Month: September 2025

  • weekend wrap, seventeen

    weekend wrap, seventeen

    Ahh… one short. This should have been my eighteenth weekend wrap. How crazy would have that worked out!? I have been feeling all the feels this last week because as I write this my daughter is off to school on her eighteenth birthday. All grown up and my legal obligations as a parental unit caregiver

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  • code monkey, one

    code monkey, one

    I have been writing code for nearly as long as I have been using computers—which, ugh, it sparks my nostalgic angst fuse to write it but that was in grade school in the nineteen eighties.  To that point, I have been coding increasingly more and more these last few years, and making more and more

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  • social games, two

    social games, two

    We all start to sound a bit like junkies when we ponder aloud the idea of fleeing the social platforms once and for good, weaning ourselves off our feeds, setting limits and goals and self moderation parameters, or screaming digital curses to the gods of going cold turkey. It has been a week. A fucking

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  • head over feets, nine

    head over feets, nine

    Training is whatever you make of it. I’m sure there are some strict rules for pros and people with hard core goals, but for a guy pushing fifty who’s been doing this running thing for nearly two decades, I’m still just making it up. I mention this because one of my current run crew pals

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  • weekend wrap, sixteen

    weekend wrap, sixteen

    September is in full swing and half over as I write these words. It’s always so quaint to not only be surprised by the passage of time, but then to write about it as if anyone reading those words isn’t even further into the future and looking back wishing it were only the middle of

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