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Latest — 02 Sep 2026

Hot Air Balloons Everywhere

I pictured at most maybe a few hot air balloons. Cappadocia had hundreds. Ours alone held thirty people across nine compartments, and by mid morning the sky over a single field was so crowded with balloons it hardly looked real. Somehow the highlight of the day was a lady making a carpet.

Hot Air Balloons Everywhere

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Dryer Water Trap-What?

A dryer with a water trap you have to empty by hand, a coastline I kept hunting for in a town that has none, a hotel room carved out of solid rock, and a four a.m. wake up call. European appliances and landlocked Cappadocia both had lessons for me this weekend. You learn something new every day.

Dryer Water Trap-What?

On a Moonlit Night

Up before five, alone in the quiet while a house full of coworkers slept, I went hunting for the waterfront and found a mall with a giant wall built to hide the sea. The workday was calm and nearly wordless. But at night this neighborhood erupts into crowds I have not seen anywhere in years.

On a Moonlit Night

Two Hours of Sleep and it is Time for Meetings!

How little sleep can a person actually function on? I managed two hours in the first forty, three in the first forty-eight, and a knock at the door every time I closed my eyes. When I skipped the Turkish bath to rest, I earned a lecture on powering through. Eight more days of this to go.

Two Hours of Sleep and it is Time for Meetings!

From Paris with Love

I immigration, customs, and (miraculously) was reunited with my checked bag. Then: a vanishing Uber driver, a cash-only taxi, a sketchy neighborhood, and riddle-like instructions to get into the rental house. It was less hassle getting from Tennessee to Istanbul than from the taxi to my bed.

From Paris with Love

GA to TN to GA to Paris

Delta could not decide how to get me to Istanbul: through Amsterdam, then Paris, then Dallas and London, then Paris again, depending on which agent I last spoke to. One rep fixed it; the next un-fixed it because, "it was weather related." I have now traveled 14 hours and not left my home state.

GA to TN to GA to Paris

VBS Days 3, 4 and 5

I could seriously get used to this lifestyle where I come home from working out and the house is perfectly still and quiet. It's amazing. Thanks to this VBS being hosted by our own church, the kids aren't coming home with dispensational talking points or questions

VBS Days 3, 4 and 5

Bears-o-Plenty

Two bear cubs with no mother in sight, then a full grown bear strolling through the yard. Also on my mind this week: why Delta sabotages its own wifi by snubbing Starlink, which of two insufferable strongmen is worse, and how Apple Insider decided the company Apple robbed is the real villain.

Doing Battle with the Bugs

From the tire shop waiting room: why isn't an alignment assumed replacing all four tires? Meanwhile every soul in the waiting room is over 70+, overweight, and lamenting how hard it is to get older. I am no expert, but the one hundred fifty extra pounds might be a clue.

Doing Battle with the Bugs

Sabotaging the Chicken

I dry brined the birds for one hour instead of a day, ran pellets I already knew barely smoked, and skipped the step that crisps the skin. Naturally the result lost to the overnight marinated and grilled version. None of that is the smoker's fault. It was a baseline, and I'll do better next time.

Sabotaging the Chicken

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