and CBS! This is so bat shit crazy, you’d think I’m a conspiracy theorist promulgating a bunch of bullshit. But I’m not. I mentioned James Talarico in a …
: Podcasts, News Consumption, Community, and Ezra Klein's Big Blind Spot For a while there, I had been consistently listening to nonstop streaks of the New York Times' (NYT) Ezra Klein Show, American Public Media’s (APM) …
: AI Can Help Polish Original Writing Well, But Not Therapy Advice; Links To Content on Healthy Boundaries In my experience, artificial intelligence is invariably an abysmal tool for generating responses that assess highly charged emotional topics. In other …
: New Obama Interview Released on Valentine's Day I must say, it’s pretty cool to see the latest podcast interview with Obama released on Valentine’s Day, of all days, hosted by Brian Tyler Cohen (I …
: Back To Regular Programming, Followed By a Slightly Shorter ICE Rant I’ll admit I got a bit side tracked with the ICE building tax bill from other unrelated random thoughts on my mind I wanted to share. First, and …
: Portland's ICE Building Owner Pays High Property Taxes and Didn't Appeal This Year Well, I had other things I considered writing about today, and rather than running out of things to write about each day, my list seems to be growing …
: Five Cool Music Videos Recently Watched (or Rewatched) Worth Mentioning The band Parcels has some fun jams. I randomly crossed paths at the grocery store with the star cross country runner at my high school a couple …
: The Super Bowl, Bad Bunny, and Athletic Brewing IPAs I figured today I’d talk about sports and beer, since it’s Super Bowl day. My wife and I are going over to a friend’s house to watch the game, and …
: Retroactively Adding Some On-Topic Visuals, Including Images and Memes Today I am worked on adding some images and memes to some past posts. While I love all the blogging that I’ve done and the rollercoaster of random …
: My Half Work Day, Running 13 miles, Stillness, and Hobbies Including Guitar Playing Today was good, but unusual with working a half day to fine tune my property tax trial report in the morning hours, which only felt better as the …
: Bought an Oura Ring with Pre-Tax Healthcare Funds Haven’t posted much here. It’s been a busy week. But more to come soon on some other topics. Maybe I’ll even do two separate posts in a day? I don’t …
: The Underappreciated Sustainability Value in Small, Fast, and Frequent Failures Well, I’m 90% over my cold, but still not 100%. I haven’t exercised in a week, and I’m just taking it one day at a time. All said, I’ve gotten through …
: Short Book Recommendation: "Fighting Oligarchy" by Bernie Sanders I must give a short shoutout to the recently released book by Bernie Sanders titled “Fighting Oligarchy,” detailing the record-setting 2025 rally …
: My Cold Virus, the Serenity Prayer, the Kitchen Dwellers, and SNL I wasn’t sure what to write about today. I took the day off of work to sleep in and rest, and the cold I contracted has been on the average to milder …
: Feeling Under The Weather, and Trying New Home Internet Service Well, I’m back down with some sort of virus. This time, unlike last week, it’s not just something straining my system in the background. It kind of …
: Goose Tour Announcement and... Beware of TurboTax First of all, anytime Goose announces shows anywhere within a 6 hour driving radius of Portland, Oregon, it’s usually a good day. While the world …
: The Niche Ways To Enjoy Water, Coffee, and Tea at Home I was realizing how particular and passionate I’ve become about having good water, coffee, and tea. Like buying groceries compared to getting takeout, …
: Wide-Ranging Thoughts On Being Attuned To My Body, Mind, and Soul It’s been kind of a busy week. I realize writing something small every day might be a lofty goal. I’ll still try, but I realize my natural rhythm …
: Adopting Free TVs and Praise for the "Heated Rivalry" TV Show Recently my wife and I adopted two free smart TVs, when for the longest time we had no TVs whatsoever in our home at all. (One of them is 43" on a …
: Last Few Days, Live Music, and Smaller Venue Appeal Well, I didn’t post the last couple of days. Busy week at work laser focused on a commercial property tax Magistrate trial court preparation due end …
: Your Dose of "James Talarico's Beautiful Answer To Christian Nationalism," and Yes... a Relevant Rush Quote I know I’ve praised Ezra Klein before, but if you can’t listen to all of his recent episodes, this one (released yesterday, Tuesday 1/13/26) is …
: Staying Sane in a Dystopia, and Why Abolishing ICE Isn’t Radical Well, I guess I missed posting yesterday too. It was a long day involving an in-depth work assignment, staying on top of cooking and cleaning, and …
: One Day Late, But Rest In Peace Bob Weir Well, I missed my non-stop streak daily blog post streak this year for 2026. Oh well. I’ll try to get most days, and if I miss something here or …
: Enthusiastic Endorsement of "Missives From Samara," Thoughts on AI Tools, and Book Mentions Shoutout to the Missives From Samsara blog, which helped inspire me to do this blog post: missivesfromsamsara.com I appreciate the honorable mention …
: Shoutout to Stand-Up Comedian Stavros "Stav" Halkias There are many talented, great comedians out there who I admire greatly. My favorite stand-up comedian right now is probably Stavros “Stav” Halkias. …
: New Great Blue Video; Featuring Goose's Keyboardist Peter Anspach I am a big Goose fan as evident by the title of this micro.blog domain “Day To Be Living,” but I haven’t written much yet here about being a honker. …
: Last Depressing Political Posting, For Now, But Ends Positively Well, I guess I’ll do two political posts in a row, then onto something more uplifting tomorrow. But it’s on my mind. And I’ll end today’s post on a …
: Event Organizer Coffee Meetup: Follow Up On Political Thoughts Well, today I’m back at work (remotely) for the first time in 2026. It is not a bad day to be back. My home office was deep cleaned over the break, so …
: Praiseworthy Review of 2024 Children's Movie "Inside Out 2" Today’s topic is a bit uncharacteristic of me to discuss: film reviews. Specifically a kids film review worthy of praise, Inside Out 2, recently …
: Brief Political Thoughts, Then A Lighter Topic: Smartwatches While I have voting, Gen Z, and politics on my mind following a meeting with a Unite For Democracy event I attended with many well intentioned, …
: Highly Recommended Google Sheets/Forms Budget Template Having an intuitive, color-coded, easy-to-use budget makes financial management much easier, and brings more joy to a sometimes less-than-exciting …
: Lengthy Thoughts on the New Year Today is New Year’s Day, and I do want to make a post daily this year about various cool topics. This is a long one! I don’t plan on most to be nearly …
: Winter Break So… here it is! I’m excited to share my first post. There are so many various topics I’m excited to share about in the near future, but I’ll start …