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Latest — 22 Sep 2026

Happy Birthday, Wife!

On her own birthday, my wife ran errands with the kids for hours, then rescued a mistakenly bought supreme pizza by transferring its toppings onto her cauliflower crust so nothing went to waste. My contribution was buying the gifts she linked me and forgetting to photograph a single moment of it.

Happy Birthday, Wife!

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It's My Wife's Fault

My wife left before sunrise without reminding me I was supposed to smoke two pork butts for dinner. How am I meant to remember a tiny detail like that all on my own? I remembered at eleven. Eight hours of smoking later, the first thing my son said at dinner was, where's the burgers? Of course.

It's My Wife's Fault

Shelia: The Spider Upstairs

My son named the biggest spider on the upstairs window Shelia, and loved her. When I cleared the webs, his sister cheerfully announced that Dad killed all the spiders, and he cried for days. "Shelia" is back, and this year I am handling it while the kids, the informant especially, are far away.

Shelia: The Spider Upstairs

Mountain Views to the Horizon

I think I'd be outside at night, secretly trimming and pruning away at the couple trees that limit the breadth of the view, until those trees just kind of slowly disappeared. And I'd probably end up having to pay a massive fine. :-/

Mountain Views to the Horizon

The Secret Solution for Marriage Counselors

I am not a marriage counselor, but I have a proposal. Any couple weighing divorce should sit through what I watched today: hours of two parents bickering over a five versus six o'clock handoff, until the judge scolded them both for acting like children. Most would go home and work it out.

The Secret Solution for Marriage Counselors

Stop Working and Play with Me!

I have optimized my schedule, my office, and my whole day to be as productive as humanly possible. It does not always work out. Sometimes the failed attempts at productivity have small hands, big feelings, and absolutely no concern for my plans or productivity.

Stop Working and Play with Me!

A Gauntlet of Spider Webs

Being first on the trail each morning has one cost: my face clears every spider web strung across it overnight. This is the season of the big harmless ones, prolific and everywhere, and the webs on the road were somehow worse than the trail. I hope the runners behind me are grateful.

A Gauntlet of Spider Webs

Shed Pounds While Eating Out in Turkey

My wife took one look at me and said I looked skinnier. I was sure I had gained weight after ten days of restaurant dinners and limited exercise. The scale said otherwise: six pounds gone. I suspect a lot of it was muscle, which is not the win it sounds like.

Shed Pounds While Eating Out in Turkey

Starlink Mini on a Hot Tin Roof

A lightning storm knocked out our neighborhood internet. This is a minor annoyance for the family and a awful for my job. The ISP promised one to two days. A week later, another week. So I strung a hundred feet of ethernet through the house and mounted a Starlink Mini on the porch roof.

Starlink Mini on a Hot Tin Roof

Home Again, Home Again

In one sense, the good news is that I didn't wake up to my 02:30 alarm. Instead I woke up a couple times throughout the night, checking my clock to make sure I hadn't somehow slept through my alarm. Finally, I woke up at 2am

Home Again, Home Again

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